Azure Databricks release notes · October 2026

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  • Run Lakeflow pipelines as a group — Oct 05 · Azure · Product You can now set a pipeline's run-as identity to an account group, in addition to a user or a service principal. Pipeline updates run with the group's permissions, so a team can own an automated pipeline without tying it to one person's account.
  • Genie One enhancements — Oct 01 · Azure · AI/BI Text file uploads: You can now upload plaintext (.txt) files to a Genie One conversation, in addition to the other supported file types. See Upload a file.
  • Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes — Oct 01 · Azure · AI/BI Materialize SQL datasets (Beta): Dashboard materialization now covers SQL datasets in addition to local metric views, so you can materialize a dashboard's SQL datasets. See Dataset materialization in AI/BI dashboards.
  • LTAP Direct Writes is generally available — Oct 01 · Azure · Other LTAP Direct Writes is now generally available. It speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase by writing the initial load and full refreshes directly to the storage layer instead of through your compute endpoint, so large loads finish faster without competing with your…
  • Schedule automatic data refresh in the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in (Public Preview) — Oct 01 · Azure · Product You can now schedule automatic refreshes of Azure Databricks data imported into Microsoft Excel. Choose an interval or calendar schedule and the SQL warehouse that runs each refresh, then review recent runs from the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in.
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