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August 2026#

Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column — Aug 17 The root_cause_analysis column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins August 18, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following several days. Until the rollout reaches your workspace, you might still be able to
Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta — Aug 17 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. Databricks automatically captures a state snapshot when an eligible run fails, runs 30 minute
Base environments are now supported on classic compute (Beta) — Aug 17 You can now use base environments to manage Python dependencies on classic compute. You can use Databricks-provided environments or custom workspace-level environments. See Manage dependencies using environments.
Workiva connector (Beta) — Aug 14 The Workiva connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit activity, users, and roles from your Workiva organization into Databricks. Authentication uses Workiva OAuth
Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available — Aug 14 Sharing managed Iceberg tables in Databricks-to-Databricks sharing and open sharing is now generally available. Providers can now also share managed Iceberg tables to external Iceberg clients. See Add managed Iceberg tables to a share and Read shared managed Iceberg tables.
Genie Code supports file uploads — Aug 14 You can now upload files to Genie Code to use as context for the current chat. See Attach files.
Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts — Aug 13 OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is generally available and on by default for most accounts. For most Enterprise or Premium tier accounts, Databricks will enable it automatically in mid-September 2026, and by early 2027 for the rest. Until it is enabled fo
Expanded networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect — Aug 13 Databricks will be expanding networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect. Today, data providers are billed for data transfer (egress) when recipients access shared data through SecureConnect. Additional charge types and access scenarios, including charges billed to recipient
OpenSharing SecureConnect will be available by default for all accounts — Aug 13 OpenSharing SecureConnect is generally available and available by default for accounts on the Premium plan. For accounts on the Enterprise plan, Databricks will enable it automatically in mid-September 2026, and by early 2027 for the rest. Until it is available for your account,
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 13 Remove duplicate subscribers: Dashboard authors can now remove duplicate subscribers from a dashboard schedule. See Manage scheduled dashboard updates and subscriptions. Import BI filters fix: Fixed a bug where some filters were not created when importing Power BI and Tableau rep
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 13 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. Content search indexes and prepares your files for the Genie Agent. See Enable content sea
Genie One enhancements — Aug 13 Ontology snippets now available to all customers (Public Preview): Ontology snippets in the Genie Ontology are now available to all customers. Customers no longer need to request access. See Genie Ontology. Workspace instructions (GA): Workspace-level instructions for chat in Gen
SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Aug 13 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 enabled. Use the task to evaluate a Databricks SQL alert as part of a Lakeflow Job.
SendGrid connector (Beta) — Aug 13 The SendGrid connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests the SendGrid subuser directory and IP access-management activity for the parent account and each subuser into Dat
Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect is generally available — Aug 13 OpenSharing SecureConnect is now generally available. Providers can share data from cloud storage behind a firewall or private endpoint without adding each recipient's network to an allowlist, and recipients access the shares using their existing OpenSharing setup. See Share data
Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta) — Aug 13 You can now ingest data from a Gmail mailbox into Databricks using the managed Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect. The connector ingests messages, labels, drafts, filters, and profile data using a Google service account, and syncs the messages and message_labels tables increment
Identity attributes (Beta) — Aug 13 Identity attributes are in Beta. Databricks can store nine IdP-sourced attributes, such as title, department, and cost center, on account users, so they can be referenced in Unity Catalog ABAC column-masking policies. Account admins provision these attributes from their identity
Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta) — Aug 13 The Tags page in Governance Hub is now in Beta. The Tags page provides a centralized view of how tags are applied across your account. It summarizes governed tag usage, shows recent tag assignments and their sources, and surfaces recommendations to fix invalid tag values and add
Google Gemini 3.7 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Aug 13 Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.7 Flash as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available — Aug 13 OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is now generally available and is being enabled by default for accounts on a rolling basis. Providers can share these tables with any recipient, whether open or Databricks, including recipients that use classic compute. If
Define business concepts with Pages (Beta) — Aug 12 You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition. Part of Unity Catalog semantics, Pages form the human-modeled layer of the Genie Ontology that Genie One draws on to ground its answers. See Pages.
Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta — Aug 12 You can now build custom trace views in the Databricks MLflow trace explorer. Describe the layout you want in plain language, and Genie generates a reusable view that surfaces the trace fields, metrics, and feedback controls most relevant to your review workflow. See Build a cust
Google Search Console connector is available in Beta — Aug 12 The managed Google Search Console connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use it to ingest search performance data, site metadata, and sitemap information from Google Search Console into Databricks. The connector supports daily and hourly search analyti
Amplitude connector (Beta) — Aug 12 The Amplitude connector in Lakeflow Connect is now in Beta. Ingest product analytics event data along with event, cohort, and annotation metadata from Amplitude. See Amplitude connector.
REPLACE USING flows for standalone streaming tables (Beta) — Aug 11 REPLACE USING flows are now available for standalone streaming tables in Beta. Use a REPLACE USING flow when your source is a series of partial snapshots keyed by column. On each update, the flow replaces all rows that match the specified key columns and leaves all other rows unc
Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta — Aug 11 ABAC GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition. These policies were previously only available for models, but now also support model services, model provider services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and a
READ METADATA privilege is GA — Aug 10 The READ METADATA privilege is now generally available in Unity Catalog. READ METADATA provides read-only visibility into the same metadata available to the object's owner or a user with MANAGE, including security-sensitive information that BROWSE doesn't expose, such as privileg
Notion connector (Beta) — Aug 10 The managed Notion connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests pages, data sources, databases, blocks, comments, and users from Notion into Databricks. See Notion connector.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Aug 10 Model Serving now supports DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) as a Databricks-hosted model in the us-west-2 region. This hybrid mixture of experts (MoE) model has 284 billion total parameters and 13 billion active parameters and is optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning, coding, and
Orchestrate continuous pipelines with continuous jobs — Aug 10 You can now run a continuous Lakeflow pipeline with a continuous job. When a continuous job orchestrates a pipeline, the job determines the execution mode, and the pipeline can use job-level features such as serverless Standard performance mode and additional notification destina
Alert system tables are in Public Preview — Aug 10 The system.alert schema is in Public Preview. This schema contains the alerts table, which records the configuration of every alert, and the alert_evaluation_history table, which records one row per alert evaluation. Use these tables to audit alert definitions, analyze evaluation
Tag automations (Beta) — Aug 07 Tag automations are now in Beta. A tag automation assigns or removes governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes that match conditions you define, so tags stay accurate as your data and metadata change. Use them to certify trusted data, deprecate stale data, roll up colu
Change data feed on materialized views (Beta) — Aug 07 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. Use this to replicate materialized view changes to destinations outside Databricks, or to keep a history of materialized vie
ai_search function (Beta) — Aug 07 The ai_search() SQL function retrieves information from one or more AI Search indexes configured as knowledge sources. Given a natural-language query, the function generates optimized search queries, retrieves and deduplicates results across sources, reranks them by relevance, an
JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available — Aug 06 Package Scala or Java code as a JAR and run it as a task in a Lakeflow Job on serverless compute. Your JAR must match the Scala, Java Development Kit (JDK), and Databricks Connect versions of your serverless environment version. See Create and run JARs on serverless compute.
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 06 Rich text in widget titles and descriptions: Visualization widget titles and descriptions now support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or enter Markdown text directly. Se
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 06 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. See Parse the report. Longer agent descriptions: Genie Agents now show more of an agent's descrip
Genie One enhancements — Aug 06 Upload PDF files to a conversation (Beta): You can now upload PDF files to a Genie One conversation alongside CSV and Excel files. Genie One parses PDFs asynchronously. See Upload a file. Mention workspace users in document comments: In a document, you can now mention workspace u
JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available — Aug 06 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. See Create and run JARs on serverless compute.
Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity AI Gateway (Beta) — Aug 06 All Databricks-managed MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code have migrated to the Unity AI Gateway. This brings Databricks-managed connectors under Unity AI Gateway, enabling centralized governance, access controls, and visibility alongside your other MCP servers and tools.
Moonshot AI Kimi K3 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Aug 06 Model Serving now supports Kimi K3 as a Databricks-hosted model. This 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture of experts (MoE) model has native vision capabilities, supports a 1 million token context window, and is designed for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. You can a
Genie Code web search is in Beta — Aug 06 Genie Code can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information. Web search is disabled by default during the beta for eligible workspaces and must be turned on from the Previews page. See Search the web.
REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta) — Aug 05 REPLACE USING flows are now available in Lakeflow pipelines in Beta. Use a REPLACE USING flow when your source is a series of partial snapshots keyed by column. On each update, the flow replaces all rows that match the specified key columns and leaves all other rows unchanged. A
Window measures on a numeric index column in metric views — Aug 05 Window measures in metric views support a unitless numeric offset and numeric trailing and leading ranges on a consecutive integer order column. Use a numeric index to compare along a business period that is not a calendar date, such as a fiscal week or a 4-4-5 accounting period.
