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Azure Databricks release notes · April 2025

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  • Dashboard choropleth maps and AI forecast — Apr 24 · Azure · AI/BI Choropleth maps available: Choropleth maps are now available for dashboards, allowing users to visualize data across geographical regions with varying colors based on values such as population, income, or other metrics. See Choropleth map. AI Forecast on line charts: You can now
  • Genie prompt improvements and prompt matching — Apr 24 · Azure · AI/BI Distilled top-k prompt snippet: Replaced the original top-k prompt snippet with a shorter version (25% of the original token count) to reduce irrelevant context and improve LLM response accuracy. Clearer permissions warnings: Added a banner that explains when a user tries to acce
  • Dashboard custom dimensions and pivot table improvements — Apr 17 · Azure · AI/BI Custom dimensions: Authors can create custom dimensions on AI/BI dashboards. A new set of functions, including CASE WHEN statements, CONCAT, COALESCE, and others, are now supported. See What are custom calculations?. Customizable pivot table widths: Pivot tables now support custo
  • Genie example questions and table management — Apr 17 · Azure · AI/BI Example and follow-up questions: Genie now uses table metadata to automatically offer example and follow-up questions when users start exploring a Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space). You can still add your own sample questions. Improved response layout: Genie's response layout ha
  • End of support for legacy dashboards — Apr 10 · Azure · AI/BI You can no longer create or clone legacy dashboards using the UI or API. Databricks continues to address critical security issues and service outages, but recommends using AI/BI dashboards for all new development. To learn more about AI/BI dashboards, see Dashboards. For help mig
  • Dashboard source control and export fixes — Apr 10 · Azure · AI/BI Source control for dashboards: Dashboards can now be integrated with Databricks Git folders for collaboration and version control( Public Preview). See Version control dashboards with Git. Revert draft dashboards to the last published version: You can now discard changes to a dra
  • Genie feedback workflow and security enhancements — Apr 10 · Azure · AI/BI Revamped feedback flow in Genie: The Genie feedback workflow is now more interactive and responsive. When a response is incorrect, you can explain why it's wrong by choosing from a selection of common issues or entering your own explanation. You can regenerate the response based
  • Databricks SQL version 2025.15 is now available — Apr 10 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2025.15 is now available in the Preview channel. Review the following section to learn about new features, behavioral changes, and bug fixes.
  • Legacy dashboards support has ended — Apr 10 · Azure · SQL Official support for legacy dashboards has ended. You can no longer create or clone legacy dashboards using the UI or API. Databricks continues to address critical security issues and service outages, but recommends using AI/BI dashboards for all new development. To learn more ab
  • Dashboard publishing and visualization updates — Apr 03 · Azure · AI/BI Streamlined publish flow: All publish actions now embed the publishing user's warehouse permission. The only decision is whether to embed the data credential. Embedding credentials removes the previous requirement of all users requiring individual access to the selected warehouse
  • Genie API performance and space creation fixes — Apr 03 · Azure · AI/BI Genie API performance improvement: API response latency has been improved by removing unnecessary completion steps. Create Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) from Catalog Explorer fix: An issue with creating Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) from Catalog Explorer has been re
  • Custom autoformatting options for SQL queries — Apr 03 · Azure · SQL Customize autoformatting options for all of your SQL queries. See Custom format SQL statements.
  • Boxplot visualizations issue fixed — Apr 03 · Azure · SQL Fixed an issue where Databricks SQL boxplot visualizations with only a categorical x-axis did not display categories and bars correctly. Visualizations now render as expected.
  • CAN VIEW permission for SQL warehouses is in Public Preview — Apr 03 · Azure · SQL CAN VIEW permission is now in Public Preview. This permission allows users to monitor SQL warehouses, including the associated query history and query profiles. Users with CAN VIEW permission cannot run queries on the SQL warehouse without being granted additional permissions. Se