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- August 2026
- Lakebase available in four new Azure regions
- Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta
- Base environments are now supported on classic compute (Beta)
- Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta)
- Workiva connector (Beta)
- Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available
- Genie Code supports file uploads
- SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- SendGrid connector (Beta)
- Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect is generally available
- Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
- Identity attributes (Beta)
- Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta)
- Google Gemini 3.7 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available
- Custom URL access to workspaces over inbound Private Link (Beta)
- Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)
- Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta
- Google Search Console connector is available in Beta
- Amplitude connector (Beta)
- REPLACE USING flows for standalone streaming tables (Beta)
- Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta
READ METADATAprivilege is GA- Notion connector (Beta)
- Orchestrate continuous pipelines with continuous jobs
- Target an Azure capacity reservation group for classic compute
- Alert system tables are in Public Preview
- Tag automations (Beta)
- Change data feed on materialized views (Beta)
ai_searchfunction (Beta)- JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available
- Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity AI Gateway (Beta)
- REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta)
- Search and replace text across files
- Lakebase support for compliance security profile standards
- Genie One is now available in Google Sheets
- Genie One is now available in Microsoft Excel
- Unity AI Gateway is now generally available
- Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
- Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
- SharePoint connector (GA)
- Format AI/BI dashboard widget titles and descriptions with rich text
- PagerDuty connector (Beta)
- NetSuite connector (GA)
- Google Drive connector (GA)
- Full page Genie Code is now generally available
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (08/04)
- Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA
- Organize your work with spaces
- Environment variables for serverless jobs are in Beta
- Serverless compute access control is now generally available
- Automatic cost attribution for materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
MANAGEno longer requiresUSE CATALOGorUSE SCHEMAon the same object- Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027
- Filter updates for the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in
- Refresh materialized views and streaming tables without exempting the pipeline owner from ABAC policies
- July 2026
- Web terminal on serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is in Public Preview
- Packaged clean rooms are now generally available
- OpenAI connector (Beta)
- Genie Code is now available on HIPAA compliance security profile workspaces with partner-powered AI features disabled
- Automatic upgrades begin rolling out row tracking and Checkpoint V2 to existing tables
- Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available
- Unit testing for pipelines (Beta)
- Lakeflow Designer Summer Release
- Diagnose and fix Lakebase issues with Genie, using telemetry in Unity Catalog (Beta)
- Governed tags system table is in Beta
- Git CLI commands in Git folders are now in Public Preview
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (07/24)
- Anthropic Claude Opus 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- C++ SDK for the Zerobus Ingest connector is now available in Beta
- Genie Code scheduled tasks are in Beta
- Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now generally available
- Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning have transitioned to LTS
- Variant and Variant shredding are now generally available
- Transactions are now generally available
- Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens are now generally available
- Databricks-hosted sample datasets available in the
samplescatalog - Override the REPLACE WHERE predicate for a single refresh
- Role-based access control (RBAC) is in Public Preview
- Lakeflow Designer support for compliance security profile standards
- Governance Hub is in Beta
- Priority pay-per-token for Foundation Model APIs
- Networking charges for performance-intensive products
- Warehouse-level statement timeouts (Beta)
- Reddit Ads connector is now available in Beta
- Genie One and Genie Agents billed usage corrections
- Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available
- Mention Genie Code in notebook comments
- Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams is now in Public Preview
- Anthropic managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available
- MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now generally available
- Agentic code converter is in Beta
- Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired
- Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027
- Data Classification is now available by default for additional compliance standards
- Custom URLs for your Azure Databricks account (Public Preview)
- AI Search High QPS is now generally available
ai_extractandai_classifyare now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled- Serverless compute is now available in the Azure UK West region
- Allowlist partner platform IPs in context-based ingress control (Beta)
- Lakebase is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant
- Trigger.AvailableNow support for OpenSharing streaming (GA)
- View warehouse activity details (General Availability)