Search and replace text across files — Aug 05 You can now search and replace text across files in a Databricks Git folder or Declarative Automation Bundles project from the Search pane. See Search and replace across files.
Lakebase support for compliance security profile standards — Aug 05 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 profile enabled without a compliance standard. See Data protection.
Genie One is now available in Google Sheets — Aug 05 You can now use Genie One directly in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets. Query your governed Databricks data in natural language and import the results into Google Sheets as native rows and columns. See Use Genie One in Google Sheets.
Genie One is now available in Microsoft Excel — Aug 05 You can now use Genie One directly in the Databricks Excel Add-in. Query your governed Databricks data in natural language and import the results into Microsoft Excel as native rows and columns. See Use Genie One in Microsoft Excel.
Unity AI Gateway is now generally available — Aug 04 Unity AI Gateway is now generally available. Unity AI Gateway is the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity AI Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers. Govern MCP servers t
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available — Aug 04 Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix.
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available — Aug 04 Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share.
SharePoint connector (GA) — Aug 04 The SharePoint connector in Lakeflow Connect is now Generally Available. See SharePoint connector.
Format AI/BI dashboard widget titles and descriptions with rich text — Aug 04 Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or type markdown directly. See Format widget titles and descriptions.
PagerDuty connector (Beta) — Aug 04 The managed PagerDuty connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests incident, on-call, service, and audit data from PagerDuty into Databricks. See PagerDuty connector.
NetSuite connector (GA) — Aug 04 The managed NetSuite connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. The connector allows you to ingest ERP and financial data from Oracle NetSuite into Databricks. See NetSuite connector.
Google Drive connector (GA) — Aug 04 The Google Drive connector in Lakeflow Connect is now Generally Available. See Google Drive connector.
Full page Genie Code is now generally available — Aug 04 Full page Genie Code is now generally available. Full page Genie Code is a command center experience where the active chat is shown prominently, notebooks and files open as tabs alongside it, and you can run multiple chats in parallel. Start work directly from Genie Code, and per
Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (08/04) — Aug 04 New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements. For details, see: Databricks Runtime 18 LTS Databricks Runtime 18.2 Databricks Runtime 18.1 Databricks Runtime 17.3 LT
Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027 — Aug 03 Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents is extended through January 31, 2027. This promotion was previously set to end on July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply during the promotional period. The promotion covers usage by users only. Service principals are excluded, and the
Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA — Aug 03 Secrets in Unity Catalog is now generally available. You can store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog. A Unity Catalog secret uses the three-level namespace ( catalog.schema.secret) and is governed by Unity Catalog privileges, so you can apply the s
Organize your work with spaces — Aug 03 You can now use spaces to organize your work in the Databricks editor. Each space lets you focus on a specific folder or project while preserving your open tabs, so you can easily pick up where you left off. See Organize your work with spaces.
Environment variables for serverless jobs are in Beta — Aug 03 Environment variables for serverless Lakeflow Jobs tasks are in Beta. You can define named environment variable entries at the job level and select one for each task to pass deployment-specific configuration to your application code. A workspace admin must enable the preview from
Serverless compute access control is now generally available — Aug 03 Serverless compute access control is now generally available. Workspace admins can govern who runs serverless workloads through two built-in serverless compute objects: Default Interactive Compute (governs access to notebooks and Databricks Connect) and Default Automated Compute
Automatic cost attribution for materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL — Aug 03 Materialized view and streaming table refreshes in Databricks SQL now inherit custom tags from the enclosing SQL warehouse environment. These tags propagate to billing surfaces like system.billing.usage, enabling proper cost attribution of materialized view and streaming table up
MANAGE no longer requires USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA on the same object — Aug 03 The MANAGE privilege no longer requires a usage privilege ( USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA) on the object where MANAGE is granted. This change makes MANAGE behave more consistently with object ownership. Previously, MANAGE on a catalog or schema took effect only if you also held the a
Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027 — Aug 03 Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents is extended through January 31, 2027. This promotion was previously set to end on July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply to these products during the promotional period. The promotion covers usage by users only. Service principals are
Filter updates for the Databricks Excel Add-in — Aug 03 The Databricks Excel Add-in now supports cascading filters and case-insensitive string matching. Additionally, the LIKE, NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN, and ILIKE filters are no longer available in the filters list. See Filter imported data.
Refresh materialized views and streaming tables without exempting the pipeline owner from ABAC policies — Aug 03 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. Previously, refreshing a materialized view or streaming table managed by a pipeline required

July 2026#

Databricks Apps will soon be turned on for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 31 Starting in early September 2026, Databricks Apps will be automatically on for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. See Databricks Apps.
Web terminal on serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is in Public Preview — Jul 31 The web terminal in notebooks connected to serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is now in Public Preview. Use it to run shell commands, monitor GPU usage with nvidia-smi, install libraries, and manage files directly on the compute. This requires serverless GPU environment version
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available — Jul 31 Packaged clean rooms are now generally available. In a packaged clean room, a provider supplies notebooks, JARs, and data that a consumer runs against their own data without seeing the provider's code or data assets. See Packaged clean rooms.
OpenAI connector (Beta) — Jul 31 The OpenAI connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the OpenAI Organization Admin API to ingest organization administration data, such as users, projects, API keys, usage
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 30 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 file. See Import BI files using Genie Code. Customize date picker quick-select opt
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 30 Chat sharing (GA): Sharing an individual Genie Agent conversation is now generally available. See Share a conversation. Download visualizations on Private Link (Beta): You can now download visualization results through the Genie Conversation API on Private Link workspaces in supp
Genie One enhancements — Jul 30 Run a scheduled task on demand: When you author a scheduled task, you can now select Run now to run it immediately. See Scheduled tasks. Rename a conversation: You can now rename a conversation by clicking its title in the chat header and editing it inline. Enter a workspace URL
Genie Code is now available on HIPAA compliance security profile workspaces with partner-powered AI features disabled — Jul 30 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. On these workspaces, Genie Code is served by Databricks-hosted models rather than partner-powered mode
Upcoming general availability of Unity AI Gateway — Jul 29 Unity AI Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon. Built on Unity Catalog, Unity AI Gateway extends governance to the runtime interactions between models, agents, MCP servers, and tools. You can control which AI ser
Automatic upgrades begin rolling out row tracking and Checkpoint V2 to existing tables — Jul 29 Automatic upgrades begin rolling out row tracking and Checkpoint V2 to existing Unity Catalog managed tables, not just new tables. This rollout is gradual, so these features will be available to different customers at different times. Automatic upgrades turn on a feature only aft
Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available — Jul 28 Registering Python user-defined table functions (UDTFs) in Unity Catalog is now generally available in Databricks Runtime 18. A Unity Catalog Python UDTF is a governed function that returns a table, invoked in the FROM clause of a SQL statement to return multiple rows and columns
Unit testing for pipelines (Beta) — Jul 26 You can now write and run Python unit tests for your Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow transformation logic directly in the Lakeflow Pipelines Editor. Validate Python and SQL transformations against mock data using catalog-table redirection, including Auto CDC, streaming ta
Dedicated group clusters will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 24 Dedicated group clusters will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in September 2026. You can assign a compute resource to a group using the Dedicated access mode, letting group members share compute while securely running languages
Lakeflow Designer Summer Release — Jul 24 The Lakeflow Designer Summer Release adds new operators, expands the Output and Join operators, and improves the canvas editing experience. The following updates are now available: Prepare operator: Use the new Prepare operator for common data-cleansing tasks, including changing
Diagnose and fix Lakebase issues with Genie, using telemetry in Unity Catalog (Beta) — Jul 24 Lakebase adds AI-assisted troubleshooting: database issues and early warnings are surfaced to you with Insights, and you can then investigate and fix them conversationally with Genie. Both draw on database telemetry captured to Unity Catalog. See Observability.
