Azure Databricks release notes · September 2026

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  • Salesforce Data 360 file sharing will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Sep 30 · Azure · Upcoming The Salesforce Data 360 file sharing connector (formerly Salesforce Data Cloud file sharing) will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
  • Supported Postgres extensions updated to new versions — Sep 30 · Azure · Other The following supported Postgres extensions are now available at newer versions. Existing installations keep their current version until you update them with ALTER EXTENSION.
  • Table update triggers on OpenSharing objects and system tables are now generally available — Sep 30 · Azure · Product Lakeflow Jobs table update triggers can monitor OpenSharing objects and system tables. See Add a trigger to OpenSharing and system tables.
  • Control spreadsheet writeback with a workspace admin setting — Sep 30 · Azure · Product Excel and Google Sheets writeback now requires a workspace admin to enable the Allow spreadsheet writeback security setting. See Write data back to Azure Databricks using the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in and Write data back to Azure Databricks from Google Sheets.
  • Query tags for SQL warehouses are now generally available — Sep 30 · Azure · Product Query tags are now generally available. You can apply custom key-value tags to SQL workloads for grouping, filtering, and cost attribution on Databricks SQL warehouses and Lakehouse//RT compute.
  • OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 29 · Azure · Other OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Genie One memory is now generally available — Sep 29 · Azure · AI/BI Genie One memory is now generally available. Genie One can retain specific facts you provide, such as your preferences and reporting conventions, and apply them in later conversations so you don't need to repeat the same context every time you chat.
  • Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) 2.8.4 is available — Sep 29 · Azure · Product Simba JDBC Driver (Legacy) 2.8.4 adds Java 25 support and upgrades libthrift, httpclient5, httpcore5, and lz4-java. Download it from the JDBC drivers archive under All JDBC Driver Versions (Simba).
  • OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 29 · Azure · Product OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Genie Code agentic capabilities are now processed in the UK — Sep 29 · Azure · Product Genie Code agentic capabilities are now processed within the United Kingdom for workspaces in UK regions, without cross-Geo processing. For where each AI assistive feature is processed, see Databricks Designated Services.
  • Horizontal scaling for Databricks Apps is now generally available — Sep 29 · Azure · Product You can now run a Databricks app across multiple instances behind a single app URL for higher availability and concurrency, with zero-downtime deployments and best-effort session affinity. See Horizontal scaling for Databricks apps.
  • ai_parse_document quality improvements: signature detection and layout prediction — Sep 29 · Azure · Product ai_parse_document now detects signature regions in documents and identifies document layouts more accurately. See ai_parse_document function.
  • Agent Bricks CLI is in Beta — Sep 29 · Azure · Product The Agent Bricks CLI ( databricks-agentbricks) is a command-line tool for building and deploying custom code agents on Azure Databricks. Scaffold a project from a bundled framework template, run it locally, and deploy it to the Azure Databricks agent runtime, with managed memory…
  • ABAC on views is in Beta — Sep 29 · Azure · Product Attribute-based access control (ABAC) row filters and column masks now extend to views, in addition to tables. This lets you use ABAC policies to control access to sensitive data exposed through views.
  • Databricks SQL version 2026.39 is now available in Preview — Sep 28 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.39 is now available in the Preview channel. This version includes the following changes: Operating system security updates. Miscellaneous bug fixes. This version doesn't include new features or behavioral changes.
  • Databricks SQL version 2026.38 is rolling out in Current — Sep 28 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.38 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.38.
  • Lakebase Search adds a configurable text tokenizer for keyword search — Sep 28 · Azure · Other The new lakebase_tokenizer extension lets you control how Lakebase Search turns text into search terms, so keyword search matches the way your data and users actually read. Native PostgreSQL full-text search gives you little control over this step.
  • Workday Activity Logging connector (Beta) — Sep 28 · Azure · Product The Workday Activity Logging connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector incrementally ingests Workday user activity log events into Azure Databricks.
  • Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services is now generally available — Sep 28 · Azure · Product Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services, such as Lakebase Autoscaling and Zerobus Ingest, is now generally available. See Configure inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services.
  • Okta System Logs connector is available in Beta — Sep 28 · Azure · Product The managed Okta System Logs connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use the connector to incrementally ingest audit and security events from the Okta System Log into Azure Databricks.
  • Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Logs connector is available in Beta — Sep 28 · Azure · Product The managed Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Logs connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use the connector to ingest unified audit events from Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange, SharePoint, and other Microsoft 365 workloads into Azure Databricks.
  • Thinking Machine Labs Inkling is scheduled for retirement — Sep 28 · Azure · Product Thinking Machine Labs Inkling will be retired on October 30, 2026. GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 are the recommended replacements. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
  • CrowdStrike Falcon Event Stream connector (Beta) — Sep 28 · Azure · Product The CrowdStrike Falcon Event Stream connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests Falcon Event Stream events from CrowdStrike Falcon into Azure Databricks.
  • Akamai WAF connector (Beta) — Sep 28 · Azure · Product The Akamai WAF connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests web application firewall (WAF) security events from Akamai into Azure Databricks.
  • 1Password Event Logs connector (Beta) — Sep 28 · Azure · Product The 1Password Event Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
  • Usage tracking adds session metadata and token details (Public Preview) — Sep 27 · Azure · Other The system.ai_gateway.usage system table now includes coding-agent session metadata and invocation source. New token-detail fields capture tokens written to the 5-minute and 1-hour prompt caches, along with file and web search counts. See Track model usage.
  • Usage tracking adds session metadata and token details (Public Preview) — Sep 27 · Azure · Product The system.ai_gateway.usage system table now includes coding-agent session metadata and invocation source. New token-detail fields capture tokens written to the 5-minute and 1-hour prompt caches, along with file and web search counts. See Track model usage.
  • Tags for dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents are now generally available — Sep 25 · Azure · Product You can now apply tags to dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents to organize and categorize your workspace assets. This capability is now generally available. Both governed and ungoverned key-value tags are supported.
  • Deleting a Unity Catalog pipeline now retains tables by default — Sep 25 · Azure · Product When you delete a Unity Catalog pipeline that uses the default publishing mode, the UI and the Pipelines DELETE API retain associated materialized views, streaming tables, and views by default.
  • The Genie One MCP server is now generally available — Sep 25 · Azure · Product The Genie One MCP server is now generally available as a Databricks-provided MCP Service, system.ai.genie_one_mcp, in Unity Gateway. It exposes Genie as a conversational tool over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), so any MCP client or agent, such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor…
  • Genie Code can now build intelligent document processing pipelines — Sep 25 · Azure · Product Genie Code can now build end-to-end document processing pipelines by orchestrating parsing, classification, extraction, and validation. Point it at unstructured PDFs, contracts, or invoices, and it evaluates extraction quality against labeled data and iterates to improve it.
  • Genie Agents enhancements — Sep 24 · Azure · AI/BI Monitoring table column picker: You can now choose which columns appear in the agent monitoring table on the Monitor tab. See Monitor the agent.
  • Service principal Genie usage is billed at standard pricing — Sep 24 · Azure · AI/BI Genie usage by service principals is now billed at standard Genie pay-as-you-go pricing. Service principals are excluded from the free monthly usage allowance that applies to individual users.
  • Genie One enhancements — Sep 24 · Azure · AI/BI Pin a chat: You can now pin a chat to keep it at the top of the sidebar. See Manage chats in the sidebar. Larger file uploads: You can now upload files larger than 10 MB to a Genie One conversation. See Upload a file.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Sep 24 · Azure · AI/BI Data-exploration controls in dataset results and metric view preview: The dataset results table and the metric view preview grid now include column pinning and formatting, search, a column explorer, natural-language filtering, and a selection details panel.
