AI/BI release notes 2025

The following AI/BI features and improvements were released in 2025.

July 2025

Dashboard theme settings and page enhancements

July 3, 2025

• Dashboard import and export retains theme settings: When you import or export a dashboard as a file, theme settings are now preserved. To learn how to set a theme, see Customize the theme.

• Dashboards now support up to 15 pages: The maximum number of pages per dashboard has increased from ten to fifteen. See Add pages, visualizations, text, and filters to the canvas.

• Annotation lines supported for temporal scales: You can now add annotation lines to charts with temporal scales.

• Parameterized schedules re-enabled: Support for parameterized schedules has been restored. See Create a schedule.

Genie visualization and permissions improvements

July 3, 2025

• Genie visualizations respect SQL sort order: Genie visualizations now default to the same sort order as returned by the SQL query.
• Permissions fix: Users with CAN MANAGE on a Genie space can now delete it.
• Datatype interpretation fix: Resolved an issue where string fields were incorrectly interpreted as date or time values.

June 2025

Dashboard Git integration and workflow improvements

June 26, 2025

• Improved diff review for dashboard files: When committing dashboard changes to Git, queries and text box content now appear across multiple lines in the diff, making changes easier to review.

• Multi-statement queries in Genie on dashboards: Genie on dashboards now supports multistatement SQL queries.

• Improved schedule and subscribe workflow: You can now add subscribers when setting up a new schedule. Previously, you could only add subscribers to an existing schedule. See Create a schedule.

Genie API enhancements and SQL function improvements

June 26, 2025

• New Genie API endpoints in Public Preview: You can now use the Genie API to list all conversations in a space, delete conversations, and delete Genie spaces. See Genie in the REST API reference for details.

• More selective application of SQL functions in Genie: Genie's ability to apply SQL functions to relevant user questions has been improved.

File upload and theme customization features

June 19, 2025

• File upload to Unity Catalog from dashboards: Authors can now upload files to Unity Catalog directly from the dashboard data tab. See Create and manage dashboard datasets.

• Customizable dashboard theme: Authors can now customize the dashboard theme by setting custom font, background, and widget colors. See Dashboard settings.

Genie filter editing and audit log enhancements

June 19, 2025

• Editable filters in Genie: Users can now edit filter values to refine responses. For string columns that have value dictionaries, Genie uses context to determine when editable filters could improve accuracy and offers them accordingly.

• New audit log field for Genie comments: A new comment_type field is available in the audit log response for the createConversationMessageComment action. When a user adds a feedback comment to a conversation message, the interaction is recorded as one of the following types:

  • REQUEST_COMMENT: User leaves a feedback comment.
  • REVIEW_COMMENT: Tracks following comments, such as when a space author responds.
  • THUMBS_DOWN_COMMENT: User clicks Fix it to to get a new response.

• List Spaces Genie API: A new List Spaces Genie API endpoint retrieves all spaces the requestor has access to, including the following fields: Genie space title, description, and ID.

Dashboard visualization fixes and schedule updates

June 12, 2025

• Dashboard visualization fixes:

  • Tooltip field highlighting in combo charts fix: Tooltips shown as you hover over fields in combo charts are now correctly highlighted.
  • Table collapse icon fix: Fixed an issue where expanding and collapsing long text in table cells did not work as expected.
  • Drop-down menu rendering fix: Fixed an issue where some drop-down menus rendered incorrectly.

• Parameterized schedules temporarily disabled: Parameterized schedules have been temporarily disabled due to unexpected conflicts with some existing dashboard schedules.

Consumer access entitlement is generally available

June 5, 2025

• New consumer entitlement is generally available: Workspace admins can now grant consumer access as an entitlement to users, service principals, and groups. Consumer access enables limited workspace UI access, querying SQL warehouses using BI tools, and viewing dashboards with embedded or viewer credentials. See Manage entitlements and Share a dashboard.

Dashboard scheduling and filtering improvements

June 5, 2025

• Dashboard schedule fix: Resolved an issue where schedules for dashboards published with global filters were not executing.
• Cross-filtering fix for histograms: Fixed an issue where cross-filtering with histograms did not work on large datasets.