Governed tags system table is in Beta — Jul 24 The system.tags.governed_tags system table is in Beta. This table contains a record for each governed tag key in your account, including customer-created and system-generated tags. Use it to programmatically determine which tags in your account are governed. See Governed tags sys
Git CLI commands in Git folders are now in Public Preview — Jul 24 Git CLI commands in Git folders are now in Public Preview. Git folders that you create from the UI automatically get Git CLI access when your workspace is eligible, so you can run standard Git commands such as git stash, interactive rebase, pre-commit hooks, Git submodules, and L
Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (07/24) — Jul 24 New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements. For details, see: Databricks Runtime 18 LTS Databricks Runtime 18.2 Databricks Runtime 18.1 Databricks Runtime 17.3 LT
Anthropic Claude Opus 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jul 24 Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 5 as a Databricks-hosted model. To access this model, use: Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token Query reasoning models Query vision models
Genie Agents enhancements — Jul 23 Higher character limit for uploaded PDFs: The maximum number of characters per uploaded PDF has been raised from 4,000 to 15,000. See PDF files. Agent mode APIs (Beta): Agent mode APIs for Genie Agents are now available in Beta. See Agent mode APIs in Genie Agents. Analyze files
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 23 Import BI files (Public Preview): Importing Power BI and Tableau reports as AI/BI dashboards with Genie Code is in Public Preview. See Import BI files using Genie Code. Image widget: You can now add a dedicated image widget to a dashboard. See Image widgets. Multi-select filter i
C++ SDK for the Zerobus Ingest connector is now available in Beta — Jul 23 A C++ SDK for the Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The SDK provides a high-throughput gRPC client for ingesting records directly into Unity Catalog Delta tables, with support for JSON and Protocol Buffers. See Use the Zerobus Ingest connector
Genie Code scheduled tasks are in Beta — Jul 23 You can now schedule Genie Code to run a prompt on a recurring schedule. Each run executes your prompt as a full Genie Code session and produces a continuable Genie chat with the results, so you can turn recurring analysis into an unattended background task. Create a scheduled ta
Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now generally available — Jul 23 Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now generally available (GA), powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0. For release notes, see Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning.
Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning have transitioned to LTS — Jul 23 With the general availability of Databricks Runtime 19, Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning have transitioned to long-term support (LTS). LTS versions receive three years of stability and security fixes. For release notes, see Databricks Runtime 1
Databricks Runtime 19: July 23, 2026 — Jul 23 Databricks Runtime 19 is now generally available (GA). For lifecycle details, see Databricks Runtime support lifecycles. Behavioral changes Arrow-optimized Python UDFs enabled by default: Regular Python UDFs now use Arrow-based serialization by default. This can change type-coerc
Variant will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 22 Variant will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in July 2026. Use Variant to ingest semi-structured data from streaming sources (Kinesis, Event Hub), REST APIs, and schemaless databases, while maintaining high-performance query acc
Variant and Variant shredding are now generally available — Jul 22 Variant is now generally available. Variant is a flexible data type for semi-structured data that delivers structured-like query performance through Variant shredding, which is also generally available. Use Variant to ingest semi-structured data from streaming sources (Kinesis, E
Transactions are now generally available — Jul 22 Transactions that write to Unity Catalog managed Delta tables are now generally available. Group multiple SQL statements across one or more tables into a single atomic transaction using BEGIN ATOMIC... END; or BEGIN TRANSACTION;... COMMIT; syntax. All changes succeed together or
Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens are now generally available — Jul 22 Databricks now automatically sends an email notification when a service principal token is set to expire within seven days. Because service principals don't have their own mailboxes, Databricks sends these notifications to workspace admins. Notifications are sent only for service
Databricks-hosted sample datasets available in the samples catalog — Jul 22 The sample datasets /databricks-datasets mounted to DBFS are now also available in the samples catalog as samples.databricks.datasets, made available through OpenSharing. The datasets volume hosts a collection of Databricks-provided datasets that you can use to build and test dat
Override the REPLACE WHERE predicate for a single refresh — Jul 22 You can now override a standalone streaming table's defined REPLACE WHERE predicate for a single refresh by adding a WHERE clause to the REFRESH STREAMING TABLE command. The override applies only to that refresh and doesn't change the table definition, which is useful for one-tim
Role-based access control (RBAC) is in Public Preview — Jul 22 Role-based access control (RBAC) is now in Public Preview. RBAC lets users assume a role in Databricks using only that role's permissions for the duration of the session instead of their own accumulated permissions. This enables exclusive access. Users must actively assume a role
Lakeflow Designer support for compliance security profile standards — Jul 22 Lakeflow Designer now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. For a full list of supported compliance standards, see Compliance security profile. See Lakefl
Governance Hub is in Beta — Jul 22 Governance Hub is in Beta. Governance Hub is a centralized, account-level UI in the account console for monitoring governance across your Databricks account. It provides a unified view of data health and coverage, AI usage and spend, and cost drivers, with prioritized insights an
Priority pay-per-token for Foundation Model APIs — Jul 22 Priority pay-per-token, also referred to as priority mode, for Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token is generally available for partner models and in preview for open source models. Priority mode is for latency-sensitive, real-time applications that need more consistent availabilit
Automated setup for S3 external locations — Jul 22 You can now create an S3 external location using automated setup, the recommended method for connecting an S3 bucket to Databricks. Automated setup uses AWS IAM temporary delegation to configure your external location and provision all required resources, including the IAM role,
Genie One will soon be available to account-only users — Jul 21 Genie One will soon support account-only users, allowing any user in your identity provider to access Genie One without being assigned to a workspace or granted the consumer entitlement. When enabled, all users in your identity provider are enrolled automatically. Unity Catalog w
Genie One and Genie Agents billed usage corrections — Jul 21 Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027. Beginning July 21, 2026, Databricks is applying a correction so that Genie One and Genie Agents usage is properly reflected as free across your billing data and budgets: System tables: Correction records land in s
Warehouse-level statement timeouts (Beta) — Jul 21 You can now set a statement timeout on a single SQL warehouse so that different warehouses can apply different timeouts to their queries. Set the timeout with the statement_timeout field in the Create or Update warehouse APIs. This feature is in Beta and is API-only. See Warehous
Reddit Ads connector is now available in Beta — Jul 21 The managed Reddit Ads connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. You can use the connector to ingest advertising campaign data and performance metrics from Reddit Ads into Databricks. See Reddit Ads connector.
Genie One and Genie Agents billed usage corrections — Jul 21 Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027. Beginning July 21, 2026, Databricks is applying a correction so that Genie One and Genie Agents usage is properly reflected as free across your billing data and budgets: System tables: Correction records land in s
Google Gemini 3.6 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jul 21 Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.6 Flash as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jul 21 Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available — Jul 21 Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available. Control who can reach your workspace endpoints using allow and deny rules that allow you to combine identities, network sources, and request types. See Context-based ingress control.
Mention Genie Code in notebook comments — Jul 20 You can now mention Genie Code in a notebook comment to get AI help without leaving the comment thread. Type @ in a comment, select Genie Code, and enter your request. Genie Code replies inline in the thread. See Code comments.
Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams is now in Public Preview — Jul 17 The Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams is now in Public Preview. The app brings Genie into Microsoft Teams so users can ask data questions and get answers without leaving Microsoft Teams. See Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams.
Anthropic managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jul 17 The Anthropic connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest Compliance API data — audit activity, organizations, users, roles, groups, settings, and Claude chats and messages — from Anthropic into Databricks. See Anthropic connector.
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 16 MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-August 2026. Store MLflow traces in Unity Catalog tables for scalable, governed trace storage: storage is unlimited, traces are stored in O
Genie One enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 16 Search and reuse past conversations: You can now search your past Genie One conversations and bring previous context into your current conversation. See Recall past conversations. Memory (Beta): Genie One can remember details you ask it to save, such as your preferences and workf
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 16 Save a chat as a Genie Agent: You can now save a Genie One thread as a Genie Agent. See Create an agent. Conversation sharing (Public Preview): Sharing an individual Genie Agent conversation is now in Public Preview. See Share a conversation. Access email terminology: Access-gran
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 16 Git folders (GA): Git folders for dashboards are now generally available. See Version control dashboards with Git. Run a schedule on demand: You can now select Run now on a dashboard schedule to run it immediately. See Manage schedules. Improved Ask Genie starter questions: Ask G
Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available — Jul 16 Register Scala and Java user-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog and reuse them across notebooks, jobs, and SQL warehouses with Unity Catalog governance. Reuse existing JVM logic and get better performance than Python UDFs on all compute, including serverless. See Scala and
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now generally available — Jul 16 MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables is now generally available. Databricks recommends storing traces in Unity Catalog for new and production workloads: storage is unlimited, traces are stored in OpenTelemetry (OTel) format, access is governed through Unity Catalog schema
Agentic code converter is in Beta — Jul 16 The agentic code converter is in Beta. Use it to convert legacy SQL dialects, such as T-SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, BigQuery, and Teradata, to ANSI SQL in migration projects in your workspace. Powered by Genie Code, the converter analyzes each source script, validates synta
Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired — Jul 16 Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired. Gemini 3.1 Pro is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
AI Search high QPS will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 15 AI Search high QPS will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late August 2026. Set a target QPS on standard AI Search endpoints to power high-throughput, real-time workloads like search bars, recommendation systems, and entity mat
Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027 — Jul 15 Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027. Budget controls do not apply during this time.
Thinking Machine Labs Inkling now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview — Jul 15 Model Serving now supports Thinking Machine Labs Inkling as a Databricks-hosted model. This mixture of experts (MoE) model supports text and image inputs, a 1 million token context window, and is optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic tool-use tasks. You can access this mod
Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027 — Jul 15 As of July 15, 2026, billing for Genie One and Genie Agents is paused, and usage of these products is free through January 31, 2027. Budget controls do not apply to them. Genie Code continues to be billed under the pay-as-you-go pricing model. For more information about pricing,
Data Classification is now available by default for additional compliance standards — Jul 15 Data Classification is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and either C5, TISAX, or IRAP controls selected.
