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AWS Databricks release notes · August 2026

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  • Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column — Aug 17 · AWS · Upcoming The downstream_impact column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins September 7, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following week. Until the rollout reaches your workspace, you might still be able to query d
  • Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column — Aug 17 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta) — Aug 17 · AWS · Product Identity attributes are in Beta. You can now write Unity Catalog ABAC column mask policy conditions that target users by attributes synced from your identity provider, such as department or country, in addition to group membership. The has_identity_attribute_value and has_identit
  • Workiva connector (Beta) — Aug 14 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Upcoming 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 · AWS · Upcoming 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,
  • SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Aug 13 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 13 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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
  • Define business concepts with Pages (Beta) — Aug 12 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Serverless 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.
  • JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available — Aug 06 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 06 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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 · AWS · AI/BI 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
  • REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta) — Aug 05 · AWS · Product 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
  • Search and replace text across files — Aug 05 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · 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 LTS Databricks Runtime 18.2 Databricks Runtime 18.1 Databricks Runtime 17.3 LT
  • Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA — Aug 03 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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 · AWS · Product 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
  • Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027 — Aug 03 · AWS · AI/BI 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