Genie value dictionaries and SQL editor improvements

June 5, 2025

• More value dictionaries in Genie: Genie can now support up to 60 value dictionaries. See Use value sampling to improve Genie's accuracy.

• Genie space SQL editor fix: Resolved an issued that caused the SQL editor in a chat window disappear if the user deleted the generated query. You can now use the editor to delete and rewrite queries.

May 2025

Metric views are in Public Preview

May 29, 2025

• Unity Catalog metric views are now in Public Preview: Metric views provide a centralized way to define and manage consistent, reusable, and governed core business metrics. They abstract complex business logic into a centralized definition, enabling organizations to define key performance indicators once and use them consistently across reporting tools like dashboards, Genie spaces, and alerts. Use a SQL warehouse running on the Preview channel (2025.16) to work with metric views. See Unity Catalog metric views.

Dashboard catalog picker and filter fixes

May 29, 2025

• Catalog and schema picker in the dataset editor: You can now select a catalog and schema from the SQL editor in the Data tab of a draft dashboard. With the catalog and schema selected, you can write queries that reference a table name only, instead of a fully-qualified table name. You can still use a table's three-level namespace to reference it in a query.

• Fix for global filters on full-screen widgets: An issue that prevented full-screen widgets from displaying data when used with global filters has been resolved.

Genie knowledge store and metadata improvements

May 29, 2025

• Benchmark execution bug fix in Genie: A bug where benchmarks would not execute immediately after creating a benchmark run has been fixed.

• Popular query suggestions in Genie: Genie will now suggest popular queries as example SQL for newly added tables to the space. Only popular queries that the author has access to are suggested. See Create a Genie space.

• Table metadata improvement in Genie: The process to provide table metadata to Genie has been changed to simplify data transformation for Genie workloads.

• Genie knowledge store: The knowledge store allows authors to build more reliable, accurate Genie spaces. Authors can now annotate, edit, and manage Genie datasets at the space level using the following features:

  • Increased accuracy with example values: Genie now collects example values when you add tables to a space, helping it better understand the data in your tables and generate more accurate responses. See Edit column metadata.
  • Edit column descriptions in Genie: You can now edit table and column descriptions at the Genie-space level. This allows you to fine-tune metadata descriptions within a specific the Genie space. See Edit column metadata.
  • Column synonyms support: You can now add column synonyms to help Genie interpret your data, making column descriptions easier to understand. See Edit column metadata.
  • Hide unnecessary columns: You can now hide unnecessary columns from Genie to simplify the data model, without needing to create new UC assets. See Show or hide columns.

• Improved parameterized SQL query use in Genie: Genie's decision process for using parameterized SQL queries has been improved to better align its responses with the user's prompt.

Dashboard filter enhancements and visualization improvements

May 22, 2025

• Exclude selected values in filter widgets: Dashboard viewers can now include or exclude the values they select from multi-select filter widgets.

• Drop-down selection fix: Fixed an issue where selection options in a drop-down list appeared out of order.

• Global filters panel: Dashboard authors can now add filters to a global filters panel, which applies across all dashboard pages.

• Relative date and time preview improvement: Previews for relative date and time controls are now hidden to avoid confusion caused by time zone differences.

• Dashboard PDF snapshots improvement: Dashboard PDF snapshots now wrap the content of the dashboard and no longer include white space.

• Constant reference line annotations: Horizontal and vertical constants reference line annotations for quantitative axes in cartesian chart types, such as area, bar, line, scatter, heatmap, and histogram charts.

Genie usage guidance and query performance

May 22, 2025

• Usage guidance addition in Genie: You can now add Usage Guidance to clarify how and when SQL examples should be used.

• Improved query result display in Genie: Query results now show more quickly. It now displays Running query until the query result is ready and Still thinking if additional work is required.

• UI polling update in Genie: The UI now starts polling for result data sooner rather than waiting until after the visualization and sample questions are generated.

• Fixed missing Trusted badge in Genie: The Trusted badge now appears on certified answers and parameterized queries.

• SQL function de-emphasis in Genie: The option to add SQL functions has been de-emphasized, making adding example SQL the default action.

• Improved result delivery timing in Genie: Descriptions are now generated after the SQL is run, thereby reducing the time it takes to get results.

• Fixed empty visualizations issue in Genie: Fixed an issue where empty visualizations were occasionally rendering in Genie.

Dashboard query updates and calculation support

May 15, 2025

• Genie in dashboards query update: Genie in dashboards will now only query from dashboard datasets, instead of the underlying tables within dashboard datasets.

• Custom calculation support in dashboards: Added support for custom calculations using isnull, isnotnull functions, and the null operator.

• AI/BI dashboard schedule support: AI/BI dashboard schedules now support dashboards without embedded credentials.

• Dashboard tooltip and number formatting fixes:

  • Tooltip fix: Fixed tooltips to display an empty value when the field value is an empty string ("").
  • Number formatting support: Number formatting in table and pivot table cells from notebooks, SQL editor, and legacy dashboards can now be carried over to AI/BI dashboards.

Dashboard data selection and point maps

May 8, 2025

• Select and add multiple tables and views: Users can now select and add multiple tables and views at once from the Add data dialog.

• Draft dashboard scheduling bug fix: Fixed a bug that allowed draft dashboards to be scheduled using the API. Now, only published dashboards can be scheduled.

• AI-assisted point maps in dashboards: You can now use natural-language prompts to generate point map charts in dashboards.

• Deploy dashboard tasks using Databricks Asset Bundles: You can now use dashboard tasks within a job resource when deploying bundles. To learn more about Databricks Asset Bundles, see What are Databricks Asset Bundles?. To learn more about programmatically configuring a dashboard task in a job, see the Jobs API.

Genie value dictionary and point map support

May 8, 2025

• Increased value dictionary support in Genie: Each value dictionary in Genie now supports 1024 values per column, up from 255. Click Refresh value dictionary on your existing value dictionaries to increase cardinality support in those columns. See Use value sampling to improve Genie's accuracy.

• Point maps support in Genie: Point maps are now supported in Genie.

Dashboard data truncation improvements

May 1, 2025

• View truncated data: You can now view more data in charts with truncated results by clicking Render more data.

Genie follow-up questions and instruction processing

May 1, 2025

• Follow-up questions for text responses in Genie: Genie now suggests follow-up questions for text responses that include no generated SQL or results. Previously, follow-up questions appeared only after responses with a result set. Now, prompts such as Explain the data set also return suggested follow-up questions to help Genie space users explore the data.

• Improved instruction processing in Genie: Genie's chain-of-thought reasoning has been refined to prioritize and adhere to the most relevant instructions based on the user prompt.

April 2025

Dashboard choropleth maps and AI forecast

April 24, 2025

• Choropleth maps available: Choropleth maps are now available for dashboards, allowing users to visualize data across geographical regions with varying colors based on values such as population, income, or other metrics. See Choropleth map.

  

• AI Forecast on line charts: You can now generate a forecast for a line chart (Public Preview). See Generate a forecast.

Genie prompt improvements and data sampling

April 24, 2025

• Distilled top-k prompt snippet: Replaced the original top-k prompt snippet with a shorter version (25% of the original token count) to reduce irrelevant context and improve LLM response accuracy.

• Clearer permissions warnings: Added a banner that explains when a user tries to access a Genie space containing tables they no longer have access to or that have been removed.

• Clearer next steps for permissions issues: When users try to select a table they can't read, the error message now explicitly advises them to request access from the asset owner.

• Improved collapsed visualizations: Collapsed visualizations now display the chart title in a full-width header bar with hover feedback and an expand icon. You can click or press Enter or Space to expand or collapse the visualization, improving keyboard accessibility and clarity.

• Genie data sampling can now be enabled from the previews page: Admins can now enable Genie Data Sampling, which allows Genie authors to add value dictionaries that improve Genie's ability to answer user prompt using correct columns and row values, from Previews. See Use value sampling to improve Genie's accuracy.