Custom URLs for your Databricks account (Public Preview) — Jul 15 You can now claim and enable a Custom URL that gives your Databricks account a single, branded entry point (for example, acme.databricks.com) for all users and workspaces. See Give your Databricks account a custom URL.
AI Search High QPS is now generally available — Jul 15 AI Search High QPS is now generally available for standard endpoints. Set a target QPS on standard AI Search endpoints to power high-throughput, real-time workloads like search bars, recommendation systems, and entity matching. High QPS is enabled by default, but existing endpoin
ai_extract and ai_classify are now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 15 The ai_extract and ai_classify SQL AI functions are 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, HITRUST, IRAP, C5, and TISAX controls selected. Use
Query-based connectors in Lakeflow Connect will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 14 Query-based connectors in Lakeflow Connect will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. Query-based connectors ingest data from databases by querying the source directly using a cursor column, without requiring change data capture
Request for Access will soon be enabled by default for all workspaces — Jul 14 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. You can configure access request destinations at any time in the metastore settings. The lega
Allowlist partner platform IPs in context-based ingress control (Beta) — Jul 14 Context-based ingress control now supports Partner Platforms as a network source. Select a partner platform to allowlist the IPs that third-party apps use to connect to Databricks, including Power BI, Tableau Cloud, and dbt platform. Databricks manages and updates these IP lists
Lakebase is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant — Jul 14 Lakebase is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. For our SOC reports, please ask your Databricks account team or see Compliance.
Trigger.AvailableNow support for OpenSharing streaming (GA) — Jul 14 Streaming reads from OpenSharing tables now support the Trigger.AvailableNow trigger. This trigger captures the shared table's current version when it starts, processes all available data across one or more micro-batches (honoring maxFilesPerTrigger and maxVersionsPerRpc), and th
Automatic upgrades will roll out more features to existing tables — Jul 13 Automatic upgrades apply recommended features to your Unity Catalog managed tables after verifying workload compatibility. Databricks is expanding the features that automatic upgrades apply to existing tables. Starting in July 2026, automatic upgrades will roll out row tracking a
View warehouse activity details (General Availability) — Jul 13 The Activity details toggle in the SQL warehouse monitoring UI is now generally available. View color-coded annotations on the Running clusters chart that explain why a warehouse remains active, including query activity, fetching queries, open sessions, and idle states. Hover ove
Databricks-provided MCP Services will GA soon — Jul 10 Databricks-provided MCP Services for SaaS applications such as Slack, GitHub, Atlassian, and Google Drive will soon be generally available, with both read and write operations enabled by default. Admins and users can disable MCP Services and individual tools in Unity AI Gateway.
SharePoint connector in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available — Jul 10 The SharePoint connector in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available. You can ingest files and structured data from SharePoint sites into Databricks for transformation, analysis, and downstream pipelines. See SharePoint connector.
Google Drive connector in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available — Jul 10 The Google Drive connector in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available. You can ingest files from Google Drive into Databricks for transformation, analysis, and downstream pipelines. See Google Drive connector.
Secrets in Unity Catalog (Public Preview) — Jul 10 You can now store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog. A Unity Catalog secret uses the three-level namespace ( catalog.schema.secret) and is governed by Unity Catalog privileges, so you can apply the same access controls and auditing that you use for
Lakebase Autoscaling update notifications now post 3 days in advance — Jul 10 To deliver Postgres version updates, security patches, and new features to your projects sooner, Lakebase Autoscaling has shortened the planned update notification window. Planned updates are now posted at least 3 days in advance, rather than 7. You can check your project's setti
Change to default pipeline editor for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 09 The Lakeflow Pipelines Editor has been generally available since May 2026. In August, it will become the default editor for developing and debugging pipelines in workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. At that time the legacy editor will be removed. For more info
Genie One enhancements — Jul 09 Document citations: Documents now show citations that link content back to the data and sources Genie One used to generate the document. See View citations. Document version history: Documents now keep a version history so you can review earlier versions. See View version history
Front-end Private Link for account-level Genie One (Beta) — Jul 09 You can now configure front-end Private Link for account-level Genie One. Turn on the Front-end Private Link for Custom URLs and Account preview to get started. See Configure inbound Private Link for account-level resources.
Genie Agents enhancements — Jul 09 Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) renamed to Genie Agents: Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) are now called Genie Agents. SQL expressions grouped with example SQL: In the authoring experience, SQL expressions are now grouped with example SQL queries so you can define and ma
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 09 Import BI files is in Public Preview: Importing Power BI and Tableau reports as AI/BI dashboards with Genie Code is in Public Preview. You can also start an import directly from the dashboard list page. See Import BI files using Genie Code. Dashboard Ask Genie is generally availa
Strac connector (Beta) — Jul 09 The Strac connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests data-security audit events from your Strac instance into Databricks. Authentication uses a Strac API key. See Strac
Protobuf tensor input for custom model serving endpoints (Public Preview) — Jul 09 For custom model serving endpoints with a tensor-based input signature, you can now send the request body as a serialized KServe v2 ModelInferRequest with Content-Type: application/x-protobuf, instead of JSON. This feature is in Public Preview and is only available on endpoints d
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna now available as Databricks-hosted models — Jul 09 Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna as Databricks-hosted models. You can access these models using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
Databricks SQL alerts are now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 09 Databricks SQL alerts now support all compliance security profile standards that Databricks supports, and are available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. Use Databricks SQL alerts to monitor data and KPIs by running queries on a schedule, eva
Behavior changes for continuous jobs and pipelines — Jul 08 In early August 2026, continuous Lakeflow pipelines and jobs will receive updates to simplify configuration. You will be able to configure a continuous schedule directly from the pipeline page, including job-level settings such as performance mode. Configuring a continuous schedu
Genie Agents now uses pay-as-you-go pricing — Jul 08 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 $10.50 in the US East region. Usage beyond the free amount is billed in DBUs, reflec
Object metadata column is now in Public Preview — Jul 08 The _object_metadata column is now in Public Preview. The _object_metadata column is a hidden metadata column that exposes object-level properties for objects in cloud storage, including MIME type, ETag, user-defined key-value metadata, system-defined metadata, and object tags. I
Zhipu AI GLM 5.2 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jul 08 Model Serving now supports GLM 5.2 as a Databricks-hosted model. This mixture of experts (MoE) model supports a 1 million token context window and is optimized for long-horizon reasoning, coding, and agentic tool use. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Custome
Genie products now use pay-as-you-go pricing — Jul 08 Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie products, including Genie Agents, Genie Code, and Genie One, are billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 Databricks units (DBUs) of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in
Genie Spaces is now Genie Agents — Jul 08 Genie Spaces are now called Genie Agents. The name changed across the documentation, but the product's capabilities are unchanged. For more information, see Genie Agents.
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are scheduled for retirement — Jul 08 Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro will be retired on October 2, 2026. The recommended replacement models are Gemini 3.1 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is scheduled for retirement — Jul 08 Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 will be retired on October 9, 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Restrict access to AI Functions with Unity Catalog permissions (Public Preview) — Jul 08 You can now use Unity Catalog permissions to restrict which task-specific AI Functions your organization can access, independent of foundation model access. Contact your account team to enable this feature. See AI Functions Unity Catalog permissions.
REPLACE WHERE flows are now generally available — Jul 07 REPLACE WHERE flows for pipelines and standalone streaming tables are now generally available. Use them to replace only rows matching a predicate on each refresh, without reprocessing the full table history. See Batch processing with REPLACE WHERE flows.
Managed Iceberg materialized views are in Public Preview — Jul 07 You can now create a materialized view that is compatible with external Iceberg readers. This feature is in Public Preview. To enable it, reach out to your Databricks account team. See Create a materialized view compatible with external Iceberg readers.
Excel file format support is now available by default — Jul 07 Excel file format support is now available by default for all workspaces. You can ingest, parse, and query.xls,.xlsx, and.xlsm files directly using built-in support, without external libraries or manual conversions. See Read and stream Excel files.
July 6, 2026 — Jul 06 This serverless compute release includes updates from Databricks Runtime 18. New features Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow streaming query ID: Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow can now set the streaming query ID on demand. IP address functions (Public Preview): New S
Standard performance mode is now supported for materialized view or streaming table refreshes in jobs — Jul 06 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. When the setting is turned off, the refresh uses standard performance mode, which consumes fewer DBUs. For more about pe
Budgets are now generally available — Jul 06 Budgets, including budgets for Unity AI Gateway, are now generally available. Budgets let admins define spending thresholds. For requests managed through Unity AI Gateway, including Genie interactions, admins can set additional per-user thresholds and overrides, with configurable
Private Link for account-level resources (Beta) — Jul 06 You can now use Private Link to privately connect to Databricks account-level resources, such as the account console, through a VPC interface endpoint instead of the public internet. See Configure inbound Private Link for account-level resources.
