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Azure Databricks release notes · March 2026

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  • Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in additional regions — Mar 31 · Azure · Product Knowledge Assistant is now available in the following additional Azure regions: westeurope, northeurope, uksouth, and centralindia. Cross-geo processing must be enabled for uksouth and centralindia. Supervisor Agent is now available in the following additional Azure regions: west
  • New SQL editor default enablement and legacy SQL editor retirement — Mar 30 · Azure · Upcoming The new SQL editor has been generally available since October 2025. As part of the transition to the new editor, the following changes are planned: Starting in late May 2026: The new SQL editor will be enabled by default for all workspaces. The ability to turn off the feature at
  • Databricks Connector for Google Sheets updates — Mar 30 · Azure · Product The Databricks Connector for Google Sheets has been updated with a longer query execution timeout, UI improvements, and additional scheduled refresh limitations. See Databricks Connector for Google Sheets.
  • Agent Bricks now covers all Databricks AI capabilities — Mar 27 · Azure · Product The Agent Bricks page has expanded beyond declarative agents to serve as the umbrella for all Databricks AI capabilities.
  • Classification and Information Extraction are in Public Preview — Mar 27 · Azure · Product Two new UI experiences for document analysis are now in Public Preview: Classification: A visual UI for classifying documents into predefined categories. Configure and refine classification labels, preview results on sample documents, and then run classification at scale. Informa
  • ai_classify and ai_extract now support v2 signatures (Public Preview) — Mar 27 · Azure · Product The ai_classify and ai_extract AI Functions now support new v2 signatures with improved quality and performance, greater flexibility, and native composability with ai_parse_document to power end-to-end document processing workflows. See ai_classify function and ai_extract functio
  • Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is now available in Preview — Mar 26 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is now available in the Preview channel. Review the following section to learn about new features, behavioral changes, and bug fixes. Observation metric errors no longer fail queries Errors during observation metric collection no longer cause query
  • Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements — Mar 26 · Azure · AI/BI Share Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) with all account users: The share modal now includes an option to share your Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) with all account users. See Share a Genie Agent. SQL download settings for full query results: The APIs to download full query
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Mar 26 · Azure · AI/BI Legacy dashboard color palette setting removed: The workspace setting for the legacy dashboard color palette has been removed, as legacy dashboards are no longer supported. AI/BI workspace-level color palettes remain available and unchanged. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) des
  • Supervisor Agent is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers — Mar 25 · Azure · Product Supervisor Agent is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and HIPAA controls selected. Use Supervisor Agent to create a multi-agent supervisor system that orchestrates AI agents and tools to work together on complex tasks. See Use Su
  • Type widening is now generally available — Mar 25 · Azure · Product Type widening for Delta Lake tables is now generally available. Type widening allows you to change column data types to wider types such as INT to BIGINT or FLOAT to DOUBLE during ingestion without rewriting underlying data files. See Type widening.
  • Auto Loader supports automatic type widening (Public Preview) — Mar 25 · Azure · Product Auto Loader now supports automatic type widening with the new addNewColumnsWithTypeWidening schema evolution mode. This feature automatically widens data types (such as int to long or float to double) without requiring data rewrite or user intervention. Type widening is available
  • New fields in lineage system table entity metadata — Mar 25 · Azure · Product The entity_metadata struct in the system.access.table_lineage and system.access.column_lineage system tables now includes genie_space_id and alert_id fields. The genie_space_id field is populated when the lineage record originates from a Genie Agent querying data, and alert_id is
  • Dynamic parameters in the new SQL editor — Mar 24 · Azure · Product The new SQL editor now supports a Dynamic dropdown widget type for named parameter markers. Select a saved query to populate dropdown values, keeping the list current as your data changes. See Dynamic dropdown.
  • Connect external data sources to chat in Genie One (Beta) — Mar 23 · Azure · AI/BI You can now connect external data sources such as Google Drive or SharePoint to a chat conversation in Genie One, allowing chat to search your company documents when answering questions. Each user authenticates individually using their own credentials. You can also connect custom
  • Supervisor Agent supports long-running tasks — Mar 21 · Azure · Product Supervisor Agent now supports long-running task mode, which automatically breaks complex tasks into multiple request/response cycles using task continuation to avoid timeouts. See Supervisor Agent long-running tasks.