Dashboard custom dimensions and pivot table improvements

April 17, 2025

• Custom dimensions: Authors can create custom dimensions on AI/BI dashboards. A new set of functions, including CASE WHEN statements, CONCAT, COALESCE, and others, are now supported. See What are custom calculations?.

• Customizable pivot table widths: Pivot tables now support customizable widths.

• Sankey visualization improvements: Sankey visualizations now have reduced flickering on hover and use a lighter gray for flow lines.

Genie example questions and table management

April 17, 2025

• Example and follow-up questions: Genie now uses table metadata to automatically offer example and follow-up questions when users start exploring a Genie space. You can still add your own sample questions.

• Improved response layout: Genie's response layout has been redesigned to simplify chat interactions.

• View and remove missing tables: Users can now view and remove missing tables in a Genie space. The Data tab now shows visual indicators to mark tables that cannot be accessed. You can use the UI to remove those tables.

• Improved data access transparency: The table picker in Genie now prevents choosing tables for which you do not have at least SELECT privileges. This helps to ensure that Genie spaces only include tables that can return results. To learn about data Unity Catalog data privileges, see Unity Catalog privileges and securable objects.

End of support for legacy dashboards

April 10, 2025

You can no longer create or clone legacy dashboards using the UI or API. Databricks continues to address critical security issues and service outages, but recommends using AI/BI dashboards for all new development. To learn more about AI/BI dashboards, see Dashboards. For help migrating, see Clone a legacy dashboard to an AI/BI dashboard and Use dashboard APIs to create and manage dashboards.

Dashboard source control and export fixes

April 10, 2025

• Source control for dashboards: Dashboards can now be integrated with Databricks Git folders for collaboration and version control(Public Preview). See Source control dashboards.

• Revert draft dashboards to the last published version: You can now discard changes to a draft dashboard and restore it to the most recently published state. This makes it easier to undo edits and return to a known, shared version. See Draft and collaborate on a dashboard.

• Dashboard PDF export and embedded filter fixes:

  • PDF export fix: Fixed an issue where PDF export did not apply selected filter values at the time of export.
  • Embedded dashboard filter fix: Fixed an issue where filters were not rendering correctly in embedded dashboards.

Genie feedback workflow and security enhancements

April 10, 2025

• Revamped feedback flow in Genie: The Genie feedback workflow is now more interactive and responsive. When a response is incorrect, you can explain why it's wrong by choosing from a selection of common issues or entering your own explanation. You can regenerate the response based on the feedback you provide, or send it to a space editor for manual review. See Response feedback.

• Customer-managed key support for Genie: Genie spaces created after April 10, 2025 are now encrypted and compatible with customer-managed keys. See Customer-managed keys for encryption.

Dashboard publishing and visualization updates

April 3, 2025

• Streamlined publish flow: All publish actions now embed the publishing user's warehouse permission. The only decision is whether to embed the data credential. Embedding credentials removes the previous requirement of all users requiring individual access to the selected warehouse if the dashboard was published without embedded credentials. See What are embedded credentials?.

• Continue Genie conversations: When Genie is enabled for a dashboard, opening it now resumes the last conversation until a new one is started.

• Stable color assignment: Color assignment is now stable as filter values change.

• PNG download support for maps: Downloading PNGs for maps is now supported.

• Sankey visualizations: Sankey visualizations are now available on AI/BI dashboards. See Sankey diagram.

Genie API performance and space creation fixes

April 3, 2025

• Genie API performance improvement: API response latency has been improved by removing unnecessary completion steps.

• Create Genie spaces from Catalog Explorer fix: An issue with creating Genie spaces from Catalog Explorer has been resolved.

March 2025

Dashboard migration and localization improvements

March 27, 2025

• Chart migration fix: Dual-axis charts are now converted as expected when migrating from legacy dashboards to AI/BI dashboards.

• More space for titles: Narrow widgets and filter drop-downs now allocate more space for titles.

