Executive one-pagers for every Databricks platform release note - the technical change and the business impact, side by side. Refreshed daily.
Workspace admins can now configure default Python and npm package repositories for Databricks Apps.
Starting November 13, 2026, workspace level package repositories for Databricks Apps will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
You can now select OpenJev (Qwen3.5 4B) as the evaluator model service of a custom LLM as a judge service policy.
Custom service policies in Unity Gateway can now check caller supplied request tags, such as requiring a tag before a model request or MCP tool call proceeds.
The managed Google Workspace connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect.
Genie One can now run code in a secure, isolated sandbox to take on work that goes beyond SQL, such as more advanced analyses.
The Discover page and domains are now generally available.
File upload in Genie One now supports plaintext files, including text (.txt) and Markdown (.md) files, in addition to CSV, Excel, PDF, image, Word, and PowerPoint files.
File upload in Genie One is now generally available.
Unity Catalog Scala and Java UDFs and Scalar and Batch Unity Catalog Python UDFs will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in November 2026.
Connect to external tools (Beta): A Genie Agent can now search and take actions in external tools like Google Drive and Microsoft 365 through MCP connectors.
Faceted counters: You can now facet a counter visualization to show one counter tile per dimension value.
You can now enforce a third party guardrail on Unity Gateway traffic.
Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Unity Gateway.
You can now use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with priority pay per token for latency sensitive traffic or reserved provisioned throughput for dedicated capacity.
Starting December 2, 2026, CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW will update views in place, instead of dropping and re creating the view.
GLM 5.2 is now a legacy model.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) will be retired on November 5, 2026.
Window measures in metric views are now generally available.
Genie Code CLI is a coding agent that runs in your terminal, tuned for data and AI work on Databricks.
ai parse document now extracts chart values as structured JSON and describes their series, legends, and axes.
You can now publish a skill from Genie One and share it with your team, governed by Unity Gateway.
In November 2026, the remote query table valued function will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
Lakeflow Jobs can now use up to five triggers.
Databricks SQL version 2026.39 is rolling out to the Current channel.
Applications will be able to attach a custom identity claim to the OAuth tokens they request for a service principal, by adding the custom claim parameter to a token request that uses the client…
Genie Code scheduled tasks are now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
You can now set a pipeline's run as identity to an account group, in addition to a user or a service principal.
The Agent Bricks documentation now centers on building, deploying, and running custom agents in code.
You can now use a customer managed key on the system catalog to decrypt statement text and error message in the query history system table.
JDBC Unity Catalog connections are now generally available on serverless compute, Databricks Runtime 19 and above, and SQL warehouses 2025.40 and above, including support for SSL certificates.
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is no longer available.
The standard (default) mode for ai extract now uses a new model checkpoint that is 2.3x faster while improving overall quality at no additional cost.
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash is no longer available.
The Databricks Connector for Google Sheets now lets you save imports as a reusable template that you and your team can run in one step, each with your own Unity Catalog permissions.
OpenJev (Qwen3.5 4B) is available as a pay per token model service.
You can now schedule automatic refreshes of Databricks data imported into Microsoft Excel.
Text file uploads: You can now upload plaintext (.txt) files to a Genie One conversation, in addition to the other supported file types.
The managed GitLab connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Cross engine attribute based access controls (ABAC) is now generally available.
LTAP Direct Writes is now generally available.
Materialize SQL datasets (Beta): Dashboard materialization now covers SQL datasets in addition to local metric views, so you can materialize a dashboard's SQL datasets.
Query tags are now generally available.
Lakeflow Jobs table update triggers can monitor OpenSharing objects and system tables.
Excel and Google Sheets writeback now requires a workspace admin to enable the Allow spreadsheet writeback security setting.
The following supported Postgres extensions are now available at newer versions.
The Salesforce Data 360 file sharing connector (formerly Salesforce Data Cloud file sharing) will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
OpenAI GPT 6.1 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway.
Horizontal scaling for Databricks Apps is now generally available.
Simba JDBC Driver (Legacy) 2.8.4 adds Java 25 support and upgrades libthrift, httpclient5, httpcore5, and lz4 java.
The Agent Bricks CLI (databricks agentbricks) is a command line tool for building and deploying custom code agents on Databricks.
Attribute based access control (ABAC) row filters and column masks now extend to views, in addition to tables.
ai parse document now detects signature regions in documents and identifies document layouts more accurately.
Genie One memory is now generally available.
xAI Grok 4.7 is now available on Unity Gateway.
The Akamai WAF connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
The Workday Activity Logging connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
The new lakebase tokenizer extension lets you control how Lakebase Search turns text into search terms, so keyword search matches the way your data and users actually read.
The managed Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Logs connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect.
The managed Okta System Logs connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect.
Thinking Machine Labs Inkling will be retired on October 30, 2026.
Databricks SQL version 2026.38 is rolling out to the Current channel.
The 1Password Event Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
The CrowdStrike Falcon Event Stream connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Databricks SQL version 2026.39 is now available in the Preview channel.
The system.ai gateway.usage system table now includes coding agent session metadata and invocation source.
The Genie One MCP server is now generally available as a Databricks provided MCP Service, system.ai.genie one mcp, in Unity Gateway.
Genie Code can now build end to end document processing pipelines by orchestrating parsing, classification, extraction, and validation.
You can now apply tags to dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents to organize and categorize your workspace assets.
When you delete a Unity Catalog pipeline that uses the default publishing mode, the UI and the Pipelines DELETE API retain associated materialized views, streaming tables, and views by default.
Sharing metric views with OpenSharing is now generally available.
Data exploration controls in dataset results and metric view preview: The dataset results table and the metric view preview grid now include column pinning and formatting, search, a column explorer…
Monitoring table column picker: You can now choose which columns appear in the agent monitoring table on the Monitor tab.
The Lakeflow Designer September release adds Guardrails, multi input joins, new parameter controls, and more ways to bring data into a visual data prep.
Pin a chat: You can now pin a chat to keep it at the top of the sidebar.
The ai search function can now retrieve from Lakebase synced tables with Lakebase Search enabled, in addition to AI Search indexes.
Genie usage by service principals is now billed at standard Genie pay as you go pricing.
You can now build governed data and AI apps without code.
Scalar and Batch Unity Catalog Python UDFs are now generally available on all supported compute types.
Lakebase captures its Postgres observability telemetry into the system.lakebase system tables, with no configuration to create and no destination to choose.
This feature is in Beta.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) will be retired on October 30, 2026.
Session scoped and Unity Catalog Scala UDFs can now access secrets managed in Unity Catalog.
Starting October 12, 2026, CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW will update views in place, instead of dropping and re creating the view.
Starting November 18, 2026, Databricks will automatically add the variantShredding table feature to new tables that contain a column of the VARIANT type when they are created on Databricks Runtime…
OpenAI GPT 6 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway.
OpenAI GPT 6 Luna is now available on Unity Gateway.
Organizations can now centrally configure coding agents: models, MCP servers, skills, a default harness and models, and Smart Routing.
You can now manage Lakebase backup schedules programmatically.
You can now invite OpenSharing recipients by email instead of exchanging a sharing identifier or credential file.
The Shopify connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Starting with Databricks Runtime 20, Databricks Runtime no longer includes the bundled BigQuery JDBC driver, while Databricks Runtime 19 and earlier continue to include it.
Use the Unity Gateway CLI (ug) to connect Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and more to Unity Gateway with one command.
Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Unity Gateway.
Unity Gateway now adds coding agent activity to unified tracing through the Unity Gateway CLI, so you can see the tools and skills used alongside model requests.
New features and improvements truncate function: SQL and the Scala and Python DataFrame APIs now support truncate, which truncates a number to a specified scale without rounding.
The system.query.history system table is now generally available.
Databricks SQL version 2026.38 is now available in the Preview channel.
Back a model provider service's API key with a customer owned Unity Catalog secret.
Unity Gateway estimates external model spend using each provider's published list prices.
Databricks Apps is now on by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
Lakebase Search is now generally available.
Configuring telemetry for your Databricks apps is now generally available.
Unity Gateway now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 will be retired on October 30, 2026.
Metastore level ABAC policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog.
Larger PDF uploads: You can now upload PDFs with up to 100 pages to Genie One and Genie Agents, increased from 20.
You can now use base environments to manage Python dependencies on classic compute.
Convert a SQL dataset to a local metric view: You can now convert a SQL dataset into a local metric view from the dataset's context menu, and Genie Code handles the conversion.
A Genie One skill can now include multiple files and sub folders, up to three folders deep and 50 files or folders per skill.
The Unity Gateway API for managing model services, model provider services, and MCP services is now generally available, with create, read, update, list, and delete support across Databricks…
On September 19, 2026, Anthropic models will be removed from Databricks on AWS GovCloud and AWS GovCloud DoD workspaces that have the DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) compliance standard selected.
Managed agent memory and managed agent sessions are in Beta.
Genie One now supports account only users, so users in a registered identity provider can access account level Genie One without being assigned to a workspace or granted consumer access.
You can now use a single VARIANT function to mask columns of type ARRAY and MAP, in addition to STRUCT and other types.
Databricks now automatically deletes a service principal's OAuth client secret after 90 days without use, consistent with unused access token cleanup.
Starting in October 2026, webhook triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will be generally available.
Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) is rolling out to workspaces over the next month and will be available in all supported regions by the end of October 2026.
You can now manage Lakebase snapshots programmatically.
The READ METADATA privilege will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid October 2026.
Sharing and reading foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available.
Attribute based access control (ABAC) row filters and column masks now extend to views, in addition to tables.
Data Classification can now scan Unity Catalog views in addition to tables, classifying columns for sensitive data using the same detection engine.
The counter diff window function calculates differences between consecutive cumulative counter values and handles counter resets, for time series analysis of counter data.
In early October 2026, running JAR tasks on serverless compute will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
When a Genie response includes a chart, the visualization now appears as an image in the Slack reply.
Window measures support unitless offset and trailing/leading ranges on a consecutive integer order column.
Restore the Python variables and Spark session from a serverless compute job run into a new interactive notebook, so you can debug a failure or explore results without rerunning the entire job.
You can now set performance target to STANDARD in the Jobs API.
Sharing and reading foreign schemas and foreign tables with OpenSharing is now generally available.
Sharing and reading foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway with text and image inputs.
Increased data source limit: Each Genie Agent supports up to 50 tables, views, or metric views as data sources, up from 30.
You can now set a maintenance window on a continuous Lakeflow pipeline to control when Databricks applies platform updates that require a restart, such as new runtime versions and serverless…
Genie Code skills in Genie One (Beta): Genie Code skills now appear and are turned on by default in Genie One.
You can now create managed tables in Lakeflow pipelines and write to them with one or more append flows.
The Databricks Excel Add in is now generally available.
Chat in Genie One can now use Databricks managed MCP connectors for Google Drive, Gmail, Microsoft 365, Atlassian, and Slack to search and act on your company's tools while answering questions.
Genie One and Genie Code can now use Databricks provided MCP connectors for Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Atlassian, Slack, and GitHub to search and act on your company's…
More Tableau calculations in /importBI: Importing Tableau reports with the /importBI Genie Code command now supports more cases of parameterized calculations.
In late September 2026, Genie Agents will be restricted to using only the data sources explicitly attached under the agent's Sources.
In early October 2026, horizontal scaling for Databricks Apps will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
The Anaplan connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
External secrets connect a Unity Catalog schema to AWS Secrets Manager.
Genie Code now includes conversation controls that let you branch and revise a chat.
The Anysphere Organization connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
The Celigo connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Account admins can now set an account wide retention period from 30 to 3,650 days for supported system tables.
time bucket returns the start of the fixed width interval a timestamp falls into, aligned to an origin you choose (for example, 15 minute or 3 month buckets).
Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is rolling out to the Current channel.
On November 1, 2026, Databricks will remove the account and workspace level toggle for partner powered AI features.
Incremental ingestion for Salesforce formula fields in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available.
You can now turn on the generate citations option in the ai search function to see which retrieved chunks the model used to support each answer it generates.
You can no longer disable the partner powered AI features setting in the account or workspace settings UI, but can still enable it.
Lakebase is now PCI DSS and HITRUST compliant in all AWS regions where it is available, for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
ABAC DENY policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog.
Ingesting into tables backed by default storage with Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now in Public Preview.
OpenAI GPT 6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway for enterprise reasoning, structured document processing, coding, agentic search, multimodal inputs, and long context workloads.
You can now select environment version 6 as your base environment for serverless and standard classic compute.
SQL function descriptions: When a SQL function is attached as a tool, you can now view the function's description.
You can now share metric views with Databricks users in other metastores or accounts using OpenSharing.
Embedded dashboard filter APIs: In embedded dashboards, you can now set and retrieve filter values through APIs.
Ask Genie button hidden when unsupported: In embedded dashboards, the Ask Genie button is now hidden when it isn't supported.
Genie One can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information, such as recent releases, third party documentation, or news.
Data Classification will soon scan Unity Catalog views in addition to tables, with columns classified for sensitive data using the same detection engine as tables.
You can now use Git Folder Serverless to share serverless compute and a pyproject.toml managed environment across notebooks and files in a Git folder.
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.8 Flash as a Databricks hosted model.
You can now index and filter struct and map columns in AI Search, and run filter only queries that return rows matching a filter without vector or keyword retrieval.
Unity AI Gateway now supports Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 as a Databricks hosted model.
Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) computes row level changes at query time using row tracking, without requiring you to manually enable change data feed on each Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg v3…
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Genie Code scheduled tasks will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in October 2026.
Apache Arrow support for Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
New features and improvements Automatic change data feed is generally available: Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) computes row level changes at query time using row tracking, without requiring…
Genie Code scheduled tasks are now generally available.
Genie One and Genie Agents can now use models served through OpenAI on Databricks when partner powered AI features are enabled.
Genie One can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information, such as recent release notes, third party documentation, or news.
Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is now available in the Preview channel.
The pipeline events system table is in Beta.
ABAC GRANT policies for models, model services, model provider services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and agent services are now generally available.
You can now use TIMESTAMP(9) and TIMESTAMP NTZ(9) for nanosecond precision timestamps in Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime 19 and above.
The ai transcribe() SQL function transcribes an audio file into text.
You can now restrict a service principal's OAuth secret to specific API scopes, such as sql or jobs, instead of all APIs.
Model Serving now supports GLM 5.3 as a Databricks hosted model in supported US and Americas regions.
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog.
Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks provided models.
The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version history experience.
Open Unity Catalog tables in Genie: You can now open Unity Catalog tables directly in Genie without navigating to Catalog Explorer.
The default database storage quota for Lakebase is now 32 TB, up from 16 TB.
Agent mode APIs: The Agent mode APIs for Genie Agents are now generally available.
You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue.
Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime.
You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job.
You can now call ai parse document, ai extract, and ai classify through the AI Functions REST API.
Hide pages in published dashboards: Dashboard authors can now hide a page so that it doesn't appear when the dashboard is published, while keeping it in the dashboard for authors.
The Atlassian Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
xAI Grok 4.6 is now available on Unity Gateway for reasoning heavy coding and agentic workflows.
Model Serving now supports GLM 5.3 Flash as a Databricks hosted model.
Download visualizations API: Retrieving visualization results through the Genie Conversation API is now generally available.
Model Serving now supports xAI Grok 4.6 as a Databricks hosted model.
Because SQL statements can contain sensitive information, Databricks now masks query text in the following places: statement text in system.query.history returns
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Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway for multimodal reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads.
Ingesting into streaming tables with Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
The Anysphere Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
The ai prep search() SQL function now accepts plain text and markdown STRING content in addition to the structured VARIANT output of ai parse document.
ai parse document further improves checkbox extraction and handling of strikethrough text and handwriting.
LTAP Direct Writes speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase.
The Genie One desktop app is now in Beta.
When you sign in to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams, you can now enter your workspace URL instead of a server hostname to connect to your Databricks account.
The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta in Unity Catalog.
A new Genie entry in the Lakebase project sidebar opens Genie Code, the agentic Databricks assistant, scoped to your Lakebase project.
Private network gateway is in Private Preview.
Govern Provisioned Throughput (PT) traffic through Unity Gateway, bringing PT models under the same access controls, usage tracking, rate limits, payload logging, and guardrails as other model…
Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is rolling out to the Current channel.
Secrets in Unity Catalog will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late September 2026.
The Verkada connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Library and environment updates Updated Java from Zulu21.50+19 CA to Zulu21.52+15 CA.
Lakebase updated its supported Postgres versions to 16.15, 17.11, and 18.6.
The Supervisor API (Beta) reaches end of life on September 30, 2026.
The unified trace table is in Beta.
Configuring default Python package repositories is now generally available for Lakeflow pipelines and for classic compute created via the UI and API.
Querying Unity AI Gateway model services and model provider services with Consumer access is currently opt in through the Consumer access to Unity AI Gateway Public Preview.
Querying Unity Gateway model services and model provider services with Consumer access is currently opt in through the Consumer access to Unity Gateway Public Preview.
Context attributes for attribute based access control (ABAC) policies are in Beta.
Scheduled task consistency: Scheduled tasks now look up past runs to keep run to run outputs consistent.
The job level performance mode setting now propagates to materialized view and streaming table refreshes triggered by dbt tasks.
The Databricks Connector for Google Sheets now lets you write data from Google Sheets back to a Unity Catalog table.
Import from Power BI and Tableau: Importing reports and data models from Power BI and Tableau with Genie Code (/importBI) is now generally available.
Mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for the Salesforce connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
Role based access control (RBAC) is now generally available.
You can now use ai extract precision mode for advanced extraction workloads, including multi page documents, schemas with 50 or more fields, many extracted items per document, and complex…
Role based access control (RBAC) will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid September 2026.
You can now set the effort level for Genie Code to balance response quality and cost.
In late September 2026, user authorization for Databricks Apps will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
The root cause analysis column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated.
Identity attributes are in Beta.
Restore the Python variables and Spark session from a serverless compute job run into a new interactive notebook, so you can debug a failure or explore results without rerunning the job.
The downstream impact column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated.
You can now use %uv init, %uv add, and %uv sync in serverless notebooks running environment version 5 or above to create a Python project, add dependencies, and sync its environment.
You can now use base environments to manage Python dependencies on classic compute.
Programmatic management of Lakebase Postgres is now generally available through the REST API, Databricks CLI, and Databricks SDKs (Python, Java, Go).
The Workiva connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Sharing managed Iceberg tables in Databricks to Databricks sharing and open sharing is now generally available.
You can now upload files to Genie Code to use as context for the current chat.
Model Serving now supports DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) as a Databricks hosted model in the us west 2 region.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) is now available on Unity Gateway for complex reasoning and agentic coding workflows.
Smart Routing (Beta) automatically picks the right model and agent harness for each task, based on complexity, permissions, and budget.
Content search for attached volumes (Beta): For better latency and accuracy when answering questions across larger volumes, you can now optionally enable content search on attached volumes.
Databricks will be expanding networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect.
OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is now generally available and is being enabled by default for accounts on a rolling basis.
The managed Google Drive Audit Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs now supports all compliance security profile standards that Databricks supports and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile…
OpenSharing SecureConnect is generally available and available by default for accounts on the Premium plan.
OpenSharing SecureConnect is now generally available.
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.7 Flash as a Databricks hosted model.
The Sensitive Data Detection guardrail (Beta) detects structured sensitive data (such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, IBANs, and phone numbers) and either blocks the interaction or…
The SendGrid connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
You can now control serverless network traffic between Databricks workspaces.
Ontology snippets now available to all customers (Public Preview): Ontology snippets in the Genie Ontology are now available to all customers.
You can now ingest data from a Gmail mailbox into Databricks using the managed Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect.
Remove duplicate subscribers: Dashboard authors can now remove duplicate subscribers from a dashboard schedule.
Search the public web (Beta): Genie One can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information, such as recent release notes, third party documentation, or news.
Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway for fast, cost efficient everyday tasks.
OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is generally available and on by default for most accounts.
The Tags page in Governance Hub is now in Beta.
Identity attributes are in Beta.
You can now build custom trace views in the Databricks MLflow trace explorer.
You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition.
The Amplitude connector in Lakeflow Connect is now in Beta.
The managed Google Search Console connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect.
You can now ingest data from Glean into Databricks using the managed Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect.
ABAC GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition.
REPLACE USING flows are now available for standalone streaming tables in Beta.
Attribute based access control (ABAC) GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition.
Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is now available in the Preview channel.
The managed Notion connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Model Serving now supports DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) as a Databricks hosted model in the us west 2 region.
Lakebase is now PCI DSS and HITRUST compliant for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
New features and improvements collect union aggregate function: SQL and the Scala and Python DataFrame APIs now support collect union, which returns the distinct union of the elements in arrays…
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is now available on Unity Gateway for fast, cost efficient reasoning, coding, and agentic tool use.
The system.alert schema is in Public Preview.
You can now run a continuous Lakeflow pipeline with a continuous job.
The READ METADATA privilege is now generally available in Unity Catalog.
Tag automations are now in Beta.
You can now read a change data feed from a materialized view created in a Lakeflow pipeline or in Databricks SQL, using Databricks Runtime 18 LTS or above.
The ai search() SQL function retrieves information from one or more AI Search indexes configured as knowledge sources.
You can manage Unity Gateway resources programmatically instead of clicking through the UI, with full create, read, update, list, and delete support for endpoints, model providers, and MCP servers.
Package Scala or Java code as a JAR and run it as a task in a Lakeflow Job on serverless compute.
All Databricks managed MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code have migrated to the Unity Gateway.
Rich text in widget titles and descriptions: Visualization widget titles and descriptions now support rich text formatting.
All Databricks managed MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code have migrated to the Unity AI Gateway.
Moonshot AI Kimi K3 is now available on Unity Gateway for long horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native vision.
Markdown tables in Agent mode APIs (Beta): In the Agent mode APIs, table visualizations now return as markdown instead of table visualization attachments, which improves readability.
Genie Code can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information.
Model Serving now supports Kimi K3 as a Databricks hosted model.
The Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect is now enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
Upload PDF files to a conversation (Beta): You can now upload PDF files to a Genie One conversation alongside CSV and Excel files.
Package Scala or Java code as a JAR and run it as a task in a Lakeflow Job on serverless compute, without provisioning or managing clusters.
You can now use Genie One directly in the Databricks Excel Add in.
Lakebase is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and either HIPAA, C5, or TISAX controls selected, and for workspaces with the compliance security…
Window measures in metric views support a unitless numeric offset and numeric trailing and leading ranges on a consecutive integer order column.
You can now search and replace text across files in a Databricks Git folder or Declarative Automation Bundles project from the Search pane.
You can now use Genie One directly in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets.
Lakebase is now enabled by default in workspaces with the compliance security profile, including workspaces that use the HIPAA, C5, or TISAX standard and workspaces that enable the profile without a…
REPLACE USING flows are now available in Lakeflow pipelines in Beta.
The managed NetSuite connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting.
Unity Gateway is now generally available.
The Google Drive connector in Lakeflow Connect is now Generally Available.
The managed PagerDuty connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available.
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available.
Unity AI Gateway is now generally available.
Full page Genie Code is now generally available.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
The SharePoint connector in Lakeflow Connect is now Generally Available.
HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available at the schema level.
Environment variables for serverless Lakeflow Jobs tasks are in Beta.
Secrets in Unity Catalog is now generally available.
Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents is extended through January 31, 2027.
You can now refresh a pipeline managed materialized view or streaming table even when the pipeline owner or run as identity is subject to an attribute based access control (ABAC) policy.
The Databricks Excel Add in now supports cascading filters and case insensitive string matching.
Serverless compute access control is now generally available.
Materialized view and streaming table refreshes in Databricks SQL now inherit custom tags from the enclosing SQL warehouse environment.
The MANAGE privilege no longer requires a usage privilege (USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA) on the object where MANAGE is granted.
You can now use spaces to organize your work in the Databricks editor.
Starting in early September 2026, Databricks Apps will be automatically on for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available.
The web terminal in notebooks connected to serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is now in Public Preview.
The OpenAI connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Run a scheduled task on demand: When you author a scheduled task, you can now select Run now to run it immediately.
Dashboard relationships from imported BI files: When you import a Power BI or Tableau file with Genie Code, migration tooling now creates dashboard relationships where it detects them in the source…
Route Claude Code through Unity Gateway using an existing Claude Pro, Max, Enterprise, or Team subscription, at no additional model cost, while your organization keeps centralized governance, usage…
Genie Code is now available on workspaces that have the compliance security profile enabled with the HIPAA compliance standard selected and partner powered AI features disabled.
Chat sharing (GA): Sharing an individual Genie Agent conversation is now generally available.
Automatic upgrades begin rolling out row tracking and Checkpoint V2 to existing Unity Catalog managed tables, not just new tables.
Unity Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon.
Unity AI Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon.
User-defined table functions are now generally available for enhanced data processing.
Enhance your Spark Declarative Pipelines with robust unit testing capabilities.
Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 5 as a Databricks hosted model.
Now in Public Preview for enhanced Git operations within Databricks.
Public URLs for JDBC driver downloads will be disabled starting September 2026.
Summer Release introduces new operators and enhanced editing features.
Enhanced security and efficiency for collaborative workloads.
New capabilities for managing governed tags in your account.
Enhancing database issue resolution with AI-driven insights and conversational tools.
Diagnose and resolve database issues using Genie and telemetry insights.
Latest updates for improved performance and security.
ai parse document reduces latency and improves the accuracy of layout and bounding box detection.
Now Generally Available with Apache Spark 4.2.0
New features for improved file analysis and API capabilities.
General Availability of Databricks Runtime 19 with enhanced performance features.
Transition to Long-Term Support for Databricks Runtime 18.
New features and improvements for better dashboard management.
Now in Beta, enabling high-throughput data ingestion.
Automate recurring analyses with scheduled Genie Code prompts.
Now generally available for Unity Catalog managed Delta tables.
Access a variety of sample datasets through the samples catalog.
RBAC is now available in Public Preview, enhancing data access security.
Flexible data type for semi-structured data now generally available.
Enhance your data refresh capabilities with targeted overrides.
Enhancing availability for latency-sensitive applications.
Enhanced support for semi-structured data in compliance workspaces.
Automatic alerts for expiring service principal tokens are now available.
Now supports compliance security profile standards for enhanced governance.
Streamline the connection of S3 buckets to Databricks with automated provisioning.
Centralized governance monitoring for Databricks accounts.
Ingest advertising data from Reddit Ads into Databricks.
Set specific timeouts for individual SQL warehouses.
Expanded access for users without workspace assignments.
Now available as a Databricks-hosted model for enhanced model serving.
Now available as a Databricks-hosted model for enhanced model serving.
Billing corrections for Genie usage to ensure accurate cost representation.
Now generally available for enhanced workspace security.
Integrate AI assistance directly in notebook comments.
Connect and govern any external model provider (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, and newly released models like Meta's Muse Spark 1.1) through Unity Gateway.
Seamlessly ingest compliance and usage data from Anthropic into Databricks.
Now in Public Preview, enabling seamless data queries within Teams.
New features and bug fixes to improve dashboard usability and performance.
New features and bug fixes to improve user experience.
Now in Beta for SQL migration projects.
Default storage in Unity Catalog for compliance workspaces enhances trace management.
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables is now generally available.
Now in Beta for SQL migration projects.
You can now register Scala and Java user defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog and reuse them across notebooks, jobs, and SQL warehouses with Unity Catalog governance.
Enhancements and bug fixes for improved user experience.
