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Unity AI GatewayChangelog · September 2026

Unity AI Gateway reached general availability and added support for MCP credentials and asset bundles.

In September 2026, Unity AI Gateway reached general availability under the simplified name Unity Gateway [11]. Databricks paired this milestone with infrastructure tooling updates, adding AI Gateway resource definitions to Databricks Asset Bundles in CLI v1.17.0 [13]. The Terraform provider resolved grant assignment failures for Gateway securables by automatically stripping API path prefixes [7]. MLflow 3.16.0 integrated Gateway budget policies directly into tracking workflows, allowing teams to enforce per-user spending limits [22].

SDK releases focused on Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and agent tooling. Across SDK versions v0.140.0, v0.156.0, and v0.182.0, Databricks introduced credential management APIs for MCP services, including user-mapped credentials [8, 10, 12]. Later in the month, Python SDK v0.142.0 introduced programmatic operations to manage skills directly through the AI Gateway workspace client, allowing developers to create, update, and finalize skills [3].

Practitioners evaluated Gateway routing and cost monitoring, examining how centralizing model calls into system tables helped audit spend [5, 18] and cut coding task costs via smart routing [17]. Developers also investigated whether Gateway guardrails could protect existing LangGraph agents on Databricks Serving Endpoints [24, 25]. At the same time, new workspace deployments encountered quota friction on Azure Databricks, where default account rate limits of zero prevented calls to external partner models like Claude and Grok [1].

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  1. [1]Azure Databricks, two-week-old account: partner pay-per-token endpoints (Claude, Grok) have never once succeeded — "Databricks-set rate limit of 0" — and the Assistant has "no daily token allowance". Open models work. What gates this? community · 2026-09-30
  2. [2]Balancing Model Agility and Centralized Governance with Mosaic AI Gateway community · 2026-09-27
  3. [3]v0.142.0 release · 2026-09-25
  4. [4]AI is apparently getting a new name: SI (Super Intelligence) community · 2026-09-23
  5. [5]3. What is Databricks Unity AI Gateway and how it works video · 2026-09-23
  6. [6]Databricks 5 Minute Features: Unity AI Gateway community · 2026-09-22
  7. [7]v1.133.0 release · 2026-09-21
  8. [8]v0.182.0 release · 2026-09-21
  9. [9]What is release status Databricks Micro Apps? community · 2026-09-19
  10. [10]v0.140.0 release · 2026-09-19
  11. [11]Unity AI Gateway is renamed to Unity Gateway and is now GA community · 2026-09-18
  12. [12]v0.156.0 release · 2026-09-17
  13. [13]v1.17.0 release · 2026-09-16
  14. [14]AI Watermarking, Databricks AI Extract, Hugging Face, and Unity Catalog | AI Newsround - Summer 2026 video · 2026-09-16
  15. [15]How to Govern Your AI Estate in One Place video · 2026-09-15
  16. [16]Could a “Data → Agent” composer be useful for Databricks? community · 2026-09-15
  17. [17]Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway: 30%+ Cost Savings on Coding Tasks community · 2026-09-10
  18. [18]3. What is Unity AI Gateway | How to Control AI Spending video · 2026-09-07
  19. [19]What’s new in Databricks - August 2026 community · 2026-09-07
  20. [20]Evaluating Unity AI Gateway for Enterprise Cost Control community · 2026-09-05
  21. [21]Fixing SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED when trying to use ucode community · 2026-09-04
  22. [22]MLflow 3.16.0 release · 2026-09-04
  23. [23]Govern Models and Model Services Using ABAC Grant Policies video · 2026-09-03
  24. [24]How to enable guardrails to an existing LangGraph agent deployed on a Databricks Serving Endpoint? community · 2026-09-03
  25. [25]Can Unity AI Gateway Model Service guardrails protect an existing LangGraph agent deployed as a Data community · 2026-09-03
  26. [26]External price control community · 2026-09-02
  27. [27]Skills in Unity Catalog community · 2026-09-01