- Secrets in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Lakebase Autoscaling update notifications now post 3 days in advance
- Strac connector (Beta)
- Protobuf tensor input for custom model serving endpoints (Public Preview)
- Databricks SQL alerts are now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Object metadata column is now in Public Preview
- Genie products now use pay-as-you-go pricing
- Genie Spaces is now Genie Agents
- Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are scheduled for retirement
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is scheduled for retirement
- Restrict access to AI Functions with Unity Catalog permissions (Public Preview)
- REPLACE WHERE flows are now generally available
- Managed Iceberg materialized views are in Public Preview
- Excel file format support is now available by default
- Configure serverless egress control in Azure China
- Standard performance mode is now supported for materialized view or streaming table refreshes in jobs
- Budgets are now generally available
- Lakeflow Connect row filtering is now generally available
- Veeva Vault connector (Beta)
- MySQL integrated CDC pipeline is now in Beta
- June 2026
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Run a subset of job tasks with their dependencies
- Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
- SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (06/29)
- Govern LLMs in Unity Catalog with model services (Beta)
- Custom Docker images for AI Runtime CLI workloads (Beta)
- Parquet v2 for Delta Lake tables is generally available
- Genie Code Chat/Agent mode selector removed
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (GA)
- Metric view parameters are now in Public Preview
- Solution Accelerators in Databricks Marketplace are now published as apps or notebooks
- Arm-based instances are now supported with the compliance security profile
- Change the owner of standalone pipeline streaming tables and materialized views
- Standalone pipeline materialized views support expectations
- Data Classification is now available by default for some workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Block specific internet destinations in network policies (Public Preview)
- Square managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Managed agent memory is in Beta
- Wiz Audit Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Genie Code system table now counts only user-submitted interactions
- The Discover page is now in Public Preview
- Enable access requests across your Unity Catalog metastore (Public Preview)
- Legacy
compute_previewsystem schema deprecated - Netskope Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Incremental ingestion for Workday Reports (Beta)
- Publishing a Unity Catalog catalog to Microsoft Fabric is in Public Preview
- Lakebase now supports Postgres 18
- Share Genie Agents externally using OpenSharing (Beta)
- Omnigent coding agent meta-harness is now in Beta
- OneLake catalog federation is generally available
- Comments on foreign tables (Beta)
- Lakeflow Designer is now generally available
- Connect Genie to Microsoft Copilot Cowork (Beta)
- Install third-party apps from Databricks Marketplace
- Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are in Beta
- Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing across regulatory domains is now available (Public Preview)
- Use Universal Commits to purchase Marketplace partner products
ai_queryis now generally available- Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect (Public Preview)
- OIDC is now supported for sharing to Iceberg clients
- Configure the recovery period for dropped managed tables (Public Preview)
- AUTO CDC flows for streaming tables in Databricks SQL are generally available
- Private Link for account-level resources (Beta)
- Faster inference tables for custom model serving endpoints
- Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens (Beta)
- Managed disaster recovery is now in Public Preview
- Mission Critical add-on is now in Public Preview
- AI Runtime CLI (Beta)
- Auto time-to-live for automatic row deletion is generally available
- Converting a partitioned table to liquid clustering is generally available
- Improved workspace files read performance
- Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is generally available
- ABAC GRANT policies for models (Beta)
ai_extractis now generally availableai_classifyis now generally available- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools
- Schedule deferred policy enforcement for all-purpose compute
- Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams (Beta)
- Lakehouse Replay (Beta)
- Delta Sharing is now OpenSharing
- Zip connector (Beta)
- Anthropic Claude Fable 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Identity federation enabled by default for all new workspaces
- Databricks Genie app for Slack (Public Preview)
- The update_flow API for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is generally available
- Reorganized Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow documentation
- Monday.com managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Zoho Books managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- External lineage is now generally available
- Aha! connector (Beta)
- AI Search supports selected text columns, sorting, and aggregations (Beta)
- Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available
- Managed SharePoint connector adds structured file ingestion and file metadata support (Beta)
- External data access for pipeline streaming tables and materialized views (Public Preview)
- Improved workspace file write performance on classic compute
- Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Azure Databricks
- Set budgets for Genie usage
- Genie Code now supports auto-approve for tool actions
