Your tables stay current with the latest features, applied automatically based on workload compatibility
by Elizabeth Bowman and Tom van Bussel
Your Unity Catalog (UC) managed tables now get better on their own. Automatic (Auto) Upgrades is the first capability of its kind in any lakehouse. It automatically verifies your clients are compatible, then applies best-practice features like Row Tracking the moment your tables are ready, with no manual effort required.
Open table formats are innovating quickly, introducing many new table capabilities. However, adopting a new table feature has historically meant identifying eligible tables, verifying client compatibility, and running ALTER TABLE across thousands of tables. Most teams don't have time for that, so they don't get the benefits like better performance, reliability, interoperability, and cost savings that these features can deliver. Auto Upgrades closes that gap, and you stay in control: every change is reversible per table.
Auto Upgrades works by observing how your existing tables are accessed, verifying that every workload is ready, and then applying features on your behalf.