  • Sharing metric views with OpenSharing is now generally available — Sep 24 · Azure · Product Sharing metric views with OpenSharing is now generally available. Add metric views to a share and query them with MEASURE(...) on serverless compute. See Add metric views to a share and Read shared metric views.
  • Lakeflow Designer September Release — Sep 24 · Azure · Product The Lakeflow Designer September release adds Guardrails, multi-input joins, new parameter controls, and more ways to bring data into a visual data prep.
  • ai_search can search Lakebase synced tables (Beta) — Sep 24 · Azure · Product The ai_search function can now retrieve from Lakebase synced tables with Lakebase Search enabled, in addition to AI Search indexes. Add a lakebase_search knowledge source to search a Lakebase synced table, or combine it with vector_search sources in the same call.
  • Lakebase observability telemetry in system tables (Beta) — Sep 23 · Azure · Other Lakebase captures its Postgres observability telemetry into the system.lakebase system tables, with no configuration to create and no destination to choose.
  • Scalar and Batch Unity Catalog Python UDFs are now generally available — Sep 23 · Azure · Product Scalar and Batch Unity Catalog Python UDFs are now generally available on all supported compute types. This release adds named handlers for row-at-a-time scalar UDFs, removes the five-UDF-call-per-query limit, and aligns scalar TIMESTAMP inputs with PySpark behavior.
  • Scala UDFs can access Unity Catalog secrets — Sep 23 · Azure · Product Session-scoped and Unity Catalog Scala UDFs can now access secrets managed in Unity Catalog. Session-scoped UDFs use the caller's permissions.
  • Build governed data and AI apps without code (Beta) — Sep 23 · Azure · Product You can now build governed data and AI apps without code. Genie App Builder builds apps from natural-language prompts inside an App Space that enforces governance, and the apps scale to zero when idle. See Genie App Builder.
  • Time travel queries now enforce ABAC policies (Beta) — Sep 23 · Azure · Product This feature is in Beta. Starting in Databricks Runtime 19, you can use time travel on qualifying Unity Catalog managed tables while enforcing ABAC row filter and column mask policies. See Time travel with ABAC policies.
  • Variant shredding will soon be enabled by default on new Variant tables — Sep 22 · Azure · Upcoming Starting November 18, 2026, Azure Databricks will automatically add the variantShredding table feature to new tables that contain a column of the VARIANT type when they are created on Databricks Runtime 17.3 or above.
  • Bundled BigQuery JDBC driver removal in Databricks Runtime 20 — Sep 22 · Azure · Upcoming Starting with Databricks Runtime 20, Databricks Runtime no longer includes the bundled BigQuery JDBC driver, while Databricks Runtime 19 and earlier continue to include it.
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 22 · Azure · Other Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • OpenAI GPT-6 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 22 · Azure · Other OpenAI GPT-6 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • OpenAI GPT-6 Luna is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 22 · Azure · Other OpenAI GPT-6 Luna is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Centrally configure coding agents — Sep 22 · Azure · Other Organizations can now centrally configure coding agents: models, MCP servers, skills, a default harness and models, and Smart Routing. Settings apply at agent launch, or roll out through mobile device management (MDM). See Configure coding agents.
  • Connect coding agents to Unity Gateway with the ug CLI — Sep 22 · Azure · Other Use the Unity Gateway CLI ( ug) to connect Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and more to Unity Gateway with one command. ug handles authentication and configuration, adds approved MCP servers and skills, and shows spend in the terminal. See Get started with coding agents.
  • Unified tracing now includes coding agent activity — Sep 22 · Azure · Other Unity Gateway now adds coding-agent activity to unified tracing through the Unity Gateway CLI, so you can see the tools and skills used alongside model requests. Explore it in Govern > Traces or with Genie. See Tracing.
