Releasesby GlyphHigher limits and BROWSE support for Unity Catalog secrets
A schema can now hold up to 1,000 Unity Catalog secrets, and a metastore up to 10,000, up from 100 and 1,000. The limits apply to Databricks-managed secrets and secrets backed by AWS Secrets Manager.
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Check out GitHub code without long-lived credentials on self-hosted agents
Self-hosted agents can now use temporary, read-only GitHub App tokens for repository checkout. This eliminates the need to distribute and rotate long-lived SSH keys or personal access tokens across your agent fleet.
Serving tuned Gemini 3.x models on global endpoints
Serving tuned Gemini 3.x models on global endpoints is available in General Availability (GA) . You can copy fine-tuned Gemini 3.x models to the global region using the Model Registry models:copy API, deploy them to global serving endpoints, and send inference requests directly to aiplatform.googleapis.com .
[Launched] Generally Available: Change from virtual network integration to a private endpoint capable network configuration in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
You now have greater flexibility in network design for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server workloads. Now you can change existing VNet-integrated servers from delegated-subnet networking to a private endpoint-capable configuration, enabling secu
[Launched] Generally Available: Restart databases in Azure SQL DB via the Azure portal
You can now restart or fail over databases directly from the Azure portal, including single databases, Hyperscale databases, and databases in elastic pools, without writing scripts against the Rest API or contacting support. Learn more.
Lakehouse caching for cross-cloud data access is generally available (GA)
Lakehouse caching for cross-cloud data access is generally available (GA). Cross-cloud caching is disabled by default. You can opt in to caching on a Lakehouse federated catalog or a BigQuery cross-cloud connection to cache remote files in your Google Cloud region. This helps reduce cross-cloud egress costs and accelerate subsequent queries.
You can now monitor the performance, adoption, latency, and costs of your data agents and their conversations...
You can now monitor the performance, adoption, latency, and costs of your data agents and their conversations by using Google Cloud Observability in BigQuery. This feature is generally available (GA).
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Serverless GPU in clean rooms will soon be on by default for accounts where it's turned off
Starting November 26, 2026, serverless GPU in clean rooms will be enabled by default for Enterprise tier accounts in Databricks.
Serverless GPU for clean room notebooks is now generally available
Databricks has made serverless GPU compute generally available for clean room notebooks, enabling model inference and training over shared data.
Unpaginated requests to some Unity Catalog REST API operations will soon be rejected
Databricks will begin rejecting unpaginated requests to Unity Catalog REST API operations. Developers must update clients to use pagination to avoid HTTP 400 errors.
Editing files in Unity Catalog volumes is now generally available
Users can now edit files stored in Unity Catalog volumes directly within the Databricks workspace file editor, eliminating the need for manual downloads and uploads.
Files API 3.0 for Unity Catalog volumes is now in Beta
Unity Catalog Files API 3.0 is in beta, adding support for multipart uploads for files larger than 5 GB and conditional operations to prevent unintended changes.
READ METADATA privilege support for compliance security profile standards
The READ METADATA privilege now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. For a full list of supported compliance standards, see Compliance security profile .
Data Classification adds 50 new classes and support for 16 more countries and regions
Data Classification now detects 50 new classes of sensitive data, along with new regional support for 16 countries and regions: Payment card and financial data : Card security codes, card expiration dates, card track data, card PINs, SWIFT codes, and credit scores.
Data Classification API is now generally available
The Data Classification API and its Terraform resource are now generally available. Auto-tagging configuration ( auto_tag_configs ) remains in Public Preview . See the API reference .