Okta support for automatic identity management is now generally available — Jul 03 Okta support for automatic identity management is now generally available. Automatic identity management lets you sync users and groups from Okta into Databricks without SCIM provisioning. When enabled, you can search for users and groups directly in identity federated workspaces
Genie One enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 02 Ontology snippets (Public Preview): Genie One now supports ontology snippets. This feature is in Public Preview. Contact your Databricks account team to sign up. See Genie Ontology. Document edit timestamps: Documents now show the date and time they were last edited. See Document
Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements — Jul 02 Agent mode is generally available: Agent mode in Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) is now generally available. Agent mode uses multi-step reasoning to answer complex, exploratory questions with a report that includes citations, visualizations, and supporting tables. See Genie
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 02 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. See Import BI files using Genie Code. Improved metric view reuse when importing: When importing Tableau and Power BI repor
Lakeflow Connect row filtering is now generally available — Jul 02 Row filtering in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. Row filtering allows you to ingest only the rows you need by applying conditions similar to a SQL WHERE clause, improving performance and minimizing data duplication. Row filtering applies during both the initial load
Dashboard relationships (Public Preview) — Jul 01 Dashboard relationships (Public Preview): Build complex multi-fact data models scoped to an AI/BI dashboard. See Dashboard relationships.
Veeva Vault connector (Beta) — Jul 01 The Veeva Vault connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses Veeva's Direct Data API to ingest all standard objects, custom objects, system tables, and audit trail tables fro
MySQL integrated CDC pipeline is now in Beta — Jul 01 The integrated CDC pipeline for MySQL is now in Beta. An integrated CDC pipeline ingests change data from MySQL into Databricks using a single pipeline, combining extraction and application into one pipeline update. Unlike the standard gateway-based architecture, an integrated CD
Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image now available as Databricks-hosted models — Jul 01 Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image as Databricks-hosted models. You can access these models using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.

June 2026#

Grok models will soon be available as pay-per-token foundation models — Jun 30 Grok models will soon be available as pay-per-token foundation models in Databricks Model Serving. See Supported foundation models on Model Serving.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jun 30 Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 as a Databricks-hosted model. Designed for coding, agentic workflows, and professional work at scale, Claude Sonnet 5 delivers near-Opus-level intelligence with Sonnet's cost efficiency and speed. You can access this model usin
Run a subset of job tasks with their dependencies — Jun 30 When you run a subset of a job's tasks, you can now expand your selection to include each task's dependencies. Add the + modifier to a task key to also run its upstream tasks ( +my_task), its downstream tasks ( my_task+), or both ( +my_task+). Start a partial run from the UI, the
Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta) — Jun 30 Lakehouse Real-Time (Lakehouse//RT) is now in Beta. Lakehouse//RT is a serverless SQL warehouse type built for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, delivering sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables. Use it to serve analytical data to applications, run operat
Lakebase Autoscaling now available in AWS Tokyo region (ap-northeast-1) — Jun 30 Lakebase Autoscaling is now available in ap-northeast-1 (Asia Pacific - Tokyo). For all supported regions, see Region availability. To get started, see Get a Postgres database.
MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta — Jun 30 Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime now support the SQL:2016 MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause for row pattern recognition. Enable the Match Recognize preview in workspace preview settings. See MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause.
SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available — Jun 29 The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available. Use the task to evaluate a Databricks SQL alert as part of a Lakeflow Job. The task returns its evaluation state as a task output value, so downstream tasks can branch on the result. See SQL alert task for jobs.
Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (06/29) — Jun 29 New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements. For details, see: Databricks Runtime 18 Databricks Runtime 18.2 Databricks Runtime 18.1 Databricks Runtime 18.0 Databr
Govern LLMs in Unity Catalog with model services (Beta) — Jun 29 You can now govern Databricks-hosted LLMs in Unity Catalog using model services, currently in Beta. A model service is a Unity Catalog securable that represents a governed LLM endpoint, so you can define an endpoint once and share it across workspaces using Unity Catalog privileg
Custom Docker images for AI Runtime CLI workloads (Beta) — Jun 29 You can now bring your own Docker container image to AI Runtime CLI ( air) workloads. This feature is in Beta. Use a custom image when you need specific system library versions, complex dependencies, or a reproducible environment. See Use custom Docker images.
Parquet v2 for Delta Lake tables is generally available — Jun 29 Parquet v2 is now generally available for Delta Lake tables in Databricks Runtime 18.1 and above. Parquet v2 uses advanced encodings, v2 data page headers, and INT64 timestamps to improve query performance and reduce table sizes. To use, set the delta.parquet.format.version table
Genie Code Chat/Agent mode selector removed — Jun 29 The Chat/Agent mode selector has been removed from the Genie Code pane. Genie Code now runs exclusively in Agent mode. If you prefer a conversational response without autonomous task execution (what was previously called Chat mode), include that instruction in your prompt. For ex
Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in Preview — Jun 29 Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in the Preview channel. Review the following section to learn about new features, behavioral changes, and bug fixes. New IP address functions A set of SQL functions is now available for working with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and CIDR
Customer-managed VPC will soon be required for classic workspaces — Jun 26 In a future release, Databricks plans to deprecate classic workspace creation with a Databricks-managed VPC. New classic workspaces will require a customer-managed VPC. For the simplest quick start, use a serverless workspace. A detailed migration timeline will be communicated se
Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (GA) — Jun 26 The managed Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. The connector allows you to ingest CRM and ERP data from Dynamics 365 into Databricks using Azure Synapse Link. See Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector.
Metric view parameters are now in Public Preview — Jun 26 You can now define parameters in metric views to bind values at query time, serving many query variants from a single definition instead of maintaining a separate metric view per variant. See Use parameters with metric views.
Databricks Runtime 19 (Beta): June 26, 2026 — Jun 26 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 init scripts. This set includes common configuration variables, such as proxy sett
Genie One enhancements — Jun 25 Share chats with account users: You can now share Genie One chats with all users in your account as read-only. See Share a chat. New external source connections (Beta): Chat in Genie One now supports connecting to Gmail and additional Microsoft 365 apps (Teams, Outlook, and Calen
Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements — Jun 25 Genie Code space authoring skills: Genie Code now includes dedicated skills for authoring and maintaining Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces). See Create a Genie Agent and Debug responses with Genie Code.
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jun 25 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 with your data. See Annotations. Six new preset themes: Six new built-in color an
Solution Accelerators in Databricks Marketplace are now published as apps or notebooks — Jun 25 Solution Accelerators are no longer a separate listing type in Databricks Marketplace. The content is unchanged, but they are now categorized as apps (interactive applications) or notebooks (code-based accelerators). See What is Databricks Marketplace?.
Databricks connector for Power Platform is generally available — Jun 23 The Databricks connector for Microsoft Power Platform is now generally available. See Databricks and Microsoft Power Platform integration.
Change the owner of standalone pipeline streaming tables and materialized views — Jun 23 You can now use ALTER STREAMING TABLE and ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW with SET OWNER TO to change the owner of streaming tables and materialized views backed by standalone pipelines created in Databricks SQL. See Use ALTER statements with pipeline datasets.
Standalone pipeline materialized views support expectations — Jun 23 You can now add data quality expectations to materialized views created in Databricks SQL using the CONSTRAINT expectation_name EXPECT (expectation_expr) clause. Expectations let you validate records as they flow through the standalone pipeline that backs the materialized view, a
Data Classification is now available by default for some workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jun 23 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 compliance standard selected.
Block specific internet destinations in network policies (Public Preview) — Jun 23 You can now block internet destinations from serverless workloads through the network policies REST API. Blocked destinations are enforced regardless of the policy's network access mode. See Block internet destinations.
Managed agent memory is in Beta — Jun 23 Managed agent memory gives your AI agents long-term memory across conversations, with Databricks running the infrastructure and isolating each scope's memories for you. Memory is stored in Unity Catalog memory stores, governed as Unity Catalog securables and accessed through the
Square managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jun 22 The Square connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests point-of-sale data such as payments, orders, customers, catalog items, and inventory from Square into Databricks. See Square connector.
Wiz Audit Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jun 22 The Wiz Audit Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest audit log entries, issues, and vulnerability findings from Wiz into Databricks. See Wiz Audit Logs connector.
Genie Code system table now counts only user-submitted interactions — Jun 22 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). Background and automated requests, such as autocomplete (ghost text), quick-fix sugg
The Discover page is now in Public Preview — Jun 22 The Discover page is now in Public Preview. Discover is a curated browsing experience that helps users find data assets governed by Unity Catalog without requiring deep knowledge of catalog hierarchies. Use domains and subdomains to organize tables, dashboards, and Genie Agents b
Enable access requests across your Unity Catalog metastore (Public Preview) — Jun 22 You can now enable access requests at the Unity Catalog metastore level. This feature also lets you set a metastore-level destination that's inherited by all catalogs, schemas, and other objects without their own destination. By enabling metastore-level access requests, users can
Legacy compute_preview system schema deprecated — Jun 22 The legacy compute_preview system schema is deprecated and will be removed from the system catalog. Use the system.compute schema instead. For a list of current system schemas and tables, see System tables reference.
