Releasesby GlyphSharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts
OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is generally available and on by default for most accounts. For most Enterprise or Premium tier accounts, Databricks will enable it automatically in mid-September 2026, and by early 2027 for the rest.
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BigQuery pipelines add automated metadata enrichment in preview
Semantic metadata defined in SQLX configurations now syncs with Knowledge Catalog, and the Data Engineering Agent can generate this metadata from your intent or context.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is generally available
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now generally available (GA) and available for production use. For more information on 3.7 Flash, see the model page .
Gemini Enterprise: Create, upload, and share custom skills
Skills are reusable custom instructions that help the Gemini Enterprise assistant perform specific tasks. End users can create, upload, and share skills. To enable this feature, administrators must turn on the skills and skill-sharing settings in Feature Management . Administrators can also configure skill availability and approve skill-sharing requests.
Gemini Enterprise: Use Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash is generally available (GA) in the global , us , and eu regions. To make Gemini 3.7 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.7 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console. Note: Gemini 3.7 Flash is not available in the Gemini Enterprise mobile app.
Gemini 3.7 Flash generally available (GA)
Released our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents: Gemini 3.7 Flash (gemini-3.7-flash): Substantial improvements across software engineering, web development, and agentic workflows, available at an introductory price through December 31, 2026. To get started, see the Gemini 3.7 Flash model page and the Latest model guide.
OpenAI announces Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol in limited preview
Ultrafast mode is a new API service tier for GPT-5.6 Sol that runs up to 14x faster than Standard processing, available to select customers.
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Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta)
The Tags page in Governance Hub is now in Beta . The Tags page provides a centralized view of how tags are applied across your account. It summarizes governed tag usage, shows recent tag assignments and their sources, and surfaces recommendations to fix invalid tag values and add tags to important assets that are missing them.
Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available
OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is now generally available and is being enabled by default for accounts on a rolling basis. Providers can share these tables with any recipient, whether open or Databricks, including recipients that use classic compute.
Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available
Sharing managed Iceberg tables in Databricks-to-Databricks sharing and open sharing is now generally available. Providers can now also share managed Iceberg tables to external Iceberg clients. See Add managed Iceberg tables to a share and Read shared managed Iceberg tables .
Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)
You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition. Part of Unity Catalog semantics , Pages form the human-modeled layer of the Genie Ontology that Genie One draws on to ground its answers. See Pages .
Unity Catalog OSS UnityCatalog 0.5.0
We are thrilled to announce Unity Catalog 0.5.0 release, which includes exciting new features, many bug fixes, and improvements. A huge thank you to the awesome community who made this release possible!
Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta
ABAC GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition. These policies were previously only available for models, but now also support model services, model provider services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and agent services. All supported types are in Beta.
READ METADATA privilege is GA
The READ METADATA privilege is now generally available in Unity Catalog. READ METADATA provides read-only visibility into the same metadata available to the object's owner or a user with MANAGE , including security-sensitive information that BROWSE doesn't expose, such as privilege grants, row filters and column masks, and ABAC policies.
Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column
The downstream_impact column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins September 7, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following week. Until the rollout reaches your workspace, you might still be able to query downstream_impact .