Azure Databricks platform release notes

• May 2026
  • Google Drive managed ingestion connector (Beta)
  • Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout
  • Removed legacy Assistant slash commands
  • Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines parameters are now in Beta
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/26)
  • Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
  • Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are in Beta
  • Postgres password authentication is now disabled by default for new Lakebase Autoscaling projects
  • Databricks CLI is now GA
  • Instance events and instance pools system tables are now available (Public Preview)
  • Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are GA
  • Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views
  • Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta)
  • Lakebase Autoscaling now supports compute sizes up to 64 CU (128 GB)
  • Authenticate as a service principal using OAuth U2M (Beta)
  • Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports nesting supervisor agents as subagent tools
  • Databricks Container Services for standard compute is now available (Beta)
  • Lakeflow Designer updates
  • Edits to resources in the UI now automatically update YAML
  • Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards
  • Unified runs list is generally available
  • Recover a deleted Lakebase project within 7 days
  • Share Genie Code chat threads
  • Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports vector search indexes as subagent tools
  • Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines sinks are now generally available
  • View run history for scheduled refreshes in Google Sheets
  • Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines environment versions (Beta)
  • Databricks SQL alerts are now generally available
  • SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now in Public Preview
  • New Lakebase Autoscaling instances now scale to zero by default
  • ai_parse_document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/13)
  • Lakebase Autoscaling: Lakehouse Sync is now in Public Preview
  • App telemetry for Databricks Apps is now in Public Preview
  • HIPAA support for the Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel
  • HubSpot connector (GA)
  • Catalog commits are now generally available
  • Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks
  • Standalone pipelines on serverless general compute (Beta)
  • Lakehouse Sync is now available on Azure (Beta)
  • Block identities from your Azure Databricks account with the account access denylist
  • Outlook managed ingestion connector (Beta)
  • Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview
  • AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator (Beta)
  • GitHub managed ingestion connector (Beta)
  • Smartsheet managed ingestion connector (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA
  • Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available
  • Native data profiling for notebook results tables
  • Community connectors (Beta)
  • Azure UK South now has a dedicated regional control plane
• April 2026
  • Disabling tasks in Lakeflow Jobs is now GA
  • Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports custom MCP servers and custom agents on Databricks Apps
  • MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now in Public Preview
  • Configure private endpoints for serverless compute in Azure China
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/29)
  • Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now generally available
  • 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Public Preview)
  • Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines updates are retained for 60 days
  • Connect Azure Databricks to on-premises resources using an SSH reverse tunnel
  • Tag Unity Catalog functions
  • Zendesk Support connector (GA)
  • Cloud token access for open Delta Sharing sharing (GA)
  • Recently Resolved Incidents section in Data Quality Monitoring (Beta)
  • Confluence connector (GA)
  • Manage Supervisor Agent programmatically with the Databricks SDK (Beta)
  • Azure Databricks Excel Add-in requires workspace preview enablement
  • Workspace base environments are now generally available
  • Lakeflow Designer is now in Public Preview
  • Language selector for AI-generated comments in Catalog Explorer
  • CPU_MEDIUM and CPU_LARGE workload types for Model Serving (Beta)
  • Databricks Data Classification is now GA
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/20)
  • Supervisor API for building agents (Beta)
  • BI compatibility mode removed from Power BI connector
  • Altering a catalog or schema's managed storage location is now GA
  • Databricks Connector for Google Sheets is now generally available
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
  • ai_parse_document is now generally available
  • Compute log delivery to volumes is now GA
  • Customer-managed keys now support model serving
  • Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
  • Sample Data Explorer is generally available
  • Updated UI navigation for Databricks Apps
  • AI Gateway now governs MCP servers (Beta)
  • Lakebase Autoscaling: Customer-managed keys
  • Create and write to Unity Catalog tables from external Delta clients (Beta)
  • Column-level SAP governance tags sync into Unity Catalog
  • Connect Lovable apps to Azure Databricks
  • Vector Search retrieval quality (Beta)
  • SQL reference documentation for managing governed tags
  • New cascade field for deleting Unity Catalog pipelines (Beta)
  • Share foreign Iceberg tables with Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
  • C5, TISAX, and K-FSI compliance controls are now generally available
  • Databricks Runtime 18.2 and Databricks Runtime 18.2 ML are in Beta
  • Scoped personal access tokens are now generally available
  • ai_prep_search (Beta)
  • Git-backed app deployments are now generally available
  • Databricks Marketplace listing creation wizard
  • Workspace skills for Genie Code are now available
  • SAP semantic metadata syncs automatically into Unity Catalog
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/02)
  • Governed tags are generally available
• March 2026
  • Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in additional regions
  • Databricks Connector for Google Sheets updates
  • Agent Bricks now covers all Databricks AI capabilities
  • Classification and Information Extraction are in Public Preview
  • ai_classify and ai_extract now support v2 signatures (Public Preview)
  • Supervisor Agent is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers
  • Type widening is now generally available
  • Auto Loader supports automatic type widening (Public Preview)
  • New fields in lineage system table entity metadata
  • Dynamic parameters in the new SQL editor
  • Supervisor Agent supports long-running tasks
  • Create alerts for anomaly detection in the Data Quality Monitoring UI (Beta)
  • AI Runtime is now in Public Preview
  • SQL alert task for jobs (Beta)
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.8.0 is available
  • Azure Databricks usage dashboard is now generally available
  • Databricks Apps supports uv for Python dependency management
  • Search in metric views fix
  • Lakebase Autoscaling databases as Databricks Apps resources
  • Databricks Asset Bundles is now Declarative Automation Bundles
  • Health indicators for tables in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)
  • ABAC policy functions now use snake_case naming
  • Empty vector search endpoints no longer incur charges
  • 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Beta)
  • Lakebase Autoscaling updates: OAuth role management and budget policies and tags
  • Data quality monitoring documentation moved to Data governance (Unity Catalog)
  • New Lakebase instances are created as Autoscaling projects by default
  • Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now GA
  • Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code
  • Databricks SQL pipelines support notifications and performance mode (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (03/10)
  • Workday HCM connector (Beta)
  • BI compatibility mode for metric views in Power BI (Beta)
  • New resources for Databricks Apps
  • Multi-table transactions are now in Public Preview
  • Databricks Apps compute sizing support for compliance security profile standards
  • Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Public Preview)
  • Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model
  • Serverless compute now available for IRAP and Canada Protected B workloads on Azure Databricks
  • Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta)
  • Databricks Apps telemetry (Beta)
  • Tree view of the workspace browser side panel (Public Preview)
  • Lakebase is now generally available with compliance security profile
  • Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions
  • Knowledge Assistant is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers
  • Managed OAuth flows for external MCP servers
  • Notebook tagging (Public Preview)
  • Customer-managed keys for Unity Catalog
  • Lakebase Autoscaling now includes high availability
  • Lakebase is now generally available on Azure
  • Schedule data refreshes in Google Sheets (Public Preview)
  • Connect to Azure Databricks from Microsoft Excel (Public Preview)
  • Update workspace network configuration to VNet injection is now GA
• February 2026
  • ISMAP compliance support
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (02/26)
  • Python unit testing in the workspace
  • Databricks ODBC Driver renamed from Simba Spark ODBC Driver
  • COMMENT ON streaming tables is now GA
  • Personal access tokens preserved when CAN USE permission is revoked
  • Azure virtual network service endpoint policies are now generally available
  • JAR tasks on serverless compute is now in Public Preview
  • ADBC driver is now the default driver for new Power BI connections
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (02/19)
  • TikTok Ads connector (Beta)
  • Discover page and domains (Beta)
  • Scoped personal access tokens (Beta)
  • Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Beta)
  • Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B now available in Public Preview as a Databricks-hosted model
  • Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
  • Databricks Runtime 18.1 and Databricks Runtime 18.1 ML are in Beta
  • OneLake catalog federation (Beta)
  • Automatic identity management deactivates deleted Entra ID users
  • AI Gateway (Beta)
  • File events enabled by default on new external locations
  • HubSpot connector (Beta)
  • Serverless compute now available for compliance standards
  • Configure default Python package repositories for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Supervisor Agent is now Generally Available
  • New documentation for authoring and deploying agents on Databricks Apps
  • Deploy Databricks apps from Git repositories (Beta)
  • Query tags for SQL warehouses (Public Preview)
  • Agent Bricks: Multi-Agent Supervisor is now Supervisor Agent
  • Google Ads connector (Beta)
  • Decrypt query history system table fields (Public Preview)
  • Applying filters, masks, tags, and comments to pipeline-created datasets is now GA
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
  • Default SQL warehouse settings (General Availability)
  • View warehouse activity details (Beta)
  • Partner-powered AI features are now supported in the Canada, Brazil, and United Kingdom Azure Geographies
  • Lakebase Autoscaling now available on Azure (Beta)
  • Connect Databricks Assistant to MCP servers
  • Select tables and create pivot tables in Google Sheets
  • Genie Spaces are now available in the Japan and Korea Azure Geographies
  • Tag Databricks Apps (Public Preview)
  • Zendesk Support connector (Beta)
  • Data Quality Monitoring Anomaly Detection public preview
• January 2026
  • Serverless workspaces are now generally available
  • Trigger on update for pipelines (GA)
  • Lakeflow jobs system tables are now generally available (GA)
  • View and restore your recent workspace tab sessions
  • Paste images into notebooks
  • Compute sizing for Databricks Apps is now generally available
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (01/27)
  • Knowledge Assistant is now available in more regions
  • Managed MCP servers is now Public Preview
  • Simplified serverless network security with Azure Network Security Perimeter
  • Store and query MLflow traces in Unity Catalog (Beta)
  • Improved group sharing for automatic identity management
  • Google Drive connector (Beta)
  • You can now use custom base environments for Python, Python Wheels, and notebook tasks in serverless jobs
  • Unified Lakebase interface
  • Databricks Runtime 18.0 is now GA
  • Ingest Salesforce formula fields incrementally (Beta)
  • Knowledge Assistant is now generally available
  • Row filtering for managed ingestion connectors (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (01/09)
  • Create skills for Databricks Assistant
  • Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (GA)
• December 2025
  • Databricks Assistant Agent mode is now in Public Preview
  • Single-use refresh tokens for OAuth applications
  • Update request parameters for Delta Sharing recipient audit log events
  • Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
  • New Azure Databricks accounts will not have access to legacy features
  • MySQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
  • Meta Ads connector (Beta)
  • View latest scheduled notebook job results
  • Updated Lakeflow Jobs UI is generally available
  • Context based ingress control is now in Public Preview
  • Login required to download ODBC driver
  • Flexible node types are now generally available
  • Serverless compute is now available in Azure China North 3
  • New resource types for Databricks Apps
  • Run read-only queries on Lakebase (Provisioned) readable secondaries from SQL editor
  • Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview
  • Disable legacy features settings are now GA
  • Confluence connector (Beta)
  • PostgreSQL connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
  • Customizable SharePoint connector (Beta)
  • NetSuite connector (Public Preview)
  • Jira connector (Beta)
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector (Public Preview)
  • Change owner for materialized views or streaming tables defined in Databricks SQL
