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Azure Databricks release notes · November 2025

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  • Dashboard visualization enhancements — Nov 27 · Azure · AI/BI Improved pivot table performance: Pivot table headers now render significantly faster with reduced scroll lag.
  • Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) limits and Research Agent improvements — Nov 27 · Azure · AI/BI Increased SQL snippets and JOIN relationship limit: The limit for SQL snippets and JOIN relationships in a Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) has been increased to 200. Research Agent starter questions: Research Agent (Beta) now displays starter questions to help users begin thei
  • Serverless workspaces are now available (Public Preview) — Nov 26 · Azure · Product Serverless workspaces are now in Public Preview. A serverless workspace is a workspace deployed in your Databricks account that comes pre-configured with serverless compute and default storage, providing a fully-managed, enterprise-ready SaaS experience. For more information, see
  • Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow stream progress metrics are generally available — Nov 25 · Azure · Product Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow support for querying the event log for metrics about the progress of a stream is now generally available. See Monitor pipeline streaming metrics.
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Nov 24 · Azure · Product Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 as a Databricks-hosted model. To access this model, use: Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token Query reasoning models Query vision models Batch inference workloads using AI Functions
  • Configure full refresh behavior for managed database connectors — Nov 21 · Azure · Product You can now schedule when full refresh snapshots occur and enable automatic full refresh to recover from unsupported schema changes. This applies to managed database connectors like SQL Server in Lakeflow Connect. See Configure full refresh behavior for database connectors.
  • Real-time collaboration in notebook cells, files, and SQL editor — Nov 21 · Azure · Product Real-time collaboration is now available in notebook cells, files, and the new SQL editor. Multiple users can edit the same cell simultaneously and can view each other's edits. For more information, see Collaborate using Databricks notebooks.
  • Serverless compute is now available in new regions — Nov 21 · Azure · Product Serverless compute for notebooks, jobs, pipelines, and SQL warehouses is now available in the following regions: australiasoutheast canadacentral mexicocentral norwayeast southafricanorth
  • Use Git CLI commands in Git folders (Beta) — Nov 21 · Azure · Product You can now run standard Git commands directly from the Databricks web terminal in Git folders. See Use Git CLI commands.
  • Dashboard visualization improvements and bug fixes — Nov 20 · Azure · AI/BI Counter visualization improvements: You can now use counters to track and compare metrics over time and show sparklines. To create a counter with a sparkline, select a main value and a date column. See Counter visualization. Configure filter application behavior: Dashboards now s
  • Genie APIs and Research Agent in Beta — Nov 20 · Azure · AI/BI Genie Create and Update APIs in Beta: Genie Create and Update APIs have been released to Beta. Get API has been updated to allow users to retrieve a serialized definition of the Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space). See the Genie API. Research Agent in Beta: Research Agent extends
  • Draft dashboards removed from Databricks One — Nov 20 · Azure · AI/BI Draft dashboards no longer displayed: Only published dashboards are now visible in Databricks One. This change ensures business users see finalized content that is relevant and reliable for their workflows.
  • Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out in Current — Nov 20 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2025.35.
  • Configure compute size for Databricks Apps (Public Preview) — Nov 20 · Azure · Product You can now configure the compute size for your Databricks apps to control CPU, memory, and cost based on your workload requirements. For more information, see Configure compute resources for a Databricks app.
  • Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (Public Preview) — Nov 20 · Azure · Product Azure Databricks now sends automatic email notifications to workspace users approximately 7 days before their personal access tokens expire. For more information, see Set the maximum lifetime of new personal access tokens.
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/18) — Nov 18 · Azure · 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 17.3 LTS Databricks Runtime 17.2 Databricks Runtime 17.1 Databricks Runtime 17.0
  • Add Azure Databricks Genie MCP server to Azure AI Foundry (Public Preview) — Nov 18 · Azure · Product You can now add Azure Databricks Genie as a tool in Azure AI Foundry, enabling your AI agents to connect to Genie Agents and query data. This integration allows Azure AI Foundry agents to connect and use the insights of your Azure Databricks Genie Agents. For more information, se
  • Jobs can now be triggered on source view update — Nov 17 · Azure · Product Table update triggers for jobs now support views as a source, when the view references supported table types. See Trigger jobs when source tables are updated.
  • Delta Sharing views automatically permitted in serverless network policies — Nov 17 · Azure · Product Delta Sharing views are now permitted when using serverless network policies, regardless of storage location alignment between shared tables and view dependencies. This removes the previous limitation and simplifies network policy configuration for Delta Sharing workloads. See Ma
  • ABAC-secured assets shared using Delta Sharing is in Public Preview — Nov 17 · Azure · Product Applying attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies to tables and schemas shared through Delta Sharing is now in Public Preview. However, recipients can't apply ABAC policies on shared streaming tables or materialized views. See Add tables and schemas secured by ABAC policies
  • Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview — Nov 14 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL alerts: The latest version of Databricks SQL alerts, with a new editing experience, is now in Public Preview. See Databricks SQL alerts.
  • Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview — Nov 14 · Azure · Product The latest version of Databricks SQL alerts, with a new editing experience, is now in Public Preview. See Databricks SQL alerts.
