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With this capability, you can: * Identify structural issues and inconsistencies through foundation checks to ensure the ontology is sound. * Verify required configurations using validation checks to confirm completeness and correctness. * Improve clarity, coverage, and usability with refinement checks for downstream consumption. * Quickly prioritize fixes with results categorized as Critical, Warning, or Information. * Navigate directly to impacted elements with guided actions, enabling faster issue resolution and increased trust in queries, graph experiences, and AI-powered outcomes.","feature_name":"Ontology Health","last_modified":"2026-09-25","product_id":"cef5a30d-562f-f011-8c4d-6045bd096d8f","product_name":"IQ","release_date":"Q1 2027","release_item_id":"8a059230-3855-f111-bec7-000d3a36696c","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"What\u2019s next for Fabric IQ Ontology: The operational context that powers your AI agents (Preview)","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/whats-next-for-fabric-iq-ontology-the-operational-context-that-powers-your-ai-ag/5172145","feature_description":"The full Ontology canvas experience in Microsoft Fabric IQ brings the complete ontology into a single interactive view, showing entity types and the relationships between them. 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This is important for customers with strict compliance, security, or regulatory requirements that require direct control of encryption materials rather than relying only on platform-managed keys.With this capability, customers can:- Use their own managed encryption keys to protect ontology-related data at rest.- Rotate and govern encryption keys according to internal compliance policies.- Align ontology deployments with broader enterprise encryption standards used across data platforms.","feature_name":"Customer Managed Keys (CMK) for Ontology","last_modified":"2026-09-25","product_id":"cef5a30d-562f-f011-8c4d-6045bd096d8f","product_name":"IQ","release_date":"Q4 2026","release_item_id":"50f83e60-1f40-f111-88b5-000d3a376137","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"What\u2019s next for Fabric IQ Ontology: The operational context that powers your AI agents (Preview)","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/whats-next-for-fabric-iq-ontology-the-operational-context-that-powers-your-ai-ag/5172145","feature_description":"General availability of the Microsoft Fabric IQ Ontology item enables teams to maintain a shared model of business entities, properties, and relationships in Fabric. 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The authoring experience makes it easier to work with ontologies that span multiple teams or business domains, distinguish concepts with the same name, and understand how each concept is organized.With this experience, you can:* Create namespaces directly in the ontology interface, add optional descriptions, and browse existing namespaces in a dedicated list.* Assign entity types and relationship types to a namespace during creation or later, and view their namespace in the configuration pane.* Manage namespaces from their detail pages by updating names and descriptions or deleting namespaces that are no longer referenced, with safeguards for the default namespace.","feature_name":"Create and manage namespaces in Ontology","last_modified":"2026-09-25","product_id":"cef5a30d-562f-f011-8c4d-6045bd096d8f","product_name":"IQ","release_date":"Q4 2026","release_item_id":"23d35747-b3ac-f111-aaab-70a8a5af0ad7","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"What\u2019s next for Fabric IQ Ontology: The operational context that powers your AI agents (Preview)","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/whats-next-for-fabric-iq-ontology-the-operational-context-that-powers-your-ai-ag/5172145","feature_description":"The public query API for Microsoft Fabric IQ Ontology gives developers programmatic access to supported ontology query capabilities. Applications and automation can query ontology-backed data using the supported query interface rather than requiring users to run every query interactively. This release concerns the query API; management of ontology definitions and the client management SDK are tracked as separate capabilities.","feature_name":"Public query API for Ontology","last_modified":"2026-09-25","product_id":"cef5a30d-562f-f011-8c4d-6045bd096d8f","product_name":"IQ","release_date":"Q4 2026","release_item_id":"419cfd8b-face-f011-bbd3-000d3a30273e","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":null,"blog_url":null,"feature_description":"Unified GetData Full Page Experience is a unified, full-screen workflow for completing a data-ingestion job from entry points such as Real-Time Hub, Eventhouse, and Eventstream. It guides users through source discovery, connector configuration, preview, optional schema handling and transformation, destination setup, and creation or update of the required ingestion pipeline--with autosave and resume support.","feature_name":"Unified GetData Full Page Experience","last_modified":"2026-09-24","product_id":"58cb90aa-4203-ef11-a1fd-000d3a36eea4","product_name":"Real-Time Intelligence","release_date":"Q4 2026","release_item_id":"b3544bc9-afb7-f111-aaab-7ced8d70b853","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"Empowering Real-Time Searches: Vector Similarity Search with Eventhouse","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/empowering-real-time-searches-vector-similarity-search-with-eventhouse/5173156","feature_description":"# Generally Available: Vector Search and Vector Indexes in Azure SQL Vector Search and Vector Indexes are now generally available in Azure SQL Database. Using the [CREATE VECTOR INDEX](https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/t-sql/statements/create-vector-index-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver17) and [VECTOR_SEARCH](https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/t-sql/functions/vector-search-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver17) T-SQL capabilities, you can perform efficient approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) searches for AI scenarios such as semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), recommendation systems, and image search. 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However, SPN-based access is not currently supported with Row-Level Security (RLS). 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Administrators can set workspace consumption limits, exempt mission-critical workspaces, and block or unblock workspaces to maintain capacity health and quality of service.  There will also be an API that supports these actions alongside an API for the existing Capacity-level Surge Protection feature as part of this release.  