• Customize dashboard visualization settings by locale: Use the editing panel on your draft dashboard to select a locale and customize settings across all filter and visualization widgets.

• Improved URL stability: Importing a new version of a dashboard in draft and publishing no longer breaks filter values saved in existing URLs. See Filters in published dashboard URLs.

• Improved Genie creation flow: When you create a new Genie space, you need only to add tables to the space to start testing and iterating. See Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space.

• Conversations API update: Messages sent through the Conversations API now appear in the monitoring tab.

Dashboard query history and sorting enhancements

March 20, 2025

• Query history update: When viewing the query history, scheduled dashboard update queries now display the dashboard publisher as the user instead of System Service Principal.

• Simplified actions menu: The Ask Genie button no longer appears in a widget's kebab menu when Genie is not enabled on a dashboard.

• Increased custom sorting limits: You can now custom sort up to 500 items in a visualization.

• Resolved issue with subscription emails: Dashboards created using jobs now correctly apply subscription settings set at the workspace level.

Genie UI redesign and permission management

March 20, 2025

• New Genie space UI: Genie now has a redesigned UI for authoring and chats. The new layout has more space for conversations and a reorganized interface for adding and refining instructions. See Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space.

• Privileged users can help refine instructions: Users with at least CAN EDIT permissions can now view the source SQL used to generate answers, allowing them to help refine Genie instructions.

• Restricted table selection in Genie: To return results, users must have at least SELECT privileges on the Unity Catalog objects in the space. Authors are now restricted from adding tables where they have insufficient permissions.

• Improved SQL matching in Genie: Genie can now better utilize example SQL statements when user prompts closely match the example SQL.

Dashboard audit logs and workflow integration

March 13, 2025

• New audit log emitted for dashboard downloads: Downloading dashboards as PDF now triggers the audit log event triggerDashboardSnapshot.

• Dashboards are supported as a task type in workflows: Create a job task with the Dashboard task type to refresh dashboard results and optionally send subscription emails.

• Calculated measures from dashboards better supported: Genie spaces created from dashboards are now better able to use any calculated measures defined on the dashboard.

• Fixed null value styling: Pivot table cells with null values now display with the correct styling.

• Sorting with filters now supported: Single-value and multi-value filters now support sorting.

Genie conversation API and data sampling

March 13, 2025

• Easier to understand audit events in Genie: The updateConversationMessageFeedback audit event now includes a feedback_rating field to quickly see whether a rating is positive or negative.

• Genie Conversations API in Public Preview: The Genie Conversation API is now in Public Preview. Use the API to ask questions, retrieve generated SQL and query results, or get the details associated with a Genie space. For more details, see Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space.

• Genie data sampling is now available in Public Preview: This feature improves Genie's ability to translate user prompts into the right column and row values. To test this feature, contact your Databricks account team.

• Genie now self-reflects: As Genie generates SQL, it self-reflects to fix issues and return higher-quality answers. This improves Genie's ability to author filter conditions and fewer SQL errors.

• Improved keyword contextualization in Genie: Genie has improved its ability to provide relevant context in its responses based on keywords in the user question.

• Improved benchmark evaluation logic in Genie: Genie now supports column and row reordering and permits extraneous column selection in SQL results.

Dashboard visual indicators and chart improvements

March 6, 2025

• New visual indicators for column names: Duplicate column names are now greyed out to indicate lack of support.

• Fixed an issue with color mappings: Color mappings in the visualization editor now align with the renderer.

• Restricted character set: The name propertycustomer_ref_id in the serialized dashboard format is now restricted to alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. Before, there was no restriction in the character set.

• Dual-axis charts now support zoom: You can now click and drag to zoom in on non-combo dual-axis charts.

• Inclusive relative date ranges: The dates you select when choosing relative date periods in the date range picker, such as last week or last month, are now inclusive of the current date. See Date range picker.

• Freeze table columns: You can now freeze table columns to the left side of the table display. Columns stay in view as you scroll right on the table. See Dashboard visualizations.

• Fixed an issue with combo charts: Resolved misalignment between x-axis labels and bars when using a temporal field on the x-axis.