  • Lakebase backup schedule API (Beta) — Sep 22 · Azure · Other You can now manage Lakebase backup schedules programmatically. The backup schedule API lets you read and set a root branch's automated snapshot cadences (daily, weekly, or monthly) and how long each cadence's snapshots are retained.
  • Connect coding agents to Unity Gateway with the ug CLI — Sep 22 · Azure · Product Use the Unity Gateway CLI ( ug) to connect Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and more to Unity Gateway with one command. ug handles authentication and configuration, adds approved MCP servers and skills, and shows spend in the terminal. See Get started with coding agents.
  • Shopify connector (Beta) — Sep 22 · Azure · Product The Shopify connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
  • OpenAI GPT-6 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 22 · Azure · Product OpenAI GPT-6 Sol is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • OpenAI GPT-6 Luna is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 22 · Azure · Product OpenAI GPT-6 Luna is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Invite OpenSharing recipients by email (Beta) — Sep 22 · Azure · Product You can now invite OpenSharing recipients by email instead of exchanging a sharing identifier or credential file. OpenSharing emails the recipient a secure activation link to connect and read the shared data. Email sharing is in Beta. See OpenSharing by email.
  • Unified tracing now includes coding agent activity — Sep 22 · Azure · Product Unity Gateway now adds coding-agent activity to unified tracing through the Unity Gateway CLI, so you can see the tools and skills used alongside model requests. Explore it in Govern > Traces or with Genie. See Tracing.
  • Centrally configure coding agents — Sep 22 · Azure · Product Organizations can now centrally configure coding agents: models, MCP servers, skills, a default harness and models, and Smart Routing. Settings apply at agent launch, or roll out through mobile device management (MDM). See Configure coding agents.
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 22 · Azure · Product Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • September 21, 2026 — Sep 21 · Azure · Serverless This serverless compute release includes updates from Databricks Runtime 19. New features truncate function: The truncate function truncates a number to a specified scale without rounding.
  • Databricks SQL version 2026.38 is now available in Preview — Sep 21 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.38 is now available in the Preview channel. Review the following section to learn about new features and behavioral changes.
  • Back model provider service credentials with a Unity Catalog secret — Sep 21 · Azure · Other Back a model provider service's API key with a customer-owned Unity Catalog secret. The service reads it at query time, so rotating the secret takes effect with no service change. See Back a provider credential with a Unity Catalog secret.
  • Databricks Runtime 19: September 21, 2026 — Sep 21 · Azure · Runtime New features and improvements truncate function: SQL and the Scala and Python DataFrame APIs now support truncate, which truncates a number to a specified scale without rounding.
  • The query history system table is now generally available — Sep 21 · Azure · Product The system.query.history system table is now generally available. Use it to access account-wide records for queries run on SQL warehouses or serverless compute, including execution status, duration metrics, and query source. See Query history system table reference.
  • Back model provider service credentials with a Unity Catalog secret — Sep 21 · Azure · Product Back a model provider service's API key with a customer-owned Unity Catalog secret. The service reads it at query time, so rotating the secret takes effect with no service change. See Back a provider credential with a Unity Catalog secret.
  • Configure provider discounts for external model spend — Sep 19 · Azure · Other Unity Gateway estimates external model spend using each provider's published list prices. If your organization has negotiated different pricing with a provider, you can now configure a price multiplier on the model provider service so that spend estimates reflect those rates.
  • Configure provider discounts for external model spend — Sep 19 · Azure · Product Unity Gateway estimates external model spend using each provider's published list prices. If your organization has negotiated different pricing with a provider, you can now configure a price multiplier on the model provider service so that spend estimates reflect those rates.
  • Lakebase Search is generally available — Sep 18 · Azure · Other Lakebase Search is now generally available. It brings scalable vector and keyword search to Lakebase projects through two Postgres extensions, so you can run semantic and exact-term search in a single database without a separate search stack: lakebase_vector adds the lakebase_ann…
  • Databricks Apps telemetry is now generally available — Sep 18 · Azure · Product Configuring telemetry for your Databricks apps is now generally available. Databricks Apps telemetry collects traces, logs, and metrics and persists them to Unity Catalog tables using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) protocol.