Finally, there will be the ability to opt-in to notifications via email - and see them in product - when a surge protection activity occurs.","feature_name":"Surge Protection V2 (Workspace-level)","last_modified":"2026-09-15","product_id":"796a0af7-2dc7-ee11-9079-000d3a3419a8","product_name":"Administration, Governance and Security","release_date":"Q4 2026","release_item_id":"d327a257-51ad-f111-aaab-6045bd041d32","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"Introducing capacity overage: Flexibility when you need it most (Preview)","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/introducing-capacity-overage-flexibility-when-you-need-it-most-preview/5172085","feature_description":"Fabric capacity overage is an opt-in feature in Microsoft Fabric that automatically bills for excess capacity usage in a pay-as-you-go basis instead of throttling operations - enabling capacity administrators to protect capacities from being throttled.  Today, as a capcity admin, you can use surge protection, resize capacities, or pay for dedicated capacities to try to protect mission critical jobs, but all these approaches still can result in throttling and rejection due to insufficient provisioned capacity.  Overage billing addresses this consideration.  The solution allows a capacity admin to opt-in to paying off their smoothed usage and overages instead of being throttled.As Microsoft releases Fabric Overage Billing the Capacity Metrics App will be updated to reflect this new capability.  Specifically, views this will include clear visibility into overage events, showing when Overage Billing was activated and overage charges are being assessed - as well as cases where the capacity is reaching the overage billing limits set and is experiencing throttling.  The view also will show trends over time alongside the amount of utilization.  These enhancements, alongside the core Overage Billing capability, make it easier to monitor costs, optimize resource allocation, and ensure business continuity through flexible capacity management capabilities.  There will also be a new ARM API for Capacity Creation that supports Capacity Overage.  There will also be an ability, both as opt-in emails and in-product, to receive notifications when overage activity occurs or subsides.","feature_name":"Fabric Capacity Overage","last_modified":"2026-09-15","product_id":"796a0af7-2dc7-ee11-9079-000d3a3419a8","product_name":"Administration, Governance and Security","release_date":"Q4 2026","release_item_id":"997c6d53-51ad-f111-aaab-6045bd041c54","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"Agentic Fabric: How MCP is turning your data platform into an AI-native operating system","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/agentic-fabric-how-mcp-is-turning-your-data-platform-into-an-ai-native-operating/5172009","feature_description":"Fabric Core MCP Server is a secure, cloud-hosted MCP endpoint that lets AI agents perform authenticated operations in Microsoft Fabric. It exposes Fabric public APIs as typed MCP tools for catalog search, workspace and item management, permissions, folders, capacity discovery, and long-running operations. Requests authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID, respect Fabric RBAC, and are recorded in Fabric audit logs. General availability removes the need for customers to install or operate a local server for these workflows.","feature_name":"Fabric Core MCP Server (GA)","last_modified":"2026-09-15","product_id":"c6da6b3b-ded6-ee11-9079-000d3a310f67","product_name":"Fabric Developer Experiences","release_date":"Q3 2026","release_item_id":"b682daa3-eeb0-f111-aaab-70a8a59cba8f","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"Introducing Migration assistant for SQL database in Fabric (Preview)","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/introducing-migration-assistant-for-sql-database-in-fabric-preview/5172048","feature_description":"Fabric Migration Assistant for SQL Database is Generally Available","feature_name":"Fabric SQL | SQL Server migration to Fabric SQL | GA","last_modified":"2026-09-15","product_id":"347da228-ea54-ef11-a317-0022480a694f","product_name":"SQL database","release_date":"Q3 2026","release_item_id":"90151c44-1db1-f111-aaab-70a8a59cbbb7","release_status":"Shipped","release_type":"General availability"},{"active":true,"blog_title":"Capacity Overview Events in Real-Time Hub (Generally Available)","blog_url":"https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Capacity-Overview-Events-in-Real-Time-Hub-Generally-Available/ba-p/5356729","feature_description":"Capacity Overview Events in Real-Time Hub give Microsoft Fabric capacity administrators a production-ready, near-real-time way to monitor capacity health and respond before users are affected.- Capacity Summary events are emitted every 30 seconds and provide a high-level view of capacity utilization and health across workloads, including CU consumption, overage, and throttling indicators.- Capacity State events are emitted when important conditions change, including when a capacity is paused, resumed, overloaded, or enters a throttling-related state.- Administrators can create Activator alerts and notifications, trigger automated operational workflows, route events through Eventstream, retain them in Eventhouse for historical analysis, and build custom monitoring experiences.- The generally available release includes the reliability, scalability, architecture, and monitoring improvements needed for production adoption.Together, these event streams help organizations detect capacity pressure earlier, automate responses, preserve operational history, and use trend data for governance and capacity planning. 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Today, open items, tab order, pinned items, and tab groups automatically carry over to additional tabs in the same browser profile. 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The agent is better at learning from example queries and applying those patterns to new user questions, even when requests have not been explicitly anticipated. Before generating queries, it can examine datasets, tables, columns, and relationships to identify the most relevant data and construct higher-quality queries with fewer instructions and less manual tuning. These enhancements improve first-pass query accuracy, reduce prompt engineering requirements, and enable Data Agents to answer a broader range of business questions with greater consistency and confidence.Today, these capabilities are available in preview through the [Preview Runtime](https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-science/data-agent-runtime), which includes Advanced NL2SQL improvements such as better example query following, improved filter value substitution, and more effective ambiguity handling before generating queries. 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