Genie benchmark evaluation improvements

March 6, 2025

• Improved benchmarks in Genie: The benchmark evaluation function now more accurately detects incorrect results.

February 2025

Dashboard date controls and notification features

February 27, 2025

• Relative dates update: The relative dates in date and date range pickers now include the current day.

• Error message improvement: Error messages for calculated measures now indicate that filter clauses are not supported.

• Publish notification feature: Dashboard authors can now send publish notifications when updating a dashboard. See Publish a dashboard.

• Ask Genie about specific charts: You can now ask questions about specific charts in Genie-enabled published dashboards. Genie uses the selected chart's title and dataset query as context for the conversation. See Ask Genie about a specific chart.

Genie file uploads and formatting improvements

February 27, 2025

• File uploads in gated Public Preview: A new feature that allows users to upload CSV and Excel files directly to a Genie space. See Upload a file. To enable file uploads, contact your Databricks account team.

• X-axis formatting: The x-axis for Combo charts now applies formatting for improved readability.

• Consistent security settings: Genie now respects the workspace level setting to enable Results tables clipboard features in admin security settings. See Manage your workspace.

Dashboard thumbnails and table enhancements

February 21, 2025

• Quickly navigate to the most popular dashboards: Dashboard thumbnails are now shown for all dashboards published with embedded credentials. The dashboards listing page attempts to show thumbnails for the four most popular dashboards you can access. Dashboards you don't have access to do not appear on the listing page.

• Pivot tables support more cells: Pivot tables now accommodate up to 1,000 rows and 1,000 columns, up from the previous limit of 100 rows and 100 columns.

• Edit box plot display names: You can now edit the Y-axis display names in box plots, enabling a more customized presentation.

• Multiple Y fields for generated charts: Visualizations generated using the Databricks Assistant now support multiple Y fields.

• ColorBy performance optimization: Rendering is now optimized for charts with a very large number of groupings. This optimization prevents performance issues and crashes.

Genie parameter editing and data source visibility

February 21, 2025

• Edit parameters in a response: You can now edit the parameter values used to generate a response to a trusted question. See Review a response.

  

• View data sources in Genie: Genie now displays the tables used as source data for each response.

• Avoid unnecessary wait times in Genie: You can now cancel a SQL query execution during the Waiting for warehouse state to avoid unnecessary wait times.

• Improved error messaging in Genie: Removed duplicate error messages from generated visualizations.

Dashboard listing page fixes

February 13, 2025

• Fixed dashboards listing page: An issue that caused some dashboards to be excluded from the listing page has been resolved. The listing page now shows all dashboards that you have permission to access.

Genie SQL reasoning and chart improvements

February 13, 2025

• Improved reasoning about generated SQL: Genie's model for translating text into SQL now uses Chain-of-Thought reasoning to break down questions into manageable steps: first, identifying useful columns; next, planning the SQL generation; and finally, combining the parts into a single SQL query. This upgrade results in more robust and accurate SQL translations. You should see improvements in Genie's ability to pick precise filter conditions and improved reasoning on nuanced questions.

• Fixed progress indication in Genie: Resolved an issue where Genie was showing a Still thinking status after a result had already been returned.

• Genie space sharing notifications: Sharing a Genie space now sends an email notification to the recipient. See Share a Genie space.

• Fixed zoom behavior:

  • Resolved an issue where zooming in on a chart altered the colors associated with quantitative values.
  • Resolved an issue that prevented zooming in on categorical charts with temporal fields.

• Improved chart migration: Visualizations created in the SQL editor, legacy dashboards, and notebooks that do not include sorting now migrate as expected.

Dashboard customization and page management

February 6, 2025

• Customize sort order and label angles: Control the sorting order of data on the axis and adjust the angle of labels in visualizations. See Format axis settings.

• Custom column widths for tables: All column types in table visualizations now support custom widths. Drag the handle at the top of a column to adjust its size.

• Clone dashboard pages: You can now duplicate dashboard pages. See Clone a page.

