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REPLACE WHERE flows are now generally available

Excel file format support is now available by default

Managed Iceberg materialized views are in Public Preview

July 6, 2026

Private Link for account-level resources (Beta)

Budgets are now generally available

Standard performance mode is now supported for materialized view or streaming table refreshes in jobs

Okta support for automatic identity management is now generally available

Lakeflow Connect row filtering is now generally available

Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image now available as Databricks-hosted models

MySQL integrated CDC pipeline is now in Beta

Veeva Vault connector (Beta)

Dashboard relationships (Public Preview)

Grok models will soon be available as pay-per-token foundation models

MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Run a subset of job tasks with their dependencies

Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)

Lakebase Autoscaling now available in AWS Tokyo region (ap-northeast-1)

SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (06/29)

Govern LLMs in Unity Catalog with model services (Beta)

Custom Docker images for AI Runtime CLI workloads (Beta)

Parquet v2 for Delta Lake tables is generally available

Genie Code Chat/Agent mode selector removed

Customer-managed VPC will soon be required for classic workspaces

Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (GA)

Metric view parameters are now in Public Preview

Databricks Runtime 19 (Beta): June 26, 2026

Solution Accelerators in Databricks Marketplace are now published as apps or notebooks

Genie One enhancements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Databricks connector for Power Platform is generally available

Change the owner of standalone pipeline streaming tables and materialized views

Standalone pipeline materialized views support expectations

Data Classification is now available by default for some workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

Block specific internet destinations in network policies (Public Preview)

Managed agent memory is in Beta

Square managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Wiz Audit Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Genie Code system table now counts only user-submitted interactions

The Discover page is now in Public Preview

Enable access requests across your Unity Catalog metastore (Public Preview)

Legacy compute_preview system schema deprecated

Netskope Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Salesforce Marketing Cloud managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Incremental ingestion for Workday Reports (Beta)

Lakebase now supports Postgres 18

Token auto-scoping for personal access tokens is now generally available

Genie One enhancements

Dashboard enhancements

Share Genie Agents externally using OpenSharing (Beta)

Omnigent coding agent meta-harness is now in Beta

Comments on foreign tables (Beta)

Lakeflow Designer will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

Lakeflow Designer is now generally available

Connect Genie to Microsoft Copilot Cowork (Beta)

Install third-party apps from Databricks Marketplace

Improved workspace files read performance

Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are in Beta

Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing across regulatory domains is now available (Public Preview)

Use OAuth to authenticate Databricks connections in Power Platform

Use Universal Commits to purchase Marketplace partner products

ai_query is now generally available

Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect (Public Preview)

OIDC is now supported for sharing to Iceberg clients

Configure the recovery period for dropped managed tables (Public Preview)

AUTO CDC flows for streaming tables in Databricks SQL are generally available

Genie mobile app (Public Preview)

Genie One enhancements

Databricks Runtime 19 (Beta): June 15, 2026

Zerobus Ingest will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

Faster inference tables for custom model serving endpoints

Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens (Beta)

Managed disaster recovery is now in Public Preview

Mission Critical add-on is now in Public Preview

AI Runtime CLI (Beta)

Auto time-to-live for automatic row deletion is generally available

Converting a partitioned table to liquid clustering is generally available

Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is generally available

Genie Code now uses models served through OpenAI on Databricks

ABAC GRANT policies for models (Beta)

ai_extract is now generally available

ai_classify is now generally available

Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

Databricks Runtime 18: June 10, 2026

Schedule deferred policy enforcement for all-purpose compute

Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams (Beta)

Lakehouse Replay (Beta)

Delta Sharing is now OpenSharing

Zip connector (Beta)

Automatic identity management for Okta (Public Preview)

Anthropic Claude Fable 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Identity federation enabled by default for all new workspaces

Databricks Genie app for Slack (Public Preview)

The update_flow API for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is generally available

Reorganized Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow documentation

Genie renamed to Genie One

Upcoming behavior change: Choose entitlements when adding principals to workspaces

Databricks Runtime 18: June 8, 2026

Monday.com managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Zoho Books managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services is now generally available

External lineage is now generally available

Aha! connector (Beta)

AI Search supports selected text columns, sorting, and aggregations (Beta)

UNIQUE constraint support is now in Public Preview

Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available

Managed SharePoint connector adds structured file ingestion and file metadata support (Beta)

