Azure Databricks releases: Aug 2026

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Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is now available in Preview — Aug 31 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is now available in the Preview channel. See features in 2026.32.
Lakebase now provides a service level agreement (SLA) — Aug 31 · Azure · Other Lakebase now provides a Service Level Agreement (SLA), with a 99.99% Monthly Uptime Percentage for Lakebase Endpoints configured in zone-redundant high availability mode and a 99.9% Monthly Uptime Percentage for Single Compute Lakebase Endpoints.
Pipeline events system table is in Beta — Aug 31 · Azure · Product The pipeline_events system table is in Beta. This table records Lakeflow pipelines event log entries for pipelines in your account, capturing lifecycle transitions, flow progress, data quality metrics, errors, and other operational data across all pipelines and workspaces in a…
ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and services — Aug 31 · Azure · Product ABAC GRANT policies for models, model services, model provider services, and model context protocol (MCP) services are now generally available.
Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Aug 29 · Azure · Other On Azure Databricks, GLM 5.3 is available as a Databricks-hosted model in supported US regions through ADI Services, provided by Databricks.
Restrict service principal OAuth secrets to specific API scopes — Aug 29 · Azure · Product You can now restrict a service principal's OAuth secret to specific API scopes, such as sql or jobs, instead of all APIs. A token minted from a scoped secret can't exceed those scopes, which limits the impact of a leaked secret.
Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Aug 29 · Azure · Product On Azure Databricks, GLM 5.3 is available as a Databricks-hosted model in supported US regions through ADI Services, provided by Databricks.
Monitor and cap external provider costs — Aug 28 · Azure · Other Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Azure Databricks-provided models.
Unity Catalog Skills (Beta) — Aug 28 · Azure · Product You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill) that follows the SKILL.md specification, so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same…
Monitor and cap external provider costs — Aug 28 · Azure · Product Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Azure Databricks-provided models.
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 27 · Azure · AI/BI Hide pages in published dashboards: Dashboard authors can now hide a page so that it doesn't appear when the dashboard is published, while keeping it in the dashboard for authors. See Hide a page in published dashboards.
Genie Agents enhancements — Aug 27 · Azure · AI/BI Agent mode APIs: The Agent mode APIs for Genie Agents are now generally available. Run Agent mode programmatically to integrate it into your own applications, such as chatbots, scheduled reports, and internal tools. See the Agent mode API reference.
Genie One enhancements — Aug 27 · Azure · AI/BI Open Unity Catalog tables in Genie: You can now open Unity Catalog tables directly in Genie without navigating to Catalog Explorer. See Open tables. Tables in chat: Opening a table from chat keeps you in the conversation.
Lakeflow Designer August Release — Aug 27 · Azure · Product The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version-history experience.
Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta) — Aug 27 · Azure · Product You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job. Genie Code runs your prompt autonomously. It can read upstream task outputs and call tools as needed. The task returns a link to the resulting Genie Code conversation with its response.
Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview) — Aug 27 · Azure · Product Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime. Now in Public Preview, it generates distributed training code, resolves environment and dependency issues, and debugs GPU and distributed workload failures.
Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview) — Aug 27 · Azure · Product You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta-format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue. Providers add foreign Delta tables to a share, and recipients access the shared data in read-only format.
Atlassian Audit Logs connector (Beta) — Aug 27 · Azure · Product The Atlassian Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
AI Functions REST API is now generally available — Aug 27 · Azure · Product You can now call ai_parse_document, ai_extract, and ai_classify through the AI Functions REST API. See intelligent document processing for more details.
Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway — Aug 26 · Azure · Other On Azure Databricks, Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is available through ADI Services with unified governance through Unity Gateway, for multimodal reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads.
Genie Agents enhancements — Aug 26 · Azure · AI/BI Chat mode in Genie One: You can now submit prompts to a Genie Agent in Chat mode from Genie One. Cancel Agent mode responses through the API: You can now cancel in-progress Agent mode responses through the API. See the Cancel Genie agent response API.