Transition to Gemini 3.1 Pro for enhanced capabilities.
Enhanced throughput for compliance workspaces.
Lakebase now provides a Service Level Agreement (SLA), with Monthly Uptime Percentage commitments for endpoints in zone redundant high availability mode and for single compute endpoints.
High-throughput capabilities for real-time applications are now generally available.
Introducing a new system table for managing governed tags.
Enhanced compliance support for data governance.
Free usage until July 31, 2026
Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027.
Enhanced AI capabilities for compliance-focused workspaces.
The MANAGE privilege lets users manage privileges on, transfer ownership of, and delete an object without being its owner.
Enhance branding with a single entry point for your Databricks account.
Now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview.
In an upcoming release, Request for Access will be enabled by default for all workspaces, and access requests will be routed to the owner of the requested Unity Catalog object via email.
Now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant for enhanced security.
Query-based connectors now default for compliance workspaces.
Now supports allowlisting IPs from partner platforms.
Enhanced streaming capabilities for OpenSharing tables.
Automatic upgrades apply recommended features to your Unity Catalog managed tables after verifying workload compatibility.
Enhanced visibility into warehouse activity now generally available.
General availability of MCP Services for seamless integration with popular SaaS applications.
Ingest files from Google Drive for enhanced data processing.
Update notifications now posted 3 days in advance.
You can now store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog.
To deliver Postgres version updates, security patches, and new features to your projects sooner, Lakebase has shortened the planned update notification window.
Ingest files and structured data from SharePoint into Databricks.
Enhance your data security with private network access to SAP BDC.
Now available by default for compliance security profiles.
New features and bug fixes for improved dashboard functionality.
Genie Spaces renamed to Genie Agents: Genie Spaces are now called Genie Agents.
New features for improved document management and interactivity.
The Lakeflow Pipelines Editor has been generally available since May 2026.
Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.6 Sol, GPT 5.6 Terra, and GPT 5.6 Luna as Databricks hosted models.
You can now configure front end Private Link for account level Genie One.
Now supports serialized KServe v2 requests for custom model endpoints.
Ingest data-security audit events from Strac into Databricks.
Formerly known as Genie Spaces, Genie Agents provide a natural-language interface for data interaction.
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie Agents is billed following a pay as you go pricing model that includes 150 DBUs of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about…
The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is generally available and will be available by default in your workspace.
Materialized view and streaming table refreshes in Databricks SQL now inherit custom tags from the enclosing SQL warehouse environment.
The object metadata column is now in Public Preview.
You can now use Unity Catalog permissions to restrict which task specific AI Functions your organization can access, independent of foundation model access.
Transitioning to newer models for enhanced performance.
Enhancing cost management in Databricks SQL environments.
In early August 2026, continuous Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines and jobs will receive updates to simplify configuration and state management.
Introducing pay-as-you-go pricing with free monthly usage.
Transitioning to newer models for enhanced performance.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is retired as of October 9, 2026.
Claude Sonnet 4 will be retired on October 9, 2026, with Claude Sonnet 4.6 as the recommended replacement.
Now available as a Databricks-hosted model for enhanced AI capabilities.
Built-in support for Excel files enhances data ingestion capabilities.
Now generally available for efficient data processing.
Now in Public Preview for external Iceberg compatibility.
Now supports standard performance mode for refreshes in jobs.
Securely connect to Databricks resources without exposing them to the public internet.
Materialized view and streaming table refreshes that are orchestrated through a SQL task in a Lakeflow job now respect the job's Performance optimized setting.
Admins can now set spending thresholds for Unity AI Gateway usage.
This serverless compute release includes updates from Databricks Runtime 18.
Streamline user and group synchronization with Okta.
To deliver Postgres version updates, security patches, and new features to your projects sooner, Lakebase Autoscaling is shortening the planned update notification window.
Ontology snippets (Public Preview): Genie One now supports ontology snippets.
Agent mode is generally available: Agent mode in Genie Spaces is now generally available.
Import reports from Power BI and Tableau: Authors can now import Power BI and Tableau reports as a new AI/BI dashboard directly from the dashboard list page.
New capabilities and improvements for enhanced data interaction.
Enhance data ingestion efficiency with targeted row filtering.
Now available as Databricks-hosted models for enhanced accessibility.
The Veeva Vault connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta.
Dashboard relationships (Public Preview): Build complex multi fact data models scoped to an AI/BI dashboard.
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image as Databricks hosted models.
Simplified change data capture for MySQL in Databricks.
Now in Beta for low-latency analytics.
When you run a subset of a job's tasks, you can now expand your selection to include each task's dependencies.
Now in Beta for advanced row pattern recognition.
Grok models will soon be available as pay per token foundation models in Databricks Model Serving.
Now available as a Databricks-hosted model for enhanced coding and workflows.
Now available in AWS Tokyo region for enhanced scalability.
Lakebase is now available in ap northeast 1 (Asia Pacific Tokyo).
Enhanced performance and reduced storage for Delta Lake tables.
The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available.
Enhance your AI workloads with tailored Docker environments.
Agent mode is now the exclusive operational mode.
Enhancements across supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Agent mode in Genie Agents will be enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in July 2026.
Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in the Preview channel.
Centralized governance for LLM endpoints across workspaces.
Enhance metric views with dynamic parameters for flexible querying.
In a future release, Databricks plans to deprecate classic workspace creation with a Databricks managed VPC.
Behavioral changes Environment variable availability restricted in standard access mode: In standard access mode, only a predefined set of environment variables is available to the Spark engine and…
Now generally available for seamless data ingestion.
ai parse document improves extraction from checkboxes, forms, and complex tables.
Genie Code space authoring skills: Genie Code now includes dedicated skills for authoring and maintaining Genie Spaces.
Solution Accelerators are now categorized as apps or notebooks.
Solution Accelerators are no longer a separate listing type in Databricks Marketplace.
Dynamic annotation lines: Annotation lines can now be driven by data or a calculation instead of a fixed value, letting you show running averages, variable thresholds, or anomaly markers that update…
Share chats with account users: You can now share Genie One chats with all users in your account as read only.
New authoring skills for Genie Agents improve usability and accuracy.
Genie Spaces is being renamed to Genie Agents.
You can now add data quality expectations to materialized views created in Databricks SQL using the CONSTRAINT expectation name EXPECT (expectation expr) clause.
Now generally available for low-code integration.
Now available by default for compliance-focused workspaces.
Enhance security by blocking unwanted internet access from serverless workloads.
Data Classification is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled, and either HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, or FedRAMP Moderate controls or no specific…
Enhance AI agents with long-term memory capabilities.
Enhance ownership management for pipeline datasets in Databricks SQL.
Transitioning to the new system.compute schema for enhanced data management.
The Discover page is now in Public Preview.
The Wiz Audit Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
The Square connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
The Genie Code system table (system.access.assistant events) now records only user submitted Genie Code interactions, such as side panel chat, agent mode, and the inline assistant (%assistant).
You can now enable access requests at the Unity Catalog metastore level.
The Netskope Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
The Workday Reports connector in Lakeflow Connect now supports incremental ingestion in Beta.
Token auto scoping is now generally available.
Table header color customization: Authors can now set font color, background color, and text formatting for table column headers.
Lakebase Autoscaling now supports Postgres 18.
Scheduled tasks for consumer entitlement users: Consumer entitlement users can now create scheduled tasks without needing the SQL entitlement.
Sync comments from external data sources to Unity Catalog.
Omnigent is now available in Beta.
Providers can now share a Genie Space with users outside their organization using OpenSharing.
Enable external collaboration by sharing Genie Agents with users outside your organization.
For serverless compute and classic compute running Databricks Runtime 18 and above, common file access patterns are now detected for workspace files, and directory metadata and file contents are…
A visual, no-code experience for data transformation.
Lakeflow Designer will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late July 2026.
Seamlessly integrate Databricks data queries within Copilot Cowork.
Now generally available for streamlined data pipeline management.
Lakebase Search brings scalable vector and keyword search to Lakebase projects through two new Postgres extensions, so you can run semantic and exact term search in a single database without a…
Discover and install third-party applications directly in your Unity Catalog workspace.
Streamline change data capture with automatic handling of out-of-order records.
You can now use the Databricks Genie mobile app to access Genie One from iOS and Android devices.
Configure the recovery period for dropped managed tables.
General-purpose AI function for querying models.
Leverage Universal Commits for Marketplace purchases.
Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0.
Enhance security and flexibility with OAuth connections.
Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0.
Databricks to Databricks Delta Sharing supports sharing across regulatory domains.
Databricks Runtime 19 is now available in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0.
Share data securely behind firewalls with ease.
Databricks to Databricks Delta Sharing supports sharing across regulatory domains.
Enhancing secure data sharing with OpenID Connect federation.
Chat in Genie One (GA): Chat in Genie One is now generally available.
Automated alerts for expiring tokens enhance security management.
Convert partitioned Delta Lake tables to liquid clustering with minimal downtime.
Now in Public Preview for enhanced resilience.
Now in Public Preview for enhanced security and disaster recovery.
Enhanced telemetry for real-time data ingestion in model serving.
Submit and manage distributed training workloads effortlessly.
The Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect will be enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid July 2026.
Automate data lifecycle management with configurable row expiration.
New features and fixes for improved visualization and automation.
Now integrates OpenAI models for enhanced capabilities.
Save visualizations to a dashboard: You can now save Genie Space visualization outputs to a dashboard.
Now generally available for structured data extraction.
Now supports Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools.
You can now add Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools in your Supervisor Agent.
Dynamic access control for ML models in Unity Catalog.
Account level Genie customization: You can now customize Genie at the account level, including colors, a logo, a markdown welcome message, and pinned content.
Now generally available for enhanced observability.
Now generally available for text classification.
Gantt charts now available: Gantt charts display tasks as horizontal bars on a continuous axis to visualize project schedules, manufacturing workflows, and other time ranged events.
Following the release of open source OpenSharing, Delta Sharing is now OpenSharing.
The Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams is now available in Beta.
Lakehouse Replay is now available in Beta.
Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Zip.
Databricks Runtime 18 is now generally available (GA).
Enhance compute policy management without interrupting workloads.
Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Fable 5 as a Databricks hosted model.
Automatic identity management now supports Okta in Public Preview.
Documentation has been reorganized for better clarity and access.
Over the next couple of weeks, identity federation is being enabled by default for all new Databricks workspaces, including workspaces that are not attached to a Unity Catalog metastore.
The @dp.update flow decorator in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines lets you add an update flow that writes to a sink in update output mode, emitting only the rows that change in each batch.
The Databricks Genie app for Slack is now available in Public Preview.
The @dp.update flow decorator in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines lets you add an update flow that writes to a sink in update output mode, emitting only the rows that change in each batch.
Attribute based access control (ABAC) for Unity Catalog is now in Public Preview.
Now generally available for enhanced data processing.
The Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines documentation is reorganized: all conceptual topics are now grouped under Concepts.
Genie, the Databricks AI experience for business users, has been renamed to Genie One.
The Monday.com connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Inbound Private Link for performance intensive services, such as Lakebase Autoscaling and Zerobus Ingest, is now generally available.
Apache Spark fixes and improvements This release includes the following bug fixes and improvements made to Spark: NEAREST BY is now a supported SQL join type for top K nearest neighbor queries.
AI Search now supports query time options for full text and hybrid queries in Beta.
Inbound Private Link for performance intensive services, such as Lakebase Autoscaling and Zerobus Ingest, is now generally available.
Databricks is changing how principals get workspace entitlements.
The Zoho Books connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Aha!.
External lineage (formerly Bring Your Own Lineage) in Unity Catalog is now generally available.
ai parse document can now parse tables faster.
Databricks SQL now supports informational UNIQUE constraints on Unity Catalog Delta Lake tables.
You can now enable external Delta and Iceberg clients to read streaming tables and materialized views managed by a pipeline through the Unity Catalog and Iceberg catalog REST APIs, without copying…
AWS Graviton instance types are now supported with the compliance security profile for all compliance standards in AWS commercial regions and Databricks on AWS GovCloud.
The managed SharePoint connector in Lakeflow Connect now supports structured file ingestion (CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, Parquet, Avro, ORC), file metadata ingestion, file filters, schema evolution…
Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is now generally available.
The managed SharePoint connector in Lakeflow Connect now supports structured file ingestion (CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, Parquet, Avro, ORC), file metadata ingestion, file filters, schema evolution…
You can now enable external Delta and Iceberg clients to read streaming tables and materialized views managed by a pipeline through the Unity Catalog and Iceberg catalog REST APIs, without copying…
Genie Code now offers an auto approve mode that approves tool actions, like running code or editing notebooks, without prompting you for each request.
Bookmark filter combinations: Dashboard authors can now save filter combinations as shared bookmarks, which viewers can quickly apply.
Behavioral changes Review the following changes, which take effect when clusters restart on this runtime.
New features and improvements for Genie Agents to enhance user experience and management.
The ai extract and ai classify SQL AI Functions will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP Moderate, CCCS Medium (Protected…
Workspace file operations on classic compute now use asynchronous flushing by default for Databricks Runtime 17.1 and above.
On July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie products will move to a pay as you go pricing model.
Genie Chat prompt monitoring (Beta): Prompts and responses initiated by Genie Chat are now visible in Genie Spaces monitoring when the sharing Beta is enabled.
Use the Databricks Excel Add in to write data from Microsoft Excel back to a Unity Catalog table.
Workspace level Genie One customization: Workspace admins can now customize Genie One at the workspace level.
On July 24, 2026, Declarative Automation Bundles will start using the direct deployment engine by default instead of the Terraform deployment engine.
Table update triggers in Lakeflow Jobs can now monitor data shared through Delta Sharing and system tables, in addition to local tables.
Full page Genie Code is now available in Beta.
You can now enable web search on your Supervisor Agent to answer questions that require current information from the public web.
Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Pendo.
Databricks SQL materialized views now support incremental refresh in Public Preview.
