Agent logs: immutable audit log of AIDA interactions

Starburst Galaxy added support for Agent logs, an immutable audit log of AIDA interactions.

https://docs.starburst.io/starburst-galaxy/get-started/release-notes.html#august

SnowflakeSnowflake Horizon Catalog·Aug 17, 2026

AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)

Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can improve accuracy.

PreviewLLMsSQLGovernanceSource

SnowflakeSnowflake·Aug 17, 2026

New SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view in Account Usage and Organization Usage (General availability)

The SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view is now generally available in the ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE schemas. It provides a unified view of usage history for CoCo across the CLI, Desktop, and Snowsight interfaces. The information in the view includes the number of credits consumed each time a user interacts with CoCo.

GAPricingDeveloper toolsCoding agentsSource

DatabricksUnity Catalog·Aug 17, 2026

Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column

The downstream_impact column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins September 7, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following week. Until the rollout reaches your workspace, you might still be able to query downstream_impact .

DeprecationSQLStreamingObservabilitySource

DatabricksUnity Catalog·Aug 17, 2026

Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column

The root_cause_analysis column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins August 18, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following several days. Until the rollout reaches your workspace, you might still be able to query root_cause_analysis .

DeprecationSQLObservabilityRegionsSource

DatabricksLakeflow·Aug 17, 2026

Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta

Restore the Python variables and Spark session from a serverless compute job run into a new interactive notebook, so you can debug a failure or explore results without rerunning the job. Databricks automatically captures a state snapshot when an eligible run fails, runs 30 minutes or longer, or is cancelled, and keeps it for 7 days after the run completes.

BetaNotebooksSource

DatabricksUnity Catalog·Aug 17, 2026

Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta)

Identity attributes are in Beta. You can now write Unity Catalog ABAC column mask policy conditions that target users by attributes synced from your identity provider, such as department or country , in addition to group membership.

BetaGovernanceSecurityObservabilitySource