  • Databricks Apps is now on by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Sep 18 · Azure · Product Databricks Apps is now on by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. See Databricks Apps.
  • Unity Gateway support for compliance security profile standards — Sep 17 · Azure · Other Unity Gateway now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Azure 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 profile.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Sep 17 · Azure · AI/BI Convert a SQL dataset to a local metric view: You can now convert a SQL dataset into a local metric view from the dataset's context menu, and Genie Code handles the conversion. See Local metric views and Use Genie Code for dashboard authoring.
  • Skills in Genie One support multiple files and folders — Sep 17 · Azure · AI/BI A Genie One skill can now include multiple files and sub-folders, up to three folders deep and 50 files or folders per skill. Skills can load text files only. See Skills.
  • Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes — Sep 17 · Azure · AI/BI Larger PDF uploads: You can now upload PDFs with up to 100 pages to Genie One and Genie Agents, increased from 20. See Upload a file and Upload a file to a Genie Agent.
  • Unity Gateway support for compliance security profile standards — Sep 17 · Azure · Product Unity Gateway now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by Azure 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 profile.
  • Metastore-level ABAC policies are in Beta — Sep 17 · Azure · Product Metastore-level ABAC policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog. You can now attach an ABAC policy (row filter, column mask, GRANT, or DENY) at the metastore level, so a single policy applies across every catalog in the metastore, including catalogs created later.
  • Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 is scheduled for retirement — Sep 17 · Azure · Product Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 will be retired on October 30, 2026. Kimi K3 is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
  • Base environments are now supported on classic compute (Beta) — Sep 17 · Azure · Product You can now use base environments to manage Python dependencies on classic compute. You can use Databricks-provided environments or custom workspace-level environments. See Manage dependencies using environments.
  • Unity Gateway API and developer tools are generally available — Sep 16 · Azure · Other The Unity Gateway API for managing model services, model provider services, and MCP services is now generally available, with create, read, update, list, and delete support across Azure Databricks developer tools: Terraform provider: 1.132.0 and later Databricks CLI: v1.17.0 and…
  • Account-only user access to Genie One (Beta) — Sep 16 · Azure · AI/BI Genie One now supports account-only users, so users in a registered identity provider can access account-level Genie One without being assigned to a workspace or granted consumer access. When enabled, eligible users are enrolled automatically.
  • Unused OAuth client secrets are automatically deleted after 90 days — Sep 16 · Azure · Product Azure Databricks now automatically deletes a service principal's OAuth client secret after 90 days without use, consistent with unused access token cleanup. If a deleted secret is still needed, create a new OAuth secret.
  • Unity Gateway API and developer tools are generally available — Sep 16 · Azure · Product The Unity Gateway API for managing model services, model provider services, and MCP services is now generally available, with create, read, update, list, and delete support across Azure Databricks developer tools: Terraform provider: 1.132.0 and later Databricks CLI: v1.17.0 and…
  • Managed agent memory and sessions are in Beta — Sep 16 · Azure · Product Managed agent memory and managed agent sessions are in Beta. Azure Databricks now provides two fully managed, Lakebase -backed stores for agent state, both usable from agents built on any framework: Managed agent memory gives agents durable, long-term memory that persists across…
  • Account-only user access to Genie One (Beta) — Sep 16 · Azure · Product Genie One now supports account-only users, so users in a registered identity provider can access account-level Genie One without being assigned to a workspace or granted consumer access. When enabled, eligible users are enrolled automatically.
  • VARIANT cast extends to ARRAY and MAP columns in ABAC column masks — Sep 16 · Azure · Product You can now use a single VARIANT function to mask columns of type ARRAY and MAP, in addition to STRUCT and other types. This requires Databricks Runtime 19 or above. See Masking multiple column types with a single function.
  • Webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will soon be generally available — Sep 15 · Azure · Upcoming Starting in October 2026, webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will be generally available. Automatically deploy your app when changes are pushed to a connected GitHub or Azure DevOps repository, so your deployed app stays in sync with your repository without manual…
  • Automatic change data feed will soon be available in all supported regions — Sep 15 · Azure · Upcoming Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) is rolling out to workspaces over the next month and will be available in all supported regions by the end of October 2026.
  • Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta) — Sep 15 · Azure · Other Data Classification can now scan Unity Catalog views in addition to tables, classifying columns for sensitive data using the same detection engine. This is a Beta feature. See Classify views.
  • Lakebase snapshots API (Beta) — Sep 15 · Azure · Other You can now manage Lakebase snapshots programmatically. The snapshots API lets you create, get, list, and delete point-in-time snapshots of a project branch, and restore a snapshot by creating a new branch from it. This API is in Beta and available to all Lakebase workspaces.
  • Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available — Sep 15 · Azure · Product Sharing and reading foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share Delta-format tables federated from OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue, without copying data into Azure Databricks. See Add foreign Delta tables to a share.
  • Maintenance windows for continuous pipelines — Sep 15 · Azure · Product You can now set a maintenance window on a continuous Lakeflow pipeline to control when Azure Databricks applies platform updates that require a restart, such as new runtime versions and serverless infrastructure maintenance.
  • Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta) — Sep 15 · Azure · Product Data Classification can now scan Unity Catalog views in addition to tables, classifying columns for sensitive data using the same detection engine. This is a Beta feature. See Classify views.
  • JAR tasks on serverless compute will soon be available for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Sep 14 · Azure · Upcoming In early October 2026, running JAR tasks on serverless compute will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
  • Window measures on a numeric index column in metric views — Sep 14 · Azure · Product Window measures support unitless offset and trailing / leading ranges on a consecutive integer order column. Use a numeric index for non-calendar periods such as fiscal weeks or 4-4-5 periods. See Window measures on a numeric index column.
  • Genie visualizations in Slack replies (Public Preview) — Sep 14 · Azure · Product When a Genie response includes a chart, the visualization now appears as an image in the Slack reply. If you installed the Databricks Genie app for Slack previously, reinstall it to enable this. See Visualizations.
  • The counter_diff SQL window function is now available — Sep 14 · Azure · Product The counter_diff window function calculates differences between consecutive cumulative counter values and handles counter resets, for time-series analysis of counter data. It is available in Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime 19 and above.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 11 · Azure · Other DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway with text and image inputs. See supported regions. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Standard performance mode is now available for one-time runs in the Jobs API — Sep 11 · Azure · Product You can now set performance_target to STANDARD in the Jobs API. Apache Airflow's DatabricksSubmitRunOperator also supports this. See Create and trigger a one-time run and Select a performance mode.
  • Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available — Sep 11 · Azure · Product Sharing and reading foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share Iceberg tables federated from foreign Iceberg catalogs using Lakehouse Federation, including to recipients using external Iceberg clients.
  • Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally available — Sep 11 · Azure · Product Sharing and reading foreign schemas and foreign tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share foreign schemas and tables federated from external data sources using Lakehouse Federation, without copying data into Azure Databricks.
  • Session restore for serverless jobs is in Public Preview — Sep 11 · 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 entire job. Azure Databricks captures the snapshot automatically for eligible runs.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 11 · Azure · Product DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway with text and image inputs. See supported regions. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Genie Agents enhancements — Sep 10 · Azure · AI/BI Increased data source limit: Each Genie Agent supports up to 50 tables, views, or metric views as data sources, up from 30. See Technical requirements and limits. Increased conversation limit: Each Genie Agent can store up to 200,000 conversations, up from 10,000.
  • Dashboard enhancements — Sep 10 · Azure · AI/BI More Tableau calculations in /importBI: Importing Tableau reports with the /importBI Genie Code command now supports more cases of parameterized calculations. See Import BI files using Genie Code.
