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.
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BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking
BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data governance tags are a type of Resource Manager tag that you can attach to sensitive columns and use in BigQuery data policies to grant conditional access to your users. This feature is in Preview .
Integrated SaaS listings on Snowflake Marketplace (General availability)
Select Integrated SaaS listings now let you start a free trial of a provider’s application directly from a Marketplace listing. This experience replaces the trials previously offered through Snowflake Partner Connect and brings these trials into the Marketplace, where discovery, trial, and purchase all happen in one place.
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies , General Availability
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Consumers can define when Snowflake Native App upgrades happen in their accounts by creating a maintenance policy and applying it to an account or an individual app. For more information, see Consumer-controlled maintenance policies .
Memory Bank memory profiles are generally available (GA)
Memory profiles in Memory Bank are generally available (GA). Memory profiles allow you to generate structured profiles, which are data structures with static schemas populated and updated using LLMs.
Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration patterns including Magentic in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for multi-agent orchestration patterns, including the dynamic Magentic pattern that delivered 38 percent on GAIA and competitive results on AssistantBench and WebArena in published benchmarks. The GA
Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi
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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 .
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...
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!
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 .
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.
Governance Hub is in Beta
Governance Hub is in Beta . Governance Hub is a centralized, account-level UI in the account console for monitoring governance across your Databricks account. It provides a unified view of data health and coverage, AI usage and spend, and cost drivers, with prioritized insights and recommendations. All views respect existing permissions.