  • Discover files in Auto Loader efficiently using file events
  • ForEachBatch for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines is available (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 18.0 and Databricks Runtime 18.0 ML are in Beta
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (12/09)
  • New columns in Lakeflow system tables (Public Preview)
  • New token expiration policy for open Delta Sharing
  • Vector Search reranker is now generally available
  • Built-in Excel file format support (Beta)
• November 2025
  • Serverless workspaces are now available (Public Preview)
  • Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines stream progress metrics are generally available
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
  • Configure full refresh behavior for managed database connectors
  • Real-time collaboration in notebook cells, files, and SQL editor
  • Serverless compute is now available in new regions
  • Use Git CLI commands in Git folders (Beta)
  • Configure compute size for Databricks Apps (Public Preview)
  • Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/18)
  • Add Azure Databricks Genie MCP server to Azure AI Foundry (Public Preview)
  • Jobs can now be triggered on source view update
  • Delta Sharing views automatically permitted in serverless network policies
  • ABAC-secured assets shared using Delta Sharing is in Public Preview
  • Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview
  • Improved full refresh flow for managed database connectors
  • Connect Genie spaces to Microsoft Copilot Studio (Public Preview)
  • TISAX compliance controls (Public Preview)
  • SFTP connector (Public Preview)
  • Convert foreign tables to Unity Catalog managed or external tables (Public Preview)
  • JDBC Unity Catalog connection in Beta
  • Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has been renamed to Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
  • Migrate Community Edition workspaces to Free Edition (Public Preview)
  • SAP BDC connector for Azure Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing
  • List MCP servers in Azure Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
  • New MCP server tab
  • C5 and K-FSI compliance standards (Public Preview)
  • Updated tag search syntax in workspace search
  • Serverless notebook tasks can now use jobs environment
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (11/04)
  • Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct now available in Beta
  • Attribute-based access control (ABAC) now in Public Preview
  • Audit logs for request-for-access events are now emitted
  • Disable DBFS root and mounts workspace setting is GA
  • JAR tasks are now supported on serverless compute
• October 2025
  • Salesforce ingestion connector supports history tracking (SCD type 2)
  • Databricks Assistant Agent mode can now use models served through Anthropic on Databricks
  • Skip cells when running notebooks
  • Improved notebook debugger experience
  • New compute policy form is now generally available
  • Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog functions and external MCP servers
  • Feedback model deprecated for AI agents
  • Request logs and assessment logs tables deprecated
  • Serverless compute has been updated to version 17.3
  • Databricks JDBC Driver 2.7.5
  • Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
  • ai_parse_document (Public Preview)
  • Column drop behavior updated
  • Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS is now GA
  • Compatibility Mode (Public Preview)
  • Zstd is now the default compression for new managed tables
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (10/21)
  • Unified runs list (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Connector for Google Sheets offers additional features (Public Preview)
  • Dashboard and Genie spaces tagging (Public Preview)
  • Jobs can now be triggered on source table update
  • Declarative Automation Bundles in the workspace is GA
  • SQL MCP server now available (Beta)
  • The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Azure Databricks is generally available
  • Create backfill job runs
  • Improved autoscaling behavior for Mosaic AI Model Serving
  • Data Classification (Public Preview)
  • Multimodal support is now available
  • Context based ingress control (Beta)
  • The billable usage table now records the performance mode of serverless jobs and pipelines
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (10/07)
  • Serverless private git (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS and Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS ML are in Beta
  • Partition metadata is generally available
  • Delta Sharing recipients can apply row filters and column masks (GA)
  • Certification status system tag is in Public Preview
  • Prompt caching is now supported for Claude models
  • Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
  • Serverless compute resources now support PCI-DSS compliance in australia-east
  • Notebook improvements
  • Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is available for batch inference in US regions
  • Convert to Unity Catalog managed table from external table
  • Git email identity configuration for Git folders
  • Configure Azure virtual network service policies for storage access (Public Preview)
  • New permissions for the Databricks GitHub App
• September 2025
  • Pipeline update timeline table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Data classification system table Beta
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted foundation model
  • Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now in public preview
  • New requirement to create connections for Salesforce ingestion
  • Migrate Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines pipelines from legacy publishing mode is generally available
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance updates
  • Mosaic AI Agent Framework supports automatic authentication passthrough for Lakebase resources
  • Route-optimized endpoints now require route-optimized URL path for querying
  • Explore table data using an LLM (Public Preview)
  • Genie Public Preview
  • Discover files in Auto Loader efficiently using file events without enrollment (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 17.2 is now is now GA
  • Delta Sharing on Lakehouse Federation is in Beta
  • Mount Delta shares to an existing shared catalog
  • Google Analytics Raw Data connector GA
  • Serverless jobs and pipelines configured in the UI are now performance optimized by default
  • Python custom data sources can be used with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
  • Automatic identity management is generally available
  • Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines now supports stream progress metrics in Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime maintenance update
  • Databricks Apps support for Genie resources
  • Databricks Online Feature Stores (Public Preview)
  • MLflow metadata is now available in system tables (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Assistant Agent mode: Data Science Agent is in Beta
  • Tables backed by default storage can be Delta shared to any recipient (Beta)
  • Migrate Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines from legacy publishing mode is rolled back to Public Preview
  • AI agents: Authorize on-behalf-of-user Public Preview
  • SQL Server connector supports SCD type 2
• August 2025
  • Interact with Azure Databricks jobs in a Power Automate flow (Public Preview)
  • OLTP Database tab renamed to Lakebase Postgres in Compute section
  • Account SCIM 2.0 updates
  • Track and navigate notebook runs with the new cell execution minimap
  • Admins can now manage a workspace's serverless base environments (Public Preview)
  • Lakebase synced tables supports syncing Apache Iceberg and foreign tables in Snapshot mode
  • External MCP servers are in Beta
  • Migrate Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines from legacy publishing mode is now GA
  • Governed tags are Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 17.2 and Databricks Runtime 17.2 ML are in Beta
  • New INSERT REPLACE commands (GA)
  • Canada Protected B is GA
  • OAuth token federation is now GA
  • Microsoft SQL Server connector GA
  • New table property to control Delta table compression
  • Data type mapping update for Lakebase synced tables
  • Automatic liquid clustering is now available for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
  • Budget policy support for Lakebase database instances and synced tables (Public Preview)
  • Expanded region availability for Databricks Apps
  • Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector GA
  • Updating workspace virtual network configurations is now in Public Preview
  • Enhanced autocomplete for complex data types in notebooks
  • Declarative Automation Bundles support for Lakebase database resources
  • Databricks Assistant integrated with compute
  • Serverless compute runtime updated to 17.1
  • Set the run-as user for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
  • Mosaic AI Vector Search reranker Public Preview
  • Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines template in bundles in the workspace (Public Preview)
  • Azure Databricks connector in Microsoft Power Platform is now GA
  • Token-based rate limits now available on AI Gateway
  • Databricks-hosted models for Assistant are now GA
  • OpenAI GPT OSS models now support function calling
  • OpenAI GPT OSS models now supported on provisioned throughput
  • Serverless GPU compute now supports multinode workloads
  • Schedule jobs for Serverless GPU compute workloads
  • Databricks Assistant: User and workspace instructions now available
  • Single-node compute on standard access mode is now GA
  • Column masks now retained when replacing a table
  • Access requests in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • Disable legacy features for new workspaces (Public Preview)
  • Lakebase Public Preview enabled by default
  • ServiceNow connector GA
  • Create external Delta tables from third-party clients (Public Preview)
  • Path credential vending (Public Preview)
  • Use OpenAI GPT OSS models for batch inference and structured outputs
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.9.2
  • Power BI Azure Databricks connector supports M2M OAuth
  • OpenAI GPT OSS models now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving
  • Azure Private Link from serverless compute to resources in your virtual network (VNet) via a standard load balancer (SLB) is now generally available
  • Jobs in continuous mode can now have task-level retries for failed tasks
  • Databricks Runtime 17.1 is now is now GA
  • AI Playground is now GA
  • Edit mode in Assistant does multi-cell code refactoring and more
• July 2025
  • Databricks Terraform provider supports Lakebase resources
  • Synced tables are now metered and billed
  • New compute policy form (Public Preview)
  • Delta Sharing supports sharing tables and schemas secured by ABAC policies (Beta)
  • Sharing streaming tables and materialized views is GA
  • Jobs & Pipelines list now includes Databricks SQL pipelines
  • Organization name required to enable Delta Sharing on metastore
  • One-time job runs now correctly record the job name in usage system table
  • Serverless compute runtime updated to 17.0
  • Disable DBFS root and mounts is in Public Preview
  • Improvements to the notebook editing experience
  • Expanded region availability for ai_parse_document
  • New columns available in query history system table
  • Moving tables between Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines pipelines is now GA
  • Dynamic partition overwrite with INSERT REPLACE USING (Public Preview)
  • Selectively replace data with INSERT REPLACE ON (Public Preview)
  • Create Dataverse virtual tables from Azure Databricks tables in Power Apps (Public Preview)
  • Add Azure Databricks connector in Power Platform to a data policy (Public Preview)
  • Supervisor Agent is in Beta
  • Real-time mode in Structured Streaming (Public Preview)
  • Databricks documentation release notes feed
  • Public network access disabled for Azure managed disks
  • Explore table data using an LLM (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 17.1 and Databricks Runtime 17.1 ML are in Beta
  • Google Gemma 3 12B now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving
  • The CAN VIEW permission on SQL warehouses is now generally available
  • Simplified compute form enabled by default
  • Serverless notebooks: Restore Python variables after idle termination
  • Must be metastore admin to transfer share ownership for Delta Sharing
  • Queries in Power Automate can return null values
  • Git support for alerts
  • Azure Databricks connector for Power BI now supports the ADBC driver (Public Preview)
  • MLfLow support for compliance security profile standards
  • Databricks Apps support for Lakebase resources
  • Parent tasks (Run job and For each) now have a separate limit
  • Git folders now supports multiple Git credentials per user (Public Preview)
  • Azure China North 3 region: Enhanced infrastructure support
• June 2025
  • Cross-platform S3 access now available on workspaces with serverless egress control
  • Serverless GPU compute is in Beta
  • Bring your own data lineage (Public Preview)
  • New Databricks JDBC Driver is open source
  • Deletion vectors on Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines tables now follow workspace settings
  • File arrival triggers with file events is now generally available
  • Use PDFs in Information Extraction and Custom LLM (Beta)
  • Parse documents using ai_parse_document (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 17.0 is GA
  • OIDC federation for Databricks-to-open Delta Sharing is generally available
  • Migrate Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines pipelines from legacy publishing mode
  • Custom rate limits for model serving endpoints
  • Sharing managed Iceberg tables in Delta Sharing is in Public Preview
  • AI documentation for Unity Catalog tables and columns now uses the same model as Databricks Assistant
  • Jobs & Pipelines in the left navigation menu
  • Moving streaming tables and materialized views between pipelines is in Public Preview
  • Attribute-based access control (ABAC) in Unity Catalog is in Beta
  • Automatic liquid clustering is now GA