External data access for pipeline streaming tables and materialized views (Public Preview)

AWS Graviton instances are now supported with the compliance security profile

ai_extract and ai_classify will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

Databricks Runtime 18: June 4, 2026

Improved workspace file write performance on classic compute

Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Databricks

Set budgets for Genie usage

Genie Code now supports auto-approve for tool actions

Dashboard enhancements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Genie One enhancements

Declarative Automation Bundles will soon default to use the direct deployment engine

Full page Genie Code (Beta)

Table update triggers on Delta Sharing and system tables (Beta)

Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports web search as a built-in tool

Pendo connector (Beta)

Zoom Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta)

Slack Access and Integration Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Lakebase snapshot storage is now billed

Vector Search is now AI Search

Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer

Databricks Runtime 18: May 29, 2026

Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect are now generally available

Databricks Apps horizontal scaling (Beta)

Lakeflow Designer updates for May 29, 2026

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

Genie One enhancements

Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (Beta)

Real-time mode in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow, and the update_flow API are now available (Public Preview)

Google Drive managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout

Refresh policies and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW for materialized views are now generally available

Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview

Removed legacy Assistant slash commands

Automatic identity management with Microsoft Entra ID is now GA

Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow parameters are now in Beta

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/26)

Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

Account access denylist for automatic identity management (Public Preview)

Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are in Beta

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie One enhancements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

Workspace sidebar navigation updates

Unity Catalog managed Apache Iceberg tables, foreign Apache Iceberg tables, and Apache Iceberg v3 features are generally available

Postgres password authentication is now disabled by default for new Lakebase Autoscaling projects

Databricks CLI is now GA

Instance events and instance pools system tables are now available (Public Preview)

Customer-managed keys for Lakebase available in all AWS and Azure regions

Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are GA

Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views

Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta)

Lakebase Autoscaling now supports compute sizes up to 64 CU (128 GB)

Configure Microsoft Entra ID SSO for Power BI (Public Preview)

Authenticate as a service principal using OAuth U2M (Beta)

Customer-managed keys now support MLflow managed evaluation features

Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports nesting supervisor agents as subagent tools

Databricks Container Services for standard compute is now available (Beta)

Google Gemini 3.5 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Lakeflow Designer updates

Edits to resources in the UI now automatically update YAML

Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards

Databricks Runtime 18: May 18, 2026

Unified runs list is generally available

Recover a deleted Lakebase project within 7 days

Share Genie Code chat threads

Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog tables as subagent tools

Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports vector search indexes as subagent tools

Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow sinks are now generally available

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

View run history for scheduled refreshes in Google Sheets

Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow environment versions (Beta)

Configure an additional recipient for workspace operational emails

Databricks SQL alerts are now generally available

SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now in Public Preview

Version 18.2

New Lakebase Autoscaling instances now scale to zero by default

ai_parse_document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/13)

Lakebase Autoscaling: Lakehouse Sync is now in Public Preview

App telemetry for Databricks Apps is now in Public Preview

HIPAA support for the Databricks Add-in for Excel

HubSpot connector (GA)

Catalog commits are now generally available

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie One enhancements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks

Standalone pipelines on serverless general compute (Beta)

Graviton instance types are available for the compliance security profile

Outlook managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview

GitHub managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Automatic identity management

Smartsheet managed ingestion connector (Beta)

Databricks Runtime 19 will use a unified release model

Databricks Runtime 18: May 4, 2026

Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA

Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available

Upcoming change: Upgrade to Lakebase Autoscaling

Native data profiling for results tables in the SQL editor

Native data profiling for notebook results tables

Community connectors (Beta)

Power BI connections will transition to ADBC

agg SQL function as a synonym for measure

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie One scheduled tasks (Public Preview)

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Disabling tasks in Lakeflow Jobs is now GA

Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports custom MCP servers and custom agents on Databricks Apps

MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now in Public Preview

Chat in Genie One is now in Public Preview

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/29)

Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now generally available

5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Public Preview)

Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow updates are retained for 60 days

Connect Databricks to on-premises resources using an SSH reverse tunnel

Tag Unity Catalog functions

Zendesk Support connector (GA)

Cloud token access for open Delta Sharing sharing (GA)