  • Changes to OpenSharing (formerly Delta Sharing) open recipient tokens — Mar 19 · Azure · Upcoming Based on customer feedback and the introduction of OpenSharing, this change has been postponed from July 1, 2026. The new transition date will be updated when available. No immediate action is required. Existing recipient URLs and tokens continue to work as they do today. OpenSha
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Mar 19 · Azure · AI/BI Date filter keyboard input: Fixed an issue where entering a date value via keyboard for relative date ranges failed to accept the input. Dashboard theme color palette: Fixed a bug where the visualization color palette was hidden when editing dashboard themes at the workspace leve
  • Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes — Mar 19 · Azure · AI/BI Inspect (Public Preview): Inspect is now in Public Preview. Inspect automatically improves standard Genie's accuracy by reviewing the initially generated SQL, authoring smaller SQL statements to verify specific aspects of the query, and generating improved SQL as needed. See Impr
  • Create alerts for anomaly detection in the Data Quality Monitoring UI (Beta) — Mar 19 · Azure · Product You can now create and view alerts for anomaly detection directly in the Azure Databricks Data Quality Monitoring UI. This feature is in Beta. See Alerts for anomaly detection.
  • AI Runtime is now in Public Preview — Mar 19 · Azure · Product Designed for deep learning workloads, AI Runtime brings GPU support to Databricks serverless compute. AI Runtime for single-node tasks is now in Public Preview. The distributed training API for multi-GPU workloads remain in Beta. See AI Runtime.
  • SQL alert task for jobs (Beta) — Mar 19 · Azure · Product You can now add a SQL alert task to your Azure Databricks jobs to evaluate Databricks SQL alerts as part of your workflows. SQL alert tasks enable automated condition checks and notifications within your data pipelines. See SQL alert task for jobs.
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.8.0 is available — Mar 18 · Azure · Product Databricks JDBC driver version 2.8.0 is now available for download. The new version includes the following features: Upgrades the Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) from version 1.7.36 to 2.0.13 and moves slf4j-api to the root package path to align with standard SLF4J usage.
  • Azure Databricks usage dashboard is now generally available — Mar 18 · Azure · Product The usage dashboard is now generally available. Account admins can import customizable, pre-built usage dashboards to monitor their Azure Databricks usage at the account and workspace levels. See Usage dashboards.
  • Databricks Apps supports uv for Python dependency management — Mar 17 · Azure · Product You can now use uv to manage Python dependencies in your Databricks apps using pyproject.toml and uv.lock. See Define Python dependencies with uv and Deployment logic.
  • Search in metric views fix — Mar 17 · Azure · Product Searching for measures and dimensions in the metric view overview page now returns correct results across paginated results and supports filtering by display name. See Unity Catalog metric views.
  • Lakebase databases as Databricks Apps resources — Mar 16 · Azure · Other You can now add Lakebase databases as resources for your Databricks app. See Add a Lakebase resource to a Databricks app.
  • Databricks Asset Bundles is now Declarative Automation Bundles — Mar 16 · Azure · Product Databricks Asset Bundles has been renamed to Declarative Automation Bundles. See Why was Databricks Asset Bundles renamed to Declarative Automation Bundles?.
  • Chat in Genie One (Beta) — Mar 13 · Azure · AI/BI Chat in Genie One is now available in Beta. Chat provides a unified, full-screen interface for talking to Genie. Genie routes your question to the most relevant Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) or directly answers your question agentically using available data and data assets.
  • Health indicators for tables in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview) — Mar 13 · Azure · Product You can now view health indicators for tables on schema and table overview pages in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview). Health indicators show a summary of each table's freshness and completeness status based on anomaly detection. See Anomaly detection.
  • ABAC policy functions now use snake_case naming — Mar 13 · Azure · Product ABAC policy tag functions now use snake_case naming ( has_tag, has_tag_value, has_column_tag, has_column_tag_value), consistent with other Azure Databricks SQL built-in functions. The camelCase forms ( hasTag, hasTagValue, hasColumnTag, hasColumnTagValue) continue to work for bac
  • Empty vector search endpoints no longer incur charges — Mar 13 · Azure · Product Vector search endpoints are now only charged after an index has been created, and 24 hours after the last index is deleted from the endpoint, the endpoint no longer incurs any charges. For more information, see AI Search cost management guide.