Netskope Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jun 20 The Netskope Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest event and alert logs from Netskope into Databricks. See Netskope Logs connector.
Genie One enhancements — Jun 18 Scheduled tasks for consumer entitlement users: Consumer entitlement users can now create scheduled tasks without needing the SQL entitlement. See Scheduled tasks.
Dashboard enhancements — Jun 18 Table header color customization: Authors can now set font color, background color, and text formatting for table column headers. See Table layout settings. Dashboard relationships (Private Preview): Dashboard relationships, which allow users to create complex multi-fact data mod
Salesforce Marketing Cloud managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jun 18 The Salesforce Marketing Cloud connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest marketing data, including campaigns, journeys, email engagement events, and data extensions, from Salesforce Marketing Cloud into Databricks. See Salesforce M
Incremental ingestion for Workday Reports (Beta) — Jun 18 The Workday Reports connector in Lakeflow Connect now supports incremental ingestion in Beta. If you configure a cursor column for a report, the connector ingests only the rows that have changed since the last pipeline run, improving performance and reducing costs. See Ingest Wor
Lakebase now supports Postgres 18 — Jun 18 Lakebase Autoscaling now supports Postgres 18. Postgres 17 remains the default version. To use Postgres 18, select it when creating a new project. For a full list of supported versions, see Postgres compatibility.
Share Genie Agents externally using OpenSharing (Beta) — Jun 17 Providers can now share a Genie Agent with users outside their organization using OpenSharing. Databricks creates a point-in-time snapshot of the space's data assets and instructions. Recipients can mount the share to create a local Genie Agent. See Share a Genie Agent using Open
Omnigent coding agent meta-harness is now in Beta — Jun 17 Omnigent is now available in Beta. Omnigent is a coding agent meta-harness that wraps coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex with a common platform: a web UI, persistent and shareable sessions, team collaboration, mobile access, contextual policies, and deployment infrastruc
Comments on foreign tables (Beta) — Jun 17 Syncing comments on foreign tables is now in Beta. Lakehouse Federation can sync table and column comments from supported external data sources to foreign tables in Unity Catalog. Synced comments appear in table metadata, including Catalog Explorer, DESCRIBE, and DESCRIBE EXTENDE
Lakeflow Designer will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jun 16 Lakeflow Designer will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late July 2026. Lakeflow Designer is a visual, no-code experience for preparing and transforming data on a drag-and-drop canvas, with all workflows backed by production-r
Lakeflow Designer is now generally available — Jun 16 Lakeflow Designer is now generally available. Lakeflow Designer is a visual, no-code experience for preparing and transforming data on a drag-and-drop canvas, with all workflows backed by production-ready code governed by Unity Catalog. Lakeflow Designer lets analysts build, prev
Connect Genie to Microsoft Copilot Cowork (Beta) — Jun 16 You can now connect Genie to Microsoft Copilot Cowork through the Genie managed MCP server, so users can ask natural-language questions about their Databricks data without leaving Copilot Cowork. See Genie plugin for Microsoft Copilot Cowork.
Install third-party apps from Databricks Marketplace — Jun 16 You can now discover, install, and run third-party data and AI applications from Databricks Marketplace directly in your own Unity Catalog-governed workspace. The provider's code stays closed-source, and you authorize any external access the app needs when you install it. Open Ma
Improved workspace files read performance — Jun 16 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 prefetched in the background. Workloads that read many files, such as find, grep, Pyt
Genie mobile app (Public Preview) — Jun 15 You can now use the Databricks Genie mobile app to access Genie One from iOS and Android devices. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Using the Genie mobile app, you can: Ask data questions in natural language. View and interact with AI/BI dashboards,
Genie One enhancements — Jun 15 Chat in Genie One (GA): Chat in Genie One is now generally available. Chat provides a unified interface for asking data questions in natural language using your Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces), dashboards, queries, and metric views. See Chat in Genie One. Documents in Genie
Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are in Beta — Jun 15 Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0. For release notes, see Databricks Runtime 19 (Beta) and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning (Beta).
Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing across regulatory domains is now available (Public Preview) — Jun 15 Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing supports sharing across regulatory domains. Commercial workspaces can also share with AWS GovCloud, AWS GovCloud DoD, and Azure China. Sharing between Azure China and either AWS GovCloud or AWS GovCloud DoD is not supported. See Databricks-t
Use OAuth to authenticate Databricks connections in Power Platform — Jun 15 You can now use OAuth to authenticate a Databricks connection in Microsoft Power Platform, as an alternative to personal access tokens (PAT). See Create a Databricks connection on Microsoft Power Platform.
Use Universal Commits to purchase Marketplace partner products — Jun 15 You can now use up to 10% of your Universal Commits to purchase eligible third-party partner products through Databricks Marketplace. See Databricks Marketplace Universal Commit Drawdown program.
ai_query is now generally available — Jun 15 The ai_query function is now generally available. This general-purpose AI Function lets you query any supported AI model directly from SQL or Python. See Use ai_query.
Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect (Public Preview) — Jun 15 Providers can now use OpenSharing SecureConnect to share data from cloud storage behind a firewall or private endpoint without adding each recipient's network to an allowlist. Recipients access the shares using their existing OpenSharing setup. See Share data behind a firewall wi
OIDC is now supported for sharing to Iceberg clients — Jun 15 You can now use an Iceberg REST Catalog client, such as Snowflake or OSS Spark, to read OpenSharing shares secured with OpenID Connect (OIDC) federation. For details, see Read data shared using Open ID Connect (OIDC) federation from an Iceberg client and Share with Iceberg recipi
Configure the recovery period for dropped managed tables (Public Preview) — Jun 15 You can now configure the recovery period for dropped Unity Catalog managed tables. By default, tables are recoverable for 7 days after being dropped using the UNDROP TABLE command. You can set the recovery period to 0 hours (to immediately purge dropped data) or between 7–30 day
AUTO CDC flows for streaming tables in Databricks SQL are generally available — Jun 15 The FLOW AUTO CDC clause for CREATE STREAMING TABLE in Databricks SQL is now generally available. Use AUTO CDC to process change data capture (CDC) records from a source into a streaming table, automatically handling out-of-order records as SCD type 1 or SCD type 2 without the co
Databricks Runtime 19 (Beta): June 15, 2026 — Jun 15 Databricks Runtime 19 is now available in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0. Behavioral changes JDK 17 removed: Databricks Runtime 19 only supports JDK 21. Previously, Databricks Runtime 18 included JDK 17 as a fallback option that could be selected using the JNAME environment
Zerobus Ingest will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jun 12 The Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect will be enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-July 2026. Zerobus Ingest is a push-based ingestion API that writes data directly into Unity Catalog Delta tables. See Zerobus Ingest con
Faster inference tables for custom model serving endpoints — Jun 12 Inference tables for custom model serving endpoints now ingest through endpoint telemetry. Request and response payloads are delivered to a Unity Catalog inference table view within seconds, with configurable sampling. Existing inference tables are not affected. Enable inference
Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens (Beta) — Jun 12 Databricks now automatically sends email notifications to workspace admins when a service principal token is within seven days of expiring. This feature is in Beta. Notifications are sent for tokens with a lifetime greater than seven days that have been used at least once. No con
Managed disaster recovery is now in Public Preview — Jun 12 Managed disaster recovery (DR) is now in Public Preview. Managed DR replicates your Unity Catalog metadata, managed table data, and workspace assets to a secondary region, and provides a stable URL that survives failover so downstream clients do not need to be reconfigured. You c
Mission Critical add-on is now in Public Preview — Jun 12 The Mission Critical workspace add-on is now in Public Preview. The add-on unlocks managed disaster recovery and the existing Enhanced Security and Compliance (ESC) capabilities for a single compute rate, and is enabled per workspace from the new Add-ons tab in the account consol
AI Runtime CLI (Beta) — Jun 12 The AI Runtime CLI ( air) is now in Beta. Use the air command-line interface to submit and manage distributed training workloads on AI Runtime serverless GPU compute from your local machine, without opening a notebook. See AI Runtime CLI.
Auto time-to-live for automatic row deletion is generally available — Jun 12 Auto time-to-live (auto-TTL) is now generally available. Auto-TTL automatically deletes rows from Unity Catalog managed Delta Lake tables, managed Apache Iceberg tables, and streaming tables based on a DATE or TIMESTAMP column. See Automatic row deletion with auto time-to-live.