Databricks One renamed to Genie

Recently Resolved Incidents section in Data Quality Monitoring (Beta)

Confluence connector (GA)

Manage Supervisor Agent programmatically with the Databricks SDK (Beta)

OpenAI GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro now available as Databricks-hosted models

Databricks Excel Add-in requires workspace preview enablement

Workspace base environments are now generally available

Workspace object permissions will soon be inherited from all account groups

Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is rolling out in Current

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie One app search

Genie Code space configuration

Lakeflow Designer is now in Public Preview

Language selector for AI-generated comments in Catalog Explorer

AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator (Beta)

CPU_MEDIUM and CPU_LARGE workload types for Model Serving (Beta)

Version 18.1

Databricks Runtime 18: April 20, 2026

Databricks Data Classification is now GA

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/20)

Lakebase OpenTelemetry export (Beta)

Supervisor API for building agents (Beta)

BI compatibility mode removed from Power BI connector

Altering a catalog or schema's managed storage location is now GA

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Visualization enhancements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Metric view enhancements

Databricks Connector for Google Sheets is now generally available

Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

ai_parse_document is now generally available

Compute log delivery to volumes is now GA

Customer-managed keys now support model serving

Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)

Sample Data Explorer is generally available

Updated UI navigation for Databricks Apps

AI Gateway now governs MCP servers (Beta)

Updated AWS tag character restrictions

Lakebase Autoscaling: Customer-managed keys

Create and write to Unity Catalog tables from external Delta clients (Beta)

Column-level SAP governance tags sync into Unity Catalog

Connect Lovable apps to Databricks

Vector Search retrieval quality (Beta)

SQL reference documentation for managing governed tags

Upcoming breaking change: default behavior when deleting a Unity Catalog pipeline

Dashboard enhancements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Genie One enhancements

New cascade field for deleting Unity Catalog pipelines (Beta)

Share foreign Iceberg tables with Delta Sharing (Public Preview)

Databricks Runtime 18.2 and Databricks Runtime 18.2 ML are in Beta

Scoped personal access tokens are now generally available

ai_prep_search (Beta)

Git-backed app deployments are now generally available

Databricks Marketplace listing creation wizard

Workspace skills for Genie Code are now available

SAP semantic metadata syncs automatically into Unity Catalog

Databricks Runtime 18: April 2, 2026

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Genie One enhancements

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/02)

Governed tags are generally available

Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog are generally available

Databricks Documentation site table of contents tabs

Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in additional regions

New SQL editor default enablement and legacy SQL editor retirement

Databricks Connector for Google Sheets updates

Agent Bricks now covers all Databricks AI capabilities

Classification and Information Extraction are in Public Preview

ai_classify and ai_extract now support v2 signatures (Public Preview)

Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is now available in Preview

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Supervisor Agent is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers

Type widening is now generally available

Auto Loader supports automatic type widening (Public Preview)

New fields in lineage system table entity metadata

Dynamic parameters in the new SQL editor

Connect external data sources to chat in Genie One (Beta)

Supervisor Agent supports long-running tasks

Changes to OpenSharing (formerly Delta Sharing) open recipient tokens

Create alerts for anomaly detection in the Data Quality Monitoring UI (Beta)

AI Runtime is now in Public Preview

SQL alert task for jobs (Beta)

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

Databricks JDBC driver 2.8.0 is available

Databricks usage dashboard is now generally available

Databricks Apps supports uv for Python dependency management

Search in metric views fix

OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano now available as Databricks-hosted models

Lakebase Autoscaling databases as Databricks Apps resources

Databricks Asset Bundles is now Declarative Automation Bundles

Health indicators for tables in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)

ABAC policy functions now use snake_case naming

Some partner-powered AI features are now available in-country for Brazil, Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK

Empty vector search endpoints no longer incur charges

5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Beta)

Chat in Genie One (Beta)

Lakebase Autoscaling updates: OAuth role management, budget policies and tags, and Lakehouse sync

Data quality monitoring documentation moved to Data governance (Unity Catalog)

New Lakebase instances are created as Autoscaling projects by default

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements

Account-level Genie One (Beta)

Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now GA

Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code

Databricks SQL pipelines support notifications and performance mode (Beta)

Databricks Runtime 18: March 11, 2026

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (03/10)

Databricks Runtime 18: March 10, 2026

Workday HCM connector (Beta)

