AWS Databricks release notes · October 2026

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  • Run Lakeflow pipelines as a group — Oct 05 · AWS · Product You can now set a pipeline's run-as identity to an account group, in addition to a user or a service principal. Pipeline updates run with the group's permissions, so a team can own an automated pipeline without tying it to one person's account.
  • OpenJev (Qwen3.5 4B) is now available on Unity Gateway — Oct 02 · AWS · Product OpenJev (Qwen3.5 4B) is available as a pay-per-token model service. Use the TypeSafe System One API to evaluate yes or no, choice, and scoring questions and get structured answers and probabilities. See model availability by region.
  • JDBC Unity Catalog connections are now generally available — Oct 02 · AWS · Product JDBC Unity Catalog connections are now generally available on serverless compute, Databricks Runtime 19 and above, and SQL warehouses 2025.40 and above, including support for SSL certificates. OAuth M2M authentication remains in Beta. See JDBC connection.
  • Standard ai_extract now delivers higher-quality extraction — Oct 02 · AWS · Product The standard (default) mode for ai_extract now uses a new model checkpoint that is 2.3x faster while improving overall quality at no additional cost. See the ai_extract documentation.
  • Genie One enhancements — Oct 01 · AWS · AI/BI Text file uploads: You can now upload plaintext (.txt) files to a Genie One conversation, in addition to the other supported file types. See Upload a file.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Oct 01 · AWS · AI/BI Materialize SQL datasets (Beta): Dashboard materialization now covers SQL datasets in addition to local metric views, so you can materialize a dashboard's SQL datasets. See Dataset materialization in AI/BI dashboards.
  • LTAP Direct Writes is generally available — Oct 01 · AWS · Other LTAP Direct Writes is now generally available. It speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase by writing the initial load and full refreshes directly to the storage layer instead of through your compute endpoint, so large loads finish faster without competing with your…
  • Schedule automatic data refresh in the Databricks Excel Add-in (Public Preview) — Oct 01 · AWS · Product You can now schedule automatic refreshes of Databricks data imported into Microsoft Excel. Choose an interval or calendar schedule and the SQL warehouse that runs each refresh, then review recent runs from the Databricks Excel Add-in.
  • Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (ABAC) is now generally available — Oct 01 · AWS · Product Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (ABAC) is now generally available. Supported external engines can read Unity Catalog managed tables with ABAC policies, row filters, and column masks enforced by Databricks serverless compute.
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