March 18, 2026 by Katie Murray 159,791 Views
Welcome to the Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary—and welcome to FabCon! As we kick off FabCon, this update captures the momentum we’re seeing across the Fabric platform and the conversations happening with customers and partners right now. March brings a wide range of enhancements across governance, data engineering, real-time intelligence, data science, extensibility, and AI—all …
Fabric notebooks now support lakehouse auto-binding when used with Git. It is designed to simplify multi-environment workflows and reduce the operational overhead of managing lakehouse references across development, test, and production workspaces.
Notebooks are rarely just a single file. Real-world notebook projects depend on supporting assets—such as reusable scripts, configuration files—that live alongside notebook code. While these files could be stored in a notebook’s built-in Resources folder, they were not included when committing notebooks to Git. This broke end-to-end source control and made CI/CD workflows harder to adopt.
Customer-managed keys (CMK) in Fabric SQL Database is a major step forward in empowering organizations to take control of their data security and compliance.
We are releasing the preview of a domain‑native data solution built as a workload in Fabric to power analytics and AI-enabled use-cases for capital markets and hedge fund customers in the finance industry. Financial institutions are moving fast to modernize their analytics stack and accelerate AI adoption, however in capital markets, data complexity remains the single biggest blocker to achieving that goal.
AI teams need to move quickly, but the reality is that most of the data they need simply isn’t ready for AI. In fact, Gartner predicts that through 2026, 60% of AI projects will be abandoned because they lack AI-ready data.