The Zoom Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
The managed RabbitMQ connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
The Slack Access and Integration Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer UI.
Starting June 1, 2026, snapshot storage is billable for Lakebase Autoscaling.
Vector Search has been renamed to AI Search.
Structured Streaming deduplication with NaN keys: Structured Streaming deduplication now treats NaN (Not a Number) values that have different bit patterns as duplicates when a double or float column…
You can now run a Databricks app across multiple instances behind a single app URL.
Query based connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now generally available.
The following updates were made to Lakeflow Designer: Bidirectional AI generated descriptions: Each operator now displays an AI generated description of what it does.
Agent mode thinking traces (Public Preview): Agent mode thinking traces now cite the definitions applied to answer questions.
Embedding a Genie Agent as an iframe will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in June 2026.
Genie One now has a Managed MCP Server (Beta).
Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 as a Databricks hosted model.
Banded rows in tables: Tables can now display banded rows.
Improvements and bug fixes for Genie Agent functionality.
External engines can now read Unity Catalog managed tables (Delta and Iceberg) with attribute based access controls (ABAC), row filters, and column masks enforced server side.
Refresh policies and the EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statement are now generally available for materialized views.
Workspace admins can now set the default execution timeout for serverless notebooks in the workspace admin settings, replacing the previous manual override process.
The Google Drive connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Achieve low-latency operational streaming with the new update_flow API.
Real time mode in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines is now in Public Preview.
Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in the Preview channel.
Pipeline parameters are now in Beta, enhancing flexibility and reusability.
Pipeline parameters let you define key value pairs at the pipeline level and reference them from SQL source code using named parameter syntax.
Automatic identity management with Microsoft Entra ID is now generally available.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
The /settings and /rename slash commands are no longer available in the notebook Genie Code Assistant chat pane.
Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP Moderate controls selected.
The account access denylist is now available in Public Preview for Databricks accounts on AWS and GCP that use automatic identity management.
Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.1.0.
Direct link to associated dashboard: Genie One now surfaces a direct link to the associated dashboard when hovering over entities in the chat pane.
Improved functionality and bug fixes for Genie Agents.
The workspace sidebar navigation has updated section groupings: A new Analytics section groups Dashboards, Genie Spaces, and Alerts.
Import BI workbooks (Beta): Add a Tableau or Power BI file to Genie Code and it builds an AI/BI dashboard that replicates your visualizations.
"Fields" replaces "Dimensions": Genie Spaces now uses "Fields" instead of "Dimensions" in the metric view and SQL expressions interfaces.
New Lakebase projects now have native Postgres password authentication disabled by default.
The system.compute.instance events and system.compute.instance pools system tables are now in Public Preview.
The following Apache Iceberg capabilities in Unity Catalog are now generally available: Unity Catalog managed Iceberg tables: Create and manage Iceberg tables in Unity Catalog using Databricks…
New Lakebase Autoscaling projects now have native Postgres password authentication disabled by default.
The Databricks CLI is now generally available (GA).
You can now serve custom and fine tuned LLMs on Databricks with a vLLM engine, including multimodal models and PEFT recipes that Foundation Model APIs does not support.
You can now configure Microsoft Entra ID as the identity provider for single sign on (SSO) to Databricks from Power BI using an account level federation policy.
Lakebase now supports compute sizes up to 64 CU (128 GB RAM), up from the previous maximum of 32 CU (64 GB RAM).
You can now use the OAuth U2M flow to obtain tokens as a service principal's identity instead of your own user account.
Vector Search storage optimized endpoints are now generally available.
Lakebase Autoscaling now supports compute sizes up to 64 CU (128 GB RAM), up from the previous maximum of 32 CU (64 GB RAM).
Customer managed keys (CMK) for Lakebase Autoscaling are now available in all Lakebase regions on AWS and Azure.
You can now use OAuth on behalf of (OBO) to obtain tokens that act with a service principal's identity instead of your own user account.
Fixed level of detail (LOD) expressions in metric views are now defined directly in the expr field of a dimension using SQL window functions, replacing the previous two step approach of pre…
You can now add another Supervisor Agent as a subagent tool, enabling nested multi agent orchestration.
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.5 Flash as a Databricks hosted model.
Databricks Container Services for standard compute is now in Beta.
The following updates were made to Lakeflow Designer: Enabled by default: Lakeflow Designer is now enabled by default for all free edition, premium, and enterprise tier workspaces.
Edits to jobs and pipeline settings in the UI now automatically update YAML.
The Databricks Add in for Excel (Public Preview) now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks.
You can now use the following MLflow managed evaluation features in workspaces encrypted with customer managed keys (CMK): Production monitoring of GenAI apps with MLflow 3 scorers.
You can now view all of your job and pipeline runs in the updated Runs list.
Behavioral changes Review the following changes, which take effect when clusters restart on this runtime.
You can now add vector search indexes as subagent tools in your Supervisor Agent.
The Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines sink API is now generally available.
When you delete a Lakebase project, it now enters a soft deleted state for 7 days before permanent deletion.
You can now add Unity Catalog tables as subagent tools in your Supervisor Agent.
The sink API for Spark Declarative Pipelines is now generally available, enabling seamless data integration.
You can now share Genie Code chat threads with other users, groups, or service principals.
The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs, previously in Beta, is now in Public Preview.
Create API instruction limits raised: The create API now enforces the same limits as the UI for instruction creation.
Error bars on line charts: Line charts now support displaying error bars as bands.
You can now view the run history of scheduled refreshes in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets.
Workspace admins can now add an additional email recipient to receive operational emails about a workspace.
Environment versions for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines are now in Beta.
Improved capabilities and bug fixes for Genie Agents.
Additional chat audit logs in Genie One: Nine new genieChat audit events are now available for granular tracking: mcpToolInvocation, steerGenieChatConversation, updateGenieChatConversationFeedback…
Environment versions for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow are now in Beta.
The latest version of Databricks SQL alerts is now generally available.
New Lakebase instances now scale to zero by default after 24 hours of inactivity, reducing compute costs for idle projects.
New Lakebase Autoscaling instances now scale to zero by default after 24 hours of inactivity, reducing compute costs for idle projects.
This serverless compute release roughly corresponds to Databricks Runtime 18.2.
ai parse document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP Moderate, CCCS Medium (Protected B), UK Cyber Essentials Plus…
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
You can now store every insert, update, and delete on your Lakebase Postgres tables as Unity Catalog managed Delta tables.
Lakehouse Sync is now in Public Preview for Lakebase.
Lakehouse Sync is now in Public Preview for Lakebase Autoscaling.
The Databricks Add in for Excel (Public Preview) is now available for workspaces with HIPAA compliance across all supported regions.
You can now collect traces, logs, and metrics from your Databricks Apps and persist them to Unity Catalog tables using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) protocol.
The managed HubSpot connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
Catalog commits are now generally available.
Graviton (Arm64) instance types are now available on AWS Commercial workspaces that use the compliance security profile with the FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP, or CCCS Medium (Protected B) compliance…
Workspace instructions for chat in Genie One: Workspace admins can now create a /Workspace/.genie workspace instructions.md file to add custom instructions that apply to all chat conversations in…
Standalone pipelines, including materialized views and streaming tables, can now be created from a notebook running on serverless general compute.
Export context as metric view: You can now export the context from a Genie Space as a metric view to centrally define your business semantics.
You can now use the %uv pip magic command in serverless notebooks on environment version 5 or above as a faster alternative to %pip for Python package management.
Improved error messages: Dashboard error messages can now be more easily viewed and copied.
New features for improved embedding and monitoring capabilities.
Between May 11 and May 21, 2026, Lakebase Autoscaling is rolling out a unified permissions model for new projects created with the Database instance API or related tools (CLI, SDKs, Terraform, DABs).
The GitHub connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Model Serving now supports Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B as a Databricks hosted model.
The Outlook connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Automatic identity management lets you sync users and groups from your identity provider to Databricks.
The Smartsheet connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now generally available.
Behavioral changes Review the following changes, which take effect when clusters restart on this runtime.
Starting with version 19, Databricks Runtime will use a unified release model.
The Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available.
Databricks is upgrading all Lakebase Provisioned instances to the Lakebase Autoscaling platform.
You can now view profiling statistics for columns in notebook results tables.
You can now view profiling statistics for columns in results tables in the new Databricks SQL editor.
Open source connectors extend Lakeflow Connect to sources without managed connector support.
New features for improved file handling and monitoring.
Scheduled tasks are now supported in Genie One.
You can now disable a task in a Databricks Lakeflow job to skip it at run time without removing it from the job.
Publish with service principal credentials: Authors can now publish dashboards using the data credentials of a service principal.
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables, previously in Beta, is now in Public Preview.
Power BI plans to transition all Power BI connections to Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) in August 2026.
The new agg aggregate function is a synonym for measure.
You can now add custom MCP servers and custom agents hosted in Databricks Apps as subagents in your Supervisor Agent.
Weekly digest and monitoring: The Monitoring tab now includes a Weekly digest section showing weekly messages, users, and thumbs up/down feedback.
Chat in Genie One has moved from Beta to Public Preview.
In early June 2026, user authorization for Databricks Apps will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Update history retention extended to 60 days.
Eligible managed and external Delta tables shared using the open Delta Sharing protocol now support directory based access mode.
Functions are now a supported securable object type for tagging in Unity Catalog.
The Zendesk Support connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
You can now connect Databricks classic and serverless compute to on premises resources without opening inbound firewall access by configuring an SSH reverse tunnel with proxy VMs in AWS.
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines update history is now retained for 60 days, up from 30 days.
Attribute based access control (ABAC) is now generally available (GA).
The 5X Large cluster size for serverless and pro SQL warehouses is in Public Preview in all regions.
The Data Quality Monitoring dashboard now includes a Recently Resolved Incidents section, currently in Beta.
Databricks One, the simplified Databricks interface, has been renamed to Genie.
The Confluence connector in Lakeflow Connect is now Generally Available.
Workspace base environments are now generally available.
To use the Databricks Excel Add in, a workspace admin must now enable the Excel Connector preview from the Previews page.
You can now use the Databricks SDK for Python to create and manage Supervisor Agent and their tools.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.5 and GPT 5.5 Pro as Databricks hosted models.
Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is rolling out to the Current channel.
In an upcoming release, workspace object permissions will be inherited from all account groups, not just groups directly assigned to the workspace.
Genie Code space configuration: Genie Code now includes tools to configure your Genie Space.
Databricks Apps search: You can now search for Databricks Apps from the Genie One search bar.
Table cross filtering and drill through: Tables now support cross filtering and drill through.
You can now change the default language for AI generated comments in Catalog Explorer.
Scoped personal access tokens will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late May 2026.
You can now visually build data transformation workflows with a drag and drop canvas and natural language in Lakeflow Designer.
AI Runtime now supports the 1xH100 accelerator in Beta.
The CPU MEDIUM and CPU LARGE workload types for Model Serving are now in Beta.
You can now export Lakebase Postgres metrics and logs to any OTLP compatible observability backend, including Grafana Cloud, New Relic, and Datadog.
This serverless compute release roughly corresponds to Databricks Runtime 18.1.
The Supervisor API (Beta) lets you build agents in a single API call.
Fixed the CRS spatial reference authority for the GEOMETRY(102100) type.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Databricks Data Classification is now generally available.
Microsoft has removed the BI compatibility mode option, which allows you to query Unity Catalog metric views in Power BI, from the Power BI Databricks connector.
The ability to modify a catalog or schema's managed storage location is now generally available.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 as a Databricks hosted model.
The ai parse document function is now generally available.
Reasoning traces using the API (Public Preview): Users can now access Genie's reasoning traces using the API through the GenieQueryAttachments field in the GenieMessage object.
New API features for enhanced interaction and performance.
Dashed and dotted line styles: You can now style lines as dashed or dotted in the Pattern section of the configuration pane.
Warehouse overload message: Dashboards now show a message explaining when rendering is delayed due to the warehouse being overloaded.
Measures and dimensions creation use Builder mode by default (Public Preview): Builder mode, the UI based transformation tool, is now the default experience for editing measures and dimensions in…
The Databricks Connector for Google Sheets is now generally available.
You can now use customer managed keys to encrypt model serving container images and model artifacts stored in Databricks managed registry.
Delivering Spark driver, worker, and event logs from classic all purpose and jobs compute to Unity Catalog volumes is now generally available.
The Databricks Apps console has a redesigned interface that provides a more intuitive app management experience.
Query based connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now available in Public Preview.
You can now use AI Gateway to enforce access control, monitor usage, and audit activity across all MCP interactions in your workspace.
Custom usage tag character restrictions have been updated.
Sample Data Explorer with Genie Code is now generally available.
You can now manage encrypted Lakebase project data using a customer managed key (CMK) from your own cloud KMS.
The Unity REST API now supports write and create access to Unity Catalog external and managed Delta tables from external Delta clients such as Apache Spark.
You can now manage encrypted Lakebase Autoscaling project data using a customer managed key (CMK) from your own cloud KMS.
The Databricks SQL reference now includes documentation for five new SQL statements for managing governed tags: CREATE GOVERNED TAG, ALTER GOVERNED TAG, DROP GOVERNED TAG, DESCRIBE GOVERNED TAG, and…
Column level personal data governance tags from SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) now sync into Unity Catalog, including fieldSemantics, isPotentiallyPersonal, and isPotentiallySensitive.
Mosaic AI Vector Search provides built in retrieval quality evaluation that measures and compares the relevance of different search strategies on your data.
You can now connect Lovable hosted apps to your Databricks workspace to query lakehouse data using the REST API and OAuth machine to machine authentication.
In mid June 2026, Delta Lake will fully support VOID columns.
Account level Genie One is now generally available: Account level Genie One now includes Databricks Apps, Domains, and Genie.
Local metric views (Public Preview): A new dataset type lets you create metric views directly in a dashboard using a low code visual interface, without publishing to Unity Catalog first.