Declarative Feature Engineering APIs (Beta)

BI compatibility mode for metric views in Power BI (Beta)

New resources for Databricks Apps

Multi-table transactions are now in Public Preview

Databricks Apps compute sizing support for compliance security profile standards

Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Public Preview)

Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta)

Databricks Apps telemetry (Beta)

OpenAI GPT-5.4 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Tree view of the workspace browser side panel (Public Preview)

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

Lakebase is now generally available with compliance security profile

Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions

Knowledge Assistant is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers

Managed OAuth flows for external MCP servers

Notebook tagging (Public Preview)

Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog (Public Preview)

Lakebase Autoscaling now includes high availability

Lakebase Autoscaling now available in three additional regions

Schedule data refreshes in Google Sheets (Public Preview)

Connect to Databricks from Microsoft Excel (Public Preview)

Version 18.0

Databricks Runtime 18: February 26, 2026

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements

ISMAP compliance support

HITRUST compliance controls (Public Preview)

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (02/26)

Python unit testing in the workspace

Serverless environment version 5 is now available

Serverless outbound IPs available through public JSON endpoint (Public Preview)

Databricks ODBC Driver renamed from Simba Spark ODBC Driver

OpenAI GPT-5.3 Codex now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Change to use_case field in VPC endpoint API responses

Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is rolling out in Current

COMMENT ON streaming tables is now GA

Personal access tokens preserved when CAN USE permission is revoked

JAR tasks on serverless compute is now in Public Preview

ADBC driver is now the default driver for new Power BI connections

Databricks Runtime 18: February 19, 2026

Dashboard visualization and interaction enhancements

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (02/19)

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) Agent mode rename and improvements

TikTok Ads connector (Beta)

Discover page and domains (Beta)

Scoped personal access tokens (Beta)

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B now available in Public Preview as a Databricks-hosted model

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Databricks Runtime 18.1 and Databricks Runtime 18.1 ML are in Beta

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements

AI Gateway (Beta)

File events enabled by default on new external locations

HubSpot connector (Beta)

Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is now available in Preview

Configure default Python package repositories for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow (Public Preview)

Supervisor Agent is now Generally Available

New documentation for authoring and deploying agents on Databricks Apps

Deploy Databricks apps from Git repositories (Beta)

Query tags for SQL warehouses (Public Preview)

Dashboard enhancements and new capabilities

Genie One app thumbnail support

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) improvements

Agent Bricks: Multi-Agent Supervisor is now Supervisor Agent

Google Ads connector (Beta)

Decrypt query history system table fields (Public Preview)

Applying filters, masks, tags, and comments to pipeline-created datasets is now GA

Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Default SQL warehouse settings (General Availability)

Connect Databricks Assistant to MCP servers

Select tables and create pivot tables in Google Sheets

Regional model hosting for Genie Agents in Japan and Korea

Regional model hosting for Genie Agents in Japan and Korea

Tag Databricks Apps (Public Preview)

Zendesk Support connector (Beta)

Data Quality Monitoring Anomaly Detection public preview

Trigger on update for pipelines (GA)

Lakeflow jobs system tables are now generally available (GA)

View and restore your recent workspace tab sessions

Paste images into notebooks

Dashboard visualization and data improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) API and user experience improvements

OpenAI GPT-5.2 Codex now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Serverless workspaces are now generally available

Compute sizing for Databricks Apps is now generally available

Databricks Runtime 18: January 27, 2026

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (01/27)

Knowledge Assistant is now available in more regions

Managed MCP servers is now Public Preview

Store and query MLflow traces in Unity Catalog (Beta)

Google Drive connector (Beta)

Genie One search and discovery improvements

Dashboard subscriptions, custom calculations, and visualization improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) lineage and entity matching improvements

Front-end PrivateLink for performance-intensive services (Beta)

Lakebase is now generally available

Genie One is generally available

You can now use custom base environments for Python, Python Wheels, and notebook tasks in serverless jobs

Level of detail expressions for custom calculations

Value sampling features renamed

Databricks Runtime 18: January 15, 2026

Dashboard navigation, pivot tables, and text widget improvements

Genie One favorite and filtering improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) sample data, Research Agent, and space manager improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) and Databricks Assistant on Databricks on AWS GovCloud GA