- Full page Genie Code (Beta)
- Table update triggers on Delta Sharing and system tables (Beta)
- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports web search as a built-in tool
- Pendo connector (Beta)
- Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta)
- Lakebase snapshot storage is now billed
- Vector Search is now AI Search
- Intra-VNet NSG rule hardening for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview
- Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer
- May 2026
- Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect are now generally available
- Databricks Apps horizontal scaling (Beta)
- Lakeflow Designer updates for May 29, 2026
- Workspace sidebar navigation updates
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (Beta)
- Real-time mode in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow, and the
update_flowAPI are now available (Public Preview) - Google Drive managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout
- Refresh policies and
EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEWfor materialized views are now generally available - Removed legacy Assistant slash commands
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow parameters are now in Beta
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/26)
- Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are in Beta
- Unity Catalog managed Apache Iceberg tables, foreign Apache Iceberg tables, and Apache Iceberg v3 features are generally available
- Postgres password authentication is now disabled by default for new Lakebase Autoscaling projects
- Databricks CLI is now GA
- Instance events and instance pools system tables are now available (Public Preview)
- Customer-managed keys for Lakebase available in all AWS and Azure regions
- Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are GA
- Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views
- Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta)
- Lakebase Autoscaling now supports compute sizes up to 64 CU (128 GB)
- Authenticate as a service principal using OAuth U2M (Beta)
- Customer-managed keys now support MLflow managed evaluation features
- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports nesting supervisor agents as subagent tools
- Databricks Container Services for standard compute is now available (Beta)
- Lakeflow Designer updates
- Edits to resources in the UI now automatically update YAML
- Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards
- Unified runs list is generally available
- Recover a deleted Lakebase project within 7 days
- Share Genie Code chat threads
- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog tables as subagent tools
- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports vector search indexes as subagent tools
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow sinks are now generally available
- View run history for scheduled refreshes in Google Sheets
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow environment versions (Beta)
- Databricks SQL alerts are now generally available
- SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now in Public Preview
- Publish a Unity Catalog catalog to Microsoft Fabric (Beta)
- New Lakebase Autoscaling instances now scale to zero by default
ai_parse_documentis now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/13)
- Lakebase Autoscaling: Lakehouse Sync is now in Public Preview
- App telemetry for Databricks Apps is now in Public Preview
- HIPAA support for the Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel
- HubSpot connector (GA)
- Catalog commits are now generally available
- Faster package installs with
%uv pipin serverless notebooks - Standalone pipelines on serverless general compute (Beta)
- Lakehouse Sync is now available on Azure (Beta)
- Block identities from your Azure Databricks account with the account access denylist
- Outlook managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview
- AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator (Beta)
- GitHub managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Smartsheet managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA
- Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available
- Native data profiling for notebook results tables
- Community connectors (Beta)
- Azure UK South now has a dedicated regional control plane
- April 2026
- Disabling tasks in Lakeflow Jobs is now GA
- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports custom MCP servers and custom agents on Databricks Apps
- MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now in Public Preview
- Configure private endpoints for serverless compute in Azure China
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/29)
- Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now generally available
- 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Public Preview)
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow updates are retained for 60 days
- Connect Azure Databricks to on-premises resources using an SSH reverse tunnel
- Tag Unity Catalog functions
- Zendesk Support connector (GA)
- Cloud token access for open Delta Sharing sharing (GA)
- Recently Resolved Incidents section in Data Quality Monitoring (Beta)
- Confluence connector (GA)
- Manage Supervisor Agent programmatically with the Databricks SDK (Beta)
- Azure Databricks Excel Add-in requires workspace preview enablement
- Workspace base environments are now generally available
- Lakeflow Designer is now in Public Preview
- Language selector for AI-generated comments in Catalog Explorer
CPU_MEDIUMandCPU_LARGEworkload types for Model Serving (Beta)- Databricks Data Classification is now GA
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/20)
- Supervisor API for building agents (Beta)
- BI compatibility mode removed from Power BI connector
