Releasesby GlyphUnity Catalog Skills (Beta)
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.
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Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
A drag-and-drop canvas builds and edits LookML models on BigQuery sources: join tables, define dimensions and measures, preview results and publish Explores without writing LookML.
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available. You can also now define verified queries in Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects. By default, Looker uses the locale definitions from the importing project only, if the importing project has locale definitions.
Looker New/Edit Roles Enhancement enters preview
A modernized step-by-step interface for creating and editing roles is available in preview on the Roles page of the Admin panel.
Now available in preview, you can define and chat with data agents on a LookML dashboard
Now available in preview, you can define and chat with data agents on a LookML dashboard . To use this feature, the Conversational Analytics and Enable Dashboard Agents settings must be enabled on the Gemini in Looker Admin page.
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Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
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.
ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and services
ABAC GRANT policies for models, model services, model provider services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and agent services are now generally available. These policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securable objects whose governed tags match a condition, instead of granting privileges on each object individually.
Secrets in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Secrets in Unity Catalog will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late September 2026. Store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog.
The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta
The INSERT , UPDATE , and DELETE privileges are in Beta in Unity Catalog. These privileges are least-privilege alternatives to MODIFY that let you grant write access to a table's data without also granting the ability to change its schema or other metadata. The privileges require Databricks Runtime 18.1 or above.
Context attributes in ABAC column mask and row filter policies (Beta)
Context attributes for attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies are in Beta. You can now write Unity Catalog ABAC policy conditions that target the context of a request, such as which OAuth application is calling ( request.client_id ) and whether the request runs on behalf of a user ( request.is_on_behalf_of ).
Unity Catalog OSS UnityCatalog 0.6.0
We are thrilled to announce Unity Catalog 0.6.0 release, which includes exciting new features, many bug fixes, and improvements. A huge thank you to the awesome community who made this release possible!
Role-based access control (RBAC) will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Role-based access control (RBAC) will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-September 2026. RBAC lets users assume a role in Databricks. When a user assumes a role, only that role's permissions apply, rather than the user's accumulated permissions. This enables exclusive access.
Role-based access control (RBAC) is generally available
Role-based access control (RBAC) is now generally available. RBAC lets users assume a role in Databricks. When a user assumes a role, only that role's permissions apply, rather than the user's accumulated permissions. This enables exclusive access.