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In the last seven days: 11 shipped, four in preview and six new concepts on Lakenaut.
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The release adds named handlers for row-at-a-time scalar UDFs, removes the five-UDF-call-per-query limit, and aligns scalar TIMESTAMP inputs with PySpark behavior. |
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Session-scoped UDFs use the caller's permissions, while Unity Catalog Scala UDFs declare secrets in a SECRETS clause and use the function owner's permissions. |
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Databricks describes Unity Catalog Pages as a governed home for business knowledge used with Genie Ontology. |
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The Unity Gateway CLI (ug) can connect Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other coding agents to Unity Gateway with one command. |
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Unity Gateway adds coding-agent activity to unified tracing through the Unity Gateway CLI. |
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Organizations can now centrally configure coding agents, including models, MCP servers, skills, a default harness and models, and Smart Routing. |
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It provides account-wide records for queries run on SQL warehouses or serverless compute, including execution status, duration metrics, and query source. |
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The service reads the secret at query time, so rotating the secret takes effect without changing the service. |
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It collects traces, logs, and metrics using the OpenTelemetry protocol and stores them in Unity Catalog tables. |
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It uses the lakebase_vector and lakebase_text Postgres extensions for vector search and BM25 full-text search in the same database, instead of using a separate search stack. |
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Each skill can use folders up to three levels deep and up to 50 files or folders, and skills can load text files only. |
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Previews and beta |
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Databricks says you can now build governed data and AI apps without code. |
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It ingests Shopify e-commerce data, including products, orders, customers, inventory, fulfillments, and discounts, into Databricks. |
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It lets you read and set a root branch's automated snapshot cadences, including daily, weekly, or monthly schedules, and the retention period for each cadence. |
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A row filter, column mask, GRANT, or DENY policy attached there applies across every catalog in the metastore, including catalogs created later. |
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New and rewritten concepts |
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The ai_* family: task-specific functions for parsing, extraction, classification and text work, the general-purpose ai_query, and which of them are actually generally available. |
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ABAC policies apply row filters and column masks from a metastore, catalog or schema, selecting objects by governed tag. A rule written once with CREATE POLICY covers every tagged… |
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Agent skills teach a coding agent like Claude Code the current way to work on Databricks; the identity you give it, not its instructions, decides what it can break. |
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mlflow.genai.evaluate() scores agent traces with built-in and custom judges, and the same scorers can run continuously in production. |
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Long-term memory for an agent, kept in a workspace store Databricks runs on Lakebase and partitioned by actor — where the store, not the actor, is the security boundary. |
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Registering a Python or SQL function in Unity Catalog turns it into a governed agent tool, where the docstring becomes the schema the model reads and EXECUTE decides who may call… |
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The release adds named handlers for row-at-a-time scalar UDFs, removes the five-UDF-call-per-query limit, and aligns scalar TIMESTAMP inputs with PySpark behavior.
Databricks says you can now build governed data and AI apps without code.
The ai_* family: task-specific functions for parsing, extraction, classification and text work, the general-purpose ai_query, and which of them are actually generally available.