  • Databricks-provided MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code are generally available — Sep 10 · Azure · AI/BI Genie One and Genie Code can now use Databricks-provided MCP connectors for Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Atlassian, Slack, and GitHub to search and act on your company's tools while answering questions.
  • Genie One enhancements — Sep 10 · Azure · AI/BI Genie Code skills in Genie One (Beta): Genie Code skills now appear and are turned on by default in Genie One. Turn individual skills on or off on the customization page.
  • Managed tables in Lakeflow pipelines (Beta) — Sep 10 · Azure · Product You can now create managed tables in Lakeflow pipelines and write to them with one or more append flows. This feature is in Beta. You can also use import_checkpoint on an append flow to migrate an existing Structured Streaming workload into a pipeline without reprocessing the…
  • The Azure Databricks Excel Add-in is now generally available — Sep 10 · Azure · Product The Azure Databricks Excel Add-in is now generally available. Connect Microsoft Excel to your Azure Databricks workspace to browse and import governed Unity Catalog tables and views, run SQL queries, build pivot tables, use custom functions, and write data back to Unity Catalog.
  • Horizontal scaling for Databricks Apps will soon be available for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled — Sep 09 · Azure · Upcoming In early October 2026, horizontal scaling for Databricks Apps will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.
  • Configurable retention for system tables is in Beta — Sep 09 · Azure · Product Account admins can now set an account-wide retention period from 30 to 3,650 days for supported system tables. See Configure system table data retention.
  • Genie Code adds conversation controls — Sep 09 · Azure · Product Genie Code now includes conversation controls that let you branch and revise a chat. You can fork a conversation into a new, independent thread from a point you choose, ask a quick side question with /btw without adding it to the thread, and edit an earlier message to regenerate…
  • External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta) — Sep 09 · Azure · Product External secrets connect a Unity Catalog schema to Azure Key Vault. The secrets appear in Unity Catalog as read-only securable objects that you govern with Unity Catalog privileges. Azure Databricks reads their values from Azure Key Vault on demand.
  • Celigo connector (Beta) — Sep 09 · Azure · Product The Celigo connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
  • Anysphere Organization connector (Beta) — Sep 09 · Azure · Product The Anysphere Organization connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.
  • Anaplan connector (Beta) — Sep 09 · Azure · Product The Anaplan 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 trail events and user account records from your Anaplan tenant into Azure Databricks.
  • Incremental ingestion for Salesforce formula fields in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available — Sep 08 · Azure · Upcoming Incremental ingestion for Salesforce formula fields in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available. Today, Lakeflow Connect ingests formula fields by taking a full snapshot on each pipeline run by default.
  • Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is rolling out in Current — Sep 08 · Azure · SQL Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.36.
  • time_bucket SQL function aligns timestamps to fixed-width time buckets — Sep 08 · Azure · Product time_bucket returns the start of the fixed-width interval a timestamp falls into, aligned to an origin you choose (for example, 15-minute or 3-month buckets). Use it instead of date_trunc when the bucket width or start is not a calendar unit. See time_bucket function.
  • ABAC DENY policies are in Beta — Sep 08 · Azure · Product ABAC DENY policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog. DENY policies can be used to explicitly deny the MANAGE ACCESS CONTROL privilege to prevent specified principals, including object owners, from performing access-management operations. They always take precedence over any grant.
  • See which chunks support each ai_search answer (Beta) — Sep 08 · Azure · Product You can now turn on the generate_citations option in the ai_search function to see which retrieved chunks the model used to support each answer it generates. ai_search function
  • Zerobus Ingest into default storage is now in Public Preview — Sep 07 · Azure · Product Ingesting into tables backed by default storage with Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now in Public Preview. See Create or identify the target table.
  • OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 04 · Azure · Other OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway for enterprise reasoning, structured document processing, coding, agentic search, multimodal inputs, and long-context workloads. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.
  • OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway — Sep 04 · Azure · Product OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway for enterprise reasoning, structured document processing, coding, agentic search, multimodal inputs, and long-context workloads. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.
  • Compliance security profile will enforce Azure Virtual Network encryption — Sep 03 · Azure · Upcoming Currently, the compliance security profile checks and enforces only the use of specific VM instance types, not the enablement of Azure Virtual Network encryption.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Sep 03 · Azure · AI/BI Embedded dashboard filter APIs: In embedded dashboards, you can now set and retrieve filter values through APIs. See Control dashboard filters programmatically.
  • Genie Agents enhancements — Sep 03 · Azure · AI/BI SQL function descriptions: When a SQL function is attached as a tool, you can now view the function's description. See How does Genie use SQL functions?. Upgraded chat-mode models: Genie Agents chat mode now uses upgraded large language models.
  • Genie One enhancements — Sep 03 · Azure · AI/BI Ask Genie button hidden when unsupported: In embedded dashboards, the Ask Genie button is now hidden when it isn't supported. See Ask Genie in embedded dashboards.
  • Lakebase now available in Azure Japan East region (japaneast) — Sep 03 · Azure · Other Lakebase is now available in japaneast (Japan East). For the full list of supported regions, see Region availability. To get started, see Get a Postgres database.
  • Share metric views with OpenSharing (Beta) — Sep 03 · Azure · Product You can now share metric views with Azure Databricks users in other metastores or accounts using OpenSharing. See Add metric views to a share and Read shared metric views.
  • Private network gateway is in Beta — Sep 03 · Azure · Product Private network gateway is in Beta. 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).
  • Environment version 6 is now available — Sep 03 · Azure · Product You can now select environment version 6 as your base environment for serverless and standard classic compute. See Environment version 6.
  • Google Gemini 3.8 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Sep 02 · Azure · Other Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.8 Flash as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Shared Serverless for Git Folders is in Beta — Sep 02 · Azure · Product You can now use Shared Serverless for Git Folders to share serverless compute and a pyproject.toml -managed environment across notebooks and files in a Git folder. See Shared Serverless for Git Folders.
  • Google Gemini 3.8 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Sep 02 · Azure · Product Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.8 Flash as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • AI Search supports struct and map columns and filter-only queries — Sep 02 · Azure · Product You can now index and filter struct and map columns in AI Search, and run filter-only queries that return rows matching a filter without vector or keyword retrieval. See Query an AI Search index.
  • Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Sep 01 · Azure · Other Unity Gateway now supports Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Databricks Runtime 19: September 1, 2026 — Sep 01 · Azure · Runtime New features and improvements Automatic change data feed is generally available: Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) computes row-level changes at query time using row tracking, without requiring you to manually enable change data feed on each Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg v3…
  • Apache Arrow support for Zerobus Ingest is now generally available — Sep 01 · Azure · Product Apache Arrow support for Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. See Use Arrow Flight with Zerobus Ingest.
  • HITRUST and IRAP compliance controls are now generally available — Sep 01 · Azure · Product HITRUST and IRAP compliance controls are now generally available through the compliance security profile. In addition, HIPAA, HITRUST, and IRAP now require the compliance security profile. See HITRUST and Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP).
  • Genie Code scheduled tasks are now generally available — Sep 01 · Azure · Product Genie Code scheduled tasks are now generally available. You can schedule Genie Code to run a prompt on a recurring schedule. Each run executes your prompt as a full Genie Code session and produces a continuable Genie chat with the results, so you can turn recurring analysis and…
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (09/01) — Sep 01 · Azure · Product New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements.
  • Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted model — Sep 01 · Azure · Product Unity Gateway now supports Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
  • Automatic change data feed is now generally available — Sep 01 · Azure · Product Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) computes row-level changes at query time using row tracking, without requiring you to manually enable change data feed on each Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg v3 table.
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