In an upcoming release, the default behavior when deleting a Unity Catalog pipeline will change.
You can now share foreign Iceberg tables federated from foreign Iceberg catalogs using Delta Sharing.
New features and improvements for Genie Agents to enhance user experience.
A new cascade field is available in the Pipelines DELETE API for Unity Catalog pipelines.
Embed a Genie Space (Beta): You can now embed a Genie Space as an iframe in a website or application.
Databricks Runtime 18.2 and Databricks Runtime 18.2 ML are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.1.0.
ai prep search is now available in Beta.
You can now scope personal access tokens (PATs) to specific API operations, restricting tokens to only the permissions you specify.
You can now deploy Databricks apps directly from Git repositories.
Workspace skills for Genie Code Agent mode are now available.
On May 4, 2026, a new version of the List Dashboards API will change the sort order of results.
When you mount an SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) share to a catalog, semantic metadata (such as table and column comments, primary keys, foreign keys, and governance tags) syncs automatically into…
The Marketplace provider console now features a step by step listing creation wizard that guides you through setting up general information, data assets, attributes, and details on separate pages.
Improved user experience and API capabilities for Genie Agents.
Account Genie One is now in Public Preview: Account level Genie One is now in Public Preview.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Column display names: Space authors can now set user friendly display names on table and view columns.
Clear applied filters individually: Dashboard viewers can now individually clear applied filters from the active selection bar.
Governed tags are generally available.
Improved error handling for queries writing data to Delta tables that contain a VOID (NullType) column inside a user defined type (UDT).
Customer managed keys (CMK) for Unity Catalog are now generally available.
Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in the ap south 1 (Mumbai) AWS region.
The Databricks Documentation site now provides a tabbed experience for easier navigation and discoverability of documentation pages.
On or after April 30, 2026, Lakebase will be enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile when the compliance standard is set to HIPAA, C5, TISAX, or None.
The new SQL editor has been generally available since October 2025.
The Databricks Connector for Google Sheets has been updated with a longer query execution timeout, UI improvements, and additional scheduled refresh limitations.
The Agent Bricks page has expanded beyond declarative agents to serve as the umbrella for all Databricks AI capabilities.
Two new UI experiences for document analysis are now in Public Preview: Classification: A visual UI for classifying documents into predefined categories.
The ai classify and ai extract AI Functions now support new v2 signatures with improved quality and performance, greater flexibility, and native composability with ai parse document to power end to…
Legacy dashboard color palette setting removed: The workspace setting for the legacy dashboard color palette has been removed, as legacy dashboards are no longer supported.
Share Genie Space with all account users: The share modal now includes an option to share your Genie Space with all account users.
Expanded sharing and SQL download capabilities.
Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is now available in the Preview channel.
Supervisor Agent is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and HIPAA, FedRAMP Moderate, PCI DSS, or HITRUST controls selected.
Auto Loader now supports automatic type widening with the new addNewColumnsWithTypeWidening schema evolution mode.
The entity metadata struct in the system.access.table lineage and system.access.column lineage system tables now includes genie space id and alert id fields.
Type widening for Delta Lake tables is now generally available.
The new SQL editor now supports a Dynamic dropdown widget type for named parameter markers.
You can now connect external data sources such as Google Drive or SharePoint to a chat conversation in Genie One, allowing chat to search your company documents when answering questions.
Supervisor Agent now supports long running task mode, which automatically breaks complex tasks into multiple request/response cycles using task continuation to avoid timeouts.
Inspect (Public Preview): Inspect is now in Public Preview.
Based on customer feedback and the introduction of OpenSharing, this change has been postponed from July 1, 2026.
You can now add a SQL alert task to your Databricks jobs to evaluate Databricks SQL alerts as part of your workflows.
You can now create and view alerts for anomaly detection directly in the Databricks Data Quality Monitoring UI.
New features and improvements for Genie Agent users.
Designed for deep learning workloads, AI Runtime brings GPU support to Databricks serverless compute.
Date filter keyboard input: Fixed an issue where entering a date value via keyboard for relative date ranges failed to accept the input.
The usage dashboard is now generally available.
Databricks JDBC driver version 2.8.0 is now available for download.
You can now use uv to manage Python dependencies in your Databricks apps using pyproject.toml and uv.lock.
Searching for measures and dimensions in the metric view overview page now returns correct results across paginated results and supports filtering by display name.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.4 mini and GPT 5.4 nano as Databricks hosted models.
ai parse document improves bounding box and layout detection and addresses some common reading order errors.
Databricks Asset Bundles has been renamed to Declarative Automation Bundles.
You can now add Lakebase Autoscaling databases as resources for your Databricks app.
You can now add Lakebase databases as resources for your Databricks app.
You can now view health indicators for tables on schema and table overview pages in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview).
Vector search endpoints are now only charged after an index has been created, and 24 hours after the last index is deleted from the endpoint, the endpoint no longer incurs any charges.
The following features are now available through models hosted in country in Brazil, Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK: Genie Code chat and cell actions Genie Spaces (excluding Agent mode)…
The 5X Large cluster size for serverless and pro SQL warehouses is now available in Beta.
Chat in Genie One is now available in Beta.
ABAC policy tag functions now use snake\ case naming (has tag, has tag value, has column tag, has column tag value), consistent with other Databricks SQL built in functions.
New Lakebase instances are now created with autoscaling compute, scale to zero, branching, and instant restore by default.
New Lakebase instances are now created as Lakebase Autoscaling projects by default.
The Data quality monitoring documentation has moved from Data guides to the Data governance (Unity Catalog) chapter.
Genie Space management APIs are generally available: The CreateSpace, UpdateSpace, GenieGetSpace, GenieListSpaces, and GenieTrashSpace APIs hare now general availability.
Dashboard embedding for external users is generally available: Embed AI/BI dashboards in external applications without requiring viewers to have Databricks accounts.
Account level Genie One is now available in Beta.
Lakebase now includes the following features: OAuth roles: Create OAuth roles using the Lakebase UI or REST API, in addition to SQL.
Improved management APIs and context handling for better chatbot integration.
Lakebase Autoscaling now includes the following features: OAuth roles: Create OAuth roles using the Lakebase UI or REST API, in addition to SQL.
Materialized views and streaming tables defined and scheduled in Databricks SQL now support failure notifications and serverless performance mode configuration in Beta.
Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code, with expanded agentic capabilities for autonomous, multi step data tasks.
Behavioral changes Review the following changes, which take effect when clusters restart on this runtime.
Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now generally available.
Error messages for scalar subqueries used with EXEC IMMEDIATE now identify the specific cause more clearly.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
BI compatibility mode for metric views in Power BI is now available in Beta.
You can now group multiple SQL statements across multiple tables into a single atomic transaction using BEGIN ATOMIC ...
Compute sizing for Databricks Apps now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile…
The managed Workday HCM connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta.
You can now add other Databricks apps and Unity Catalog tables as resources for your Databricks app.
Inbound Private Link for performance intensive services such as Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase Autoscaling is now in Public Preview.
Declarative Feature Engineering APIs are now available in Beta in the AWS us east 1 and us west 2 regions.
You can now configure telemetry for your Databricks apps to collect traces, logs, and metrics and persist them to Unity Catalog tables using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) protocol.
You can now configure endpoint telemetry to persist logs, traces, and metrics from custom model serving endpoints into Unity Catalog Delta tables using OpenTelemetry.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite as a Databricks hosted model.
Embedded dashboard kebab menu: The Copy link to widget option is no longer shown in the kebab menu for embedded dashboards.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.4 as a Databricks hosted model.
The workspace browser side panel now includes a tree view that provides a flexible, tree based view of your workspace folder hierarchy.
Lakebase is now generally available for workspaces with the compliance security profile when the compliance standard is set to HIPAA, C5, TISAX, or None.
Knowledge Assistant is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and HIPAA controls selected.
Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions.
Lakebase is now available in three additional regions: ca central 1 (Canada Central) eu west 2 (Europe – London) sa east 1 (South America – São Paulo) See Get started with Lakebase.
Databricks now provides managed OAuth flows for select external MCP servers, eliminating the need to register your own OAuth app or manage credentials.
The new Databricks Excel Add in is in Public Preview and allows you to connect Microsoft Excel to your workspace, import data from tables or Metric Views, execute SQL queries, and analyze data…
Lakebase now includes high availability.
You can now apply tags to notebooks to organize and categorize them for easier management.
You can now protect data in Unity Catalog catalogs with your own encryption keys using customer managed keys (CMK).
Lakebase Autoscaling now includes high availability.
Lakebase Autoscaling is now available in three additional regions: ca central 1 (Canada Central) eu west 2 (Europe – London) sa east 1 (South America – São Paulo) See Get started with Lakebase…
You can now schedule automatic data refreshes in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis.
This serverless compute release roughly corresponds to Databricks Runtime 18.0.
Metric view display names: Genie now uses metric view display names and display formats for query result tables.
You can now enable HITRUST compliance controls to manage risk and demonstrate security and privacy compliance.
SET METADATA ON COLUMN and UNSET METADATA ON COLUMN SQL commands are now available for managing semantic metadata on Unity Catalog table columns.
You can now configure Databricks workspaces to support ISMAP, the Japanese government certification initiative for cloud services.
Improved user experience and functionality for data querying.
Unity Catalog metric view lineage: Dashboard info now shows Unity Catalog metric views in the lineage section.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Databricks now provides integrated Python unit testing tools in the workspace.
You can now use serverless environment version 5 in your serverless notebooks and jobs.
The Databricks ODBC driver has been renamed from Simba Spark ODBC Driver to Databricks ODBC Driver.
You can now retrieve serverless outbound IP addresses from a public JSON endpoint.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.3 Codex as a Databricks hosted model.
In an upcoming release, the use case field in the VPC endpoint CRUD response JSON will change from WORKSPACE ACCESS to GENERAL ACCESS.
Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is rolling out to the Current channel.
COMMENT ON TABLE to add or update comments on streaming tables is now generally available.
When you revoke a user's CAN USE permission, their personal access tokens become unusable but are not deleted.
Running JAR jobs on serverless compute is now in Public Preview.
New connections created in Power BI Desktop or Power BI Service now automatically use the Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver by default.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview as a Databricks hosted model.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
When inferring the schema of Excel files, string cells are now inferred as Spark StringType, respecting the cell type set in Excel.
Pivot table hierarchies: You can now expand and collapse hierarchies in pivot tables.
Enhanced Agent mode for improved data insights.
The Discover page provides a centralized interface for searching, browsing, and previewing data assets governed by Unity Catalog.
Research Agent renamed to Agent mode (Beta): The rename better aligns with the feature's function.
Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from TikTok Ads.
You can now limit the permissions of personal access tokens by selecting a token type and adding API scopes.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 as a Databricks hosted model.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B in Public Preview as a Databricks hosted model.
Databricks Runtime 18.1 and Databricks Runtime 18.1 ML are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.1.0.
AI Gateway (Beta) is the enterprise control plane for governing LLM endpoints and coding agents with enhanced features, including a rich UI, improved observability, and expanded API coverage.
New visualizations, improved query handling, and enhanced user experience.
Workspace admin theme permissions: Fixed a bug where workspace admins couldn't edit workspace level themes.
The managed HubSpot connector in Lakeflow Connect allows you to ingest data from HubSpot Marketing Hub into Databricks.
Heatmap and sankey visualizations: You can now generate heatmap and sankey visualizations in Genie.
File events are now enabled by default when you create new external locations.
Workspace admins can now set default package repositories for easier package management.
Workspace admins can now configure private or authenticated package repositories within workspaces as the default pip configuration for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines.
Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is now available in the Preview channel.
New documentation and project templates are available for building and deploying AI agents on Databricks Apps.
In late February 2026, EventBridge support will be available for file events provided queues for S3 locations.
Use Supervisor Agent to create a multi agent supervisor system that orchestrates AI agents and tools to work together on complex tasks.
You can now apply custom key value tags to SQL workloads on Databricks SQL warehouses for grouping, filtering, and cost attribution.
You can now deploy Databricks apps directly from Git repositories without uploading files to the workspace.
The managed Google Ads connector in Lakeflow Connect allows you to ingest data from Google Ads into Databricks.
Default SQL warehouse settings are now generally available.
Using CREATE, ALTER, or the Lakeflow UI to modify ETL and ingestion pipelines (Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines and Lakeflow Connect) is now GA.
You can now view detailed annotations on the Running clusters chart in the SQL warehouse monitoring UI to understand why warehouses remain active.
App thumbnail uploads: Customers can now upload thumbnails as the preview image for Databricks apps.
Embedded compute credentials: Compute credentials are now embedded for all users of a Genie Space.
Enhanced usability and functionality for Genie Agents.
Agent Bricks's Multi Agent Supervisor has been renamed to Supervisor Agent.
Parameterized dashboard tasks: Dashboard tasks in Jobs can now be parameterized, allowing job parameters to dynamically set dashboard filter values at runtime.
For workspaces enabled for customer managed keys (CMK) for managed services, the system catalog's data encryption settings can be configured to decrypt the statement text and error message fields in…
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 as a Databricks hosted model.
You can now connect Databricks Assistant in Agent mode to external tools and data sources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
You can now directly select Databricks tables from the Catalog Explorer and import data as pivot tables in Google Sheets using the Databricks Connector.
Genie Agents now utilize regionally hosted models in Japan and Korea.
Databricks Data Quality Monitoring Anomaly Detection is now in Public Preview.
The Zendesk Support connector allows you to ingest ticket data, help center content, and community forum data from Zendesk Support.
You can now apply tags to Databricks apps to organize and categorize them.
For workspaces in ap northeast 1 (Tokyo) and ap northeast 2 (Seoul), Genie Spaces now use models hosted in the same region.
The lakeflow system tables jobs, job tasks, job run timeline, and job task run timeline are now generally available (GA).