  • Lakebase, a managed PostgreSQL OLTP database, is in Public Preview
  • Monitor and revoke personal access tokens in your account (GA)
  • Microsoft SharePoint connector (Beta)
  • AI Gateway is now generally available
  • AUTO CDC APIs replace APPLY CHANGES
  • Databricks Jobs is now Lakeflow Jobs
  • DLT is now Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
  • Managed Apache Iceberg tables are in Public Preview
  • Foreign Apache Iceberg tables are in Public Preview
  • Convert to Unity Catalog managed table from external table is in Public Preview
  • MLflow 3.0 is generally available
  • Deployment jobs (Public Preview)
  • Serverless performance targets is now GA
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI agents is in Beta
  • Cross-platform view sharing is now GA
  • Azure Databricks connector in Microsoft Power Platform is in Public Preview
  • Manage network policies for serverless egress control (Generally Available)
  • Tag policies is in Beta
  • Databricks Apps support for compliance security profile standards
  • New consumer entitlement is generally available
  • Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector (Public Preview)
  • Azure Private Link from serverless compute to resources in your virtual network (VNet) via a standard load balancer (SLB) Public Preview
  • Corrected job_name values in system.billing.usage
  • Mosaic AI Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are Public Preview
  • History sharing now enabled by default to improve table read performance for Azure Databricks-to-Azure Databricks Delta Sharing (GA)
  • Unity Catalog HTTP connections support OAuth User-to-Machine Per User credentials (Public Preview)
• May 2025
  • Improved UI for managing notebook dashboards
  • SQL authoring improvements
  • Metric views are in Public Preview
  • Knowledge Assistant for domain-specialized chatbots is in Beta
  • Workspaces system table now available (Public Preview)
  • Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus models now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving
  • New alerts in Beta
  • Updates to the outbound public IP range for our control plane services
  • Dashboards, alerts, and queries are supported as workspace files
  • Pipelines system table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Azure Databricks supports cross-cloud read access to AWS S3 storage
  • Declarative Automation Bundles in the workspace (Public Preview)
  • Workflow task repair now respects transitive dependencies
  • Databricks Apps (Generally Available)
  • Databricks Runtime 16.4 LTS is GA
  • Model Serving CPU workloads now support compliance security profile standards
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.7.3
  • Updated lineage system tables schema
  • You can now collaborate with multiple parties with Azure Databricks Clean Rooms
  • Azure Databricks GitHub App adds workflow scope to support authoring GitHub Actions
  • Automatically provision users (JIT) GA
  • Query snippets are now available in the new SQL editor, notebooks, files, and dashboards
  • You can now create views in ETL pipelines
  • Configure Python syntax highlighting in Databricks notebooks
  • Custom LLM for custom gen AI text agents is in Beta
  • Jobs and pipelines now share a single, unified view (Public Preview)
  • Predictive optimization enabled for all existing Azure Databricks accounts
  • Llama 4 Maverick is now supported on provisioned throughput workloads (Public Preview)
  • File events for external locations improve file notifications in Auto Loader and file arrival triggers in jobs (Public Preview)
  • Mosaic AI Model Serving region expansion
  • The jobs system tables (Public Preview) are enabled by default
• April 2025
  • The DBRX and Mixtral models are retired on Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token
  • The DBRX, Mistral and Mixtral model families are retired on Foundation Model Fine-tuning
  • Claude 3.7 Sonnet now available in EU regions
  • Google Analytics raw data connector (Public Preview)
  • Llama 4 Maverick now available in EU regions where pay-per-token is supported
  • Share streaming tables and materialized views to all recipients using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
  • Use vector search indexes to prototype tool-calling generative AI agents in AI Playground
  • AI Gateway now supports custom model serving endpoints
  • Strict enforcement of row-level security and column masking policies in Delta Sharing
  • Multi-file editor for ETL pipeline development in DLT
  • Run a subset of tasks within a job
  • Use Llama 4 Maverick on serving endpoints optimized for AI Functions
  • Automatic identity management Public Preview is ungated
  • Run code in Databricks Assistant on serverless compute
  • New compliance controls in Public Preview
  • Python type error highlighting
  • Reference SQL output in downstream tasks of a job
  • Batch Unity Catalog Python UDFs (Public Preview)
  • Access UDF context information using TaskContext
  • Meta Llama 4 Maverick is available using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token
  • Databricks Assistant provides doc citations and follow-up suggestions
  • Salesforce ingestion and Workday Reports connectors are GA
  • The compute system tables are now generally available (GA)
  • The BROWSE privilege is GA
• March 2025
  • Databricks Runtime 16.3 is GA
  • Disable your legacy Hive metastore (Public Preview)
  • Databricks jobs now allow 1,000 tasks
  • Mosaic AI Agent Framework and Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation are generally available (GA)
  • Managed SaaS connectors support column-level selection (API-only)
  • Meta Llama 3.3 70B Instruct support on Foundation Model Fine-tuning
  • Databricks Apps: Control access to resources based on user permissions with on-behalf-of-user authorization (Public Preview)
  • Legacy system schemas deprecated
  • Claude Sonnet 3.7 now supported on Mosaic AI Model Serving
  • Additional audit logging for Databricks Apps events (Public Preview)
  • Group clusters are generally available (GA)
  • Information Extraction is in Beta
  • New CAN VIEW permission available for SQL warehouses (Public Preview)
  • New column explorer
  • AI Gateway now supports pay-per-token endpoints
  • Databricks Connector for Google Sheets (Public Preview)
  • Web terminal activity is now considered compute activity
  • Budget policies renamed to serverless budget policies
  • Delta Sharing supports renaming tables
  • OIDC federation for Databricks-to-open Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
  • AutoML supports clusters in dedicated access mode assigned to groups
  • The compute system tables are enabled by default
  • Hive metastore federation is generally available
  • Compute logs can now be delivered to volumes (Public Preview)
  • Download as Excel is now supported in notebooks connected to serverless compute
  • Bind storage credentials, service credentials, and external locations to specific workspaces (GA)
  • Databricks Runtime 16.3 (Beta)
  • New open source Databricks JDBC Driver is GA
  • Monitor and revoke personal access tokens in your account (Public Preview)
  • Genie Conversation API is now in Public Preview
  • Perform batch inference using AI Functions (Public Preview)
  • ServiceNow connector (Public Preview)
  • External models now supports OpenAI-compatible LLMs
  • Agent Framework monitoring is in Beta
  • Mosaic AI Agent Framework is generally available
  • Delta Sharing support for query optimizer statistics is GA
  • AI Gateway now supports fallbacks for external models
  • Control the location of Databricks Assistant with the new docking feature
  • Secure Cluster Connectivity (No Public IP) now default for new Azure Databricks workspaces
• February 2025
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.9.1
  • Publish pipeline event logs as Unity Catalog tables
  • Mosaic AI Model Serving is now available in Azure Japan East, UK South, and South Central US
  • Databricks Assistant provides table insights and lineage
  • Import open Delta Sharing shares directly into Azure Databricks using the Import provider dialog
  • Delta Sharing from open sharing providers to Azure Databricks using OAuth
  • Streaming reads on Unity Catalog views is GA
  • Event time ordering for initial snapshot stream processing is GA
  • Asynchronous progress tracking is GA
  • The billable usage system table now attributes private endpoint networking costs
  • MLflow Tracing is GA
  • New filter panel in Databricks Marketplace
  • OAuth secret lifetime now configurable
  • Preview files in volumes
  • Model serving billing records are now logged at five-minute intervals
  • Automatic liquid clustering (Public Preview)
  • Dedicated control plane for Azure Canada East region
  • Databricks Runtime 14.1 series support ends
  • Serverless SQL warehouses now available in additional regions
  • Databricks Runtime 16.2 is GA
  • Support of Scala streaming foreach, foreachBatch, and flatMapGroupsWithState on standard access mode compute (formerly shared access mode)
  • Unity Catalog-governed access to external cloud services using service credentials is now GA
  • Download as Excel is now supported in notebooks connected to SQL warehouses
  • Write data from pipelines to external services with DLT sinks (Public Preview)
  • Automatic identity management (Public Preview)
  • New region: Mexico Central
• January 2025
  • Additional ports for Azure Databricks
  • State store reader is now GA
  • Predictive optimization can now be enabled at the catalog or schema level
  • Filtering full datasets for large tables is now supported
  • The Meta Llama 3.1 405B model family is retired on Foundation Model Fine-tuning
  • Clean Rooms is GA
  • Connect AI agent tools to external services (Public Preview)
  • DLT now supports publishing to tables in multiple schemas and catalogs
  • Databricks Runtime 16.2 (Beta)
  • Comments now support email notifications and @ mentions
  • Shortcut to adjust font size
  • OAuth token federation is now available in Public Preview
  • Custom Python AI agents now support AI Gateway and streaming output
  • Import workspace files with drag-and-drop
  • Meta Llama 3.3 now powers AI Functions that use Foundation Model APIs
  • Notebook output improvements
  • Faster notebook load times
  • Notebooks are now supported as workspace files
  • Failed tasks in continuous jobs are now automatically retried
  • Notebooks: Databricks Assistant chat history available only to user who initiates it
  • Stats collection is now automated by predictive optimization
  • Update to Databricks Marketplace and Partner Connect UI
  • EXPLAIN now shows stats used in query planning
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.7.1
  • Lakehouse Federation supports Teradata (Public Preview)
  • databricks-agents SDK 0.14.0 release: Custom evaluation metrics
  • AI Gateway now supports provisioned throughput (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 15.2 series support ends
  • Databricks Runtime 15.3 series support ends
  • Meta Llama 2, 3 and Code Llama model family retirements on Foundation Model Fine-tuning
• December 2024
  • Databricks Runtime 16.1 is GA
  • The default format for new notebooks is now IPYNB (Jupyter) format
  • Databricks-hosted models for Databricks Assistant is in public preview
  • Python code executor for AI agents (Public Preview)
  • databricks-agents SDK 0.13.0 release
  • External groups are now labeled and immutable
  • vector_search now supports vector embedding inputs
  • Specify response formats for ai_query
  • Test clean rooms with collaborators within the same metastore
  • Assign compute resources to groups (Public Preview)
  • Delegate the ability to create a storage credential in Unity Catalog to a service principal
  • Version 2.2 of the Jobs API is released
  • Unity Catalog MANAGE privilege (Public Preview)
  • Meta Llama 3.3 is now available for provisioned throughput workloads
  • View streaming workload metrics for your job runs (Public Preview)
  • View streaming workload metrics for your DLT pipeline updates (Public Preview)
  • Lakehouse Federation supports Oracle (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 16.1 (Beta)
  • Manage serverless outbound network connections with serverless egress control
  • Network access events system table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Monitor and revoke personal access tokens in your account (Private Preview)
  • Unity Catalog can federate to Hive metastores
  • Remove metastore-level storage to enforce catalog-level storage isolation
  • Meta Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is now available on Model Serving
  • bamboolib is now deprecated
  • Streamline AI Agent Evaluation using synthetic evaluation sets
  • Improve Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing table read performance with history sharing (Public Preview)
  • Maximum personal access token lifetime now 730 days (two years)
  • Mosaic AI Model Training - serverless forecasting (Public Preview)
  • Add serverless budget policies to model serving endpoints
• November 2024
  • Additional metadata for the table tooltip in notebooks
  • Automatic cluster update and enhanced security and compliance UI are generally available
  • Expanded support for Python debugger in notebooks
  • Improved web terminal experience
  • Query history and query profile support for DLT
  • Mosaic AI Model Training rebrand
  • Reuse SQL outputs as _sqldf in subsequent SQL cells
  • Private connectivity from serverless compute support for Azure-managed resources
  • Private connectivity support for jobs, notebooks, and DLT
  • Warehouses system table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Cross-platform view sharing (Public Preview)
  • Clean Rooms public preview is ungated, with new features
  • Databricks Runtime 16.0 is GA
  • Breaking change: Hosted RStudio is end-of-life
  • Predictive optimization enabled for all new Azure Databricks accounts
  • Updated and unified read-only code blocks
  • Increased Quick Fix recommendations
  • Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token available in all Model Serving supported regions
  • Unity Catalog-governed access to external cloud services using service credentials (Public Preview)
  • UK Cyber Essentials Plus compliance controls
  • Private connectivity from serverless compute support for model serving
  • Databricks Runtime 14.2 series support ends
• October 2024
  • Enable cost attribution of fine-grained access control on dedicated compute (formerly single user compute)
