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Azure Databricks release notes · December 2025

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  • Databricks Assistant Agent mode is now in Public Preview — Dec 23 · Azure · Product The Databricks Assistant Agent mode preview is now enabled by default for most customers. The agent can automate multiple steps. From a single prompt, it can retrieve relevant assets, generate and run code, fix errors automatically, and visualize results. It adds the ability to s
  • Single-use refresh tokens for OAuth applications — Dec 22 · Azure · Product You can now configure single-use refresh tokens for OAuth applications integrated with Azure Databricks. This security feature requires token rotation after each use, enhancing protection for user-to-machine authentication flows. See Single-use refresh tokens.
  • Update request parameters for Delta Sharing recipient audit log events — Dec 19 · Azure · Product For Delta Sharing recipients, deltaSharingProxy* audit log events now also include the catalog_name request parameter, in addition to share_name (previously named share). See OpenSharing recipient events.
  • Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Dec 19 · Azure · Product Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.
  • New Azure Databricks accounts will not have access to legacy features — Dec 19 · Azure · Product Azure Databricks accounts created after December 18, 2025 will not have access to certain legacy features such as access to DBFS root and mounts, Hive Metastore, and No-isolation shared compute. These accounts will exclusively use Unity Catalog for unified governance and enterpri
  • Dashboard enhancements and fixes — Dec 18 · Azure · AI/BI Boolean alias formatting: Boolean values now support alias formatting, allowing users to replace "true" and "false" with custom strings. Compact global filters: Reduced the size of global filters to save space. Relative date range options: Relative date range filters now include
  • Genie enhancements and fixes — Dec 18 · Azure · AI/BI Numeric column formatting: Numeric columns in tables are now formatted more effectively, including IDs, ZIP codes, and currency. File upload fix for CAN MANAGE users: Fixed an issue where CAN MANAGE users couldn't use the upload file feature. Entity matching indexing improvements
  • MySQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview) — Dec 18 · Azure · Product The fully-managed MySQL connector in Lakeflow Connect is in Public Preview. This connector enables incremental data ingestion from MySQL databases, including Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Google Cloud SQL for MySQL, and MySQL on EC2. See Con
  • Meta Ads connector (Beta) — Dec 18 · Azure · Product You can now ingest data from Meta Ads. See Set up Meta Ads as a data source.
  • View latest scheduled notebook job results — Dec 18 · Azure · Product Databricks notebooks can now show the latest scheduled notebook run directly in your notebook and notebook dashboards. You can also update the notebook with the latest run results. For more details, see View last successful run and update notebook.
  • Updated Lakeflow Jobs UI is generally available — Dec 18 · Azure · Product The Lakeflow Jobs UI has been updated to make job creation and editing simpler. See Lakeflow Jobs.
  • Context based ingress control is now in Public Preview — Dec 17 · Azure · Product Context-based ingress control is now in Public Preview. This feature enables account admins to set allow and deny rules that combine who is calling, from where they are calling, and what they can reach in Azure Databricks. Context-based ingress control ensures that only trusted c
  • Login required to download ODBC driver — Dec 17 · Azure · Product You must now log in to Databricks and accept license terms before downloading the Simba Apache Spark ODBC Driver. See Download and install the Databricks ODBC Driver. If you use Databricks on Azure Government, contact your account team to receive access to the driver.
  • Flexible node types are now generally available — Dec 17 · Azure · Product Flexible node types allow your compute resource to fall back to alternative, compatible instance types when your specified instance type is unavailable. This behavior improves compute launch reliability by reducing capacity failures during compute launches. See Improve compute la
  • Serverless compute is now available in Azure China North 3 — Dec 17 · Azure · Product Serverless compute for notebooks, jobs, pipelines, and SQL warehouses is now available in China North 3. See Serverless availability.
  • New resource types for Databricks Apps — Dec 17 · Azure · Product You can now add MLflow experiments, vector search indexes, user-defined functions (UDFs), and Unity Catalog connections as Databricks Apps resources. See Add resources to a Databricks app.
  • Confluence connector (Beta) — Dec 16 · Azure · Product The fully-managed Confluence connector in Lakeflow Connect enables you to ingest Confluence spaces, pages, attachments, blogposts, labels, and classification levels into Azure Databricks. See Configure OAuth U2M for Confluence ingestion.
  • PostgreSQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview) — Dec 16 · Azure · Product The fully-managed PostgreSQL connector in Lakeflow Connect is in Public Preview. This connector enables incremental data ingestion from PostgreSQL databases, including Amazon RDS PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL,
  • Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview — Dec 15 · Azure · Product You can now share tables, materialized views, and streaming tables to external Iceberg clients such as Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark. External Iceberg clients can query shared Delta tables with zero-copy access. For details, see Enable sharing to external Iceberg clients and
  • Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes — Dec 11 · Azure · AI/BI Sort by hidden measure fields: Users can now sort charts by a different measure field that does not visually appear on the bar chart. See Format axis settings. Map legend position control: Authors can now change map legend positions. Safari cross-filtering fix: Fixed an issue whe
  • Genie enhancements and fixes — Dec 11 · Azure · AI/BI Service Principal monitoring display: The user column in the Monitoring page now shows the Service Principal ID when a service principal is used, instead of displaying as empty. Genie API suggested questions fix: Fixed an issue where messages sent through the API didn't return su
  • Disable legacy features settings are now GA — Dec 11 · Azure · Product To help migrate accounts and workspaces to Unity Catalog, two admin settings that disable legacy features are now generally available: Disable legacy features: Account-level setting that disables access to DBFS, Hive Metastore, and No-isolation shared compute in new workspaces. D
  • Customizable SharePoint connector (Beta) — Dec 10 · Azure · Product The standard SharePoint connector offers more flexibility than the managed SharePoint connector. It allows you to ingest structured, semi-structured, and unstructured files into Delta tables with full control over schema inference, parsing options, and transformations. To get sta
  • NetSuite connector (Public Preview) — Dec 10 · Azure · Product You can now ingest data from the NetSuite2.com data source programmatically using the Azure Databricks API, the Databricks CLI, or an Azure Databricks notebook. See Configure NetSuite for ingestion into Azure Databricks.
  • Jira connector (Beta) — Dec 10 · Azure · Product The Jira connector in Lakeflow Connect enables you to ingest Jira issues, comments, and attachments metadata into Azure Databricks. See Configure Jira for ingestion.
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (Public Preview) — Dec 10 · Azure · Product The fully-managed Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector in Lakeflow Connect allows you to ingest data from Dynamics 365 applications like Sales, Customer Service, Finance & Operations, and more into Azure Databricks. See Configure data source for Microsoft Dynamics 365 ingestion.
  • Change owner for materialized views or streaming tables defined in Databricks SQL — Dec 10 · Azure · Product You can now change the owner for materialized views or streaming tables defined in Databricks SQL through Catalog Explorer. For materialized view details, see Configure standalone materialized views. For streaming table details, see Use standalone streaming tables.
  • Discover files in Auto Loader efficiently using file events — Dec 10 · Azure · Product Auto Loader with file events is now GA. With this feature, Auto Loader can discover files with the efficiency of notifications while retaining the setup simplicity of directory listing. This is the recommended way to use Auto Loader (and particularly file notifications) with Unit
  • ForEachBatch for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is available (Public Preview) — Dec 09 · Azure · Product You can now process streams in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow as a series of micro-batches in Python, using a ForEachBatch sink. The ForEachBatch sink is available in public preview. See Use ForEachBatch to write to arbitrary data sinks in pipelines.
  • Databricks Runtime 18.0 and Databricks Runtime 18.0 ML are in Beta — Dec 09 · Azure · Product Databricks Runtime 18.0 and Databricks Runtime 18.0 ML are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.1.0. The release includes JDK 21 as the default, new features for jobs and streaming, and library upgrades. See Databricks Runtime 18.0 (EoS) and Databricks Runtime 18.0 for Machine
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (12/09) — Dec 09 · 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
  • New columns in Lakeflow system tables (Public Preview) — Dec 09 · Azure · Product New columns are now available in the Lakeflow system tables to provide enhanced job monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities: jobs table: trigger, trigger_type, run_as_user_name, creator_user_name, paused, timeout_seconds, health_rules, deployment, create_time job_tasks table:
  • New token expiration policy for open Delta Sharing — Dec 08 · Azure · Product All new Delta Sharing open sharing recipient tokens are issued with a maximum expiration of one year from the date of creation. Tokens with an expiration period longer than one year or no expiration date can no longer be created. Existing open sharing recipient tokens issued befo
  • Vector Search reranker is now generally available — Dec 08 · Azure · Product The Vector Search reranker is now generally available. Reranking can help improve retrieval quality. For more information, see Use the reranker in a query.
  • Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes — Dec 04 · Azure · AI/BI Individual series labels: You can now enable labels for individual series, instead of all series on the dashboard at once. Fixed download format options: Resolved an issue where dashboard downloads only showed PNG format instead of multiple file formats (CSV, TSV, and Excel).
  • Genie Research Agent, benchmark, and answer improvements — Dec 04 · Azure · AI/BI Improved clarifying questions: Genie's ability to ask clarifying questions in cases of semantic ambiguity in the user's prompt has been improved. Streamlined Research Agent: The Research Agent (Beta) experience has been streamlined by simplifying the thinking trace and moving hyp
  • Built-in Excel file format support (Beta) — Dec 02 · Azure · Product Databricks now provides built-in support for reading Excel files. You can query Excel files directly using Spark DataFrames without external libraries. See Read and stream Excel files.