Converting a partitioned table to liquid clustering is generally available — Jun 12 You can now convert an existing partitioned Delta Lake table to liquid clustering with ALTER TABLE... REPLACE PARTITIONED BY WITH CLUSTER BY. Conversion minimizes reader and writer downtime and supports both external and managed tables. This feature is generally available in Data
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jun 11 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. Each bar requires matching start and end field types (date, datetime, or numeric). See Gantt chart
Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes — Jun 11 Save visualizations to a dashboard: You can now save Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) visualization outputs to a dashboard. See Save a visualization to a dashboard. Reference previous visualizations: Select and reference visualizations from previous prompts in follow-up prompts
Genie One enhancements and bug fixes — Jun 11 Account-level Genie customization: You can now customize Genie at the account level, including colors, a logo, a markdown welcome message, and pinned content. See Customize the Genie One homepage. Email tool for scheduled tasks: Scheduled tasks now use an email tool to send email
Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is generally available — Jun 11 Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is now generally available. Configure endpoint telemetry to persist OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics from your endpoints to Unity Catalog tables. See Persist custom model serving data to Unity Catalog.
Genie Code now uses models served through OpenAI on Databricks — Jun 11 Genie Code now uses models served through OpenAI on Databricks, in addition to models served through Azure OpenAI and Anthropic on Databricks, when partner-powered AI features are enabled. For the model provider used by each feature, see Partner-powered AI features.
ABAC GRANT policies for models (Beta) — Jun 11 ABAC GRANT policies are now in Beta. GRANT policies extend attribute-based access control to dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securable objects whose governed tags match a condition, instead of granting privileges on each object individually. In Beta, a GRANT policy
ai_extract is now generally available — Jun 11 The ai_extract function is now generally available. This function extracts structured data from text and documents according to a schema you provide, supporting nested objects, arrays, type validation, citations, and confidence scores. See ai_extract function. For a no-code UI to
ai_classify is now generally available — Jun 11 The ai_classify function is now generally available. This function classifies text content according to custom labels you provide, with support for label descriptions, global instructions, and multi-label classification. See ai_classify function. For a no-code UI to build, valida
Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools — Jun 11 You can now add Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools in your Supervisor Agent. See Use Supervisor Agent to create a coordinated multi-agent system.
Schedule deferred policy enforcement for all-purpose compute — Jun 10 When you enforce compute policy compliance on out-of-compliance all-purpose compute, you can now schedule the configuration update to apply the next time the compute terminates or restarts, instead of restarting it immediately. Enforce on next restart avoids interrupting running
Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams (Beta) — Jun 10 The Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams is now available in Beta. The app brings Genie into Microsoft Teams so users can ask data questions and get answers without leaving Microsoft Teams. Chat with the app in a direct message or mention @Databricks Genie in a channel or grou
Lakehouse Replay (Beta) — Jun 10 Lakehouse Replay is now available in Beta. Lakehouse Replay automatically replays a sampled set of read-only serverless workloads from your workspace against upcoming Databricks Runtime releases to detect and fix regressions before they reach production. It requires no setup, con
Delta Sharing is now OpenSharing — Jun 10 Following the release of open-source OpenSharing, Delta Sharing is now OpenSharing. OpenSharing is the new open standard for sharing data and AI assets across platforms and organizations, available both on GitHub and natively on Databricks. See What is OpenSharing? and opensharin
Zip connector (Beta) — Jun 10 Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Zip. See Zip connector.
Databricks Runtime 18: June 10, 2026 — Jun 10 Databricks Runtime 18 is now generally available (GA). For lifecycle details, see Databricks Runtime support lifecycles. New features and improvements The following features and improvements are available in this release. Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow streaming query ID
Genie renamed to Genie One — Jun 09 Genie, the Databricks AI experience for business users, has been renamed to Genie One. The feature and its capabilities are unchanged. See Use Genie One.
Automatic identity management for Okta (Public Preview) — Jun 09 Automatic identity management now supports Okta in Public Preview. You can sync users and groups from Okta into Databricks without configuring SCIM provisioning. When enabled, you can search for Okta users and groups in identity federated workspaces and add them to your workspace
Anthropic Claude Fable 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jun 09 Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Fable 5 as a Databricks-hosted model. Claude Fable 5 is built for autonomous knowledge work and coding, designed to handle long-running, complex, and asynchronous tasks with less need for human intervention. To access this mo
Identity federation enabled by default for all new workspaces — Jun 09 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. This change does not affect existing workspaces. See Identity federation.
Databricks Genie app for Slack (Public Preview) — Jun 09 The Databricks Genie app for Slack is now available in Public Preview. The app brings Genie into Slack so users can get answers to data questions without leaving Slack. Send a direct message to the app or mention @Genie in a channel or group DM, and answers route through Genie or
The update_flow API for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is generally available — Jun 09 The @dp.update_flow decorator in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow lets you add an update flow that writes to a sink in update output mode, emitting only the rows that change in each batch. Unlike append flows, update flows support stateful aggregations without requiring a
Reorganized Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow documentation — Jun 09 The Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow documentation is reorganized: all conceptual topics are now grouped under Concepts.
Upcoming behavior change: Choose entitlements when adding principals to workspaces — Jun 08 Databricks is changing how principals get workspace entitlements. After this change, you grant entitlements explicitly when adding a principal to a workspace instead of relying on inheritance from the users system group. Workspace administrators can opt in starting June 15, 2026,
Monday.com managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jun 08 The Monday.com connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests work management data such as boards, users, teams, and activity logs from Monday.com into Databricks. See Monday.com connector.
Zoho Books managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jun 08 The Zoho Books connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests accounting data such as invoices, bills, contacts, and bank transactions from Zoho Books into Databricks. See Zoho Books connector.
Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services is now generally available — Jun 08 Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services, such as Lakebase Autoscaling and Zerobus Ingest, is now generally available. See Configure inbound PrivateLink for performance-intensive services.
External lineage is now generally available — Jun 08 External lineage (formerly Bring Your Own Lineage) in Unity Catalog is now generally available. You can register assets that live outside Databricks, such as Salesforce or MySQL sources and Tableau or Power BI dashboards, so that a single lineage graph spans your full data flow.
Aha! connector (Beta) — Jun 08 Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Aha!. See Aha! connector.
AI Search supports selected text columns, sorting, and aggregations (Beta) — Jun 08 AI Search now supports query-time options for full-text and hybrid queries in Beta. You can limit keyword matching to selected text columns, sort results by columns indexed for sorting, and return aggregate counts for values and ranges. For details, see Search selected text colum
Databricks Runtime 18: June 8, 2026 — Jun 08 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. DESCRIBE TABLE... PARTITION is now supported for v2 catalog tables. Previously, this s
Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available — Jun 05 Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is now generally available. This feature requires enablement by your Databricks account team. Account admins can use Unity Catalog permissions on the system.ai schema to control which Databricks-hosted foundation models your organization
Managed SharePoint connector adds structured file ingestion and file metadata support (Beta) — Jun 05 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 modes, and schema hints. These capabilities replace the previous unstructured-only inge
External data access for pipeline streaming tables and materialized views (Public Preview) — Jun 05 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 the data. See Enable external data access to streaming tables and materialized view
AWS Graviton instances are now supported with the compliance security profile — Jun 05 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. For the instance types supported by each compliance standard, see Supported instance types.
UNIQUE constraint support is now in Public Preview — Jun 05 Databricks SQL now supports informational UNIQUE constraints on Unity Catalog Delta Lake tables. Foreign keys can reference UNIQUE columns, and RELY on a UNIQUE constraint enables join elimination and DISTINCT simplification on Photon-enabled compute. See CONSTRAINT clause.
Dashboard enhancements — Jun 04 Bookmark filter combinations: Dashboard authors can now save filter combinations as shared bookmarks, which viewers can quickly apply. See Bookmarks. Pivot table column improvements: Pivot table columns can now expand and collapse. See Pivot table configuration. Theme customizati
Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements — Jun 04 Genie Chat prompt monitoring (Beta): Prompts and responses initiated by Genie Chat are now visible in Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) monitoring when the sharing Beta is enabled. See Test and monitor a Genie Agent. Knowledge store edit confirmation dialog: A confirmation dia
Genie One enhancements — Jun 04 Workspace-level Genie One customization: Workspace admins can now customize Genie One at the workspace level. Under workspace settings, admins can configure colors, a logo, a markdown welcome message, and pinned content. See Customize the Genie One homepage. Certified object prio
Improved workspace file write performance on classic compute — Jun 04 Workspace file operations on classic compute now use asynchronous flushing by default for Databricks Runtime 17.1 and above. File writes, deletes, and metadata operations are batched and flushed in the background, reducing latency for workloads that write many files, such as Git
Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Databricks — Jun 04 Use the Databricks Excel Add-in to write data from Microsoft Excel back to a Unity Catalog table. Create a new table or overwrite an existing table in Databricks without leaving Excel. See Write data back to Databricks using the Databricks Excel Add-in.