  • Databricks Assistant helps optimize SQL queries
  • Databricks Runtime 15.1 series support ends
  • Llama 2 70B Chat model retirement in Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token
  • Enable a metastore to be assigned automatically to new workspaces
  • Structured outputs supported on Mosaic AI Model Serving (Public Preview)
  • Fine-grained access control on dedicated compute (formerly single user compute) is generally available
  • AI Functions now available in EU regions
  • Attribute serverless usage with serverless budget policies (Public Preview)
  • Serverless compute automatically enabled on eligible accounts
  • Databricks Assistant Autocomplete is now generally available
  • Filters on notebook results tables now persist
  • Improvements to comments in notebooks
  • Databricks Runtime 16.0 (Beta)
  • Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports batch inference
  • Create secure data and AI apps for your users with Databricks Apps (Public Preview)
  • More reliable reloading of modified Python modules with improvements to autoreload
  • Salesforce ingestion connector simplification
  • Serverless compute now available in additional regions
• September 2024
  • Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct now supported on Databricks Function Calling
  • vector_search() now available to all customers (Public Preview)
  • Meta Llama 3.2 3B and 1B models are supported in Model Serving
  • Meta Llama 3.2 3B and 1B models are supported in Foundation Model Fine-tuning
  • Publish to Power BI is now generally available
  • Use @ to reference tables in Databricks Assistant prompts
  • Prototype and export tool-calling generative AI agents in AI Playground
  • Control external access to data in Unity Catalog using the new EXTERNAL USE SCHEMA privilege
  • GTE v1.5 (English) embedding models are now supported in Foundation Model API provisioned throughput
  • Databricks Assistant Quick Fix debugs code inline
  • Create budgets to monitor account spending (Public Preview)
  • Foundation Model Fine-tuning is now available to all customers (Public Preview)
  • AI Gateway is now Public Preview
  • Meta Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models supported in Foundation Model Fine-tuning
  • Extended AI-generated comments support
  • Monitor clean room usage in the billable usage table
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code is GA
  • Function calling is now supported on Foundation Model APIs provisioned throughput
  • System tables are now generally available
• August 2024
  • Monitor Unity Catalog object usage against quotas using the new Resource Quotas APIs
  • MPT 7B Instruct and MPT 30B Instruct model retirements
  • AskSupport replaced by Azure Databricks assistant
  • Importable cost management dashboard added to account console (Public Preview)
  • Lakeflow system tables are extend with additional columns
  • Python code formatting error highlights
  • Delta Sharing: More Delta Lake features now supported by the Python and Power BI connectors
  • Delta Sharing adds support for TimestampNTZ
  • The Azure Databricks Jobs For each task is GA
  • Azure RBAC permission for workspace admins
  • Databricks Runtime 15.4 LTS is GA
  • Personalized notebook autocomplete
  • Symlinks are now supported in workspace files
  • Configure your workspace's default access mode for jobs compute
  • New slash commands for Databricks Assistant
  • Workspace search now supports volumes
  • Meta Llama 3.1 405B models supported in Foundation Model Fine-tuning
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.40
  • Databricks personal access tokens revoked if unused after 90 days
  • Clusters API now supports partial configuration updates
  • Wrap lines in notebook cells
  • Specify columns to sync for Mosaic AI Vector Search
  • Files can no longer have identical names in workspace folders
  • Compute policy enforcement now available
  • Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token is now GA
  • Collaborate on data projects securely and privately using Databricks Clean Rooms (Public Preview)
  • Mosaic AI Vector Search is now HIPAA-compliant
  • Format columns in notebook and query results tables
  • Row filters and column masks are now GA, with improvements
  • Lakehouse Federation is generally available (GA)
• July 2024
  • Increased limit for simultaneous tasks
  • Embed and drag & drop images in notebooks
  • Command palette available in notebooks
  • Workflow system schema renamed to lakeflow
  • Lakeflow Connect (gated Public Preview)
  • Support for Cloudflare R2 storage is GA
  • Monitor Databricks Assistant activities with system tables (Public Preview)
  • Sharing schemas using Delta Sharing is now GA
  • Mosaic AI Agent Framework is available in northcentral and centralus
  • Databricks Assistant can diagnose issues with jobs (Public Preview)
  • Updates to Databricks Git folders authentication and sharing behaviors
  • Cluster library installation timeout
  • Compute plane outbound IP addresses must be added to a workspace IP allow list
  • Databricks Runtime 9.1 series support extended
  • Single sign-on (SSO) is supported in Lakehouse Federation for SQL Server
  • Model sharing using Delta Sharing is now generally available
  • Share comments and primary key constraints using Delta Sharing
  • New Databricks JDBC Driver
  • Databricks Runtime 15.4 LTS (Beta)
  • Scala is GA on Unity Catalog standard compute
  • Dedicated compute (formerly single user) supports fine-grained access control, materialized views, and streaming tables
  • Node timeline system table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Meta Llama 3.1 is now supported in Model Serving
  • Notebooks: toggle more visible cell titles
  • / in workspace asset names is deprecated
  • Delta Sharing lets you share tables that use liquid clustering
  • Query history system table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Vulnerability scan reports are now emailed to admins
  • Partition metadata logging for Unity Catalog external tables
  • Serverless compute for workflows is GA
  • Serverless compute for notebooks is GA
  • Databricks Connect for Python now supports serverless compute
  • Filter data outputs using natural language prompts
  • Plaintext secrets support for external models
  • Forecast time series data using ai_forecast()
  • SQL File task support for files with multi-statement SQL queries is GA
  • Lakehouse Federation supports Salesforce Data Cloud (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Assistant system table now available (Public Preview)
  • Account SCIM API v2.1 (Public Preview)
  • Resource quota increase for tables per Unity Catalog metastore
  • Databricks Assistant can diagnose notebook errors automatically
  • Support for the :param syntax with the SQL file task is GA
• June 2024
  • Notebooks - out of order syntax highlighting
  • Notebooks Assistant automatically diagnoses errors
  • Catalog Explorer improvements
  • Serve multiple external models from a single model serving endpoint
  • Databricks Assistant is now GA
  • Databricks Assistant now gives titles to threads
  • Serverless notebooks environment manager
  • Notebooks debugging console
  • Quickly add a periodic schedule to a Azure Databricks workflow
  • Databricks Runtime 15.3 is GA
  • Azure Geographies is GA
  • New improved catalog creation UI
  • Updates to subnets in network connectivity configurations
  • The billing system tables are enabled by default
  • Lakehouse Monitoring is GA
  • Volume sharing using Delta Sharing is now generally available
  • Customer managed keys (CMK) for Databricks Vector Search are now GA
  • Mosaic AI Agent Framework (Public Preview)
  • Predictive optimization is now GA
  • Route optimization is available for serving endpoints
  • Model Serving support with a workspace storage account firewall
  • Column mapping is now GA
  • Workflow system tables are now available (Public Preview)
  • Function calling is Public Preview
  • Query a vector search index using vector_search()
  • Mosaic AI Vector Search now supports hybrid search
  • GTE is now supported in Model Serving
  • Databricks Assistant: Threads & queries experience enabled by default
  • Improved notebook Markdown editor
  • Quickly access Catalog Explorer tables from notebooks
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.8.2
  • The new Databricks Notebook UI is now generally available
• May 2024
  • Serverless firewall configuration now supports more compute types
  • Databricks Runtime 15.0 series support ends
  • Databricks Runtime 15.3 (Beta)
  • The compute metrics UI is now available on all Databricks Runtime versions
  • Improved search and filtering in notebook and SQL editor results tables
  • New dashboard helps Databricks Marketplace providers monitor listing usage
  • View system-generated federated queries in Query Profile
  • Compute plane outbound IP addresses must be added to a workspace IP allow list
  • OAuth is supported in Lakehouse Federation for Snowflake
  • Bulk move and delete workspace objects from the workspace browser
  • Unity Catalog objects are available in recents and favorites
  • New dbt-databricks connector 1.8.0 adopts decoupled dbt architecture
  • New compliance and security settings APIs (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 15.2 is GA
  • New Tableau connector for Delta Sharing
  • New deep learning recommendation model examples
  • Bind storage credentials and external locations to specific workspaces (Public Preview)
  • Git folders are GA
  • Pre-trained models in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • Mosaic AI Vector Search is GA
  • Databricks Assistant autocomplete (Public Preview)
  • Meta Llama 3 support in Foundation Model Training
  • New changes to Git folder UI
  • Foundation Model Training (Public Preview)
  • Allow users to copy data to the clipboard from results table
  • Attribute tag values for Unity Catalog objects can now be 1000 characters long (Public Preview)
  • New Previews page
  • New capabilities for Mosaic AI Vector Search
  • Credential passthrough and Hive metastore table access controls are deprecated
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.38
  • Firewall support for the workspace storage account GA
  • Databricks Runtime 15.2 (Beta)
  • Notebooks now detect and auto-complete column names for Spark Connect DataFrames
• April 2024
  • Databricks Runtime 15.1 is GA
  • Databricks Assistant: Threads & history
  • Cancel pending serving endpoint updates in Model Serving
  • Meta Llama 3 is now supported in Model Serving for Azure
  • Data lineage now captures reads on tables with column masks and row-level security
  • Notebooks now automatically detect SQL
  • New columns added to the billable usage system table (Public Preview)
  • Delta Sharing supports tables that use column mapping (Public Preview)
  • Get serving endpoint schemas (Public Preview)
  • Creation and installation of workspace libraries is no longer available
  • Jobs created through the UI are now queued by default
  • Configuring access to resources from serving endpoints is GA
  • Serverless compute for workflows is in public preview
  • Lakehouse Federation supports foreign tables with case-sensitive identifiers
  • Compute cloning now clones any libraries installed on the original compute
  • Private connectivity from the serverless compute is GA
  • UI experience for OAuth app registration
  • DLT notebook developer experience improvements (Public Preview)
• March 2024
  • DBRX Base and DBRX Instruct are now available in Model Serving
  • Model Serving is HIPAA compliant in all regions
  • Provisioned throughput in Foundation Model APIs is GA and HIPAA compliant
  • MLflow now enforces quota limits for experiments and runs
  • The Jobs UI is updated to better manage jobs deployed by Declarative Automation Bundles
  • Google Cloud Vertex AI supported as model provider for external models
  • Interactive notebook debugging
  • Self-service sign-up for private exchange providers in Marketplace
  • Databricks Runtime 15.0 is GA
  • Databricks Repos changed to Git folders
  • Databricks Runtime 14.1 and 14.2 series support extended
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.8.0
  • Manage private endpoint rules (Public Preview)
  • Workspace access for Azure Databricks personnel
  • HIPAA now supports serverless compute
  • SQL warehouses for notebooks is GA
  • Delegate the ability to view an object's metadata in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • New per region limit for private endpoints
  • Databricks Runtime 15.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 14.0 series support ends
  • New computation for sys.path and CWD in Repos
  • Feature Serving is GA
  • Predictive optimization available in more regions
• February 2024
  • Use DLT in Feature Engineering (Public Preview)
  • Source IPv4 addresses for PrivateLink connections in audit logs
  • Restrict changing a job owner and the run as setting
  • Support for Databricks managed service principals
  • Enable automatic cluster update (Public Preview)
  • Admins can enable enhanced security and compliance features (Public Preview)
  • Support for Cloudflare R2 storage to avoid cross-region egress fees (Public Preview)
  • Add data UI supports XML file format
  • Use AI Functions to invoke a generative AI model from Foundation Model APIs
  • Unity Catalog volumes are GA
  • Full-page AI-powered search
  • Run SQL notebook jobs on a SQL warehouse
  • File arrival triggers in Azure Databricks Jobs is GA
  • Search for machine learning models in Unity Catalog using global workspace search
  • Databricks Git server proxy is GA
  • Databricks Git server proxy no longer requires CAN_ATTACH_TO permissions
  • Workspace file support for the dbt and SQL file tasks is GA
  • Databricks Connect is GA for Scala
  • Create tables from files in volumes
  • Databricks Runtime 14.3 LTS is GA
  • Delta Sharing supports tables that use deletion vectors (Public Preview)
• January 2024
  • Native XML file format support (Public Preview)
  • Share AI models using Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
  • Updates to network security group rules
  • Workspace path update
  • Support for Azure Storage firewall from serverless compute is GA
  • Streamlined creation of Azure Databricks jobs
  • Monitor GPU model serving workloads using inference tables
  • URI path-based access to Unity Catalog external volumes
  • Access controls lists can be enabled on upgraded workspaces
