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Unity Catalog OSS Unity Catalog AI 0.4.0

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The 0.4.0 release of Unity Catalog AI includes several improvements, including expanded Databricks client options and dependency/security improvements. Artifacts in this release unitycatalog-ai unitycatalog-langchain unitycatalog-openai Major Changes Warehouse ID Support in DatabricksFunctionClient : For workspaces where serverless compute is unavailable or...

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What's new in Sigma

Admin AWS signature V4 authentication for API connectors API connectors now support the AWS signature V4 authentication method. For more information, see Configure API credentials and connectors in Sigma .

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Unity Catalog OSS UnityCatalog 0.4.1

We are thrilled to announce Unity Catalog 0.4.1 release, which includes exciting new features and many bug fixes, and improvements. A huge thank you to the awesome community who made this release possible!

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Govern LLMs in Unity Catalog with model services (Beta)

You can now govern Databricks-hosted LLMs in Unity Catalog using model services , currently in Beta. A model service is a Unity Catalog securable that represents a governed LLM endpoint, so you can define an endpoint once and share it across workspaces using Unity Catalog privileges, instead of duplicating endpoints per workspace.

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Unity Catalog OSS UnityCatalog 0.4.0

We are excited to announce Unity Catalog 0.4.0 release which includes exciting new features and many bug-fixes and improvements. A huge thank you to the awesome community who made this release possible!

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Secrets in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)

You can now store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog. A Unity Catalog secret uses the three-level namespace ( catalog.schema.secret ) and is governed by Unity Catalog privileges, so you can apply the same access controls and auditing that you use for other data assets. See Secrets in Unity Catalog .

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Request for Access will soon be enabled by default for all workspaces

In an upcoming release, Request for Access will be enabled by default for all workspaces, and access requests will be routed to the owner of the requested Unity Catalog object via email. You can configure access request destinations at any time in the metastore settings. The legacy workspace-level access request settings will be deprecated.

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Trigger.AvailableNow support for OpenSharing streaming (GA)

Streaming reads from OpenSharing tables now support the Trigger.AvailableNow trigger. This trigger captures the shared table's current version when it starts, processes all available data across one or more micro-batches (honoring maxFilesPerTrigger and maxVersionsPerRpc ), and then stops, which is well suited to scheduled, batch-like incremental...

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Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available

Register Scala and Java user-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog and reuse them across notebooks, jobs, and SQL warehouses with Unity Catalog governance. Reuse existing JVM logic and get better performance than Python UDFs on all compute, including serverless. See Scala and Java user-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog .

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