Zerobus Ingest into streaming tables is now generally available — Aug 26 · Azure · Product Ingesting into streaming tables with Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. Writing to a streaming table works the same way as writing to a managed Delta table, with the same limits and quotas. See Create or identify the target table.
Query text is now masked by default in system tables and APIs — Aug 26 · Azure · Product Because SQL statements can contain sensitive information, Azure Databricks now masks query text in the following places: statement_text in system.query.history returns. query_text in the Query History API and the List Queries API returns.
Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway — Aug 26 · Azure · Product On Azure Databricks, Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is available through ADI Services with unified governance through Unity Gateway, for multimodal reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads.
The Genie One desktop app for macOS is in Beta — Aug 25 · Azure · Product The Genie One desktop app is now in Beta. The native macOS app opens Genie One on your desktop instead of in a browser tab, so business users can chat with data in natural language, work with their threads and documents, and use Genie Agents without a browser.
Anysphere Audit Logs connector (Beta) — Aug 25 · Azure · Product The Anysphere Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the Anysphere (Cursor) Admin API to incrementally ingest team audit-log events into Azure Databricks.
ai_prep_search supports plain text and markdown input (Beta) — Aug 25 · Azure · Product The ai_prep_search() SQL function now accepts plain text and markdown STRING content in addition to the structured VARIANT output of ai_parse_document.
Secrets in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Aug 24 · Azure · Upcoming Secrets in Unity Catalog will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late September 2026. Store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog.
Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is rolling out in Current — Aug 24 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.32.
Unity Gateway now supports Provisioned Throughput — Aug 24 · Azure · Other Govern Provisioned Throughput (PT) traffic through Unity Gateway, bringing PT models under the same access controls, usage tracking, rate limits, payload logging, and guardrails as other model traffic. See AI governance with Unity Gateway.
Postgres minor version updates — Aug 24 · Azure · Other Lakebase updated its supported Postgres versions to 16.15, 17.11, and 18.6. These minor releases bring you the latest upstream Postgres fixes and security patches. When a new minor version is available, Lakebase applies it the next time your compute restarts. See Manage updates.
Genie Code is now available in the Lakebase project UI — Aug 24 · Azure · Other A new Genie entry in the Lakebase project sidebar opens Genie Code, the agentic Azure Databricks assistant, scoped to your Lakebase project.
Databricks Runtime 19: August 24, 2026 — Aug 24 · Azure · Runtime Library and environment updates Updated Java from Zulu21.50+19-CA to Zulu21.52+15-CA. Updated Java libraries: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-annotations from 2.21 to 2.22 com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-core from 2.21.2 to 2.22.1 com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-databind…
Verkada connector (Beta) — Aug 24 · Azure · Product The Verkada connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests organization audit logs and access users from your Verkada organization into Azure Databricks.
Unity Gateway now supports Provisioned Throughput — Aug 24 · Azure · Product Govern Provisioned Throughput (PT) traffic through Unity Gateway, bringing PT models under the same access controls, usage tracking, rate limits, payload logging, and guardrails as other model traffic. See AI governance with Unity Gateway.
Private network gateway is in Private Preview — Aug 24 · Azure · Product Private network gateway is in Private Preview. A private network gateway connects Azure Databricks serverless compute to resources in your VNet, on-premises systems, and the internet through a single managed gateway, reusing your existing network connectivity configuration (NCC).
Connect to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams with your workspace URL (Public Preview) — Aug 24 · Azure · Product When you sign in to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams, you can now enter your workspace URL instead of a server hostname to connect to your Azure Databricks account. See Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams.
The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta — Aug 24 · Azure · Product The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta in Unity Catalog. These privileges are least-privilege alternatives to MODIFY that let you grant write access to a table's data without also granting the ability to change its schema or other metadata.