You can now view your past workspace tab sessions and restore them.
You can now copy images from your local file system and paste them into Markdown cells in Databricks notebooks using ⌘ + V (Mac) or Ctrl + V (Windows).
TRIGGER ON UPDATE is now generally available.
Fixed access request availability: Resolved an issue where the option to request access was not available and a "Resource not found" error was incorrectly shown.
Enhancements to API and user experience for improved functionality.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.2 Codex as a Databricks hosted model.
Serverless workspaces are now generally available.
Full query result downloads: A new API endpoint supports downloading complete result sets up to about 1 GB.
Compute sizing for Databricks Apps is now generally available.
Databricks Managed MCP servers is now Public Preview.
Auto Loader now reports batchSizeNumFiles, batchSizeNumBytes, and file processing states (numFilesProcessed, numFilesSkippedCorrupted, numFilesSkippedMissing, numFilesUnknownState) as metrics.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Knowledge Assistant is now available in the following AWS regions: us east 2, ca central 1, eu central 1, eu west 1, ap southeast 1 (requires cross geo processing), and ap southeast 2 (requires…
You can now store MLflow traces in Unity Catalog tables using OpenTelemetry format and query them using Databricks SQL.
The standard Google Drive connector in Lakeflow Connect allows you ingest Google Drive files into Databricks.
You can now use AWS front end PrivateLink for private connectivity to performance intensive services like Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase Autoscaling.
Enhanced lineage and entity matching capabilities.
Databricks Apps filtering: Genie One consumers can now filter to include or exclude inactive Databricks apps when browsing.
Account level user subscriptions: Dashboard authors can now subscribe account level users to scheduled dashboard updates.
Unity Catalog lineage for Genie Spaces: Genie Spaces are now discoverable in Unity Catalog lineage.
Lakebase is now generally available.
Serverless jobs now support custom base environments defined with YAML files for Python, Python wheel, and notebook tasks.
Genie One is now generally available.
Level of detail expressions let you control aggregation granularity independently of the dimensions in your visualizations.
The value sampling features in Genie have been renamed to better describe their function: Prompt matching (previously value sampling) Format assistance (previously example values) Entity matching…
Databricks on AWS GovCloud support: Genie and Databricks Assistant are now generally available on Databricks on AWS GovCloud.
Lakebase is now managed through the Lakebase App, accessed from the apps switcher in the Databricks UI.
Databricks Runtime 18.0 is now generally available.
Now generally available for secure cloud solutions in compliance with U.S. regulations.
Databricks Runtime 18 is now in feature development, powered by Apache Spark 4.1.0.
Sample data tab: View sample data to understand the context behind a Genie Space.
Mark assets as favorites: Click the star icon next to asset names in Genie One to mark them as favorites.
Dashboard page navigation scroll bar: The horizontal scroll bar to navigate between dashboard pages is now thicker.
Enhanced features for data interaction and management.
Lakebase Provisioned instances are now accessible through the Lakebase App (via the apps switcher in the Databricks UI).
Lakeflow Connect now offers row filtering for managed ingestion connectors to improve performance and minimize data duplication.
By default, Lakeflow Connect doesn't ingest Salesforce formula fields incrementally.
Use Knowledge Assistant to create a chatbot that can answer questions about your documents and provide high quality responses with citations.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.1 Codex Max and GPT 5.1 Codex Mini as Databricks hosted models.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Enhanced PDF exports, citation features, and improved accuracy.
PDF export for Research Agent (Beta) reports: Export Genie Research Agent reports as PDF files.
JSON cell copy paste improvement: JSON objects in table cells now remain expanded when you drag to copy paste.
Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens are now generally available.
Workspace admins can configure new users to receive Consumer access by default using group cloning.
Starting January 19, 2026, the jobs timeline tables use a new clock hour aligned slicing logic.
You can now create skills to extend Databricks Assistant in Agent mode with specialized capabilities for domain specific tasks.
The Databricks Assistant is now available on the Databricks documentation site to help you get answers and discover information about Databricks.
The Databricks Assistant Agent mode preview is now enabled by default for most customers.
You can now configure single use refresh tokens for OAuth applications integrated with Databricks.
Databricks accounts created after December 18, 2025 will not have access to certain legacy features such as access to DBFS root and mounts, Hive Metastore, and No isolation shared compute.
For Delta Sharing recipients, deltaSharingProxy audit log events now also include the catalog name request parameter, in addition to share name (previously named share).
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 as a Databricks hosted model.
Lakebase Autoscaling (Public Preview) now supports direct connections from the SQL editor with full read write access.
Lakebase Autoscaling (Public Preview) now includes a Metrics dashboard for monitoring system and database metrics.
Numeric column formatting: Numeric columns in tables are now formatted more effectively, including IDs, ZIP codes, and currency.
The fully managed MySQL connector in Lakeflow Connect is in Public Preview.
Lakebase (Public Preview) now supports direct connections from the SQL editor with full read write access.
ai parse document adds strikethrough support and improves parsing of short and narrow tables.
You can now ingest data from Meta Ads.
Boolean alias formatting: Boolean values now support alias formatting, allowing users to replace "true" and "false" with custom strings.
Databricks notebooks can now show the latest scheduled notebook run directly in your notebook and notebook dashboards.
Lakebase (Public Preview) now includes a Metrics dashboard for monitoring system and database metrics.
Context based ingress control is now in Public Preview.
You can now add MLflow experiments, vector search indexes, user defined functions (UDFs), and Unity Catalog connections as Databricks Apps resources.
Lakebase Autoscaling (Public Preview) now supports Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Flexible node types allow your compute resource to fall back to alternative, compatible instance types when your specified instance type is unavailable.
Lakebase (Public Preview) now supports Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Gemini 3 Flash is now available as a Databricks hosted model.
You must now log in to Databricks and accept license terms before downloading the Simba Apache Spark ODBC Driver.
Catalog Explorer will soon receive navigation improvements to streamline workflows and help you discover and manage data assets more efficiently.
The fully managed Confluence connector in Lakeflow Connect enables you to ingest Confluence spaces, pages, attachments, blogposts, labels, and classification levels into Databricks.
The fully managed PostgreSQL connector in Lakeflow Connect is in Public Preview.
You can now connect to Lakebase (Provisioned) readable secondaries and run read only queries from the Databricks SQL editor.
You can now share tables, materialized views, and streaming tables to external Iceberg clients such as Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark.
Lakebase is now in Public Preview on AWS.
Lakebase (Autoscaling) is now in Public Preview on AWS.
To help migrate accounts and workspaces to Unity Catalog, two admin settings that disable legacy features are now generally available: Disable legacy features: Account level setting that disables…
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.2 as a Databricks hosted model.
Sort by hidden measure fields: Users can now sort charts by a different measure field that does not visually appear on the bar chart.
Service Principal monitoring display: The user column in the Monitoring page now shows the Service Principal ID when a service principal is used, instead of displaying as empty.
You can now ingest data from the NetSuite2.com data source programmatically using the Databricks API, the Databricks CLI, or a Databricks notebook.
The standard SharePoint connector offers more flexibility than the managed SharePoint connector.
The Jira connector in Lakeflow Connect enables you to ingest Jira issues, comments, and attachments metadata into Databricks.
You can now change the owner for materialized views or streaming tables defined in Databricks SQL through Catalog Explorer.
The fully managed Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector in Lakeflow Connect allows you to ingest data from Dynamics 365 applications like Sales, Customer Service, Finance & Operations, and more into…
Auto Loader with file events is now GA.
New columns are now available in the Lakeflow system tables to provide enhanced job monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities: jobs table: trigger, trigger type, run as user name, creator user…
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Now available in public preview for processing streams as micro-batches.
Databricks Runtime 18.0 and Databricks Runtime 18.0 ML are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.1.0.
You can now process streams in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines as a series of micro batches in Python, using a ForEachBatch sink.
All new Delta Sharing open sharing recipient tokens are issued with a maximum expiration of one year from the date of creation.
The Vector Search reranker is now generally available.
You can now use the Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) and the Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) compliance standards in all regions and with serverless compute.
Improved clarifying questions: Genie's ability to ask clarifying questions in cases of semantic ambiguity in the user's prompt has been improved.
Individual series labels: You can now enable labels for individual series, instead of all series on the dashboard at once.
Databricks now provides built in support for reading Excel files.
Improved pivot table performance: Pivot table headers now render significantly faster with reduced scroll lag.
Enhancements to Genie Agent limits and Research Agent functionality.
Increased SQL snippets and JOIN relationship limit: The limit for SQL snippets and JOIN relationships in a Genie Space has been increased to 200.
Stream progress metrics are now generally available for enhanced monitoring.
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines support for querying the event log for metrics about the progress of a stream is now generally available.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 as a Databricks hosted model.
You can now automate the creation of classic workspaces using AWS IAM temporary delegation, which grants Databricks temporary access to provision the required IAM roles, S3 bucket, access policies…
Real time collaboration is now available in notebook cells, files, and the new SQL editor.
You can now run standard Git commands directly from the Databricks web terminal in Git folders.
You can now schedule when full refresh snapshots occur and enable automatic full refresh to recover from unsupported schema changes.
You can now configure the compute size for your Databricks apps to control CPU, memory, and cost based on your workload requirements.
Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out to the Current channel.
Draft dashboards no longer displayed: Only published dashboards are now visible in Databricks One.
Counter visualization improvements: You can now use counters to track and compare metrics over time and show sparklines.
Databricks now sends automatic email notifications to workspace users approximately 7 days before their personal access tokens expire.
Genie Create and Update APIs in Beta: Genie Create and Update APIs have been released to Beta.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview as a Databricks hosted model.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Delta Sharing views are now permitted when using serverless network policies, regardless of storage location alignment between shared tables and view dependencies.
Table update triggers for jobs now support views as a source, when the view references supported table types.
Applying attribute based access control (ABAC) policies to tables and schemas shared through Delta Sharing is now in Public Preview.
Connecting Databricks Genie spaces as tools in Microsoft Copilot Studio agents is in Public Preview.
Databricks SQL alerts: The latest version of Databricks SQL alerts, with a new editing experience, is now in Public Preview.
Full refresh operations for managed database connectors (like SQL Server) now reduce downtime by delaying the table refresh until after the snapshot is completed.
Integrate Databricks Genie Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio for enhanced data interaction.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5.1 as a Databricks hosted model.
Databricks now supports connecting to external databases using JDBC with Unity Catalog connections in Beta.
The SFTP connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview) extends Auto Loader functionality to ingest files from SFTP servers.
Fixed back navigation error: Resolved a bug where clicking the browser back button while viewing a Genie Space would result in an error.
Enhanced search functionality: Users can now search over dashboard names, page names, widget titles and descriptions, dataset names, and their queries.
You can now convert foreign tables from external catalogs (such as Hive Metastore or AWS Glue) to Unity Catalog managed or external tables while retaining table history and configurations.
Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has been renamed to Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines.
The migration tool for migrating Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition is now available.
Databricks Marketplace now supports listing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
Fixed tooltip display issue: Resolved an issue where tooltips were hidden behind the legend in Notebook and SQL Editor visualizations.
You can now share data between different cloud environments using the SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Databricks.
Per widget filter enhancements: Per widget filters now support date ranges, relative date ranges, and number filters.
Text explanations for empty results: Genie now includes text explanations of query results when query results are empty.
The new MCP Servers tab in the workspace shows your managed and external MCP servers, and a curated list of MCP servers available to install from Databricks Marketplace.
The workspace search syntax for searching tables and views by tag has been updated.
The ability to use a job environment in serverless notebook tasks is now generally available, allowing you to use the notebook's environment or select a specific job environment.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports function calling and structured output using Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Actions related to access request destinations (Public Preview) are now emitted in the audit logs.
The workspace setting that allows workspace admins to disable access to the Databricks Filesystem (DBFS) root and mounts in existing Databricks workspaces is now generally available.
TISAX compliance controls provide enhancements that help you with compliance for your workspace.
You can now run JAR jobs on serverless compute.
Attribute based access control (ABAC) is now in Public Preview.
You can now skip individual cells when running multiple cells in a notebook using the %skip magic command.
By default, history tracking is off (SCD type 1) for managed connectors in Lakeflow Connect.
The Python notebook interactive debugger now supports multi file debugging.
Lakebase (Beta) is now available on AWS as a new app in the app switcher, separate from the existing Lakebase Public Preview.
Lakebase (Autoscaling Beta) is now available on AWS as a new app in the app switcher, separate from the existing Lakebase Public Preview.
Genie thinking steps in plain language: Genie thinking steps now explain SQL logic in plain language to help non technical users understand and build trust in how answers are generated.
Dashboard subscriptions to Slack channels: Dashboard authors can now add Slack channels as subscribers to a scheduled dashboard refresh.
Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is now available in the Preview channel.
Use Supervisor Agent to create a supervisor system that coordinates Genie Spaces, agent endpoints, and tools to work together to complete complex tasks across different, specialized domains.
The new compute policy form is now generally available.
The experimental feedback model for AI agents has been deprecated.
The payload request logs and payload assessment logs tables are deprecated.
ai parse document better recognizes colored text and documents with interleaved digital and handwritten text.
The OpenAI GPT 5, GPT 5 mini and GPT 5 nano models are now generally available in Mosaic AI Model Serving.
The serverless compute runtime has been updated to version 17.3.
Model Serving now supports the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash models.
You can now configure classic Databricks compute to use AWS Capacity Blocks.
Notify viewers disabled by default for dashboard publishing: When publishing dashboards, the Notify viewers option is now turned off by default to reduce unintended notifications.
Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) version 2.7.5 is now available with the following improvements: New features The connector now supports Kerberos with proxy connections.
Increased benchmark limit: The maximum number of benchmarks you can add to a Genie Space has been raised from 100 to 500.
The Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect is in Public Preview.
ai parse document is now available in Public Preview.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct as a Databricks hosted model in the us west 2 and ap northeast 1 regions.
Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS is now generally available.
When you attempt to drop a column that has one or more governed tags assigned, the operation now fails.
All newly created managed tables in Databricks Runtime 16.0 and above now use Zstandard (Zstd) compression by default instead of Snappy.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Compatibility Mode is now in Public Preview.
New alert editing experience: Creating or editing an alert now opens in the new multi tab editor, providing a unified editing workflow.
The unified runs list is in Public Preview.
The Databricks Connector for Google Sheets introduces improved query management options.
JOIN relationship discovery improvements: You can now sort JOIN relationships and SQL snippet definitions for easier management.
You can now add tags to dashboards and Genie Agents to improve organization across your workspace.
Dynamic text functions in pivot tables: Pivot tables now support contains(), startswith(), and endswith() functions for conditional formatting.
You may now create triggers for jobs to run when a source table is updated.
Declarative Automation Bundles in the workspace is now generally available (GA).
You can now add tags to dashboards and Genie spaces to improve organization across your workspace.
Job backfills allow you to trigger job runs to backfill data from the past.
Autoscaling in Mosaic AI Model Serving has been tuned to ignore extremely brief traffic surges and instead respond only to sustained increases in load.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports multimodal inputs for Databricks hosted foundation models.
Databricks Data Classification is now in Public Preview and supports all catalog types, consolidates all classification results into a single system table, and a new UI to review and auto tag…
Databricks now provides a SQL managed MCP server that allows AI agents to execute SQL queries directly against Unity Catalog tables using SQL warehouses.
Adjustable line thickness in line charts: You can now control the thickness of lines in line charts.
Easier benchmark generation: + Space editors can save representative messages or SQL answers from chat conversations to benchmark questions.
Context based ingress control is now in Beta.
Billing logs now record the performance mode of serverless jobs and pipelines.
Legend selection for aliased series names: Legend selection now works correctly for charts with aliased series names in SQL editor and notebooks.
The Databricks Assistant can now also use models served through Anthropic on Databricks as part of the Data Science Agent when partner powered AI features are enabled.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Delta Sharing recipients can now apply their own row filters and columns masks on shared tables and shared foreign tables.
Model Serving now supports the OpenAI GPT 5, GPT 5 mini and GPT 5 nano models in Public Preview.
Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS and Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS ML are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.0.0.
You can now enable partition metadata logging, a partition discovery strategy for external tables registered to Unity Catalog.
You can now apply the system.certification status governed tag to catalogs, schemas, tables, views, volumes, dashboards, registered models, and Genie Spaces to indicate whether a data asset is…
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 for batch inference workflows.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 as a Databricks hosted model.
Prompt caching is now supported for Databricks hosted Claude models.
The following notebook improvements are now available: The cell execution minimap now appears in the right margin of notebooks.
New features for improved data interaction and insights.
SET MANAGED command is now generally available.
You can now define semantic metadata in a metric view.
You can now define semantic metadata in a metric view.
Add tables and metric views to spaces: Users can now add tables and metric views to a space and analyze them together.
Fixed global filters panel overflow: Resolved an issue where the global filters panel extended beyond its intended width.
If you own a Databricks account with the Databricks GitHub app installed, you may receive an email titled "Databricks is requesting updated permissions" from GitHub.
You can now specify a Git provider email address, separate from your username, when creating Git credentials for Databricks Git folders.
A new system table, system.data classification.results, is now available in Beta.
The system.lakeflow.pipeline update timeline table provides complete historical tracking of pipeline updates and supports fine grained analysis of update activity, triggers, results, and compute…
The Lakeflow Pipelines Editor (previously called the multi file editor) is now in public preview.
In early September 2025, Salesforce began restricting the use of uninstalled connected apps.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 a Databricks hosted foundation model.
Benchmarks run in the background: Benchmarks now run as background tasks.
Databricks SQL version 2025.30 is now available in the Preview channel.
Global filters panel expanded by default: The global filters panel now opens by default when users first visit a dashboard to improve discoverability.
Migration from legacy publishing mode to default publishing mode is now generally available.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines has a legacy publishing mode that only allowed publishing to a single catalog and schema.
Mosaic AI Agent Framework now supports automatic authentication passthrough for Lakebase resources.
You can now ask natural language questions about sample data using Catalog Explorer.
All newly created route optimized endpoints must be queried using the route optimized URL.
Mosaic AI Vector Search standard endpoints are now available in FedRAMP Moderate and IRAP workspaces.
Upgraded large language models (LLMs): The LLMs used by Genie to author SQL have been upgraded for improved accuracy and performance.
Genie credential handling for embedded dashboards: Genie integrated with dashboards published with embedded credentials now runs generated queries using the publisher's data credentials.
Genie One, a simplified user interface designed for business users, is now in Public Preview.
Databricks Runtime 17.2 is now generally available.
Delta Sharing on Lakehouse Federation is in Beta, allowing Delta Sharing data providers to share foreign catalogs and tables.
You can now use Delta Sharing to share foreign schemas and tables created with query federation in Databricks to Databricks sharing and open sharing.
The cloudFiles.useManagedFileEvents option with Auto Loader is now in ungated Public Preview.
In an upcoming release, a message to reload your workspace tab will display if your workspace tab has been open for a long time without refreshing.
Delta Sharing recipients can now mount shares received from their Delta Sharing provider to an existing shared catalog.
Serverless jobs and pipelines configured in the UI are now set to Performance optimized by default.
Fixed thin bars on binned date charts: Resolved an issue where very thin bars appeared in bar charts with binned dates.
Improved text widget editor: The dashboard text widget now has an enhanced UI for formatting text, adding links, and inserting images.
Enhance your data pipelines with custom Python data sources and sinks.
Now supports stream progress metrics in Public Preview.
You can use Python custom data sources and sinks in your pipeline definitions in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines.
The SAP BDC Connector enables secure, zero copy data sharing between SAP BDC and a Unity Catalog enabled Databricks workspace.
The Google Analytics Raw Data connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines now supports querying the event log for metrics about the progress of a stream.
Databricks Apps now supports adding a Genie Space as an app resource to enable natural language querying over curated datasets.
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions.
Serverless GPU compute now supports on demand H100 accelerators for single node workflows and jobs.
Use Databricks data to build canvas apps in Power Apps, flows in Power Automate, and agents in Copilot Studio by creating a Databricks connection in Power Platform.
Databricks Online Feature Stores, powered by Lakebase, provide highly scalable low latency access to feature data while maintaining consistency with your offline feature tables.
MLflow metadata is now available in system tables.
New API endpoints: The following new endpoints are available for managing and analyzing conversations: + List conversation messages + Delete conversation message + List all conversations For more…
Active filter bar: A new filter bar shows all active filters on a dashboard.
Agent mode for Databricks Assistant is now in Beta.
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines includes a legacy publishing mode that previously limited publishing to a single catalog and schema.
C5 compliance controls provide enhancements that help you with compliance for your workspace.
AI agents deployed to Model Serving endpoints can use on behalf of user authorization.
Migration feature rolled back to Public Preview due to issues.
Delta Sharing providers can now share tables backed by default storage with any recipient, including both open and Databricks recipients—even if the recipient is using classic compute.
This default storage update for Delta Sharing has expanded sharing capabilities, allowing providers to share tables backed by default storage to any Delta Sharing recipient (open or Databricks)…
The Microsoft SQL Server connector in Lakeflow Connect now supports SCD type 2.
The OLTP Database tab in the Compute section of the workspace is renamed to Lakebase Postgres.
To enhance stability and support future growth, Databricks has updated the Account SCIM API for identity management as follows: Calling GET with filter params filter=displayName eq value without…
Use the cell execution minimap to track your notebook’s progress at a glance.
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines has a legacy publishing mode that only allowed publishing to a single catalog and schema.
Custom calculation functions: Support added for ln, log, log10, and round functions.
Fixed cloning issue for large spaces: Spaces with a large number of instructions can now be cloned successfully.
Users can now connect Databricks to external Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
You can now create synced tables in Snapshot sync mode from Iceberg tables or foreign tables.
Base environments are custom environment specifications for serverless notebooks that define a serverless environment version and a set of dependencies.
Migration from legacy publishing mode to default mode is now generally available.
Set a default warehouse that will be automatically selected in the compute selector across the SQL editor, AI/BI dashboards, Genie Spaces, Alerts, and Catalog Explorer.
Databricks Runtime 17.2 and Databricks Runtime 17.2 ML are now in Beta.
INSERT REPLACE USING and INSERT REPLACE ON are now generally available for Databricks Runtime 17.2.
The Microsoft SQL Server ingestion connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
You can now create governed tags to enforce consistent tagging across data assets such as catalogs, schemas, and tables.
You can now explicitly set the compression codec for a Delta table using the delta.parquet.compression.codec table property.
OAuth token federation is now generally available.
For newly created synced tables, TIMESTAMP types in source tables are now mapped to TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE in synced tables.
Enhance query performance with intelligent clustering.
You can now use automatic liquid clustering with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines.
Databricks Apps now available in the following regions: ap northeast 2 ap south 1 See Features with limited regional availability
You can now tag a database instance and a synced table with a budget policy to attribute billing usage to specific policies.
Notebook autocomplete now supports enhanced suggestions for complex data types including structs, maps, and arrays in SQL cells.
The Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector is now generally available.
SQL expression validation for join relationships: Added validation logic to help authors write correct SQL join relationships.
Databricks SQL version 2025.25 is rolling out to the Current channel from August 20th, 2025 to August 28th, 2025.
Users can now chat with Databricks Assistant on some compute pages.
You can now define Lakebase database catalogs, instances, and synced tables in a bundle.
Fixed sorting on temporal categorical axes: Resolved an issue where sorting did not work correctly on temporal categorical axes.
Serverless compute for notebooks, jobs, and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines now uses an upgraded runtime, which roughly corresponds to Databricks Runtime 17.1.
You can now change the identity that a pipeline uses to run updates and the owner of tables published by the pipeline.
Enhanced control over pipeline execution identity.
Mosaic AI Vector Search now offers reranking to help improve retrieval quality.
The new SQL editor is now generally available.
You can now easily create an ETL pipeline in a bundle in the workspace using the new Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines template project.
Databricks Assistant with Databricks hosted models is now generally available on all cloud platforms.
New ETL pipeline creation template in workspace bundles.
Databricks SQL version 2025.25 is now available in the Preview channel.
Indicator for calculated measures in table editor: Added an indicator in the table visualization editor to show when calculated measures are not displayed in the table.
Fixed off screen color ramp editor in Genie: Resolved a bug where the color ramp editor was hidden off screen.
New timeout behavior for materialized views and streaming tables created in Databricks SQL: Materialized views and streaming tables created after August 14, 2025 will have the warehouse timeout…
You can now configure token based rate limits on your model serving endpoints.
The Databricks hosted foundation models, OpenAI GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B are now supported on Provisioned throughput Foundation Model APIs.
The Databricks hosted foundation models, OpenAI GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B now support function and tool calling.
You can now create and schedule jobs for your Serverless GPU Compute workloads.
Serverless GPU compute now supports multinode workloads.
You can now tailor how Databricks Assistant responds by adding custom user instructions.
If a column in the new table matches a column name from the original table, its existing column mask is now retained, even if no mask is specified.
Single node compute resources with standard access mode is now generally available.
Jobs that are set to run in continuous mode now have the option to retry individual tasks on task failure.
A new account console setting allows account admins to disable certain legacy features on new workspaces created in their account.
The Lakebase: Managed Postgres OLTP Database preview is now enabled by default.
Serverless workspaces come pre configured with serverless compute and default storage to provide a completely serverless experience.
You can now enable self service access requests in Unity Catalog by configuring access request destinations on securable objects.
You can now use path credential vending to grant short lived credentials to external locations in your Unity Catalog metastore.
You can now create Unity Catalog external tables backed by Delta Lake from external clients and systems, such as Apache Spark.
The fully managed ServiceNow ingestion connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available.
The Databricks hosted foundation models, OpenAI GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B are now optimized for AI Functions, which means you can perform batch inference using these models and AI Functions like…
Serverless compute for notebooks, workflows, and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region (ap southeast 3).
The Databricks ODBC Driver version 2.9.2 is now available for download from the ODBC driver download page.
You can now authenticate into Power BI Desktop using Machine to Machine (M2M) OAuth credentials.
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI's GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B as Databricks hosted foundation models.
You can now enable AWS PrivateLink to resources in your VPC (virtual private cloud) through an NLB (network load balancer) from serverless compute.
Local join relationships in Genie Space knowledge stores: You can now define join relationships locally within a Genie Space's knowledge store.
Updated selection color in Terra theme: The selection color in the Terra theme has been updated to improve visibility.
Databricks Runtime 17.1 is now generally available.
AI Playground is now GA.
Databricks Assistant now supports edit mode, which performs reasoning and editing steps across multiple cells in a notebook.
The new compute policy form uses UI elements to help you configure policy definitions, making it simpler to write compute policies in the UI.
You can use the Databricks Terraform provider to create Lakebase resources such as database catalogs, database instances, and synced tables.
Display name support for Sankey visualizations: Sankey charts now support display names for nodes.
In the new SQL editor, you can now choose from preset date ranges—such as This week, Last 30 days, or Last year when using timestamp, date, and date range parameters.
Synced tables are now automatically metered and billed.
Delta Sharing providers can now add tables and schemas secured by attribute based access control (ABAC) to a Delta share.
Fixed NULL value handling in downloaded CSVs: Genie no longer replaces NULL values with the string undefined when downloading CSV files.
Using Delta Sharing to share streaming tables and materialized views is generally available.
The Jobs & Pipelines list now includes pipelines for materialized views and streaming tables that were created with Databricks SQL.
When enabling Delta Sharing on your metastore, an organization name must be specified if you are sharing data with a Databricks recipient not in your account.
Serverless compute for notebooks and jobs now uses an upgraded runtime, which roughly corresponds to Databricks Runtime 17.0.
