AWS Databricks release notes · July 2026

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  • Web terminal on serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is in Public Preview — Jul 31 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Packaged clean rooms are now generally available — Jul 31 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product The OpenAI connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 30 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 30 · AWS · AI/BI Chat sharing: 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 supported…
  • Genie One enhancements — Jul 30 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Genie Code is now available on HIPAA compliance security profile workspaces with partner-powered AI features disabled — Jul 30 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Use Unity Gateway with your own Claude enterprise subscription — Jul 30 · AWS · Product Route Claude Code through Unity Gateway using an existing Claude Pro, Max, Enterprise, or Team subscription, at no additional model cost, while your organization keeps centralized governance, usage tracking, and access control.
  • Use Unity Gateway with your own Claude enterprise subscription — Jul 30 · AWS · Other Route Claude Code through Unity Gateway using an existing Claude Pro, Max, Enterprise, or Team subscription, at no additional model cost, while your organization keeps centralized governance, usage tracking, and access control.
  • Upcoming general availability of Unity Gateway — Jul 29 · AWS · Upcoming Unity Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon. Built on Unity Catalog, Unity Gateway extends governance to the runtime interactions between models, agents, MCP servers, and tools.
  • Automatic upgrades begin rolling out row tracking and Checkpoint V2 to existing tables — Jul 29 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available — Jul 28 · AWS · Product 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…
  • Unit testing for pipelines (Beta) — Jul 26 · AWS · Product You can now write and run Python unit tests for your Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow transformation logic directly in the Lakeflow Pipelines Editor.
  • Dedicated group clusters will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 24 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Product 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…
  • Governed tags system table is in Beta — Jul 24 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Git CLI commands in Git folders are now in Public Preview — Jul 24 · AWS · Product 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…
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (07/24) — Jul 24 · AWS · Product New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements.
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jul 24 · AWS · Product 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
  • Diagnose and fix Lakebase issues with Genie, using telemetry in Unity Catalog (Beta) — Jul 24 · AWS · Other 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.
  • Genie Agents enhancements — Jul 23 · AWS · AI/BI 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 the Agent mode API reference.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 23 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • C++ SDK for the Zerobus Ingest connector is now available in Beta — Jul 23 · AWS · Product 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 Zerobus Ingest.
  • Genie Code scheduled tasks are in Beta — Jul 23 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now generally available — Jul 23 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Databricks Runtime 19: July 23, 2026 — Jul 23 · AWS · Runtime 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.
  • Variant will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 22 · AWS · Upcoming 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…
  • Variant and Variant shredding are now generally available — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Transactions are now generally available — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens are now generally available — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Databricks-hosted sample datasets available in the samples catalog — Jul 22 · AWS · Product The sample datasets /databricks-datasets mounted to DBFS are now also available in the samples catalog as samples.databricks.datasets, made available through OpenSharing.
  • Override the REPLACE WHERE predicate for a single refresh — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Role-based access control (RBAC) is in Public Preview — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Lakeflow Designer support for compliance security profile standards — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Governance Hub is in Beta — Jul 22 · AWS · Product Governance Hub is in Beta. Governance Hub is a centralized, account-level UI in the account console for monitoring governance across your Databricks account.
  • Priority pay-per-token for Foundation Model APIs — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Automated setup for S3 external locations — Jul 22 · AWS · Product 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 and Genie Agents billed usage corrections — Jul 21 · AWS · AI/BI 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…
  • Warehouse-level statement timeouts (Beta) — Jul 21 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Reddit Ads connector is now available in Beta — Jul 21 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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…
  • Google Gemini 3.6 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jul 21 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Connect and govern any external model provider — Jul 17 · AWS · Product Connect and govern any external model provider (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, and newly released models like Meta's Muse Spark 1.1) through Unity Gateway.
  • Anthropic managed ingestion connector (Beta) — Jul 17 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Connect and govern any external model provider — Jul 17 · AWS · Other Connect and govern any external model provider (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, and newly released models like Meta's Muse Spark 1.1) through Unity Gateway.