Upcoming end of life for the Supervisor API — Aug 21 · Azure · Upcoming The Supervisor API (Beta) reaches end of life on September 30, 2026. After that date, the API is no longer available. Azure Databricks recommends migrating to custom agents on Databricks Apps. See Supervisor API (deprecated).
Consumer access to query Unity Gateway services will become generally available — Aug 21 · Azure · Upcoming Querying Unity Gateway model services and model provider services with Consumer access is currently opt-in through the Consumer access to Unity Gateway Public Preview.
Monitor all AI activity with the unified trace table (Beta) — Aug 21 · Azure · Other The unified trace table is in Beta. It captures every request and response across your Unity Gateway services into one Unity Catalog table in OpenTelemetry format, giving you a single place to monitor, debug, secure, and audit all AI activity.
Lakebase adds compliance security profile standards on Azure — Aug 21 · Azure · Other Lakebase now supports additional compliance security profile standards on Azure: ISMAP, IRAP ( australiaeast), and UK Cyber Essentials Plus ( uksouth, ukwest). See Compliance.
Monitor all AI activity with the unified trace table (Beta) — Aug 21 · Azure · Product The unified trace table is in Beta. It captures every request and response across your Unity Gateway services into one Unity Catalog table in OpenTelemetry format, giving you a single place to monitor, debug, secure, and audit all AI activity.
Default Python package repositories are GA for Lakeflow pipelines and classic compute — Aug 21 · Azure · Product Configuring default Python package repositories is now generally available for Lakeflow pipelines and for classic compute created via the UI and API. Workspace admins can set private or authenticated registries as the workspace default for these workloads.
Context attributes in ABAC column mask and row filter policies (Beta) — Aug 21 · Azure · Product Context attributes for attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies are in Beta. You can now write Unity Catalog ABAC policy conditions that target the context of a request, such as which OAuth application is calling ( request.client_id) and whether the request runs on behalf…
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 20 · Azure · AI/BI Import from Power BI and Tableau: Importing reports and data models from Power BI and Tableau with Genie Code ( /importBI) is now generally available. See Import BI files using Genie Code.
Genie Agents enhancements — Aug 20 · Azure · AI/BI Download visualizations API in more Azure regions: The download visualizations API is now available in additional Azure regions. This feature is in Beta. For the list of supported regions, see Agent features availability. For API details, see the Conversation API reference.
Genie One enhancements — Aug 20 · Azure · AI/BI Scheduled task consistency: Scheduled tasks now look up past runs to keep run-to-run outputs consistent. See Scheduled tasks. Export documents to PDF: You can now export Genie One documents to PDF. See Documents in Genie One.
Salesforce connector mTLS authentication is now generally available — Aug 20 · Azure · Product Mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for the Salesforce connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. With mTLS, Azure Databricks and Salesforce exchange and verify client certificates to establish two-way trust, combined with the OAuth client credentials flow.
Performance mode now applies to materialized view and streaming table refreshes from dbt tasks — Aug 20 · Azure · Product The job-level performance mode setting now propagates to materialized view and streaming table refreshes triggered by dbt tasks. You can set these jobs to Standard mode to optimize for cost, or keep the default Performance-optimized mode for faster startup.
Write data back to Azure Databricks from Google Sheets — Aug 20 · Azure · Product The Databricks Connector for Google Sheets now lets you write data from Google Sheets back to a Unity Catalog table. You can create a new table or overwrite an existing table without leaving Google Sheets. See Write data back to Azure Databricks from Google Sheets.
Role-based access control (RBAC) will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Aug 19 · Azure · Upcoming Role-based access control (RBAC) will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-September 2026. RBAC lets users assume a role in Azure Databricks.
Role-based access control (RBAC) is generally available — Aug 19 · Azure · Product Role-based access control (RBAC) is now generally available. RBAC lets users assume a role in Azure Databricks. When a user assumes a role, only that role's permissions apply, rather than the user's accumulated permissions. This enables exclusive access.