- Altering a catalog or schema's managed storage location is now GA
- Databricks Connector for Google Sheets is now generally available
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
ai_parse_documentis now generally available- Compute log delivery to volumes is now GA
- Customer-managed keys now support model serving
- Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
- Sample Data Explorer is generally available
- Updated UI navigation for Databricks Apps
- AI Gateway now governs MCP servers (Beta)
- Lakebase Autoscaling: Customer-managed keys
- Create and write to Unity Catalog tables from external Delta clients (Beta)
- Column-level SAP governance tags sync into Unity Catalog
- Connect Lovable apps to Azure Databricks
- Vector Search retrieval quality (Beta)
- SQL reference documentation for managing governed tags
- New
cascadefield for deleting Unity Catalog pipelines (Beta) - Share foreign Iceberg tables with Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
- C5, TISAX, and K-FSI compliance controls are now generally available
- Databricks Runtime 18.2 and Databricks Runtime 18.2 ML are in Beta
- Scoped personal access tokens are now generally available
ai_prep_search(Beta)- Git-backed app deployments are now generally available
- Databricks Marketplace listing creation wizard
- Workspace skills for Genie Code are now available
- SAP semantic metadata syncs automatically into Unity Catalog
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/02)
- Governed tags are generally available
- March 2026
- Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in additional regions
- Databricks Connector for Google Sheets updates
- Agent Bricks now covers all Databricks AI capabilities
- Classification and Information Extraction are in Public Preview
ai_classifyandai_extractnow support v2 signatures (Public Preview)- Supervisor Agent is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers
- Type widening is now generally available
- Auto Loader supports automatic type widening (Public Preview)
- New fields in lineage system table entity metadata
- Dynamic parameters in the new SQL editor
- Supervisor Agent supports long-running tasks
- Create alerts for anomaly detection in the Data Quality Monitoring UI (Beta)
- AI Runtime is now in Public Preview
- SQL alert task for jobs (Beta)
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.8.0 is available
- Azure Databricks usage dashboard is now generally available
- Databricks Apps supports uv for Python dependency management
- Search in metric views fix
- Lakebase Autoscaling databases as Databricks Apps resources
- Databricks Asset Bundles is now Declarative Automation Bundles
- Health indicators for tables in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)
- ABAC policy functions now use snake_case naming
- Empty vector search endpoints no longer incur charges
- 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Beta)
- Lakebase Autoscaling updates: OAuth role management and budget policies and tags
- Data quality monitoring documentation moved to Data governance (Unity Catalog)
- New Lakebase instances are created as Autoscaling projects by default
- Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now GA
- Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code
- Databricks SQL pipelines support notifications and performance mode (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (03/10)
- Workday HCM connector (Beta)
- BI compatibility mode for metric views in Power BI (Beta)
- New resources for Databricks Apps
- Multi-table transactions are now in Public Preview
- Databricks Apps compute sizing support for compliance security profile standards
- Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Public Preview)
- Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Serverless compute now available for IRAP and Canada Protected B workloads on Azure Databricks
- Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta)
- Databricks Apps telemetry (Beta)
- Tree view of the workspace browser side panel (Public Preview)
- Lakebase is now generally available with compliance security profile
- Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions
- Knowledge Assistant is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers
- Managed OAuth flows for external MCP servers
- Notebook tagging (Public Preview)
- Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog
- Lakebase Autoscaling now includes high availability
- Lakebase is now generally available on Azure
- Schedule data refreshes in Google Sheets (Public Preview)
- Connect to Azure Databricks from Microsoft Excel (Public Preview)
- Update workspace network configuration to VNet injection is now GA
- February 2026
- ISMAP compliance support
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (02/26)
- Python unit testing in the workspace
- Databricks ODBC Driver renamed from Simba Spark ODBC Driver
- COMMENT ON streaming tables is now GA
- Personal access tokens preserved when CAN USE permission is revoked
- Azure virtual network service endpoint policies are now generally available
- JAR tasks on serverless compute is now in Public Preview
- ADBC driver is now the default driver for new Power BI connections
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (02/19)
- TikTok Ads connector (Beta)
- Discover page and domains (Beta)
- Scoped personal access tokens (Beta)
- Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Beta)
- Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B now available in Public Preview as a Databricks-hosted model
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Databricks Runtime 18.1 and Databricks Runtime 18.1 ML are in Beta
- OneLake catalog federation (Beta)
- Automatic identity management deactivates deleted Entra ID users
- AI Gateway (Beta)
- File events enabled by default on new external locations
- HubSpot connector (Beta)