  • 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Beta) — Mar 13 · Azure · Product The 5X-Large cluster size for serverless and pro SQL warehouses is now available in Beta. For serverless SQL warehouses, 5X-Large is available in all supported regions. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. See Manage Azure Databricks preview
  • Dashboard enhancements and improvements — Mar 12 · Azure · AI/BI Dashboard embedding for external users is generally available: Embed AI/BI dashboards in external applications without requiring viewers to have Azure Databricks accounts. See What is embedding for external users?. Hide Databricks logo in embedded dashboards: Externally embedded
  • Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements — Mar 12 · Azure · AI/BI Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) management APIs are generally available: The CreateSpace, UpdateSpace, GenieGetSpace, GenieListSpaces, and GenieTrashSpace APIs are now generally available. See Use the Genie Agents API. API instruction length fix: Resolved a bug with the maximu
  • Account-level Genie One (Beta) — Mar 12 · Azure · AI/BI Account-level Genie One is now available in Beta. Users can now discover and interact with AI/BI dashboards, Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces), and Databricks Apps from all workspaces in their account from a single entry point. Account-level Genie One provides a unified homepa
  • Lakebase updates: OAuth role management and budget policies and tags — Mar 12 · Azure · Other Lakebase now includes the following features: OAuth roles: Create OAuth roles using the Lakebase UI or REST API, in addition to SQL. See Create Postgres roles. Budget policies and tags: Associate a serverless budget policy and add custom tags to your project for cost attribution
  • New Lakebase instances include autoscaling by default — Mar 12 · Azure · Other New Lakebase instances are now created with autoscaling compute, scale-to-zero, branching, and instant restore by default. This applies when you create instances using the UI, Database instance API, Terraform, or SDKs. See Autoscaling.
  • Data quality monitoring documentation moved to Data governance (Unity Catalog) — Mar 12 · Azure · Product The Data quality monitoring documentation has moved from Data guides to the Data governance (Unity Catalog) chapter.
  • Databricks Runtime 18: March 11, 2026 — Mar 11 · Azure · Runtime Behavioral changes Review the following changes, which take effect when clusters restart on this runtime. Observation metric errors: No longer cause query execution failures. Previously, errors in OBSERVE clauses (such as division by zero) could block or fail the entire query. No
  • Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now GA — Mar 11 · Azure · Product Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now generally available. See Databricks Runtime 18.1 and Databricks Runtime 18.1 for Machine Learning.
  • Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code — Mar 11 · Azure · Product Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code, with expanded agentic capabilities for autonomous, multi-step data tasks. Genie Code Agent mode is now generally available for data science, data engineering, and dashboard authoring. See Genie Code.
  • Databricks SQL pipelines support notifications and performance mode (Beta) — Mar 11 · Azure · Product Materialized views and streaming tables defined and scheduled in Databricks SQL now support failure notifications and serverless performance mode configuration in Beta. See Schedule refreshes.
  • Databricks Runtime 18: March 10, 2026 — Mar 10 · Azure · Runtime Error messages for scalar subqueries used with EXEC IMMEDIATE now identify the specific cause more clearly. Fixed a race condition in streaming checkpoint log compaction that could cause non-deterministic behavior in Structured Streaming queries. [Security fix] Operating system s
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (03/10) — Mar 10 · 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 18.0 Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS Databricks Runtime 17.2 Databricks Runtime 16.4
  • Workday HCM connector (Beta) — Mar 09 · Azure · Product The managed Workday HCM connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. Use this connector to ingest data from Workday Human Capital Management into Azure Databricks. See Workday HCM connector.
  • BI compatibility mode for metric views in Power BI (Beta) — Mar 09 · Azure · Product BI compatibility mode for metric views in Power BI is now available in Beta. You can query Azure Databricks metric views in Power BI using standard SQL aggregation functions by enabling BI compatibility mode when creating a connection. It automatically rewrites aggregate function
  • New resources for Databricks Apps — Mar 09 · Azure · Product You can now add other Databricks apps and Unity Catalog tables as resources for your Databricks app. App resources enable app-to-app communication, and table resources provide governed access to structured data. See Add a Databricks app resource to a Databricks app and Add a Unit
  • Multi-table transactions are now in Public Preview — Mar 09 · Azure · Product You can now group multiple SQL statements across multiple tables into a single atomic transaction using BEGIN ATOMIC... END; syntax. All changes succeed together or roll back together, ensuring data consistency across your operations. Multi-table transactions require catalog comm
  • Databricks Apps compute sizing support for compliance security profile standards — Mar 09 · Azure · Product Compute sizing for Databricks Apps now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Databricks and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. For a full list of supported compliance standards, see Compliance security pr
  • Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Public Preview) — Mar 09 · Azure · Product Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services such as Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase Autoscaling is now in Public Preview. See Configure inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services.
  • Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Mar 06 · Azure · Product Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite as a Databricks-hosted model. To access this model, use: Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token Query vision models Batch inference workloads using AI Functions
  • Serverless compute now available for IRAP and Canada Protected B workloads on Azure Databricks — Mar 06 · Azure · Product You can now use serverless compute for IRAP and Canada Protected B workloads. You must select environment version 5 for serverless to start with these compliance security profiles enabled. See Compliance security profile.
  • Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta) — Mar 06 · Azure · Product You can now configure endpoint telemetry to persist logs, traces, and metrics from custom model serving endpoints into Unity Catalog Delta tables using OpenTelemetry. This enables root cause analysis, application health monitoring, and compliance retention using standard SQL quer
  • Databricks Apps telemetry (Beta) — Mar 06 · Azure · Product You can now configure telemetry for your Databricks apps to collect traces, logs, and metrics and persist them to Unity Catalog tables using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) protocol. After you enable app telemetry, Databricks automatically captures system logs and usage events. See Conf
  • Dashboard enhancements and improvements — Mar 05 · Azure · AI/BI Embedded dashboard kebab menu: The Copy link to widget option is no longer shown in the kebab menu for embedded dashboards. Dashboard import warehouse ID fix: Importing a dashboard without a specified warehouse ID no longer clears the previously selected warehouse. End of life fo
  • Tree view of the workspace browser side panel (Public Preview) — Mar 05 · Azure · Product The workspace browser side panel now includes a tree view that provides a flexible, tree-based view of your workspace folder hierarchy. The tree view allows you to expand descendant folders, change the root of the tree, and navigate your workspace while keeping the tree steady. T
  • Lakebase is now generally available with compliance security profile — Mar 04 · Azure · Other Lakebase is now generally available for workspaces with the compliance security profile when the compliance standard is set to HIPAA, C5, TISAX, or None. See Lakebase compliance.
  • Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions — Mar 03 · Azure · Product Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions. For the full list of supported regions, see Features with limited regional availability.
  • Knowledge Assistant is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers — Mar 03 · Azure · Product Knowledge Assistant is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and HIPAA controls selected. Use Knowledge Assistant to create a chatbot that can answer questions about your documents and provide high-quality responses with citations. S
  • Lakebase now includes high availability — Mar 02 · Azure · Other Lakebase now includes high availability. High availability provides automatic failover from your primary compute instance to secondary compute instances distributed across availability zones, with no connection string changes required. See High availability.
  • Lakebase is now generally available on Azure — Mar 02 · Azure · Other Lakebase is now generally available on Azure, with autoscaling compute, scale-to-zero, branching, and instant restore. The GA release extends region support to 11 new Azure regions in addition to the existing eastus2, westeurope, and westus regions. New regions: australiaeast (Au
  • Managed OAuth flows for external MCP servers — Mar 02 · Azure · Product Databricks now provides managed OAuth flows for select external MCP servers, eliminating the need to register your own OAuth app or manage credentials. Supported providers include Glean MCP, GitHub MCP, Google Drive API, and SharePoint API. See Install an external MCP server.
  • Notebook tagging (Public Preview) — Mar 02 · Azure · Product You can now apply tags to notebooks to organize and categorize them for easier management. Notebooks also support governed tags, including certification and deprecation system tags, to indicate trust levels or lifecycle status directly within the notebook interface. See Apply tag
  • Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog — Mar 02 · Azure · Product You can now protect data in Unity Catalog catalogs with your own encryption keys using customer-managed keys (CMK). See Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog.
  • Schedule data refreshes in Google Sheets (Public Preview) — Mar 02 · Azure · Product You can now schedule automatic data refreshes in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis. See Schedule data refreshes in Google Sheets.
  • Connect to Azure Databricks from Microsoft Excel (Public Preview) — Mar 02 · Azure · Product The new Azure Databricks Excel Add-in is in Public Preview and allows you to connect Microsoft Excel to your workspace, import data from tables or Metric Views, execute SQL queries, and analyze data directly in Excel. See Connect to Azure Databricks from Microsoft Excel.
  • Update workspace network configuration to VNet injection is now GA — Mar 02 · Azure · Product You can now update the virtual network (VNet) configuration of an existing Azure Databricks workspace to migrate from a Azure Databricks-managed VNet to your own VNet (VNet injection). This feature is now generally available. See Update workspace network configuration.