Choose an effort level in Genie Code — Aug 19 · Azure · Product You can now set the effort level for Genie Code to balance response quality and cost. Auto (default) gives you the highest quality responses. For simpler tasks, select Low to use a faster, lower-cost model. See Select a level of effort.
ai_extract precision mode is now generally available — Aug 19 · Azure · Product You can now use ai_extract precision mode for advanced extraction workloads, including multi-page documents, schemas with 50 or more fields, many extracted items per document, and complex conditional field logic. See ai_extract function.
User authorization for Databricks Apps will soon be available for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Aug 18 · Azure · Upcoming In late September 2026, user authorization for Databricks Apps will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
Lakebase available in four new Azure regions — Aug 18 · Azure · Other Lakebase is now available in four additional Azure regions: North Central US ( northcentralus), France Central ( francecentral), Germany West Central ( germanywestcentral), and East Asia ( eastasia). For the full list of supported regions, see Region availability.
Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column — Aug 17 · Azure · Upcoming The downstream_impact column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins September 7, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following week.
Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column — Aug 17 · Azure · Upcoming The root_cause_analysis column in the data quality monitoring results system table is being deprecated. Deprecation begins August 18, 2026, and rolls out gradually across regions over the following several days.
Manage project environments with %uv commands — Aug 17 · Azure · Product You can now use %uv init, %uv add, and %uv sync in serverless notebooks running environment version 5 or above to create a Python project, add dependencies, and sync its environment. See Create reproducible project environments with %uv.
Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta — Aug 17 · Azure · Product Restore the Python variables and Spark session from a serverless compute job run into a new interactive notebook, so you can debug a failure or explore results without rerunning the job.
Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta) — Aug 17 · Azure · Product Identity attributes are in Beta. You can now write Unity Catalog ABAC column mask policy conditions that target users by attributes synced from your identity provider, such as department or country, in addition to group membership.
Lakebase Postgres APIs are now generally available — Aug 14 · Azure · Other Programmatic management of Lakebase Postgres is now generally available through the REST API, Databricks CLI, and Databricks SDKs (Python, Java, Go). These interfaces support operations for projects, branches, endpoints, databases, roles, credentials, synced tables, and catalogs.
Workiva connector (Beta) — Aug 14 · Azure · Product The Workiva connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit activity, users, and roles from your Workiva organization into Azure Databricks.
Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available — Aug 14 · Azure · Product Sharing managed Iceberg tables in Databricks-to-Databricks sharing and open sharing is now generally available. Providers can now also share managed Iceberg tables to external Iceberg clients. See Add managed Iceberg tables to a share and Read shared managed Iceberg tables.
Genie Code supports file uploads — Aug 14 · Azure · Product You can now upload files to Genie Code to use as context for the current chat. See Attach files.
Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts — Aug 13 · Azure · Upcoming OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is generally available and on by default for most accounts. For most Enterprise or Premium tier accounts, Azure Databricks will enable it automatically in mid-September 2026, and by early 2027 for the rest.
Expanded networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect — Aug 13 · Azure · Upcoming Azure Databricks will be expanding networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect. Today, data providers are billed for data transfer (egress) when recipients access shared data through SecureConnect.
OpenSharing SecureConnect will be available by default for all accounts — Aug 13 · Azure · Upcoming OpenSharing SecureConnect is generally available. Azure Databricks will make it available by default for accounts on the Premium plan in mid-September 2026, and by early 2027 for the rest.
Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway — Aug 13 · Azure · Other Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway for fast, cost-efficient everyday tasks. Access it through the same governed API as other models, with centralized permissions, guardrails, spend controls, and observability, and switch models without changing application…
Block or redact sensitive data in requests and responses — Aug 13 · Azure · Other The Sensitive Data Detection guardrail (Beta) detects structured sensitive data (such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, IBANs, and phone numbers) and either blocks the interaction or redacts the matched values in place.
Smart Routing: Cut AI costs by routing each task to the right model — Aug 13 · Azure · Other Smart Routing (Beta) automatically picks the right model and agent harness for each task, based on complexity, permissions, and budget. It shifts routine work to lower-cost models and reserves frontier models for hard problems, and every routing decision is visible and auditable.