- Serverless compute now available for compliance standards
- Configure default Python package repositories for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow (Public Preview)
- Supervisor Agent is now Generally Available
- New documentation for authoring and deploying agents on Databricks Apps
- Deploy Databricks apps from Git repositories (Beta)
- Query tags for SQL warehouses (Public Preview)
- Agent Bricks: Multi-Agent Supervisor is now Supervisor Agent
- Google Ads connector (Beta)
- Decrypt query history system table fields (Public Preview)
- Applying filters, masks, tags, and comments to pipeline-created datasets is now GA
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Default SQL warehouse settings (General Availability)
- Partner-powered AI features are now supported in the Canada, Brazil, and United Kingdom Azure Geographies
- Lakebase Autoscaling now available on Azure (Beta)
- Connect Databricks Assistant to MCP servers
- Select tables and create pivot tables in Google Sheets
- Genie Agents are now available in the Japan and Korea Azure Geographies
- Tag Databricks Apps (Public Preview)
- Zendesk Support connector (Beta)
- Data Quality Monitoring Anomaly Detection public preview
- January 2026
- Serverless workspaces are now generally available
- Trigger on update for pipelines (GA)
- Lakeflow jobs system tables are now generally available (GA)
- View and restore your recent workspace tab sessions
- Paste images into notebooks
- Compute sizing for Databricks Apps is now generally available
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (01/27)
- Knowledge Assistant is now available in more regions
- Managed MCP servers is now Public Preview
- Simplified serverless network security with Azure Network Security Perimeter
- Store and query MLflow traces in Unity Catalog (Beta)
- Improved group sharing for automatic identity management
- Google Drive connector (Beta)
- You can now use custom base environments for Python, Python Wheels, and notebook tasks in serverless jobs
- Unified Lakebase interface
- Databricks Runtime 18.0 is now GA
- Ingest Salesforce formula fields incrementally (Beta)
- Knowledge Assistant is now generally available
- Row filtering for managed ingestion connectors (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (01/09)
- Create skills for Databricks Assistant
- Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (GA)
- December 2025
- Databricks Assistant Agent mode is now in Public Preview
- Single-use refresh tokens for OAuth applications
- Update request parameters for Delta Sharing recipient audit log events
- Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- New Azure Databricks accounts will not have access to legacy features
- MySQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
- Meta Ads connector (Beta)
- View latest scheduled notebook job results
- Updated Lakeflow Jobs UI is generally available
- Context based ingress control is now in Public Preview
- Login required to download ODBC driver
- Flexible node types are now generally available
- Serverless compute is now available in Azure China North 3
- New resource types for Databricks Apps
- Run read-only queries on Lakebase (Provisioned) readable secondaries from SQL editor
- Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview
- Disable legacy features settings are now GA
- Confluence connector (Beta)
- PostgreSQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
- Customizable SharePoint connector (Beta)
- NetSuite connector (Public Preview)
- Jira connector (Beta)
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (Public Preview)
- Change owner for materialized views or streaming tables defined in Databricks SQL
- Discover files in Auto Loader efficiently using file events
- ForEachBatch for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is available (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 18.0 and Databricks Runtime 18.0 ML are in Beta
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (12/09)
- New columns in Lakeflow system tables (Public Preview)
- New token expiration policy for open Delta Sharing
- Vector Search reranker is now generally available
- Built-in Excel file format support (Beta)
- November 2025
- Serverless workspaces are now available (Public Preview)
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow stream progress metrics are generally available
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Configure full refresh behavior for managed database connectors
- Real-time collaboration in notebook cells, files, and SQL editor
- Serverless compute is now available in new regions
- Use Git CLI commands in Git folders (Beta)
- Configure compute size for Databricks Apps (Public Preview)
- Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/18)
- Add Azure Databricks Genie MCP server to Azure AI Foundry (Public Preview)
- Jobs can now be triggered on source view update
- Delta Sharing views automatically permitted in serverless network policies
- ABAC-secured assets shared using Delta Sharing is in Public Preview
- Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview
- Improved full refresh flow for managed database connectors
- Connect Genie Agents to Microsoft Copilot Studio (Public Preview)
- TISAX compliance controls (Public Preview)
- SFTP connector (Public Preview)
- Convert foreign tables to Unity Catalog managed or external tables (Public Preview)
- JDBC Unity Catalog connection in Beta
- Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has been renamed to Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
- Migrate Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition (Public Preview)
- SAP BDC connector for Azure Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing
- List MCP servers in Azure Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
- New MCP server tab
- C5 and K-FSI compliance standards (Public Preview)
