Releasesby GlyphSecrets 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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Online Feature Store (Public Preview)
Online Feature Store is now available in public preview. Serve the latest feature values with low-latency online retrieval backed by Snowflake Postgres for real-time ML applications such as fraud detection, recommendations, and personalization.
Dreams research preview adds Claude Fable 5 and Claude Sonnet 5
Dreams, in research preview, now supports Claude Fable 5 and Claude Sonnet 5.
Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts in public preview
Agentic autofix is now in public preview for all code scanning alerts. It remediates alerts generated by CodeQL and third-party scanning tools by working across your codebase the way a developer would, it explores relevant files, proposes a fix, and reruns the original analysis to confirm the fix closes the alert before opening a pull request for your...
supabase-js will require TypeScript 5.0+ from January 31, 2027
@supabase/supabase-js will require TypeScript 5.0 starting January 31, 2027, dropping support for TypeScript 4.7 to 4.9.
Confluent Gateway 1.3.0 adds centralized governance enforcement (Early Access)
Gateway validates messages and enforces data governance with Schema Registry, with four policy types (schema ID, deep validation, field-level and full-payload encryption) and per-topic overrides. Docker only during EA.
You Don't Need a Vector Database, Postgres Already Has pgvector
Prisma 8 now provides type-safe support for pgvector, enabling semantic search directly within Postgres.
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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.
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...
Data Classification is now available by default for additional compliance standards
Data Classification is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and either C5, TISAX, or IRAP controls selected.
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 .
Unity Catalog OSS UnityCatalog 0.5.1
We are pleased to announce the Unity Catalog 0.5.1 release, a patch release focused on credential-caching reliability and performance, plus authorization fixes for permission APIs. A huge thank you to the awesome community who made this release possible!
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.
Databricks-hosted sample datasets available in the samples catalog
The sample datasets /databricks-datasets mounted to DBFS are now also available in the samples catalog as samples.databricks.datasets , made available through OpenSharing. The datasets volume hosts a collection of Databricks-provided datasets that you can use to build and test data pipelines.
Role-based access control (RBAC) is in Public Preview
Role-based access control (RBAC) is now in Public Preview. RBAC lets users assume a role in Databricks using only that role's permissions for the duration of the session instead of their own accumulated permissions. This enables exclusive access.