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 13 · Azure · AI/BI Remove duplicate subscribers: Dashboard authors can now remove duplicate subscribers from a dashboard schedule. See Manage scheduled dashboard updates and subscriptions.
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 13 · Azure · AI/BI Content search for attached volumes (Beta): For better latency and accuracy when answering questions across larger volumes, you can now optionally enable content search on attached volumes. Content search indexes and prepares your files for the Genie Agent.
Genie One enhancements — Aug 13 · Azure · AI/BI Ontology snippets now available to all customers (Public Preview): Ontology snippets in the Genie Ontology are now available to all customers. Customers no longer need to request access. See Genie Ontology.
SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Aug 13 · Azure · Product The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs now supports all compliance security profile standards that Azure Databricks supports and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
Smart Routing: Cut AI costs by routing each task to the right model — Aug 13 · Azure · Product Smart Routing (Beta) automatically picks the right model and agent harness for each task, based on complexity, permissions, and budget. It shifts routine work to lower-cost models and reserves frontier models for hard problems, and every routing decision is visible and auditable.
Block or redact sensitive data in requests and responses — Aug 13 · Azure · Product The Sensitive Data Detection guardrail (Beta) detects structured sensitive data (such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, IBANs, and phone numbers) and either blocks the interaction or redacts the matched values in place.
SendGrid connector (Beta) — Aug 13 · Azure · Product The SendGrid connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect is generally available — Aug 13 · Azure · Product OpenSharing SecureConnect is now generally available. Providers can share data from cloud storage behind a firewall or private endpoint without adding each recipient's network to an allowlist, and recipients access the shares using their existing OpenSharing setup.
Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta) — Aug 13 · Azure · Product You can now ingest data from a Gmail mailbox into Azure Databricks using the managed Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect. The connector ingests messages, labels, drafts, filters, and profile data using a Google service account, and syncs the messages and message_labels tables…
Identity attributes (Beta) — Aug 13 · Azure · Product Identity attributes are in Beta. Azure Databricks can store nine IdP-sourced attributes, such as title, department, and cost center, on account users, so they can be referenced in Unity Catalog ABAC column-masking policies.
Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta) — Aug 13 · Azure · Product The Tags page in Governance Hub is now in Beta. The Tags page provides a centralized view of how tags are applied across your account. It summarizes governed tag usage, shows recent tag assignments and their sources, and surfaces recommendations to fix invalid tag values and add…
Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway — Aug 13 · Azure · Product Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway for fast, cost-efficient everyday tasks. Access it through the same governed API as other models, with centralized permissions, guardrails, spend controls, and observability, and switch models without changing application…
Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available — Aug 13 · Azure · Product OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is now generally available and is being enabled by default for accounts on a rolling basis.
Cross-workspace access for serverless (Beta) — Aug 13 · Azure · Product You can now control serverless network traffic between Azure Databricks workspaces. Account admins use cross-workspace access to set which source workspaces can reach a workspace (ingress) and which destination workspaces a workspace's serverless workloads can send traffic to…
Custom URL access to workspaces over inbound Private Link (Beta) — Aug 13 · Azure · Product You can now use the general_access private endpoint to reach Azure Databricks workspaces through inbound Private Link with your custom URL (.azuredatabricks.net).
Define business concepts with Pages (Beta) — Aug 12 · Azure · Product You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition. Part of Unity Catalog semantics, Pages form the human-modeled layer of the Genie Ontology that Genie One draws on to ground its answers. See Pages.
Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta — Aug 12 · Azure · Product You can now build custom trace views in the Azure Databricks MLflow trace explorer. Describe the layout you want in plain language, and Genie generates a reusable view that surfaces the trace fields, metrics, and feedback controls most relevant to your review workflow.
