ABAC DENY policies are in Beta

BetaSep 8, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

ABAC DENY policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog. DENY policies can be used to explicitly deny the MANAGE ACCESS CONTROL privilege to prevent specified principals, including object owners, from performing access-management operations. They always take precedence over any grant. For details, see ABAC DENY policies (Beta) .

Topics: Governance, Observability

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Date	Release	Type
Sep 9	External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta) Beta	Beta
Sep 11	Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available GA	GA
Sep 11	Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally available GA	GA
Sep 15	The READ METADATA privilege will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled Update	Update
Sep 15	Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available GA	GA
Sep 15	Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta) Beta	Beta
Sep 16	VARIANT cast extends to ARRAY and MAP columns in ABAC column masks Update	Update
Aug 31	ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and services GA	GA

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