  • Marketplace listing events system table now available (Public Preview)
  • Updated UI for notebook cells (Public Preview)
  • Quick Fix help with syntax errors in the notebook
  • Databricks Runtime 14.3 LTS (Beta)
  • Share AI models using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Marketplace supports volume sharing
  • Create widgets from the Databricks UI
  • Warehouse events system table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Workspace file size limit is now 500MB
  • Feature removal notice for legacy Git integration in Databricks
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.7.7
  • Databricks Runtime 13.2 series support ends
  • AI assistive features are enabled by default
• December 2023
  • Share dynamic views using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
  • Share volumes using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
  • Entity Relationship Diagram for primary keys and foreign keys
  • Unity Catalog volume file upload size limit increase
  • New notebook cell results rendering available (Public Preview)
  • Notebook editor themes available
  • External models support in Model Serving is in Public Preview
  • Databricks Online Tables is Public Preview
  • Repos & Git Integration Settings UI now correctly notes support for GitHub Enterprise Server
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.36
  • Support for referencing workspace files from init scripts
  • Feature & Function Serving is Public Preview
  • Foundation Model APIs is Public Preview
  • New unified admin settings UI
  • Init scripts on DBFS are end-of-life
  • Legacy global and cluster-named init scripts are end-of-life
• November 2023
  • Mosaic AI Vector Search is Public Preview
  • Access controls lists can no longer be disabled
  • New behaviors and actions in Catalog Explorer for volumes
  • Databricks Runtime 14.2 is GA
  • Databricks SQL Connector for Python version 3.0.0
  • Libraries in workspace files supported on no-isolation shared clusters
  • Deprecation of workspace libraries
  • Support for Azure confidential computing VM types is now GA
  • Search for Databricks Marketplace listings using global workspace search
  • Consume data products in Databricks Marketplace using external platforms
  • Support for serverless SQL warehouses added for several Azure regions
  • Automatic enablement of Unity Catalog for new workspaces
  • Databricks Runtime 14.2 (beta)
  • Databricks Marketplace includes Databricks Solution Accelerators
  • Lakehouse Federation adds support for Google BigQuery
• October 2023
  • Serverless secure connectivity for Databricks SQL Serverless (Public Preview)
  • View the YAML source for a Azure Databricks job
  • Add conditional logic to your Azure Databricks workflows
  • Configure parameters on a Azure Databricks job that can be referenced by all job tasks
  • Auto-enable deletion vectors
  • Unity Catalog support for UNDROP TABLE is GA
  • Partner Connect supports Dataiku
  • AutoML generated notebooks are now saved as MLflow artifacts
  • New region: Qatar Central
  • Unity Catalog volumes supported with Azure Firewall and Private Link
  • Predictive optimization (Public Preview)
  • Compute system tables are now available (Public Preview)
  • On-demand feature computation is GA
  • Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog is GA
  • AI-generated table comments (Public Preview)
  • Models in Unity Catalog is GA
  • Libraries now supported in compute policies (Public Preview)
  • Partner Connect supports Monte Carlo
  • Semantic search (Public Preview)
  • New Photon defaults
  • Databricks Runtime 14.1 is GA
  • Developer tools release notes have moved
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.5
  • Predictive I/O for updates is GA
  • Deletion vectors are GA
  • Partner Connect supports RudderStack
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.207.0 (Public Preview)
  • Run selected cells in a notebook
  • Use workspace-catalog binding to give read-only access to a catalog
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.4
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.10.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.22.0 (Beta)
  • Unity Catalog volumes now in Public Preview for Azure China
• September 2023
  • Lakehouse Federation available on single user clusters
  • Delegate the ability to create a storage credential in Unity Catalog
  • Databricks Runtime 14.1 (Beta)
  • GPU model serving optimized for LLMs in Public Preview
  • Prevent runs of a job from being skipped when you reach concurrency limits
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.27.0
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.206.0 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.21.0 (Beta)
  • Inference tables for model serving endpoints is Public Preview
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.7.5
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.3
  • Running jobs as a service principal is GA
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.205.2 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.205.1 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.20.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.9.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.7.1 (Beta)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.26.0
  • Databricks Connect for Databricks Runtime 14.0
  • Lakeview dashboards in Public Preview
  • Databricks Connect V2 is Public Preview for Scala
  • GPU model serving in Public Preview
  • On-demand feature computation now available in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 14.0 is GA
  • Account email notifications upgrade
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.25.1
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.19.2 (Beta)
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.205.0 (Public Preview)
  • Reserved location for /Workspace
  • Declarative Automation Bundles (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.25.0
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.2
  • Partner Connect supports Snowplow
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.204.1 (Public Preview)
  • Filter sensitive data with row filters and column masks (Public Preview)
  • System tables now include Marketplace schema (Public Preview)
  • Pricing system table is now available (Public Preview)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.19.1 (Beta)
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.7.3
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.204.0 (Public Preview)
  • Data Explorer is now Catalog Explorer
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.19.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.8.0 (Beta)
  • Delegate allowlist privileges in Unity Catalog
  • GitHub apps integration in Repos is GA
• August 2023
  • Tables now appear in navigational search
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.3 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.34
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.18.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.7.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.24.1
  • Init scripts on DBFS end of life extended to Dec 1, 2023
  • Databricks Runtime 14.0 (Beta)
  • Unified navigation experience is GA
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.24.0
  • Databricks Runtime for Genomics setting removed from the workspace admin settings page
  • Container Services setting removed from the workspace admin settings page
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.2 (Public Preview)
  • Go to definition for functions and variables in Python notebooks
  • Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTS is GA
  • Introducing tags with Unity Catalog
  • Allowlist for init scripts, JARs, and Maven coordinates on Unity Catalog shared clusters is in Public Preview
  • Volumes support for init scripts and JARs is in Public Preview
  • Easier Databricks Repos .ipynb file output commits
  • IPYNB notebook support in Databricks Repos is GA
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.17.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.6.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.1 (Public Preview)
  • Unified schema browser is now GA
  • Serverless subnet changes may affect you if you encode IDs in a script or template
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.16.0 (Beta)
  • Partner Connect supports Census
  • Azure Key Vault Managed HSM keys now supported for customer-managed keys
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.5.0 (Beta)
  • Programmatic write support for workspace files
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.0 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.23.0
  • Groups can now be renamed
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.15.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.4.0 (Beta)
  • Third-party iFraming prevention configuration setting was removed
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.1
  • LangChain available in 13.1 and above
  • Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog is Public Preview
  • Improved error handling for repeated continuous job failures
  • Serverless SQL warehouses now available in additional regions
  • Share schemas using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
  • Run tasks conditionally in your Azure Databricks jobs
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.22.0
  • Enhanced security and compliance features
  • Lakehouse Monitoring is Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTS (Beta)
  • New Git operations are generally available: Merge branches, rebase and pull with conflict resolution
• July 2023
  • Workspace admins can now create account groups
  • Group manager role is in Public Preview
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.202.0 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.3.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.14.1 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.14.0 (Beta)
  • Run another job as a task in an Azure Databricks job
  • Workspace network update gets UI support (GA)
  • All users can access data products in Databricks Marketplace by default
  • Classic keyboard shortcuts mode
  • Lakehouse Federation lets you run queries against external database providers (Public Preview)
  • Move to trash enabled for Repos
  • Create alerts for slow-running or stuck jobs
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.13.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.2.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.201.0 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.2.1 (Beta)
  • Databricks Assistant is in Public Preview
  • Deactivate users and service principals from your account
  • Account-level SCIM provisioning now deactivates users when they are deactivated in the identity provider
  • Trash directory admin access
  • Prevention of MIME type sniffing and XSS attack page rendering are now always enabled
  • Unity Catalog volumes are in Public Preview
  • Simplified experience for submitting product feedback from the workspace
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.0
  • Functions now displayed in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.21.0
  • The maximum offset for the List all jobs and List job runs API requests is now limited
  • Databricks Runtime 13.2 is GA
  • Delta Sharing and Databricks Marketplace support view sharing (Public Preview)
  • Init scripts on DBFS reach end of life on Sept 1, 2023
• June 2023
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.20.0
  • Databricks CLI updated to version 0.200.1 (Public Preview)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.12.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.11.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Python (Beta)
  • Databricks SDK for Go (Beta)
  • Access audit log, billable usage, and lineage system tables (Public Preview)
  • Models in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Marketplace is now GA
  • Databricks Runtime 13.2 (Beta)
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (General Availability)
  • Enable customer-managed keys using Azure CLI and Powershell without a template
  • Serverless SQL warehouses work with back-end Azure Private Link enabled
  • See a visual overview of completed job runs in the Azure Databricks Jobs UI
  • Databricks CLI (Public Preview)
  • Improved pagination of results from List all jobs and List job runs API requests
  • Full-page workspace browser includes Repos
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.19.0
  • Run jobs as a service principal (Public Preview)
  • New service principal UI provides better management experience
  • Home folders restored when users are re-added to workspaces
  • Databricks Marketplace: Private exchanges are now available
  • Databricks Marketplace: Consumers can uninstall data products using the UI
  • Databricks Marketplace: providers can create their own profiles
  • Databricks Connect V2 is GA for Python
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.18.0
  • New Databricks Marketplace providers
  • Databricks Runtime 13.1 is GA
  • View data from notebooks, SQL editor, and Catalog Explorer with the unified schema browser (Public Preview)
• May 2023
  • Create or modify table UI supports Avro, Parquet, and text file uploads
  • Use the add data UI to load data using Unity Catalog external locations (Public Preview)
  • Run Databricks notebooks on SQL warehouses (Public Preview)
  • Prevent Enter key from accepting autocomplete suggestion
  • New region: China East 3
  • Support for Azure confidential computing VM types (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.17.0
  • Upload data UI supports new column data types
  • Bind Unity Catalog catalogs to specific workspaces
  • All users can connect to Fivetran using Partner Connect (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.16.1
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.33
  • Partner Connect supports Alation
  • New default theme for editor
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.16.0
  • Unity Catalog support for Azure managed identities is now GA
  • Databricks Runtime 13.1 (Beta)
  • Run file-based SQL queries in an Azure Databricks workflow
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.15.0
  • Azure China regions now support Unity Catalog
  • Account nicknames now available in the account console
  • Share notebooks using Delta Sharing