Google Search Console connector is available in Beta — Aug 12 · Azure · Product The managed Google Search Console connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use it to ingest search performance data, site metadata, and sitemap information from Google Search Console into Azure Databricks.
Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta) — Aug 12 · Azure · Product You can now ingest data from Glean into Azure Databricks using the managed Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect. The connector ingests company-wide usage insights for search, Assistant, and agents, along with the shortcuts (go links) defined in your Glean deployment, using a Glean…
Amplitude connector (Beta) — Aug 12 · Azure · Product The Amplitude connector in Lakeflow Connect is now in Beta. Ingest product analytics event data along with event, cohort, and annotation metadata from Amplitude. See Amplitude connector.
Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is now available in Preview — Aug 11 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is now available in the Preview channel. Review the following section to learn about new features and improvements.
ABAC GRANT policies now cover Unity Gateway resource types (Beta) — Aug 11 · Azure · Other Attribute-based access control (ABAC) GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition.
REPLACE USING flows for standalone streaming tables (Beta) — Aug 11 · Azure · Product REPLACE USING flows are now available for standalone streaming tables in Beta. Use a REPLACE USING flow when your source is a series of partial snapshots keyed by column.
ABAC GRANT policies now cover Unity Gateway resource types (Beta) — Aug 11 · Azure · Product Attribute-based access control (ABAC) GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition.
Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta — Aug 11 · Azure · Product ABAC GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition. These policies were previously only available for models, but now also support model services, model provider services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and…
Lakebase now supports PCI-DSS and HITRUST — Aug 10 · Azure · Other Lakebase is now PCI-DSS and HITRUST compliant for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. On AWS, this support is limited to the us-east-1 region. On Azure, all regions where Lakebase is available are supported. See Data protection.
Databricks Runtime 19: August 10, 2026 — Aug 10 · Azure · Runtime New features and improvements collect_union aggregate function: SQL and the Scala and Python DataFrame APIs now support collect_union, which returns the distinct union of the elements in arrays within each group.
READ METADATA privilege is GA — Aug 10 · Azure · Product The READ METADATA privilege is now generally available in Unity Catalog. READ METADATA provides read-only visibility into the same metadata available to the object's owner or a user with MANAGE, including security-sensitive information that BROWSE doesn't expose, such as…
Notion connector (Beta) — Aug 10 · Azure · Product The managed Notion connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests pages, data sources, databases, blocks, comments, and users from Notion into Azure Databricks. See Notion connector.
Orchestrate continuous pipelines with continuous jobs — Aug 10 · Azure · Product You can now run a continuous Lakeflow pipeline with a continuous job. When a continuous job orchestrates a pipeline, the job determines the execution mode, and the pipeline can use job-level features such as serverless Standard performance mode and additional notification…
Target an Azure capacity reservation group for classic compute — Aug 10 · Azure · Product You can now target an Azure capacity reservation group when you create or edit a classic cluster or instance pool, using the new capacity_reservation_group field in azure_attributes.
Alert system tables are in Public Preview — Aug 10 · Azure · Product The system.alert schema is in Public Preview. This schema contains the alerts table, which records the configuration of every alert, and the alert_evaluation_history table, which records one row per alert evaluation.
Tag automations (Beta) — Aug 07 · Azure · Product Tag automations are now in Beta. A tag automation assigns or removes governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes that match conditions you define, so tags stay accurate as your data and metadata change.
Change data feed on materialized views (Beta) — Aug 07 · Azure · Product You can now read a change data feed from a materialized view created in a Lakeflow pipeline or in Databricks SQL, using Databricks Runtime 18 LTS or above.
ai_search function (Beta) — Aug 07 · Azure · Product The ai_search() SQL function retrieves information from one or more AI Search indexes configured as knowledge sources. Given a natural-language query, the function generates optimized search queries, retrieves and deduplicates results across sources, reranks them by relevance…
JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available — Aug 06 · Azure · Serverless Package Scala or Java code as a JAR and run it as a task in a Lakeflow Job on serverless compute. Your JAR must match the Scala, Java Development Kit (JDK), and Databricks Connect versions of your serverless environment version. See Create and run JARs on serverless compute.
Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity Gateway (Beta) — Aug 06 · Azure · Other All Databricks-managed MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code have migrated to the Unity Gateway. This brings Databricks-managed connectors under Unity Gateway, enabling centralized governance, access controls, and visibility alongside your other MCP servers and tools.
Unity Gateway API: Manage resources with SDKs, the CLI, and Terraform — Aug 06 · Azure · Other You can manage Unity Gateway resources programmatically instead of clicking through the UI, with full create, read, update, list, and delete support for endpoints, model providers, and MCP servers.
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 06 · Azure · AI/BI Rich text in widget titles and descriptions: Visualization widget titles and descriptions now support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or enter Markdown text directly.
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Aug 06 · Azure · AI/BI Markdown tables in Agent mode APIs (Beta): In the Agent mode APIs, table visualizations now return as markdown instead of table visualization attachments, which improves readability. See the Agent mode API reference.
Genie One enhancements — Aug 06 · Azure · AI/BI Upload PDF files to a conversation (Beta): You can now upload PDF files to a Genie One conversation alongside CSV and Excel files. Genie One parses PDFs asynchronously. See Upload a file.
Zerobus Ingest is now enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile — Aug 06 · Azure · Product The Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect is now enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. See Zerobus Ingest overview.
Unity Gateway API: Manage resources with SDKs, the CLI, and Terraform — Aug 06 · Azure · Product You can manage Unity Gateway resources programmatically instead of clicking through the UI, with full create, read, update, list, and delete support for endpoints, model providers, and MCP servers.
JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available — Aug 06 · Azure · Product Package Scala or Java code as a JAR and run it as a task in a Lakeflow Job on serverless compute, without provisioning or managing clusters. See Create and run JARs on serverless compute.
Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity Gateway (Beta) — Aug 06 · Azure · Product All Databricks-managed MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code have migrated to the Unity Gateway. This brings Databricks-managed connectors under Unity Gateway, enabling centralized governance, access controls, and visibility alongside your other MCP servers and tools.
Lakebase is enabled by default in compliance security profile workspaces — Aug 05 · Azure · Other Lakebase is now enabled by default in workspaces with the compliance security profile, including workspaces that use the HIPAA, C5, or TISAX standard and workspaces that enable the profile without a compliance standard. You no longer need to enable Lakebase in these workspaces.
REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta) — Aug 05 · Azure · Product REPLACE USING flows are now available in Lakeflow pipelines in Beta. Use a REPLACE USING flow when your source is a series of partial snapshots keyed by column. On each update, the flow replaces all rows that match the specified key columns and leaves all other rows unchanged.
Search and replace text across files — Aug 05 · Azure · Product You can now search and replace text across files in a Azure Databricks Git folder or Declarative Automation Bundles project from the Search pane. See Search and replace across files.
Genie One is now available in Google Sheets — Aug 05 · Azure · Product You can now use Genie One directly in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets. Query your governed Azure Databricks data in natural language and import the results into Google Sheets as native rows and columns. See Use Genie One in Google Sheets.
Genie One is now available in Microsoft Excel — Aug 05 · Azure · Product You can now use Genie One directly in the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in. Query your governed Azure Databricks data in natural language and import the results into Microsoft Excel as native rows and columns. See Use Genie One in Microsoft Excel.
Unity Gateway is now generally available — Aug 04 · Azure · Other Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Azure Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers.
Unity Gateway is now generally available — Aug 04 · Azure · Product Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Azure Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers.
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available — Aug 04 · Azure · Product Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix.
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available — Aug 04 · Azure · Product Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share.
SharePoint connector (GA) — Aug 04 · Azure · Product Both SharePoint connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now generally available: the managed connector for fully managed ingestion pipelines, and the standard connector for custom pipelines built with Spark and SQL APIs.