You can now disable access to the Databricks Filesystem (DBFS) root and mounts in existing Databricks workspaces.
The usage metadata.job name value in the system.billing.usage table now contains the run names for runs triggered through the one time run API.
ai parse document is now available in the following regions: us west 2 us east 1 us east 2 ap northeast 1 ap northeast 2 ap south 1 ap southeast 1 ap southeast 2 ca central 1 eu central 1 eu west 1…
The following improvements have been made to the notebook editing experience: Add a split view to edit notebooks side by side.
Tables created by Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines in Unity Catalog ETL pipelines can be moved from one pipeline to another.
Improved column selection accuracy: Genie's ability to choose relevant columns based on user prompts has been improved, especially when the prompt contains a specific column value.
Moving tables between Spark Declarative Pipelines is now generally available.
Metric views dataset performance improvement: The dataset result table view for Metric views has been removed to reduce query executions and improve performance.
New columns are now available in the query history system table, providing additional query insights: cache origin statement id: For query results fetched from cache, this field contains the…
Inline execution history is now available in the new SQL editor, allowing you to quickly access past results without re executing queries.
INSERT REPLACE USING is now in Public Preview for Databricks Runtime 16.3.
INSERT REPLACE ON is now in Public Preview for Databricks Runtime 17.1.
In Beta, Supervisor Agent supports designing a multi agent AI system that combines Genie Spaces and Knowledge Assistant agent endpoints to work together on complex tasks that require different…
You can now use real time mode, a trigger type for Structured Streaming that enables sub second latency data processing.
You can now use Databricks Git folders to track and manage changes to alerts.
Create a metric view from a dashboard dataset: Authors can now promote a dashboard dataset to a metric view using the AI/BI dashboard data tab.
Feedback labels remain visible across conversation redirections: Feedback labels added to earlier messages now remain visible after users ask follow up questions.
Improvements to named parameters: Date range and multi select parameters are now supported.
Databricks SQL version 2025.20 is rolling out in stages to the Current channel.
You can now ask natural language questions about the sample data using Catalog Explorer.
The Databricks documentation site now provides an RSS feed that contains updates to the product and other feature release notes.
The CAN VIEW permission allows users to view SQL warehouses, including query history and query profiles.
Google Gemma 3 12B is now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving as a Databricks hosted foundation model.
The simplified compute creation form is now enabled by default when you create all purpose or jobs compute in the Databricks UI.
Databricks Runtime 17.1 and Databricks Runtime 17.1 ML are now in Beta.
To change the ownership of a share for Delta Sharing, you must now be the metastore admin.
Databricks now snapshots your notebook’s Python variables before terminating idle serverless compute.
You can set the Databricks connector for Power BI to use the Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver instead of the ODBC driver.
Model Serving Foundation Model API pay per token endpoints and batch inference using Databricks hosted models are now available in FIPS compliant environments.
The Enhanced Security and Compliance add on, which includes the compliance security profile, automatic cluster update, and enhanced security monitoring, is now available to all customers, with no…
You can now use Databricks Git folders to track and manage changes to alerts.
Area chart error message fix: Fixed an error message that appeared when using disaggregated stacked area charts.
Editable filters displays multiple values: Editable filters now display multiple values when Genie generates a SQL filter clause that includes more than one filter value.
Databricks Apps now supports adding Lakebase database instances as app resources.
Tasks that wait on child processes (Run job and For each tasks) now have a separate limit for the number of tasks that can run simultaneously, and do not count against the overall limit.
Genie visualizations respect SQL sort order: Genie visualizations now default to the same sort order as returned by the SQL query.
Databricks SQL version 2025.20 is now available in the Preview channel.
Dashboard import and export retains theme settings: When you import or export a dashboard as a file, theme settings are now preserved.
Use the UI to add and manage multiple Git credentials in the workspace, from one or multiple Git providers.
Data lineage can now include external assets and workflows that are run outside of Databricks.
The new Databricks JDBC Driver is now open source.
New Genie API endpoints in Public Preview: You can now use the Genie API to list all conversations in a space, delete conversations, and delete Genie Spaces.
Improved diff review for dashboard files: When committing dashboard changes to Git, queries and text box content now appear across multiple lines in the diff, making changes easier to review.
MLflow now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP Moderate.
The AI Function ai parse document() invokes a state of the art generative AI model from Databricks Foundation Model APIs to extract structured content from unstructured documents.
Information Extraction and Custom LLM have a UI workflow to convert PDFs to Markdown and store the results in a table.
You can trigger job runs using file arrival triggers with file events on external locations, such as Amazon S3, Azure storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
Using Open ID Connect (OIDC) federation for Delta Sharing, where recipients use JSON web tokens (JWT) from their own IdP as short lived OAuth tokens for secure, federated authentication, is…
Databricks Runtime 17.0 and Databricks Runtime 17.0 ML are now generally available.
Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines has a legacy publishing mode that only allowed publishing to a single catalog and schema.
You can now specify custom rate limits for your model serving endpoints using AI Gateway.
You can now use Delta Sharing to share managed Iceberg tables in Databricks to Databricks sharing and open sharing.
Transition from legacy to default publishing mode for enhanced flexibility.
Model Serving CPU and GPU workloads, Foundation Model API provisioned throughput endpoints (excluding LLaMA 4), Mosaic AI Gateway, and external models are now available in FIPS compliant environments.
File upload to Unity Catalog from dashboards: Authors can now upload files to Unity Catalog directly from the dashboard data tab.
Editable filters in Genie: Users can now edit filter values to refine responses.
AI documentation for Unity Catalog tables and table columns now uses a Databricks hosted model: If you already use a Databricks hosted model for Assistant, there is no change.
The Jobs & Pipelines item in the left navigation is the entry point to the Databricks' unified data engineering features, Lakeflow.
Tables created by Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines in Unity Catalog ETL pipelines can be moved from one pipeline to another.
Automatic liquid clustering is now generally available.
Databricks now supports attribute based access control (ABAC) in Unity Catalog, enabling dynamic, tag driven access policies across catalogs, schemas, and tables.
Dashboard visualization fixes: + Tooltip field highlighting in combo charts fix: Tooltips shown as you hover over fields in combo charts are now correctly highlighted.
Mosaic AI Gateway is now generally available.
The new AUTO CDC APIs create flows that support change data feeds (CDF) in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines.
The token report page enables account admins to monitor and revoke personal access tokens (PATs) in the account console.
Managed Apache Iceberg tables are now in Public Preview.
Foreign Apache Iceberg tables are now in Public Preview.
The fully managed Microsoft SharePoint connector in Lakeflow Connect allows you to ingest data from SharePoint into Databricks.
The evolution of DLT into a robust framework for data pipelines.
Lakebase is an online transactional processing (OLTP) engine that is fully integrated with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
The product known as Databricks Jobs is now Lakeflow Jobs.
The following engine upgrades are now rolling out globally, with availability expanding to all regions over the coming weeks.
The product known as DLT is now Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines.
SET MANAGED is now available in Public Preview for participating customers.
MLflow 3.0 is now generally available.
Selecting the serverless performance setting for jobs and pipelines is now generally available.
Databricks now supports MCP, an open standard that lets AI agents securely access tools, resources, prompt, and other contextual information using a consistent interface.
Deployment jobs are now available in Public Preview.
Tag policies enables admins to enforce consistent tagging across data assets such as catalogs, schemas, and tables.
You can configure and enforce outbound network policies for serverless compute resources, including SQL warehouses and model serving endpoints.
You can now enable AWS PrivateLink to your S3 storage buckets from serverless compute.
Cross platform view sharing via Delta Sharing is now generally available.
You can now enable AWS PrivateLink to resources in your virtual private cloud (VPC) via a network load balancer (NLB) from serverless compute.
Databricks Apps now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP Moderate.
Serverless GPU compute is now part of the Serverless compute offering.
Databricks is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region (ap southeast 3).
More entity matching in Genie: Genie can now support up to 60 entity matching (previously value dictionary) columns.
Workspace admins can now grant consumer access as an entitlement to users, service principals, and groups.
Dashboard schedule fix: Resolved an issue where schedules for dashboards published with global filters were not executing.
New consumer entitlement is generally available: Workspace admins can now grant consumer access as an entitlement to users, service principals, and groups.
Query insights improvements: Visiting the Query History page now emits the listHistoryQueries event.
The Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector offers an alternative zero copy solution for querying Salesforce Data Cloud.
Mosaic AI Vector Search now offers the option of storage optimized endpoints.
The usage metadata.job name value in the system.billing.usage table now correctly contains job names.
History sharing is enabled by default (for Databricks Runtime 16.2 and above) to improve table read performance for Databricks to Databricks Delta Sharing.
Individual users can now use their own OAuth credentials to sign into external services when using a Unity Catalog HTTP connection.
Due to a bug, certain authorization and authentication audit logs include a port number in addition to the IP in the sourceIPAddress field (for example, "sourceIPAddress":"10.2.91.100:0").
An upcoming release of Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines will change the behavior when a materialized view or streaming table is removed from a pipeline.
Databricks is transitioning the support ticket submission experience from help.databricks.com to the help menu in the Databricks workspace.
The Auto Loader cloudFiles.useIncrementalListing option is deprecated.
Unity Catalog metric views are now in Public Preview: Metric views provide a centralized way to define and manage consistent, reusable, and governed core business metrics.
New SQL editor improvements: + New queries in Drafts folder: New queries are now created by default in the Drafts folder.
Benchmark execution bug fix in Genie: A bug where benchmarks would not execute immediately after creating a benchmark run has been fixed.
Catalog and schema picker in the dataset editor: You can now select a catalog and schema from the SQL editor in the Data tab of a draft dashboard.
Tooltip formatting in charts: Tooltips in charts from the SQL editor and notebooks now follow the number formatting defined in the Data labels tab.
A new version of alerts is now in Beta.
Usage guidance addition in Genie: You can now add Usage Guidance to clarify how and when SQL examples should be used.
Exclude selected values in filter widgets: Dashboard viewers can now include or exclude the values they select from multi select filter widgets.
Databricks SQL version 2025.16 is now available in the Preview channel.
Genie in dashboards query update: Genie in dashboards will now only query from dashboard datasets, instead of the underlying tables within dashboard datasets.
Select and add multiple tables and views: Users can now select and add multiple tables and views at once from the Add data dialog.
Increased entity matching support in Genie: Each entity matching (previously value dictionary) column in Genie now supports 1024 values per column, up from 255.
Follow up questions for text responses in Genie: Genie now suggests follow up questions for text responses that include no generated SQL or results.
View truncated data: You can now view more data in charts with truncated results by clicking Render more data.
Choropleth maps available: Choropleth maps are now available for dashboards, allowing users to visualize data across geographical regions with varying colors based on values such as population…
Distilled top k prompt snippet: Replaced the original top k prompt snippet with a shorter version (25% of the original token count) to reduce irrelevant context and improve LLM response accuracy.
Custom dimensions: Authors can create custom dimensions on AI/BI dashboards.
Example and follow up questions: Genie now uses table metadata to automatically offer example and follow up questions when users start exploring a Genie Space.
Databricks SQL version 2025.15 is now available in the Preview channel.
Revamped feedback flow in Genie: The Genie feedback workflow is now more interactive and responsive.
You can no longer create or clone legacy dashboards using the UI or API.
Official support for legacy dashboards has ended.
Source control for dashboards: Dashboards can now be integrated with Databricks Git folders for collaboration and version control(Public Preview).
Genie API performance improvement: API response latency has been improved by removing unnecessary completion steps.
Customize autoformatting options for all of your SQL queries.
CAN VIEW permission is now in Public Preview.
Fixed an issue where Databricks SQL boxplot visualizations with only a categorical x axis did not display categories and bars correctly.
Streamlined publish flow: All publish actions now embed the publishing user's warehouse permission.
Query profiles updated for improved usability: Query profiles have been updated to improve usability and help you quickly access key insights.
Chart migration fix: Dual axis charts are now converted as expected when migrating from legacy dashboards to AI/BI dashboards.
Enhanced UI and permission management for Genie Agents.
Transfer SQL warehouse ownership to service principal: You can now use the UI to transfer warehouse ownership to a service principal.
New Genie Space UI: Genie now has a redesigned UI for authoring and chats.
Query history update: When viewing the query history, scheduled dashboard update queries now display the dashboard publisher as the user instead of System Service Principal.
New audit log emitted for dashboard downloads: Downloading dashboards as PDF now triggers the audit log event triggerDashboardSnapshot.
Easier to understand audit events in Genie: The updateConversationMessageFeedback audit event now includes a feedback rating field to quickly see whether a rating is positive or negative.
Dual axis charts now support zoom: You can now click and drag to zoom in on dual axis charts.
Improved benchmarks in Genie: The benchmark evaluation function now more accurately detects incorrect results.
New visual indicators for column names: Duplicate column names are now greyed out to indicate lack of support.
Relative dates update: The relative dates in date and date range pickers now include the current day.
File uploads in gated Public Preview: A new feature that allows users to upload CSV and Excel files directly to a Genie Space.
Databricks SQL version 2025.10 is now available in the Preview channel.
Edit parameters in a response: You can now edit the parameter values used to generate a response to a trusted question.
Quickly navigate to the most popular dashboards: Dashboard thumbnails are now shown for all dashboards published with embedded credentials.
Preview Unity Catalog metadata in data discovery: Preview metadata for Unity Catalog assets by hovering over an asset in the schema browser.
Completed query count chart for SQL warehouses (Public Preview): A new Completed query count chart is now available on the SQL warehouse monitoring UI.
Databricks SQL version 2024.50 is now available in the Preview channel.
The new SQL editor (Public Preview) includes the following user interface improvements: Enhanced download experience: Query outputs are automatically named after the query when downloaded.
The new chart system with improved performance, enhanced color schemes, and faster interactivity is now generally available.