  • Azure Databricks no longer creates a serverless starter SQL warehouse
  • In SQL Warehouses API, enabling serverless compute now must be explicit
  • Changes for workspace settings for serverless SQL warehouses
  • Changes for serverless compute settings for accounts and workspaces
  • Databricks SQL Serverless is GA
  • Upgrade an existing workspace with secure cluster connectivity or Azure Private Link (Public Preview)
  • Deprecation of cluster-scoped init scripts on DBFS
  • Unified navigation (Public Preview)
• April 2023
  • Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview): an open marketplace for data, analytics, and AI
  • Configure the Python formatter
  • Workspace files are GA
  • Cluster-scoped init scripts can now be stored in workspace files
  • Create an Azure Key Vault-backed secret scope with a service principal
  • New Delta Sharing privileges enable delegation of share, recipient, and provider management tasks
  • Databricks Connect V2 (Public Preview)
  • New cluster metrics UI
  • Databricks Runtime 13.0 is GA
  • Control access to the account console by IP address ranges (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.14.3
  • Diagnostic log entries for changed admin settings for workspace
  • For initial customer-managed key for managed disks, Azure Databricks now terminates compute resources
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to versions 1.14.1 and 1.14.2
  • Combined SQL user settings and general user settings
  • Legacy notebook visualizations deprecated
  • Create or modify table from file upload page supports JSON file uploads
• March 2023
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.14.0
  • Databricks Runtime 7.3 LTS ML support ends
  • Distributed training with TorchDistributor
  • Databricks Runtime 13.0 (Beta)
  • Improved file editor
  • Change the DBFS Root Storage Redundancy for existing Azure Databricks Workspaces
  • .ipynb (Jupyter) notebook support in Repos (preview)
  • Support for reload4j
  • New IP addresses for East Asia region
  • Execute SQL cells in the notebook in parallel
  • Create job tasks using Python code stored in a Git repo
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.13.0
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.12.0
  • SQL admin console and workspace admin console combined
  • Model Serving is GA
  • Automatic feature lookup is GA
  • For new workspaces that use UDRs, Azure storage IP needs an additional UDR
  • Azure Databricks DBFS root storage uses Azure Data Lake Storage for new workspaces
  • New Catalog Explorer availability
  • View frequent queries and users of a table using the Insights tab
  • Exact match search is available in global search
  • View lineage information for your Azure Databricks jobs
  • Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS and Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS ML are GA
  • Workspace files are now in Public Preview
• February 2023
  • Support for ND A100 v4 series instances (Public Preview)
  • Ray on Azure Databricks (Public Preview)
  • Notebook cell output results limit increased
  • Azure Databricks Jobs now supports running continuous jobs
  • Trigger your Azure Databricks job when new files arrive
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.10.0
  • Legacy global init scripts and cluster-named init scripts disabled
  • Improvements to the MLflow experiment UI
  • Databricks Runtime 12.2 (Beta)
  • Use user-assigned managed identities to access storage in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (Public Preview)
  • Serverless Real-Time Inference Public Preview now available to all customers
  • Serverless SQL warehouses are available to workspaces in supported regions (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.2
  • Customer-managed keys help protect and control access to some types of data (GA)
  • Variable explorer in Azure Databricks notebooks
• January 2023
  • Enable private connectivity with Azure Private Link (GA)
  • Account SCIM is now GA
  • Easier creation and editing of Azure Databricks jobs in the UI
  • Improvements to the Azure Databricks Jobs UI when viewing job runs
  • New account console home screen provides better account management experience
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.1
  • Account users can update email preferences in the account console
  • Region support consolidated onto one page
  • Databricks Runtime 12.1 and Databricks Runtime 12.1 ML are GA
  • Cluster policies now support limiting the max number of clusters per user
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.0
  • serverless SQL warehouses are available in Central US and North Europe regions
  • Partner Connect supports connecting to Privacera
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.8.0
  • Databricks Runtime 12.1 (Beta)
  • Partner Connect supports Sigma
  • New left and right sidebars in Databricks notebooks
• December 2022
  • Databricks SQL Driver for Go is Generally Available
  • Prevent concurrent workspace updates
  • New Azure region: China North 3
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.7.0
  • Databricks Runtime 12.0 and 12.0 ML are GA
  • Jobs are now available in global search (Public Preview)
  • Billable usage graphs can now aggregate by individual tags
  • Use SQL to specify schema- and catalog-level storage locations for Unity Catalog managed tables
  • Capturing lineage data with Unity Catalog is now generally available
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.29
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.32
  • Partner Connect supports connecting to AtScale
• November 2022
  • Enhanced notifications for your Azure Databricks jobs (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 12.0 (Beta)
  • Configure Azure storage firewalls to allow access from serverless SQL warehouses
  • Upload data UI can now be disabled via admin settings
  • Partner Connect support for Unity Catalog is GA
  • Work with large repositories with Sparse Checkout
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.6.5
  • Create Serverless SQL warehouses in West US region
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to versions 1.6.3 and 1.6.4
  • Specify a cloud storage location for Unity Catalog managed tables at the catalog and schema levels
  • Access recent objects from the search field in the top bar of your workspace
  • Create or modify table from file upload page now supports multiple files
  • Create or modify table from file upload page now supports overwrite
  • Search for jobs by name with the Jobs API 2.1
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.6.2
  • Search for tables in Unity Catalog is GA
• October 2022
  • GA: Repos support for non-notebook files
  • Customer-managed keys for managed disk encryption
  • Deploy models for streaming inference with DLT notebooks
  • Connect to Fivetran from the add data UI
  • Databricks SQL Driver for Node.js is Generally Available
  • Partner Connect supports connecting to erwin Data Modeler by Quest
  • Databricks Feature Store support for Azure Cosmos DB (Public Preview)
  • Enforce user isolation cluster types on a workspace
  • Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS and 11.3 LTS ML are GA
  • Format Python code in notebooks (Public Preview)
  • Service principals provide API-only access to the Azure Databricks account
  • Personal Compute cluster policy is available by default to all users
  • Add data UI provides a central UI for loading data to Azure Databricks
  • Create or modify table from file upload page unifies experience for small file upload to Delta Lake
  • Partner Connect supports connecting to Hevo Data
  • Enable admin protection for No Isolation Shared clusters
  • SQL persona integrated with new search experience
  • Privilege inheritance in now supported in Unity Catalog
  • Top navigation bar in the UI
  • Databricks Runtime 11.3 (Beta)
  • The account console is available in multiple languages
• September 2022
  • New reference solution for natural language processing
  • More regions for Unity Catalog
  • Top navigation bar in the UI
  • Audit logs now include events for web terminal
  • Audit logs now include events for managing credentials for Git repos
  • Select cluster policies directly in the DLT UI
  • New data trasformation card on workspace landing pages
  • Orchestrate Databricks SQL tasks in your Azure Databricks workflows (Public Preview)
  • Delta cache is now disk cache
  • Capture and view lineage data with Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • Search for tables using Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)
  • View and organize assets in the workspace browser across personas
  • Databricks Runtime 11.2 and 11.2 ML are GA
• August 2022
  • Account users can access the account console
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.26
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.29
  • Databricks Feature Store client now available on PyPI
  • Unity Catalog is GA
  • Delta Sharing is GA
  • Databricks Runtime 11.2 (Beta)
  • Reduced message volume in the DLT UI for continuous pipelines
  • Easier cluster configuration for your DLT pipelines
  • Orchestrate dbt tasks in your Databricks workflows (Public Preview)
  • Identity federation is GA
  • Partner Connect supports connecting to Stardog
  • Databricks Feature Store integration with Serverless Real-Time Inference
  • Additional data type support for Databricks Feature Store automatic feature lookup
  • Bring your own key: Encrypt Git credentials
  • Cluster UI preview and access mode replaces security mode
  • Unity Catalog limitations (Public Preview)
  • Serverless Real-Time Inference in Public Preview
  • Improved workspace search is now GA
  • Use generated columns when you create DLT datasets
  • Improved editing for notebooks with Monaco-based editor (Experimental)
  • Databricks Runtime 10.3 series support ends
  • Enable private connectivity with Azure Private Link (Public Preview)
  • Enable Serverless SQL warehouses for your workspace (Public Preview)
  • DLT now supports refreshing only selected tables in pipeline updates
  • Job execution now waits for cluster libraries to finish installing
• July 2022
  • Databricks Runtime 11.1 and 11.1 ML are GA
  • Photon is GA
  • Notification upon notebook completion
  • Increased limit for the number of jobs in your Azure Databricks workspaces
  • Verbose audit logs now record when Databricks SQL queries are run
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.27
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.25
  • Databricks Runtime 11.1 (Beta)
  • Improved notebook visualizations
• June 2022
  • ALTER TABLE permission changes for Unity Catalog
  • Databricks Runtime 6.4 Extended Support reaches end of support
  • Databricks Runtime 10.2 series support ends
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.24
  • Databricks Terraform provider is now GA
  • Databricks Runtime 11.0 and 11.0 ML are GA; 11.0 Photon is Public Preview
  • Change to Repos default working directory in Databricks Runtime 11.0
  • Databricks Runtime 10.1 series support ends
  • DLT now supports SCD type 2
  • Create DLT pipelines directly in the Azure Databricks UI
  • Select the DLT channel when you create or edit a pipeline
  • Communicate between tasks in your Azure Databricks jobs with task values
  • Enable account switching in the Databricks UI
• May 2022
  • Copy and paste notebook cells between tabs and windows
  • Additional data type support for Databricks Feature Store automatic feature lookup
  • Databricks Runtime 11.0 (Beta)
  • Improved workspace search (Public Preview)
  • Explore SQL cell results in Python notebooks natively using Python
  • Databricks Repos: Support for more files in a repo
  • Databricks Repos: Fix to issue with MLflow experiment data loss
  • New Azure region: West Central US
  • Upgrade wizard makes it easier to copy databases and multiple tables to Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
  • Power BI Desktop system-wide HTTP proxy support
  • Audit logs can now record when a notebook command is run
  • Databricks Runtime 10.5 and 10.5 ML are GA; 10.5 Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.25
  • See the user a pipeline runs as in the DLT UI
• April 2022
  • New Azure region: Sweden Central
  • Use tags to better manage your Azure Databricks jobs
  • Databricks Runtime 10.0 series support ends
  • Get a visual overview of your job runs with the new jobs matrix view
  • Save time and resources when your Azure Databricks job runs are unsuccessful
  • View the run history for job tasks
  • Assign a new cluster in the jobs UI when the Single User access no longer exists
  • Databricks Runtime 10.5 (Beta)
  • The DLT UI is enhanced to disable unauthorized actions
  • AutoML is generally available
  • Use datasets from Unity Catalog with AutoML
  • DLT is GA on AWS and Azure, and in Public Preview on GCP
  • DLT SQL interface: non-breaking change to table names
• March 2022
  • Better performance and cost for your DLT pipelines with Databricks enhanced autoscaling
  • Files in Repos enabled by default in new workspaces
  • Databricks Feature Store is generally available
  • Share an experiment from the experiment page
  • RStudio Workbench bug fix
  • New workspace language options
  • Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS and 10.4 LTS ML are GA; 10.4 Photon is Public Preview
  • Unity Catalog is available in Public Preview
  • Delta Sharing is available in Public Preview
  • Rotate the customer-managed key for managed services
  • Enhanced access control for DLT pipelines
  • Test DLT preview functionality with the new channel setting (Public Preview)
  • Improved error handling for DLT Python functions (Public Preview)
  • Improvements to Databricks Repos
  • Diagnostic logging for cluster policy changes
  • Databricks Runtime 10.4 (Beta)
• February 2022
  • Easier scheduling for your DLT pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Easily browse the history of your DLT pipeline updates (Public Preview)
  • Ensure job idempotency for the Jobs API Run now request
  • Jobs service stability and scalability improvements
  • Compare MLflow runs from different experiments
  • Improvements to MLflow compare runs display
  • Improved visibility into job run owners in the clusters UI
  • Drop dataset columns in AutoML
  • Experiments page is GA
  • Support for temporary tables in the DLT Python interface
  • User interface improvements for DLT (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 9.0 series support ends
  • Data Science & Engineering landing page updates
  • Databricks Repos now supports AWS CodeCommit for Git integration
  • Improved visualization for your DLT pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Updated Markdown parser
  • DLT now supports change data capture processing (Public Preview)
  • Additional metastores now available in multiple regions
  • Select algorithm frameworks to use with AutoML
  • Databricks hosted MLflow models can now look up features from online stores
  • Databricks Runtime 10.3 and 10.3 ML are GA; 10.3 Photon is Public Preview
• January 2022
  • MLflow Model Registry Webhooks on Azure Databricks (Public Preview)
  • Breaking change: cluster idempotency token cleared on cluster termination
  • Databricks Runtime 10.3 (Beta)
  • View information on recent job runs
  • Use Markdown in Databricks Repos file editor
  • Improved cluster management for jobs that orchestrate multiple tasks
  • Databricks Runtime 8.3 and Databricks Runtime 8.4 series support ends
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.22
  • Additional metastores now available in multiple regions
  • New Share button replaces Permissions icon in notebooks
  • New workspace language options
  • Additional metastores are now available in multiple regions
• December 2021
  • Databricks Runtime 6.4 Extended Support series end-of-support date extended
  • Databricks Runtime 5.5 Extended Support series reaches end of support
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.21
  • Databricks Connector for Tableau 2021.4
  • Databricks Runtime 10.2 and 10.2 ML are GA; 10.2 Photon is Public Preview
  • Switzerland West region now available
  • Updated Markdown parser
  • User interface improvements for DLT
  • Additional metastores coming soon to multiple regions
  • Update SCC relay for Australia Southeast region
  • Databricks Runtime 8.3 series support extended
  • Databricks Runtime 10.2 (Beta)
  • Revert of recent breaking change that removed escaping and quotes from $ in environment variable values for cluster creation
• November 2021
  • Create tags for feature tables (Public Preview)
  • Syntax highlighting and autocomplete for SQL commands in Python cells
  • Rename, delete, and change permissions for MLflow experiments from experiment page (Public Preview)
  • New data profiles in notebooks: tabular and graphic summaries of your data (Public Preview)
  • Improved logging when schemas evolve while running a DLT pipeline
  • Databricks Partner Connect GA
  • Breaking change: remove escaping and quotes from $ in environment variable values for cluster creation
  • Ease of use improvements for Files in Repos
  • Support for legacy SQL widgets ends on January 15, 2022
  • User interface improvements for Azure Databricks jobs
  • Delta Sharing Connector for Power BI
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.19
  • Databricks Runtime 10.1 and 10.1 ML are GA; 10.1 Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 10.1 (Beta)
  • Rename and delete MLflow experiments (Public Preview)
  • You can now create a cluster policy by cloning an existing policy
  • Change the default language of notebooks and notebook cells more easily
  • Use Files in Repos from the web terminal
• October 2021
  • Databricks Runtime 8.2 series support ends
  • Databricks Runtime 10.0 and 10.0 ML are GA; 10.0 Photon is Public Preview
  • User interface improvements for DLT (Public Preview)
  • Specify a fixed-size cluster when you create a new pipeline in DLT (Public Preview)
  • View data quality metrics for tables in DLT triggered pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Jobs orchestration is now GA
  • Databricks Connector for Power BI
  • Repos now supports arbitrary file types
  • More detailed job run output with the Jobs API
  • Improved readability of notebook paths in the Jobs UI
  • Open your DLT pipeline in a new tab or window
  • New escape sequence for $ in legacy input widgets in SQL
  • Faster model deployment with automatically generated batch inference notebook
• September 2021
  • Databricks Runtime 10.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.18
  • Use customer managed keys for encryption with existing workspaces
  • Databricks Runtime 9.1 LTS and 9.1 LTS ML are GA; 9.1 LTS Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 8.1 series support ends
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.19
  • Share feature tables across workspaces
  • General Availability of several Azure GPU instance types
  • Repos now supports .gitignore
  • Enhanced jobs UI is now standard for all workspaces
  • Databricks Runtime 9.1 (Beta)
  • Streamlined management of settings for Azure Databricks jobs
  • Databricks SQL Public Preview available in all workspaces
  • Delete feature tables from Feature Store
  • Grant view pipeline permissions in the DLT UI (Public Preview)
  • Reduce cluster resource usage with DLT (Public Preview)
  • Development optimizations for DLT (Public Preview)
  • Use MLflow models in your DLT pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Find DLT pipelines by name (Public Preview)
  • PyTorch TorchScript and other third-party libraries are now supported in Azure Databricks jobs
  • Databricks Runtime 8.0 series support ends
• August 2021
  • Databricks Repos GA
  • Increased timeout for long-running notebook jobs
  • Jobs service stability and scalability improvements
  • User entitlements granted by group membership are displayed in the admin console
  • Manage MLflow experiment permissions (Public Preview)
  • Improved job creation from notebooks
  • Ddsv4-series VMs (Public Preview)
  • Improved support for collapsing notebook headings
  • Databricks Runtime 9.0 and 9.0 ML are GA; 9.0 Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 9.0 (Beta)
  • Manage repos programmatically with the Databricks CLI (Public Preview)
  • Manage repos programmatically with the Databricks REST API (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 7.6 series support ends
  • Audit events are logged when you interact with Databricks Repos
  • Improved job creation and management workflow
  • Photon runtimes now available (Public Preview)
  • Simplified instructions for setting Git credentials (Public Preview)
  • Import multiple notebooks in .html format
  • Usability improvements for DLT
• July 2021
  • Manage MLflow experiment permissions with the Databricks REST API
  • Azure Databricks web interface is localized in Portuguese and French (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 5.5 LTS for Machine Learning support ends, replaced by Extended Support version
  • Databricks Light 2.4 support ends September 5, replaced by Extended Support version
  • New Azure region: Germany West Central
  • Feature freshness information available in Databricks Feature Store UI (Public Preview)
  • Display up to 10,000 result rows
  • Bulk import and export notebooks in a folder as source files
  • Autocomplete in SQL notebooks now uses all-caps for SQL keywords
  • Reorderable and resizable widgets in notebooks
  • Azure Databricks UI usability fixes
  • Quickly define pipeline settings when you create a new DLT pipeline
  • Databricks Runtime 8.4 and 8.4 ML are GA; 8.4 Photon is Public Preview
  • Use Spark SQL with the DLT Python API
  • Enhanced data processing and analysis with Azure Databricks jobs (Public Preview)
  • Reduced cost for DLT default clusters (Public Preview)
  • Sort pipelines by name in the DLT UI (Public Preview)
  • Changes to Compute page
  • Databricks Runtime 5.5 LTS support ends, replaced by Databricks Runtime 5.5 Extended Support through the end of 2021
  • Repos API (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 8.4 (Beta)
• June 2021
  • Correction: Repos for Git is enabled by default in new and existing workspaces in some regions
  • Change to Feature Store permissions
  • Improved access to results in the MLflow runs table
  • Better cost visibility for DLT
  • Enhanced data quality constraints for DLT
  • API changes for updating and replacing IP address lists
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.17
  • Databricks Runtime 7.5 series support ends
  • Optimize performance and control costs by using different pools for the driver node and worker nodes
  • Registry-wide permissions for Model Registry
  • A user's home directory is no longer protected when you delete a user using the SCIM API
  • Databricks Runtime 8.3 and 8.3 ML are GA; 8.3 Photon is Public Preview
  • Python and SQL table access control (GA)
  • Jobs UI and API now show the owner of a job run
  • Protect sensitive Spark configuration properties and environment variables using secrets (Public Preview)
  • Repos for Git is enabled by default in new and existing workspaces in some regions
  • Redesigned Workspace Settings UI
  • Updates to ListTokens and ListAllTokens database queries expired tokens
  • Confirmation now required when granting or revoking Admin permissions
  • Changes to keyboard shortcuts in the web UI
• May 2021
  • Databricks Mosaic AI: a data-native and collaborative solution for the full ML lifecycle
  • SQL Analytics is renamed to Databricks SQL
  • Create and manage ETL pipelines using DLT (Public Preview)
  • Azure Spot VMs are GA
  • Encrypt Databricks SQL queries and query history using your own key (Public Preview)
  • Increased limit for the number of terminated all-purpose clusters
  • Increased limit for the number of pinned clusters
  • Manage where notebook results are stored (Public Preview)
  • Encrypt notebook and secret data in the control plane with your own key (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 7.4 series support ends
  • Repos users can now integrate with Azure DevOps using personal access tokens
• April 2021
  • Databricks Runtime 8.2 (GA)
  • Easier job management with the enhanced jobs user interface
  • Cluster policy changes are applied automatically to existing clusters at restart and edit
  • Track retries in your job tasks when task attempts fail
  • Quickly view cluster details when you create a new cluster
  • MLflow sidebar reflects the most recent experiment
  • Change to default channel for conda.yaml files in MLflow
  • Streamlined authentication from Tableau Online to Azure Databricks using Microsoft Entra ID
  • Databricks Runtime 8.2 (Beta)
  • New extended infrastructure requires update to custom routes and egress firewalls
  • User and group limits
  • Easier monitoring of job run status
  • Global init scripts no longer run on model serving clusters
  • Receive email notification about activity in Model Registry
  • Databricks Runtime 6.4 series support ends
• March 2021
  • Azure Databricks now supports dark mode for viewing notebooks
  • Save your Azure Databricks TCO with Azure Spot VMs (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 8.1 (GA)
  • Easier job creation and management with the enhanced jobs user interface (Public Preview)
  • Track job retry attempts with a new sequential value returned for each job run attempt
  • Increased limit for the number of saved jobs in Premium workspaces
  • Easier way to connect to Azure Databricks from your favorite BI tools and SQL clients
  • Azure Databricks Repos let you use Git repositories to integrate Databricks with CI/CD systems
  • Automatic retries for failed job clusters reverted
  • Streamlined authentication from Tableau Desktop to Azure Databricks using Microsoft Entra ID
  • Databricks Runtime 8.1 (Beta)
  • Model Serving now supports additional model types
  • New options for searching Model Registry
  • Increased limit for the number of terminated all-purpose clusters
  • Increased limit for the number of pinned clusters in a workspace
  • Databricks Runtime 8.0 (GA)
• February 2021
  • New Azure Databricks Power BI connector (GA)
  • Diagnostic logging of user activities in Azure Databricks is GA
  • Added modification_time to the DBFS REST API get-status and list responses
  • Easily copy long experiment names in MLflow
  • Adjust memory size and number of cores for serving clusters
  • Web terminal is now GA
  • Apache Spark connector for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server supports Databricks Runtime 7.x and above
  • Databricks Runtime 7.2 series support ends
  • Databricks Runtime 7.6 GA
  • Databricks Runtime 8.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime for Genomics now deprecated
  • View more readable JSON in the MLflow run artifact display
  • Provide comments in the Model Registry using REST API
  • Easily specify default cluster values in API calls
  • Tune cluster worker configuration according to current worker allocation
  • Pass context specific information to a job's task with task parameter variables
  • Error messages from job failures no longer contain possibly sensitive information
• January 2021
  • Secure cluster connectivity (no public IPs) is GA
  • Databricks Runtime 7.1 series support ends
  • Start clusters faster with Docker images preloaded into instance pools
  • Notebook find and replace now supports changing all occurrences of a match
  • Single Node clusters (GA)
  • Free form cluster policy type renamed to Unrestricted
  • Cluster policy field not shown if a user only has access to one policy
  • Databricks Runtime 7.0 series support ends
• December 2020
  • Databricks Runtime 7.5 GA
  • Jobs API now supports updating existing jobs
  • New global init script framework is GA
  • Databricks Runtime 7.5 (Beta)
  • Jobs API end_time field now uses epoch time
  • Find DBFS files using new visual browser
  • Visibility controls for jobs, clusters, notebooks, and other workspace objects are now enabled by default on new workspaces
  • Improved display of nested runs in MLflow
  • Admins can now lock user accounts (Public Preview)
  • Updated NVIDIA driver
• November 2020
  • Databricks Runtime 6.6 series support ends
  • MLflow Model Registry GA
  • Filter experiment runs based on whether a registered model is associated
  • Partner integrations gallery now available through the Data tab
  • Cluster policies now use allowlist and blocklist as policy type names
  • Automatic retries when the creation of a job cluster fails
  • Navigate notebooks using the table of contents
  • Databricks SQL (Public Preview)
  • Single Node clusters now support Databricks Container Services
  • Databricks Runtime 7.4 GA
  • Databricks JDBC driver update
  • Databricks Connect 7.3 (Beta)
• October 2020
  • New Azure Databricks Power BI connector available in the online Power BI service (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 7.4 (Beta)
  • Use customer-managed keys for DBFS root (GA)