Schema-level HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available — Aug 04 · Azure · Product HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available at the schema level. You can create an HTTP connection inside a schema instead of only at the metastore level.
Format AI/BI dashboard widget titles and descriptions with rich text — Aug 04 · Azure · Product Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or type markdown directly. See Format widget titles and descriptions.
PagerDuty connector (Beta) — Aug 04 · Azure · Product The managed PagerDuty connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests incident, on-call, service, and audit data from PagerDuty into Azure Databricks. See PagerDuty connector.
NetSuite connector (GA) — Aug 04 · Azure · Product The managed NetSuite connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. The connector allows you to ingest ERP and financial data from Oracle NetSuite into Azure Databricks. See NetSuite connector.
Google Drive connector (GA) — Aug 04 · Azure · Product Both Google Drive connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now generally available: the managed connector for fully managed ingestion pipelines, and the standard connector for custom pipelines built with Spark and SQL APIs.
Full page Genie Code is now generally available — Aug 04 · Azure · Product Full page Genie Code is now generally available. Full page Genie Code is a command center experience where the active chat is shown prominently, notebooks and files open as tabs alongside it, and you can run multiple chats in parallel.
Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (08/04) — Aug 04 · Azure · Product New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements.
Serverless compute access control is now generally available — Aug 03 · Azure · Serverless Serverless compute access control is now generally available. Workspace admins can govern who runs serverless workloads through two built-in serverless compute objects: Default Interactive Compute (governs access to notebooks and Databricks Connect) and Default Automated Compute…
Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027 — Aug 03 · Azure · AI/BI Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents is extended through January 31, 2027. This promotion was previously set to end on July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply during the promotional period. The promotion covers usage by users only.
Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA — Aug 03 · Azure · Product Secrets in Unity Catalog is now generally available. You can store, govern, and access secrets as securable objects in Unity Catalog. A Unity Catalog secret uses the three-level namespace ( catalog.schema.secret) and is governed by Unity Catalog privileges, so you can apply the…
Organize your work with spaces — Aug 03 · Azure · Product You can now use spaces to organize your work in the Azure Databricks editor. Each space lets you focus on a specific folder or project while preserving your open tabs, so you can easily pick up where you left off. See Organize your work with spaces.
Environment variables for serverless jobs are in Beta — Aug 03 · Azure · Product Environment variables for serverless Lakeflow Jobs tasks are in Beta. You can define named environment variable entries at the job level and select one for each task to pass deployment-specific configuration to your application code.
Serverless compute access control is now generally available — Aug 03 · Azure · Product Serverless compute access control is now generally available. Workspace admins can govern who runs serverless workloads through two built-in serverless compute objects: Default Interactive Compute (governs access to notebooks and Databricks Connect) and Default Automated Compute…
Automatic cost attribution for materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL — Aug 03 · Azure · Product Materialized view and streaming table refreshes in Databricks SQL now inherit custom tags from the enclosing SQL warehouse environment. These tags propagate to billing surfaces like system.billing.usage, enabling proper cost attribution of materialized view and streaming table…
MANAGE no longer requires USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA on the same object — Aug 03 · Azure · Product The MANAGE privilege no longer requires a usage privilege ( USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA) on the object where MANAGE is granted. This change makes MANAGE behave more consistently with object ownership.
Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027 — Aug 03 · Azure · Product Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents is extended through January 31, 2027. This promotion was previously set to end on July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply to these products during the promotional period. The promotion covers usage by users only.
Filter updates for the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in — Aug 03 · Azure · Product The Azure Databricks Excel Add-in now supports cascading filters and case-insensitive string matching. Additionally, the LIKE, NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN, and ILIKE filters are no longer available in the filters list. See Filter imported data.
Refresh materialized views and streaming tables without exempting the pipeline owner from ABAC policies — Aug 03 · Azure · Product You can now refresh a pipeline-managed materialized view or streaming table even when the pipeline owner or run-as identity is subject to an attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy.