May 2026

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

Note

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

Catalog commits are now generally available

May 8, 2026

Catalog commits are now generally available. Catalog commits expand Unity Catalog managed table interoperability, strengthen Unity Catalog governance capabilities, and unlock new features such as multi-statement, multi-table transactions. When catalog commits are enabled on a Unity Catalog managed Delta table, Unity Catalog becomes the table's system of coordination, brokering access and state across engines. Products that read or write to Unity Catalog managed tables now support catalog commits, including streaming tables, Delta Sharing, Zerobus, Lakeflow Connect, Mosaic AI Gateway, MLflow, and Lakeflow Jobs triggers. See Catalog commits.

Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks

May 7, 2026

You can now use the %uv pip magic command in serverless notebooks on environment version 5 or above as a faster alternative to %pip for Python package management. %uv pip is powered by the uv package manager and shares the same notebook virtual environment as %pip.

See Faster installs with %uv pip.

Standalone pipelines on serverless general compute (Beta)

May 7, 2026

Standalone pipelines, including materialized views and streaming tables, can now be created from a notebook running on serverless general compute. Standalone pipelines (renamed from pipelines on Databricks SQL) can be created using SQL or Python. Standalone pipelines are in Beta. See Requirements for standalone pipelines.

Lakehouse Sync is now available on Azure (Beta)

May 6, 2026

You can now continuously replicate Lakebase Postgres tables into Unity Catalog managed Delta tables using CDC. Lakehouse Sync captures row-level changes and writes them as SCD Type 2 history. No external compute, pipelines, or jobs are required. See Lakehouse Sync.

Block identities from your Azure Databricks account with the account access denylist

May 6, 2026

Use the account access denylist to prevent specific users, groups, or service principals from accessing your Azure Databricks account when automatic identity management is enabled. See Deny identities access to your account.

Outlook managed ingestion connector (Beta)

May 5, 2026

The Outlook connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest email data from Microsoft Outlook into Azure Databricks. See Outlook connector.

Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview

May 5, 2026

Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs.

Qwen3.5 122B A10B is available in Public Preview.

Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.

AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator (Beta)

May 5, 2026

AI Runtime now supports the 1xH100 accelerator in Beta. See Hardware options.

GitHub managed ingestion connector (Beta)

May 5, 2026

The GitHub connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest data from GitHub into Azure Databricks. See GitHub connector.

Smartsheet managed ingestion connector (Beta)

May 5, 2026

The Smartsheet connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest data from Smartsheet into Azure Databricks. See Smartsheet connector.

Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA

May 4, 2026

Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now generally available. See Databricks Runtime 18.2 and Databricks Runtime 18.2 for Machine Learning.

Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available

May 4, 2026

The Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available. The editor offers an agent-first experience with Genie Code for creating, updating, and debugging production pipelines, with your code and Genie Code chat side by side with the pipeline graph and metrics. See Develop and debug ETL pipelines with the Lakeflow Pipelines Editor.

Native data profiling for notebook results tables

May 1, 2026

You can now view profiling statistics for columns in notebook results tables. From a results table, select column headers and click Sidebar icon. Open selection details to view profiling statistics. This feature is also available in the new Databricks SQL editor. See Select data.

Community connectors (Beta)

May 1, 2026

Open-source connectors extend Lakeflow Connect to sources without managed connector support. They're built and maintained by the community. Use a registered connector or create your own. See Community connectors in Lakeflow Connect.

Azure UK South now has a dedicated regional control plane

May 1, 2026

Azure UK South now has a dedicated regional control plane in addition to the existing UK West-based control plane. New workspaces created in UK South use the regional control plane and require firewall allowlist entries for the new SCC relay tunnel, Control Plane NAT IPs, Metastore, Log Blob storage, and Event Hubs endpoint. Existing UK South workspaces continue to use the UK West-based control plane and the corresponding UK West values, unless they migrate. See IP addresses and domains for Azure Databricks services and assets.

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