- Updated tag search syntax in workspace search
- Serverless notebook tasks can now use jobs environment
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/04)
- Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct now available in Beta
- Attribute-based access control (ABAC) now in Public Preview
- Audit logs for request-for-access events are now emitted
- Disable DBFS root and mounts workspace setting is GA
- JAR tasks are now supported on serverless compute
- October 2025
- Salesforce ingestion connector supports history tracking (SCD type 2)
- Databricks Assistant Agent mode can now use models served through Anthropic on Databricks
- Skip cells when running notebooks
- Improved notebook debugger experience
- New compute policy form is now generally available
- Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog functions and external MCP servers
- Feedback model deprecated for AI agents
- Request logs and assessment logs tables deprecated
- Serverless compute has been updated to version 17.3
- Databricks JDBC Driver 2.7.5
- Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
ai_parse_document(Public Preview)- Column drop behavior updated
- Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS is now GA
- Compatibility Mode (Public Preview)
- Zstd is now the default compression for new managed tables
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (10/21)
- Unified runs list (Public Preview)
- Databricks Connector for Google Sheets offers additional features (Public Preview)
- Dashboard and Genie Agents tagging (Public Preview)
- Jobs can now be triggered on source table update
- Declarative Automation Bundles in the workspace is GA
- SQL MCP server now available (Beta)
- The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Azure Databricks is generally available
- Create backfill job runs
- Improved autoscaling behavior for Mosaic AI Model Serving
- Data Classification (Public Preview)
- Multimodal support is now available
- Context based ingress control (Beta)
- The billable usage table now records the performance mode of serverless jobs and pipelines
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (10/07)
- Serverless private git (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS and Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS ML are in Beta
- Partition metadata is generally available
- Delta Sharing recipients can apply row filters and column masks (GA)
- Certification status system tag is in Public Preview
- Prompt caching is now supported for Claude models
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Serverless compute resources now support PCI-DSS compliance in
australia-east - Notebook improvements
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is available for batch inference in US regions
- Convert to Unity Catalog managed table from external table
- Git email identity configuration for Git folders
- Configure Azure virtual network service policies for storage access (Public Preview)
- New permissions for the Databricks GitHub App
- September 2025
- Pipeline update timeline table is now available (Public Preview)
- Data classification system table Beta
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted foundation model
- Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now in public preview
- New requirement to create connections for Salesforce ingestion
- Migrate Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow pipelines from legacy publishing mode is generally available
- Databricks Runtime maintenance updates
- Mosaic AI Agent Framework supports automatic authentication passthrough for Lakebase resources
- Route-optimized endpoints now require route-optimized URL path for querying
- Explore table data using an LLM (Public Preview)
- Genie One Public Preview
- Discover files in Auto Loader efficiently using file events without enrollment (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 17.2 is now is now GA
- Delta Sharing on Lakehouse Federation is in Beta
- Mount Delta shares to an existing shared catalog
- Google Analytics Raw Data connector GA
- Serverless jobs and pipelines configured in the UI are now performance optimized by default
- Python custom data sources can be used with Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
- Automatic identity management is generally available
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow now supports stream progress metrics in Public Preview
- Databricks Runtime maintenance update
- Databricks Apps support for Genie resources
- Databricks Online Feature Stores (Public Preview)
- MLflow metadata is now available in system tables (Public Preview)
- Databricks Assistant Agent mode: Data Science Agent is in Beta
- Tables backed by default storage can be Delta shared to any recipient (Beta)
- Migrate Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow from legacy publishing mode is rolled back to Public Preview
- AI agents: Authorize on-behalf-of-user Public Preview
- SQL Server connector supports SCD type 2
- August 2025
- Interact with Azure Databricks jobs in a Power Automate flow (Public Preview)
- OLTP Database tab renamed to Lakebase Postgres in Compute section
- Account SCIM 2.0 updates
- Track and navigate notebook runs with the new cell execution minimap
- Admins can now manage a workspace's serverless base environments (Public Preview)
- Lakebase synced tables supports syncing Apache Iceberg and foreign tables in Snapshot mode
- External MCP servers are in Beta
- Migrate Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow from legacy publishing mode is now GA
- Governed tags are Public Preview
- Databricks Runtime 17.2 and Databricks Runtime 17.2 ML are in Beta
- New
INSERT REPLACEcommands (GA) - Canada Protected B is GA
- OAuth token federation is now GA
- Microsoft SQL Server connector GA
- New table property to control Delta table compression
