Tag automations (Beta)

BetaAug 7, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Tag automations are now in Beta . A tag automation assigns or removes governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes that match conditions you define, so tags stay accurate as your data and metadata change.

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More Unity Catalog releases

Unity CatalogAug 10, 2026

READ METADATA privilege is GA

The READ METADATA privilege is now generally available in Unity Catalog. READ METADATA provides read-only visibility into the same metadata available to the object's owner or a user with MANAGE , including security-sensitive information that BROWSE doesn't expose, such as privilege grants, row filters and column masks, and ABAC policies.

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Unity CatalogAug 4, 2026

Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available

Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix .

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Unity CatalogAug 4, 2026

Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available

Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share .

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Unity CatalogAug 4, 2026

Schema-level HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available

HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available at the schema level. You can create an HTTP connection inside a schema instead of only at the metastore level.

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Unity CatalogAug 11, 2026

Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta

ABAC GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition. These policies were previously only available for models, but now also support model services, model provider services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and agent services. All supported types are in Beta.

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Unity CatalogAug 3, 2026

Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA

Secrets in Unity Catalog is now generally available. You can store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog. A Unity Catalog secret uses the three-level namespace ( catalog.schema.secret ) and is governed by Unity Catalog privileges, so you can apply the same access controls and auditing that you use for other data assets.

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Unity CatalogAug 3, 2026

MANAGE no longer requires USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA on the same object

The MANAGE privilege no longer requires a usage privilege ( USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA ) on the object where MANAGE is granted. This change makes MANAGE behave more consistently with object ownership. Previously, MANAGE on a catalog or schema took effect only if you also held the appropriate usage privileges on that object.

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Unity CatalogAug 12, 2026

Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)

You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition. Part of Unity Catalog semantics , Pages form the human-modeled layer of the Genie Ontology that Genie One draws on to ground its answers. See Pages .

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Also shipped on Aug 7, 2026

Snowflake SnowflakeAug 7, 2026

DCM Projects (General availability)

DCM Projects are now generally available and are no longer in Preview . DCM Projects enable a declarative approach to managing Snowflake objects as code. You define the desired target state of your databases, tables, tasks, and other Snowflake objects in definition files, and Snowflake determines and applies the necessary changes to reach that state.

GASQLPricingDeveloper toolsSource

Snowflake Snowflake Cortex AIAug 7, 2026

Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability)

Cortex Agents and MCP servers in Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Providers can create the following objects in an app’s setup script: Apps can also use inter-app communication so that one app’s agent calls another app’s agent or MCP server.

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Google Cloud AlloyDBAug 7, 2026

AlloyDB can sync BigQuery tables in preview

BigQuery tables can be synced into AlloyDB once or on a periodic schedule, giving operational analytics low-latency transactional access to data lake data.

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Google Cloud AlloyDBAug 7, 2026

AlloyDB integration with BigQuery enters preview

AlloyDB can connect operational and analytical data through real-time lakehouse federation to BigQuery, periodic data synchronization and one-time table syncs, all in preview.

PreviewSQLStreamingSource

Google Cloud Gemini EnterpriseAug 7, 2026

Gemini Enterprise: Custom MCP server data stores

You can connect your custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with Gemini Enterprise to securely access your company's private data, custom internal tools, and MCP-compliant third-party systems. This feature is turned off by default. To enable it, an Organization Policy Administrator must remove the organization constraint.

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Anthropic Claude PlatformAug 7, 2026

Claude Managed Agents sessions support hard spend budgets

A session budget caps spend at public list rates; when reached, the session pauses with the budget_reached stop reason instead of starting new model requests. Deployments can apply the same budget to every session they start.

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