  • Improved full refresh flow for managed database connectors — Nov 14 · Azure · Product Full refresh operations for managed database connectors (like SQL Server) now reduce downtime by delaying the table refresh until after the snapshot is completed. During the snapshot process, destination streaming tables remain available with their existing data. New inserts, del
  • Connect Genie Agents to Microsoft Copilot Studio (Public Preview) — Nov 14 · Azure · Product Connecting Azure Databricks Genie Agents as tools in Microsoft Copilot Studio agents is in Public Preview. To use this feature, enable the Managed MCP Servers preview in your workspace and add your Genie Agent as a tool when configuring a Copilot Studio agent. See Use Azure Datab
  • Dashboard search and embedding enhancements — Nov 13 · Azure · AI/BI Enhanced search functionality: Users can now search over dashboard names, page names, widget titles and descriptions, dataset names, and their queries. Dataset queries are searchable only from the workspace search bar. Ask Genie button for embedded dashboards: When viewers access
  • Genie navigation and accuracy improvements — Nov 13 · Azure · AI/BI Fixed back navigation error: Resolved a bug where clicking the browser back button while viewing a Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) would result in an error. Fixed entity matching documentation link: Fixed a broken link to the description of entity matching (previously value di
  • TISAX compliance controls (Public Preview) — Nov 13 · Azure · Product TISAX compliance controls provide enhancements that help you with compliance for your workspace. TISAX (Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange) is an assessment and exchange mechanism defined by the ENX Association for the German automotive industry, based on ISO/IEC 27
  • SFTP connector (Public Preview) — Nov 13 · Azure · Product The SFTP connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview) extends Auto Loader functionality to ingest files from SFTP servers. See Ingest files from SFTP servers.
  • Convert foreign tables to Unity Catalog managed or external tables (Public Preview) — Nov 13 · Azure · Product You can now convert foreign tables from external catalogs (such as Hive Metastore or AWS Glue) to Unity Catalog managed or external tables while retaining table history and configurations. Use ALTER TABLE SET MANAGED to convert to managed tables with MOVE (disable source access)
  • JDBC Unity Catalog connection in Beta — Nov 13 · Azure · Product Azure Databricks now supports connecting to external databases using JDBC with Unity Catalog connections in Beta. You can use a JDBC Unity Catalog connection to read and write to a data source with the Spark Data Source API or Azure Databricks Remote Query SQL API. Key benefits i
  • Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has been renamed to Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines — Nov 12 · Azure · Product Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has been renamed to Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines. See Spark Declarative Pipelines.
  • Migrate Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition (Public Preview) — Nov 07 · Azure · Product The migration tool for migrating Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition is now available.
  • Dashboard filter and counter enhancements — Nov 06 · Azure · AI/BI Per-widget filter enhancements: Per-widget filters now support date ranges, relative date ranges, and number filters. Metric view metadata support: AI/BI dashboards now consume Unity Catalog metadata from metric views, including formatting and display name. Horizontal chart scrol
  • Genie visualization and query result improvements — Nov 06 · Azure · AI/BI Text explanations for empty results: Genie now includes text explanations of query results when query results are empty. Improved auto-generated charts: Visualizations now use query result metadata for higher-quality auto-generated charts. Improved date formatting: The process fo
  • SQL Editor visualization fix — Nov 06 · Azure · SQL Fixed tooltip display issue: Resolved an issue where tooltips were hidden behind the legend in Notebook and SQL Editor visualizations.
  • SAP BDC connector for Azure Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing — Nov 06 · Azure · Product You can now share data between different cloud environments using the SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Azure Databricks. See Share data between SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and Azure Databricks.
  • List MCP servers in Azure Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview) — Nov 06 · Azure · Product Azure Databricks Marketplace now supports listing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Providers can list MCP servers to distribute AI tools and other Azure Databricks users can install MCP servers from Marketplace to connect AI agents to external data sources, SaaS tools, and d
  • New MCP server tab — Nov 06 · Azure · Product The new MCP Servers tab in the workspace shows your managed and external MCP servers, and a curated list of MCP servers available to install from Azure Databricks Marketplace. See MCPs and agent tools.
  • C5 and K-FSI compliance standards (Public Preview) — Nov 06 · Azure · Product C5 and K-FSI compliance standards are now available in Public Preview. C5 is a German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) standard for cloud service providers, and K-FSI ensures compliance with Korean financial regulations. See Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalo
  • Updated tag search syntax in workspace search — Nov 05 · Azure · Product The workspace search syntax for searching tables and views by tag has been updated. To search by both tag key and value, use the syntax tag::. Previously, the syntax was to omit tag: when searching by both key and value. To search by tag key alone, continue using tag:. See Use ta
  • Serverless notebook tasks can now use jobs environment — Nov 05 · Azure · Product The ability to use a job environment in serverless notebook tasks is now generally available, allowing you to use the notebook's environment or select a specific job environment. Previously, serverless notebook tasks always inherited the serverless environment from the notebook.
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/04) — Nov 04 · Azure · 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 17.3 LTS Databricks Runtime 17.2 Databricks Runtime 17.1 Databricks Runtime 17.0
  • Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct now available in Beta — Nov 04 · Azure · Product Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3-Next 80B A3B Instruct as a Databricks-hosted model in the eastus2 region. This model can be accessed using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token and also supports function calling and structured outputs. See Function callin
  • Attribute-based access control (ABAC) now in Public Preview — Nov 03 · Azure · Product Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now in Public Preview. ABAC is a data governance model that provides flexible, scalable, and centralized access control by defining policies based on governed tags applied to data assets. In Public Preview, ABAC includes two key changes fr
  • Audit logs for request-for-access events are now emitted — Nov 03 · Azure · Product Actions related to access request destinations (Public Preview) are now emitted in the audit logs. For more details, see Request for access events.
  • Disable DBFS root and mounts workspace setting is GA — Nov 03 · Azure · Product The workspace setting that allows workspace admins to disable access to the Databricks Filesystem (DBFS) root and mounts in existing Azure Databricks workspaces is now generally available. See Disable access to DBFS root and mounts in your existing Azure Databricks workspace.
  • JAR tasks are now supported on serverless compute — Nov 03 · Azure · Product You can now run JAR jobs on serverless compute. See JAR task for jobs.