Set budgets for Genie usage — Jun 04 On July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie products will move to a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Each user receives 150 DBUs of free LLM usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region. Usage beyond the free allowance is billed in DBUs. For more information, see the r
Genie Code now supports auto-approve for tool actions — Jun 04 Genie Code now offers an auto-approve mode that approves tool actions, like running code or editing notebooks, without prompting you for each request. An AI classifier reviews each action and blocks risky ones. Auto-approve is a productivity feature, not a security boundary. Data
Databricks Runtime 18: June 4, 2026 — Jun 04 Behavioral changes Review the following changes, which take effect when clusters restart on this runtime. NATURAL JOIN case-insensitive column matching: NATURAL JOIN now respects the spark.sql.caseSensitive configuration (default: false) when matching common columns between the l
Declarative Automation Bundles will soon default to use the direct deployment engine — Jun 03 On July 24, 2026, Declarative Automation Bundles in the workspace will start using the direct deployment engine by default instead of the Terraform deployment engine. This will trigger an automatic migration for all bundles in the workspace still using the Terraform deployment en
Full page Genie Code (Beta) — Jun 03 Full page Genie Code is now available in Beta. The full page experience is a command center for Genie Code, where the active thread is shown prominently, surfacing assets like notebooks and files alongside it as tabs when needed. You can run multiple threads in parallel, switch b
Table update triggers on Delta Sharing and system tables (Beta) — Jun 03 Table update triggers in Lakeflow Jobs can now monitor data shared through Delta Sharing and system tables, in addition to local tables. You can trigger a job whenever a provider updates a shared table or view, or whenever new operational data lands in a system table. This featur
Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports web search as a built-in tool — Jun 03 You can now enable web search on your Supervisor Agent to answer questions that require current information from the public web. The supervisor returns a synthesized answer with source citations. Web search is also available as a databricks_web_search tool in the Supervisor API.
Pendo connector (Beta) — Jun 02 Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Pendo. See Pendo connector.
Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta) — Jun 02 The managed RabbitMQ connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to stream messages from RabbitMQ classic queues into streaming tables in Unity Catalog. See RabbitMQ connector.
Lakebase snapshot storage is now billed — Jun 01 Starting June 1, 2026, snapshot storage is billable for Lakebase Autoscaling. Snapshot storage size is shown on the Backup & Restore page. For pricing details, see the Lakebase pricing page. To learn about managing snapshots, see Snapshots.
Vector Search is now AI Search — Jun 01 Vector Search has been renamed to AI Search. You can now create full text search indexes without any vectors or embeddings needed. See Databricks AI Search.
Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer — Jun 01 Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer UI. To find the most popular columns in a table, go to the table's Overview tab. Popularity is determined by the number of queries against the table that read from a given column. See Popularity.

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Databricks Runtime 18: May 29, 2026 — May 29 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 is used as a deduplication key. Previously, NaN values with different internal re
Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect are now generally available — May 29 Query-based connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now generally available. Query-based connectors ingest data from databases by querying the source directly using a cursor column, without requiring change data capture (CDC) configuration or an ingestion gateway. Supported sources in
Databricks Apps horizontal scaling (Beta) — May 29 You can now run a Databricks app across multiple instances behind a single app URL. Horizontal scaling provides higher availability, zero-downtime deployments, and session affinity, which routes every request from a given user to the same instance so the app can keep per-user dat
Lakeflow Designer updates for May 29, 2026 — May 29 The following updates were made to Lakeflow Designer: Bidirectional AI-generated descriptions: Each operator now displays an AI-generated description of what it does. Editing the description reconfigures the operator. N-way Combine: The Combine operator now accepts any number of
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — May 28 Banded rows in tables: Tables can now display banded rows. Custom geographies in maps: Custom geographies are now available in choropleth and point maps. See Custom geographic data. Genie Code for dashboard authoring: Genie Code for dashboard authoring is now generally available.
Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes — May 28 Agent mode thinking traces (Public Preview): Agent mode thinking traces now cite the definitions applied to answer questions. For example, "best selling product" is defined as the product with the most total sales. MCP conversation sharing bug fix (Beta): Fixed a bug where conver
Genie One enhancements — May 28 Genie One now has a Managed MCP Server (Beta). Any agent can ask natural-language data questions across Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) and Unity Catalog data and receive grounded answers. See Available managed servers.
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — May 28 Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 as a Databricks-hosted model. To access this model, use: Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token Query reasoning models Query vision models
Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (Beta) — May 28 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. See Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (ABAC).
Real-time mode in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow, and the update_flow API are now available (Public Preview) — May 27 Real-time mode in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is now in Public Preview. Achieve end-to-end latency as low as five milliseconds for operational streaming workloads such as fraud detection, real-time personalization, and instant decision-making. Real-time mode uses the
Google Drive managed ingestion connector (Beta) — May 27 The Google Drive connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest files from Google Drive into Databricks. Both unstructured (binary) and structured (CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, Parquet, Avro, ORC) ingestion are supported, as well as file meta
Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout — May 27 Workspace admins can now set the default execution timeout for serverless notebooks in the workspace admin settings, replacing the previous manual override process. To configure the timeout, go to Settings > Compute and, under Serverless interactive, update the Serverless interac
Refresh policies and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW for materialized views are now generally available — May 27 Refresh policies and the EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statement are now generally available for materialized views. Use refresh policies to control when Databricks performs incremental or full refresh, optimizing cost and predictability. Use EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW t
Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview — May 26 Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in the Preview channel. Review the following section to learn about new features, behavioral changes, and bug fixes. XPath no longer fetches external DTDs When you evaluate xpath over XML, Databricks no longer loads external Documen
Removed legacy Assistant slash commands — May 26 The /settings and /rename slash commands are no longer available in the notebook Genie Code Assistant chat pane. Adjust notebook settings and rename notebooks from the notebook UI instead. Other slash commands, such as /doc, /explain, /fix, /optimize, and /prettify, are unchanged
Automatic identity management with Microsoft Entra ID is now GA — May 26 Automatic identity management with Microsoft Entra ID is now generally available. Automatic identity management lets you sync users, service principals, and groups from Microsoft Entra ID to Databricks without SCIM provisioning. When enabled, you can search for identities in iden
Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow parameters are now in Beta — May 26 Pipeline parameters let you define key-value pairs at the pipeline level and reference them from SQL source code using named parameter syntax. See Use parameters with pipelines.
Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/26) — May 26 New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements. For details, see: Databricks Runtime 18.2 Databricks Runtime 18.1 Databricks Runtime 18.0 Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS
Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — May 25 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. With Agent mode, Genie Code can automate multiple steps from a single prompt, including retrieving relevant as
Account access denylist for automatic identity management (Public Preview) — May 22 The account access denylist is now available in Public Preview for Databricks accounts on AWS and GCP that use automatic identity management. Account admins can add users, groups, or service principals to the denylist to block their access to the Databricks account. Denylist memb
Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are in Beta — May 22 Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.1.0. Databricks Runtime 18 is the first release to use a unified release notes format. Previously, each feature version (18.0, 18.1, 18.2) had its own release notes pag
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — May 21 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. See Import BI files using Genie Code. Open-source fonts: Over 20 new open-source fonts are now available as defaults. See Customize color
Genie One enhancements — May 21 Direct link to associated dashboard: Genie One now surfaces a direct link to the associated dashboard when hovering over entities in the chat pane. Ask Genie on the workspace homepage: Ask Genie has been added to the workspace homepage. See Homepage.
Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes — May 21 "Fields" replaces "Dimensions": Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) now uses "Fields" instead of "Dimensions" in the metric view and SQL expressions interfaces. See Define SQL expressions. Benchmarks support agent mode: Benchmarks now support agent mode, which uses the same mult
Workspace sidebar navigation updates — May 21 The workspace sidebar navigation has updated section groupings: A new Analytics section groups Dashboards, Genie Agents, and Alerts. The SQL section is renamed to Lakehouse and contains SQL Editor, Queries, Query History, and SQL Warehouses. In the app switcher, Lakehouse is also
Unity Catalog managed Apache Iceberg tables, foreign Apache Iceberg tables, and Apache Iceberg v3 features are generally available — May 21 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 Runtime, Databricks SQL, or external Iceberg-compatible engines. Managed Iceberg tables
Postgres password authentication is now disabled by default for new Lakebase Autoscaling projects — May 21 New Lakebase Autoscaling projects now have native Postgres password authentication disabled by default. Existing Autoscaling projects are unaffected. To allow native Postgres roles to connect with static passwords, enable password connections in project settings. See Manage passw
Databricks CLI is now GA — May 21 The Databricks CLI is now generally available (GA). As part of this release, the CLI has been updated to store user-to-machine (U2M) tokens in OS-native secure storage. See Token storage. For information about the Databricks CLI, see Databricks CLI.
Instance events and instance pools system tables are now available (Public Preview) — May 21 The system.compute.instance_events and system.compute.instance_pools system tables are now in Public Preview. Use these tables to track state transitions of classic compute instances and the full history of instance pool configurations across your account. See Instance events tab