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Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available

GAVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Sharing and reading foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share Iceberg tables federated from foreign Iceberg catalogs using Lakehouse Federation, including to recipients using external Iceberg clients.

Topics: Governance, Apache Iceberg, Observability

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More Unity Catalog releases

Every Unity Catalog release
DateRelease
Sep 11Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
GA
Sep 9External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta)
Beta
Sep 8ABAC DENY policies are in Beta
Beta
Sep 15The READ METADATA privilege will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Update
Sep 15Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
GA
Sep 15Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta)
Beta
Sep 16VARIANT cast extends to ARRAY and MAP columns in ABAC column masks
Update
Sep 17Metastore-level ABAC policies are in Beta
Beta

Also shipped on Sep 11, 2026

Databricks in September 2026
DateRelease
Sep 11Automations in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
SnowflakeSnowflakeGA
Sep 11Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes now available on GCP
SnowflakeSnowflake OpenflowGA
Sep 11Add VS Code Agents to Copilot usage metrics
GitHubGitHub CopilotGA
Sep 11CoCo Desktop v1.21.4
SnowflakeCortex CodeUpdate
Sep 11Spanner Graph adds semantic options and key uniqueness validation
Google CloudSpannerUpdate
Sep 11AlloyDB audit log pipeline status available in Cloud Monitoring
Google CloudAlloyDBUpdate

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