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  • Grok models will soon be available as pay-per-token foundation models — Jun 30 · AWS · Upcoming Grok models will soon be available as pay-per-token foundation models in Databricks Model Serving. See Supported foundation models on Model Serving.
  • MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta — Jun 30 · AWS · SQL 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.
  • Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jun 30 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in Preview — Jun 29 · AWS · SQL 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
  • SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available — Jun 29 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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
  • Customer-managed VPC will soon be required for classic workspaces — Jun 26 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Runtime 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Runtime 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 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Databricks Runtime 18: June 10, 2026 — Jun 10 · AWS · Runtime 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
  • Schedule deferred policy enforcement for all-purpose compute — Jun 10 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Zip. See Zip connector.
  • Genie renamed to Genie One — Jun 09 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Upcoming 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,
  • Databricks Runtime 18: June 8, 2026 — Jun 08 · AWS · Runtime 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
  • Monday.com managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jun 08 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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
  • UNIQUE constraint support is now in Public Preview — Jun 05 · AWS · SQL 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.
  • Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available — Jun 05 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · Product 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.
  • Databricks Runtime 18: June 4, 2026 — Jun 04 · AWS · Runtime 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
  • Dashboard enhancements — Jun 04 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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
  • Declarative Automation Bundles will soon default to use the direct deployment engine — Jun 03 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Pendo. See Pendo connector.
  • Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta) — Jun 02 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.