• Updated timezone handling: Visualizations now use the timezone from the dataset or compute resource instead of the browser settings. If a widget includes two columns with different time zones, the second is formatted to match the first.

Genie visualization display controls

February 6, 2025

• Hide visualizations in the chat window: Visualizations include a collapse icon in the upper-right corner that you can use to hide a chart. Click Show visualization to expand. To learn more about working with visualizations in Genie, see Generate visualizations.

January 2025

Dashboard calculated measures and data display

January 30, 2025

• Create calculated measures: Perform calculations and visualize new data fields without modifying the SQL queries that define a dataset. For details, see What are custom calculations?.

• Sort dashboards by name: You can now sort dashboards by name on the dashboard listing page.

• Expanded data display in charts: Dashboard visualizations now support up to 15,000 rows of data.

Genie visualization generation and warehouse status

January 30, 2025

• Genie-generated visualizations: When Genie detects that a visualization would improve response clarity, it includes one with the result.

• Improved warehouse status visibility: Genie now displays a Waiting for warehouse message when a request is queued and awaiting processing by the associated SQL warehouse.

• Updated warehouse picker UI: The warehouse picker in Genie spaces now automatically selects the first running warehouse from the list. Its updated appearance matches other compute selectors in the Azure Databricks UI.

• Fixed results table issue: Genie now reliably includes table results in responses.

Dashboard service principal publishing and cross-filtering

January 23, 2025

• Publish using a service principal: You can now use the REST API to publish dashboards with service principal credentials. See Use a service principal to publish and share dashboards.

• Reorder datasets: Drag and drop dataset names to change their order in the Data tab.

• Cross-filtering support for point maps: Cross-filtering is now available for point map charts. For a list of chart types that support cross-filtering, see Apply cross-filtering.

• New scatter chart scaling options: A Log (Symmetric) scale function is now available for scatter charts.

• Fixed range sliders: The Range slider filter now correctly limits items to those within the selected range.

• Fixed tooltips: Tooltips now display accurate totals for charts with labels.

Genie table quoting and query fixes

January 23, 2025

• Fixed table identifier quoting: Genie now properly quotes table name identifiers in queries by adding backticks around each part of the catalog, schema, and table name. For example, catalog.schema.table is now formatted as `catalog`.`schema`.`table` to prevent TABLE_OR_VIEW_NOT_FOUND errors.

• Fixed ANY keyword error: Genie now replaces the ANY keyword with the IN keyword when querying list columns to avoid common SQL errors.

• Improved query descriptions: Genie now uses an updated model to generate more precise and accurate query descriptions.

Dashboard PDF download and dataset visualization

January 16, 2025

• Download as PDF: You can now download a PDF copy of a published dashboard. See Download a published dashboard.

• Visually identify datasets in use: A visual indicator now marks whether datasets in the data tab are used in visualizations on the canvas. Datasets that support canvas widgets have a blue icon and a bolded title. Unused datasets have a grey icon and a non-bolded title.

• Generate new charts with Databricks Assistant: Databricks Assistant now supports creating dual-axis charts from natural language requests.

• COUNT(*) added as a measure: When choosing fields from the visualization editor, COUNT(*) is now in the measure section.

• Dashboard hover lines and Excel download fixes:

  • Fix: Hover lines now appear correctly on horizontal charts.
  • Fix: Downloading datasets as Excel files now preserves the correct numeric data types.

Genie warehouse selector improvements

January 16, 2025

• See warehouse details in Genie: The Default Warehouse selector in the space settings has been updated to display status, size, and warehouse type. You can also type to filter and select warehouses.

Dashboard full-screen mode and page name display

January 9, 2025

• Dashboard full-screen mode fixes: Filters and context menus now appear in full-screen mode as expected.

• Show page names: Dashboard page names can now display 50% more characters before being truncated.

Genie table count and syntax fixes

January 9, 2025

• Genie table count and syntax improvements:
  • Improvement: Genie now correctly responds with the number of tables in a space.
  • Improvement: Reduced the frequency of PARSE_SYNTAX_ERROR issues triggered by improper use of backticks.