Data Classification release notes

This page lists new classifiers, changes to classification behavior, and feature improvements for Databricks Data Classification.

For an overview of Data Classification, see Data Classification. For supported classifiers, see Supported classification tags.

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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.

Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta)

September 15, 2026

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.

Data Classification is now available by default for additional compliance standards

July 15, 2026

Data Classification is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled and either C5 or TISAX controls selected.

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

June 23, 2026

Data Classification is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled, and either HIPAA controls or no specific compliance standard selected.

Databricks Data Classification is now GA

April 20, 2026

Databricks Data Classification is now generally available. Use Data Classification to automatically classify and tag sensitive data in Unity Catalog using an agentic AI system. See Data Classification.