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These features and Azure Databricks platform improvements were released in October 2022.
Note
Releases are staged. Your Azure Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
October 31, 2022
Databricks Repos support for non-notebook files is GA. See What are workspace files?.
October 31, 2022
You can now configure a customer-managed key for your Azure Databricks workspace to use for managed disk encryption (Public Preview). For more information, see Configure customer-managed keys for Azure managed disks.
October 27, 2022
You can now automatically generate a notebook to use the model for streaming inference via Delta Live Tables. For details, see Configure streaming inference using Delta Live Tables.
October 27 - November 3, 2022
You can now connect to Fivetran from the add data UI by following the same steps you follow to connect to Fivetran from the Partner Connect portal.
October 27, 2022
Databricks now provides full support for the Databricks SQL Driver for Node.js. The new version number is 1.0.0.
Changes include:
DBSQLClient.openSession
now uses the latest protocol version by default.IOperation
methods that support it. It is on by default.maxRows
is omitted, it defaults to 100,000. To disable direct results, set maxRows
to null
.runAsync
option is now available for all operations that support it.logger
param is added to the DBSQLClient
constructor.See the full changelog.
October 25-28, 2022
You can now easily create a connection between erwin Data Modeler by Quest and your Azure Databricks workspace using Partner Connect. For more information, see Connect to erwin Data Modeler using Partner Connect.
October 25, 2022
Databricks Feature Store now supports publishing feature tables to Azure Cosmos DB. For details, see Third-party online stores.
October 24, 2022
There is a new workspace setting called Enforce User Isolation. Admins can enable this setting to prevent creating or starting a cluster with a “No isolation shared” cluster access type or equivalent legacy cluster type.
October 19, 2022
Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS and 11.3 LTS ML are now generally available.
Note
LTS means this version is under long-term support. See Databricks Runtime LTS version lifecycle.
See Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS and Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS for Machine Learning.
Oct 17-21, 2022
You can now format Python cells in a notebook, making it easier to read and maintain code and enforce coding standards across notebooks. For details, see Format code cells.
October 14, 2022
You can now use Microsoft Entra ID service principals to automate account-level workflows such as Unity Catalog metastore creation and identity management. Service principals can authenticate to account-level APIs using tokens. A service principal must be an account admin to access account-level APIs. For details, see Get Microsoft Entra ID tokens for service principals.
October 11, 2022
The Personal Compute policy is available on all workspaces by default. The policy allows users to easily create single-machine compute resources for their individual use so they can start running workloads immediately, minimizing compute management overhead.
Admins can manage the Personal Compute policy for their workspaces. See Manage the Personal Compute policy
October 11, 2022
The add data UI provides access to common data sources configurations and file upload UIs for all Azure Databricks personas. See Upload files to Azure Databricks.
October 11, 2022
Azure Databricks now supports uploading small files to Delta Lake using a UI from all personas. See Create or modify a table using file upload.
October 11, 2022
You can now easily create a connection between Hevo Data and your Azure Databricks workspace using Partner Connect. For more information, see Connect to Hevo Data using Partner Connect.
October 7, 2022
Account admins can prevent internal credentials from being automatically generated for Azure Databricks workspace admins on No Isolation Shared clusters.
October 6, 2022
Global search is now available in the SQL persona. You can now search for queries, dashboards, and alerts with global search in any persona by name using the new search experience. You can also search for content within a query and see a preview of matching content.
October 3-6, 2022
Unity Catalog now supports privilege inheritance. This means that granting a privilege on a catalog or schema automatically grants the privilege to all current and future objects within the catalog or schema. For more information about the Unity Catalog privilege model see Unity Catalog privileges and securable objects.
If you created your Unity Catalog metastore during the public preview (before August 25, 2022), you can upgrade to Privilege Model version 1.0. to take advantage of privilege inheritance. Privileges have been renamed in Privilege Model version 1.0, however Databricks will continue to support grants expressed using the old privilege model and automatically map them to the equivalent grant. Databricks recommends that you upgrade existing code that performs grants to reference the updated privilege model.
October 3-6, 2022
The following items have moved from the side bar to the top bar in the UI:
October 3, 2022
Databricks Runtime 11.3 is now available as a Beta release.
See Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS and Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS for Machine Learning.
October 1, 2022
The account console is now available in the following languages:
To change the account console language, click your username in the console’s top navigation bar, select Settings, and go to the Language settings tab.
Events
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