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These features and Azure Databricks platform improvements were released in March 2026.
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Releases are staged. Your Azure Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog
March 2, 2026
You can now protect data in Unity Catalog catalogs with your own encryption keys using customer-managed keys (CMK). See Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog.
Lakebase is now generally available on Azure
March 2, 2026
Lakebase is now generally available on Azure. It is the latest version of Lakebase with autoscaling compute, scale-to-zero, branching, and instant restore. The GA release extends region support to 11 new Azure regions in addition to the existing eastus2, westeurope, and westus regions.
New regions:
australiaeast(Australia East)brazilsouth(Brazil South)canadacentral(Canada Central)centralindia(Central India)southcentralus(South Central US)southeastasia(Southeast Asia)eastus(East US)centralus(Central US)northeurope(North Europe)uksouth(UK South)westus2(West US 2)
See Get started with Lakebase Autoscaling.
Schedule data refreshes in Google Sheets (Public Preview)
March 2, 2026
You can now schedule automatic data refreshes in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis. See Schedule data refreshes in Google Sheets.
Connect to Azure Databricks from Microsoft Excel (Public Preview)
March 2, 2026
The new Azure Databricks Excel Add-in is in Public Preview and allows you to connect Microsoft Excel to your workspace, import data from tables or Metric Views, execute SQL queries, and analyze data directly in Excel. See Connect to Azure Databricks from Microsoft Excel.
Update workspace network configuration to VNet injection is now GA
March 2, 2026
You can now update the virtual network (VNet) configuration of an existing Azure Databricks workspace to migrate from a Azure Databricks-managed VNet to your own VNet (VNet injection). This feature is now generally available. See Update workspace network configuration.