June 2026

These features and Azure Databricks platform improvements were released in June 2026.

Note

Releases are staged. Your Azure Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.

June 1, 2026

Vector Search has been renamed to AI Search. You can now create full text search indexes without any vectors or embeddings needed. See Databricks AI Search.

Intra-VNet NSG rule hardening for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview

June 1, 2026

You can now harden the intra-VNet NSG rule to restrict workspace traffic to your host and worker subnet CIDRs instead of the entire virtual network. Applies to VNet injection workspaces on the classic compute plane. See Harden intra-VNet network security group (NSG) rules for Azure Databricks.