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Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)

PreviewVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta-format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue. Providers add foreign Delta tables to a share, and recipients access the shared data in read-only format.

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DateRelease
Aug 28Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
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Aug 24Secrets in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
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Aug 24The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta
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Aug 31ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and services
GA
Aug 21Context attributes in ABAC column mask and row filter policies (Beta)
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Aug 19Role-based access control (RBAC) will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
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Aug 19Role-based access control (RBAC) is generally available
GA
Aug 17Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column
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Also shipped on Aug 27, 2026

Databricks in August 2026
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Aug 27Start from scratch, without a repo
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