  • Genie One enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 16 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 16 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 16 · AWS · AI/BI Git folders: 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.
  • MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 16 · AWS · Upcoming MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog tables will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-August 2026.
  • Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available — Jul 16 · AWS · Product 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.
  • MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now generally available — Jul 16 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired — Jul 16 · AWS · Product Google Gemini 3 Pro is retired. Gemini 3.1 Pro is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
  • Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027 — Jul 15 · AWS · AI/BI Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027. Budget controls do not apply during this time.
  • AI Search high QPS will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 15 · AWS · Upcoming 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…
  • Data Classification is now available by default for additional compliance standards — Jul 15 · AWS · Other Data Classification is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and either C5, TISAX, or IRAP controls selected.
  • Thinking Machine Labs Inkling now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview — Jul 15 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Genie One and Genie Agents usage is free through January 31, 2027 — Jul 15 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Data Classification is now available by default for additional compliance standards — Jul 15 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • ai_extract and ai_classify are now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 15 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Lakebase now provides a service level agreement (SLA) — Jul 15 · AWS · Other Lakebase now provides a Service Level Agreement (SLA), with Monthly Uptime Percentage commitments for endpoints in zone-redundant high availability mode and for single-compute endpoints. For details, see Lakebase SLA.
  • Query-based connectors in Lakeflow Connect will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 14 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Upcoming 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.
  • Allowlist partner platform IPs in context-based ingress control (Beta) — Jul 14 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Trigger.AvailableNow support for OpenSharing streaming (GA) — Jul 14 · AWS · Product 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…
  • Lakebase is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant — Jul 14 · AWS · Other Lakebase is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. For our SOC reports, please ask your Databricks account team or see Compliance.
  • Automatic upgrades will roll out more features to existing tables — Jul 13 · AWS · Upcoming 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.
  • View warehouse activity details (General Availability) — Jul 13 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Databricks-provided MCP Services will GA soon — Jul 10 · AWS · Upcoming 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 Gateway.
  • Secrets in Unity Catalog (Public Preview) — Jul 10 · AWS · Product 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 update notifications now post 3 days in advance — Jul 10 · AWS · Other To deliver Postgres version updates, security patches, and new features to your projects sooner, Lakebase has shortened the planned update notification window. Planned updates are now posted at least 3 days in advance, rather than 7.
  • Genie One enhancements — Jul 09 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Front-end Private Link for account-level Genie One (Beta) — Jul 09 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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…
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 09 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Change to default pipeline editor for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Jul 09 · AWS · Upcoming 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.
  • Strac connector (Beta) — Jul 09 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Protobuf tensor input for custom model serving endpoints (Public Preview) — Jul 09 · AWS · Product 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.
  • OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna now available as Databricks-hosted models — Jul 09 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Genie Agents now uses pay-as-you-go pricing — Jul 08 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Behavior changes for continuous jobs and pipelines — Jul 08 · AWS · Upcoming 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.
  • Object metadata column is now in Public Preview — Jul 08 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Zhipu AI GLM 5.2 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Jul 08 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Genie products now use pay-as-you-go pricing — Jul 08 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Serverless 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.
  • Standard performance mode is now supported for materialized view or streaming table refreshes in jobs — Jul 06 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Budgets are now generally available — Jul 06 · AWS · Product Budgets, including budgets for Unity Gateway, are now generally available. Budgets let admins define spending thresholds. For requests managed through Unity Gateway, including Genie interactions, admins can set additional per-user thresholds and overrides, with configurable…
  • Private Link for account-level resources (Beta) — Jul 06 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Genie One enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 02 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements — Jul 02 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Jul 02 · AWS · AI/BI 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.
  • Lakeflow Connect row filtering is now generally available — Jul 02 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Dashboard relationships (Public Preview) — Jul 01 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · Product The Veeva Vault connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
  • MySQL integrated CDC pipeline is now in Beta — Jul 01 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image now available as Databricks-hosted models — Jul 01 · AWS · Product 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.
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