Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines release 2025.36

August 16 - September 24, 2025

These features and improvements were released with the 2025.36 release of Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines.

Databricks Runtime versions used by this release

Channel:

• CURRENT (default): Databricks Runtime 16.4
• PREVIEW: Databricks Runtime 16.4

Note

Because Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines channel releases follow a rolling upgrade process, channel upgrades are deployed to different regions at different times. Your release, including Databricks Runtime versions, might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date. To find the Databricks Runtime version for a pipeline, see Runtime information.

New features and improvements

• Improved performance for selective refresh requests (requests that only update selected tables). See Run pipeline code
• Performance improvements to the Python REPL, for a more responsive authoring experience.