- Data type mapping update for Lakebase synced tables
- Automatic liquid clustering is now available for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
- Budget policy support for Lakebase database instances and synced tables (Public Preview)
- Expanded region availability for Databricks Apps
- Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector GA
- Updating workspace virtual network configurations is now in Public Preview
- Enhanced autocomplete for complex data types in notebooks
- Declarative Automation Bundles support for Lakebase database resources
- Databricks Assistant integrated with compute
- Serverless compute runtime updated to 17.1
- Set the run-as user for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
- Mosaic AI Vector Search reranker Public Preview
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow template in bundles in the workspace (Public Preview)
- Azure Databricks connector in Microsoft Power Platform is now GA
- Token-based rate limits now available on AI Gateway
- Databricks-hosted models for Assistant are now GA
- OpenAI GPT OSS models now support function calling
- OpenAI GPT OSS models now supported on provisioned throughput
- Serverless GPU compute now supports multinode workloads
- Schedule jobs for Serverless GPU compute workloads
- Databricks Assistant: User and workspace instructions now available
- Single-node compute on standard access mode is now GA
- Column masks now retained when replacing a table
- Access requests in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Disable legacy features for new workspaces (Public Preview)
- Lakebase Public Preview enabled by default
- ServiceNow connector GA
- Create external Delta tables from third-party clients (Public Preview)
- Path credential vending (Public Preview)
- Use OpenAI GPT OSS models for batch inference and structured outputs
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.9.2
- Power BI Azure Databricks connector supports M2M OAuth
- OpenAI GPT OSS models now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving
- Azure Private Link from serverless compute to resources in your virtual network (VNet) via a standard load balancer (SLB) is now generally available
- Jobs in continuous mode can now have task-level retries for failed tasks
- Databricks Runtime 17.1 is now is now GA
- AI Playground is now GA
- Edit mode in Assistant does multi-cell code refactoring and more
- July 2025
- Databricks Terraform provider supports Lakebase resources
- Synced tables are now metered and billed
- New compute policy form (Public Preview)
- Delta Sharing supports sharing tables and schemas secured by ABAC policies (Beta)
- Sharing streaming tables and materialized views is GA
- Jobs & Pipelines list now includes Databricks SQL pipelines
- Organization name required to enable Delta Sharing on metastore
- One-time job runs now correctly record the job name in
usagesystem table - Serverless compute runtime updated to 17.0
- Disable DBFS root and mounts is in Public Preview
- Improvements to the notebook editing experience
- Expanded region availability for
ai_parse_document - New columns available in query history system table
- Moving tables between Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow pipelines is now GA
- Dynamic partition overwrite with INSERT REPLACE USING (Public Preview)
- Selectively replace data with INSERT REPLACE ON (Public Preview)
- Create Dataverse virtual tables from Azure Databricks tables in Power Apps (Public Preview)
- Add Azure Databricks connector in Power Platform to a data policy (Public Preview)
- Supervisor Agent is in Beta
- Real-time mode in Structured Streaming (Public Preview)
- Databricks documentation release notes feed
- Public network access disabled for Azure managed disks
- Explore table data using an LLM (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 17.1 and Databricks Runtime 17.1 ML are in Beta
- Google Gemma 3 12B now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving
- The CAN VIEW permission on SQL warehouses is now generally available
- Simplified compute form enabled by default
- Serverless notebooks: Restore Python variables after idle termination
- Must be metastore admin to transfer share ownership for Delta Sharing
- Queries in Power Automate can return null values
- Git support for alerts
- Azure Databricks connector for Power BI now supports the ADBC driver (Public Preview)
- MLfLow support for compliance security profile standards
- Databricks Apps support for Lakebase resources
- Parent tasks (
Run jobandFor each) now have a separate limit - Git folders now supports multiple Git credentials per user (Public Preview)
- Azure China North 3 region: Enhanced infrastructure support
- June 2025
- Cross-platform S3 access now available on workspaces with serverless egress control
- Serverless GPU compute is in Beta
- Bring your own data lineage (Public Preview)
- New Databricks JDBC Driver is open source
- Deletion vectors on Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow tables now follow workspace settings
- File arrival triggers with file events is now generally available
- Use PDFs in Information Extraction and Custom LLM (Beta)
- Parse documents using
ai_parse_document(Beta) - Databricks Runtime 17.0 is GA
- OIDC federation for Databricks-to-open Delta Sharing is generally available
- Migrate Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow pipelines from legacy publishing mode
- Custom rate limits for model serving endpoints
- Sharing managed Iceberg tables in Delta Sharing is in Public Preview
- AI documentation for Unity Catalog tables and columns now uses the same model as Databricks Assistant
- Jobs & Pipelines in the left navigation menu
- Moving streaming tables and materialized views between pipelines is in Public Preview
- Attribute-based access control (ABAC) in Unity Catalog is in Beta