Unified Lakebase interface

Databricks Runtime 18.0 is now GA

Ingest Salesforce formula fields incrementally (Beta)

Knowledge Assistant is now generally available

Row filtering for managed ingestion connectors (Beta)

OpenAI GPT-5.1 Codex Max and Codex Mini now available as Databricks-hosted models

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (01/09)

Dashboard pivot tables, filters, and data export improvements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) PDF export, citations, and accuracy improvements

Change default workspace access to Consumer access (Public Preview)

Create skills for Databricks Assistant

Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (GA)

Databricks Assistant on the documentation site

Databricks Assistant Agent mode is now in Public Preview

Single-use refresh tokens for OAuth applications

Update request parameters for Delta Sharing recipient audit log events

Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

New Databricks accounts will not have access to legacy features

Dashboard enhancements and fixes

Genie enhancements and fixes

MySQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)

Meta Ads connector (Beta)

Lakebase Autoscaling metrics dashboard

View latest scheduled notebook job results

Connect to Lakebase Autoscaling from the SQL editor with read-write access

Context based ingress control is now in Public Preview

Lakebase Autoscaling ACL support

Gemini 3 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Login required to download ODBC driver

Flexible node types are now generally available

New resource types for Databricks Apps

Confluence connector (Beta)

PostgreSQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)

Run read-only queries on Lakebase (Provisioned) readable secondaries from SQL editor

Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview

Lakebase (Autoscaling) now in Public Preview

Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes

Genie enhancements and fixes

Disable legacy features settings are now GA

OpenAI GPT-5.2 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Customizable SharePoint connector (Beta)

NetSuite connector (Public Preview)

Jira connector (Beta)

Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (Public Preview)

Change owner for materialized views or streaming tables defined in Databricks SQL

Discover files in Auto Loader efficiently using file events

ForEachBatch for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is available (Public Preview)

Databricks Runtime 18.0 and Databricks Runtime 18.0 ML are in Beta

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (12/09)

New columns in Lakeflow system tables (Public Preview)

New token expiration policy for open Delta Sharing

Expanded regional availability for C5 and TISAX compliance

Vector Search reranker is now generally available

Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes

Genie Research Agent, benchmark, and answer improvements

Built-in Excel file format support (Beta)

Dashboard visualization enhancements

Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) limits and Research Agent improvements

Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow stream progress metrics are generally available

Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Configure full refresh behavior for managed database connectors

Automate classic workspace creation with AWS IAM temporary delegation

Real-time collaboration in notebook cells, files, and SQL editor

Use Git CLI commands in Git folders (Beta)

Dashboard visualization improvements and bug fixes

Genie APIs and Research Agent in Beta

Draft dashboards removed from Databricks One

Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out in Current

Configure compute size for Databricks Apps (Public Preview)

Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (Public Preview)

Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/18)

Jobs can now be triggered on source view update

Delta Sharing views automatically permitted in serverless network policies

ABAC-secured assets shared using Delta Sharing is in Public Preview

Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview

Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview

Improved full refresh flow for managed database connectors

OpenAI GPT-5.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Connect Genie Agents to Microsoft Copilot Studio (Public Preview)

Dashboard search and embedding enhancements

Genie navigation and accuracy improvements

SFTP connector (Public Preview)

Convert foreign tables to Unity Catalog managed or external tables (Public Preview)

JDBC Unity Catalog connection in Beta

Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has been renamed to Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines

Migrate Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition (Public Preview)

Dashboard filter and counter enhancements

Genie visualization and query result improvements

SQL Editor visualization fix

SAP BDC connector for Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing

List MCP servers in Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)

New MCP server tab

Updated tag search syntax in workspace search

Serverless notebook tasks can now use jobs environment

Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/04)

Function calling and structured output now available using the Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct model (Beta)

Attribute-based access control (ABAC) now in Public Preview

Audit logs for request-for-access events are now emitted

Disable DBFS root and mounts workspace setting is GA

TISAX compliance controls

JAR tasks are now supported on serverless compute

Salesforce ingestion connector supports history tracking (SCD type 2)

Skip cells when running notebooks

Improved notebook debugger experience

Dashboard visualization, pivot table, and authoring improvements

Genie thinking steps and benchmark error resolution

Lakebase (Autoscaling Beta) now available

Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is now available in Preview