  • Expanded experiment access control (ACLs)
  • High fidelity import and export of Jupyter notebook (ipynb) files
  • SCIM API improvement: both indirect and direct groups returned in user record response
  • Azure request ID is now included in exceptions
  • Databricks Runtime 6.5 series support ends
  • Secure cluster connectivity (no public IPs) is Public Preview
  • SCIM API improvement: $ref field response
  • Diagnostic (audit) logs are now delivered with low latency
  • Databricks Runtime 7.3, 7.3 ML, and 7.3 Genomics declared Long Term Support (LTS)
  • Render images at higher resolution using matplotlib
  • Use the Databricks CLI or the Databricks API to create Azure Key Vault backed secret scopes
  • Use Microsoft Entra ID tokens to authenticate to the Databricks CLI
  • New Azure regions (Public Preview)
• September 2020
  • Databricks Runtime 7.3, 7.3 ML, and 7.3 Genomics are now GA
  • Single Node clusters (Public Preview)
  • DBFS REST API rate limiting
  • New sidebar icons
  • Running jobs limit increase
  • Artifact access control lists (ACLs) in MLflow
  • MLflow usability improvements
  • New Azure Databricks Power BI connector (Public Preview)
  • Use customer-managed keys for DBFS root (Public Preview)
  • New JDBC and ODBC drivers bring faster and lower latency BI
  • MLflow Model Serving (Public Preview)
  • Clusters UI improvements
  • Visibility controls for jobs, clusters, notebooks, and other workspace objects
  • Ability to create tokens no longer permitted by default
  • MLflow Model Registry supports sharing of models across workspaces
  • Databricks Runtime 7.3 (Beta)
  • Azure Databricks workload type name change
• August 2020
  • Token Management API is GA and admins can use the Admin Console to grant and revoke user access to tokens
  • Message size limits for Shiny apps increased
  • Improved instructions for setting up a cluster in local mode
  • View version of notebook associated with a run
  • Databricks Runtime 7.2 GA
  • Databricks Runtime 7.2 ML GA
  • Databricks Runtime 7.2 Genomics GA
  • Permissions API (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Connect 7.1 (GA)
  • Repeatable installation order for cluster libraries
  • Create model from MLflow registered models page (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Container Services supports GPU images
• July 2020
  • Web terminal (Public Preview)
  • New, more secure global init script framework (Public Preview)
  • IP access lists now GA
  • New file upload dialog
  • SCIM API filter and sort improvements
  • Azure Government regions added
  • Databricks Runtime 7.1 GA
  • Databricks Runtime 7.1 ML GA
  • Databricks Runtime 7.1 Genomics GA
  • Databricks Connect 7.1 (Public Preview)
  • IP Access List API updates
  • Python notebooks now support multiple outputs per cell
  • View notebook code and results cells side by side
  • Pause job schedules
  • Jobs API endpoints validate run ID
  • Microsoft Entra ID tokens to authorize to the Databricks REST API GA
  • Format SQL in notebooks automatically
  • Reproducible order of installation for Maven and CRAN libraries
  • Take control of your users' personal access tokens with the Token Management API (Public Preview)
  • Restore cut notebook cells
  • Assign jobs CAN MANAGE permission to non-admin users
  • Non-admin Azure Databricks users can view and filter by username using the SCIM API
  • Link to view cluster specification when you view job run details
• June 2020
  • Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.6
  • Databricks Runtime 7.0 ML GA
  • Databricks Runtime 7.0 GA, powered by Apache Spark 3.0
  • Databricks Runtime 7.0 for Genomics GA
  • Stage-dependent access controls for MLflow models
  • Notebooks now support disabling auto-scroll
  • Metastore IP addresses to change on June 30, 2020
  • Internet Explorer 11 support ends on August 15
  • Databricks Runtime 6.2 series support ends
  • Simplify and control cluster creation using cluster policies (Public Preview)
  • SCIM Me endpoint now returns SCIM compliant response
  • Restrict access to Azure Databricks using IP access lists (Public Preview)
• May 2020
  • Easv4-series VMs (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 6.6 for Genomics GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.6 ML GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.6 GA
  • DBFS REST API delete endpoint size limit
  • Easily view large numbers of MLflow registered models
  • Libraries configured to be installed on all clusters are not installed on clusters running Databricks Runtime 7.0 and above
  • Databricks Runtime 7.0 for Genomics (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 7.0 ML (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 6.6 for Genomics (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 6.6 ML (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 6.6 (Beta)
  • Job clusters now tagged with job name and ID
  • Restore deleted notebook cells
  • Jobs pending queue limit
• April 2020
  • Unique URLs for each Azure Databricks workspace
  • MLflow tracking UI enhancement
  • Notebook usability improvements
  • Use tokens to authorize to the Databricks REST API (Public Preview)
  • Single user can view the Apache Spark logs on a passthrough cluster
  • Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.5
  • Databricks Runtime 6.1 and 6.1 ML support ends
  • Databricks Runtime 6.5 GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.5 for Machine Learning GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.5 for Genomics GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.0 and 6.0 ML support ends
• March 2020
  • Managed MLflow Model Registry collaborative hub available (Public Preview)
  • Workspace, pool, and cluster tags propagate to DBU usage details and Azure VMs for better cost management reporting
  • Databricks Runtime 7.0 (Beta) previews Apache Spark 3.0
  • Databricks Runtime 6.5 ML (Beta)
  • Databricks Runtime 6.5 (Beta)
  • Azure Databricks feedback now goes directly to Azure Databricks feedback portal
  • Develop and test Shiny applications inside RStudio Server
  • Change the default language of a notebook
  • Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.4
  • Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.3
• February 2020
  • Databricks Runtime 6.4 for Genomics GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.4 ML GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.4 GA
  • New interactive charts offer rich client-side interactions
  • New data ingestion network adds partner integrations with Delta Lake (Public Preview)
  • Workspace creator automatically added as an Azure Databricks admin
  • Flags to manage workspace security and notebook features now available
• January 2020
  • Coming soon: workspace, pool, and cluster tags propagate to DBU usage details and Azure VMs for better cost management reporting
  • Azure Databricks and Azure Lighthouse can now live in the same subscription
  • Databricks Runtime 6.3 for Genomics GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.3 GA
  • Disk caching enabled by default
  • Cluster standard autoscaling step is now configurable
  • SCIM API supports pagination for Get Users and Get Groups (Public Preview)
  • File browser swimlane widths increased to 240px
  • Databricks Runtime 3.5 LTS support ends
• December 2019
  • Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.2
  • Configure clusters with your own container image using Databricks Container Services (GA)
  • Databricks Runtime 6.2 for Genomics GA
  • Azure Databricks SCIM provisioning connector available in the app gallery
  • Databricks Runtime 5.3 and 5.4 support ends
  • Databricks Runtime 6.2 ML GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.2 GA
  • Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.1
• November 2019
  • Databricks Runtime 6.2 ML Beta
  • Databricks Runtime 6.2 Beta
  • Configure clusters with your own container image using Databricks Container Services
  • Cluster detail now shows only cluster ID in the HTTP path
  • Secrets referenced by Spark configuration properties and environment variables (Public Preview)
• October 2019
  • Supportability metrics moved to Azure Event Hubs
  • Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough on standard clusters and Scala is GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.1 for Genomics GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.1 for Machine Learning GA
  • MLflow API calls are now rate limited
  • Pools of instances for quick cluster launch generally available
  • Databricks Runtime 6.1 GA
  • Databricks Runtime 6.0 for Genomics GA
  • Ability to deploy an Azure Databricks workspace to your own virtual network, also known as VNet injection, is GA
  • Non-admin Azure Databricks users can read user and group names and IDs using SCIM API
  • Workspace API returns notebook and folder object IDs
  • Databricks Runtime 6.0 ML GA
  • New regions: Brazil South and France Central
  • Databricks Runtime 6.0 GA
• September 2019
  • Databricks Runtime 5.2 support ends
  • Launch pool-backed automated clusters that use Databricks Light (Public Preview)
  • Azure SQL Database gateway IP addresses will change on October 14, 2019
  • Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough now supported on standard clusters and Scala (Public Preview)
  • pandas DataFrames now render in notebooks without scaling
  • Python version selector display now dynamic
  • Databricks Runtime 6.0 Beta
• August 2019
  • New region: UAE North
  • Workspace library installation enhancement
  • Clusters UI now reflects more consistent interactive and automated cluster terminology
  • Databricks Runtime 5.5 and Databricks Runtime 5.5 ML are LTS
  • Instance allocation notifications for pools
  • New cluster events
  • MLflow updates
• July 2019
  • Coming soon: Databricks 6.0 will not support Python 2
  • Preload the Databricks Runtime version on pool idle instances
  • Custom cluster tags and pool tags play better together
  • MLflow 1.1 brings several UI and API improvements
  • pandas DataFrame display renders like it does in Jupyter
  • New regions
  • Updated metastore connection limit
  • Set permissions on pools (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 5.5 for Machine Learning
  • Databricks Runtime 5.5
  • Keep a pool of instances on standby for quick cluster launch (Public Preview)
  • Ganglia metrics
  • Global series color
• June 2019
  • Lsv2 instance support is generally available
  • RStudio integration no longer limited to high concurrency clusters
  • MLflow 1.0
  • Databricks Runtime 5.4 for Machine Learning
  • Databricks Runtime 5.4
• May 2019
  • Cluster event log filtering
  • Azure Databricks diagnostic logging
  • JDBC/ODBC connectivity available without Premium plan
• April 2019
  • MLflow on Azure Databricks (GA)
  • Delta Lake on Azure Databricks
  • MLflow runs sidebar
  • Access Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Gen2 automatically with your Microsoft Entra ID credentials (GA)
  • Databricks Runtime 5.3 (GA)
  • Databricks Runtime 5.3 ML (GA)
• March 2019
  • Purge deleted MLflow experiments and runs
  • Manage groups from the Admin Console
  • Notebooks automatically have associated MLflow experiment
  • Lsv2 series instance types (Beta)
  • Databricks Delta public community
• February 2019
  • Databricks Light generally available
  • Managed MLflow on Azure Databricks Public Preview
  • Azure Data Lake Storage connector is generally available
  • Python 3 now the default when you create clusters
  • Delta Lake generally available
• January 2019
  • Upcoming change: Python 3 to become the default when you create clusters
  • Databricks Runtime 5.2 for Machine Learning (Beta) release
  • Databricks Runtime 5.2 release
  • Cluster configuration JSON view
  • Cluster UI
  • Deploy Azure Databricks in your own Azure virtual network (VNet injection)
  • Library UI
  • Cluster Events
  • Notebook Version Control using Azure DevOps Services
• December 2018
  • Databricks Runtime 5.1 for Machine Learning (Beta) release
  • Databricks Runtime 5.1 release
  • Library UI
  • Access Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 automatically with your Microsoft Entra ID credentials
• November 2018
  • Library UI
  • Custom Spark heap memory settings enabled
  • Jobs and idle execution context eviction
  • Databricks Runtime 5.0 for Machine Learning (Beta) release
  • Databricks Runtime 5.0 release
  • displayHTML support for unrestricted loading of third-party content
• October 2018
  • Copy notebook file path without opening notebook
  • Azure-Key-Vault-backed secret scopes now supported on Standard Plan accounts
• September 2018
  • SCIM provisioning using Microsoft Entra ID (Preview)
  • Cluster tags on Azure bills
  • Support for Fsv2 series VMs
  • SCIM API for provisioning users and groups (Preview)
• August 2018
  • New regions
  • Conditional access
  • Workspace sidebar redesign
  • New environment variables in init scripts
  • Cluster-scoped init scripts
  • Collapsible headings
• July 2018
  • Libraries API supports Python wheel files
  • IPython notebook export
  • Azure Key Vault-backed secret scopes
  • Trial Premium workspaces
  • Cluster mode and High Concurrency clusters
  • Table access control
  • Unavailable cluster node types grayed out
  • R Markdown support
  • Home page redesign, with ability to drop files to import data
  • Widget default behavior
  • Table creation UI
  • Multi-line JSON data import
• June 2018
  • RStudio integration
  • Cluster log purge
  • New regions
  • Trash folder
  • Reduced log retention period
  • Gzipped API responses
  • Table import UI
• May 2018
  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Azure Databricks users must belong to Microsoft Entra ID tenant
  • HorovodEstimator
  • MLeap ML Model Export
  • Even more GPU cluster types
  • Notebook cells: hide and show
  • Doc site search
  • Databricks Runtime 4.1 ML for Machine Learning (Beta)
  • Databricks Delta
  • Display() support for image data types
  • GPU cluster types
  • Secret management GA
  • Secrets API endpoint and CLI command changes
  • Cluster pinning
  • Cluster autostart
  • Workspace purging
  • Databricks CLI 0.7.1
• April 2018
  • Secrets CLI
  • Deep Learning guides
  • Secrets API update for Create Secret Scope
  • Spark error tips
  • Databricks CLI 0.7.0
  • Increase init script output truncation limit
  • Clusters API: added UPSIZE_COMPLETED event type
  • Command autocomplete
  • Serverless pools upgraded to Databricks Runtime 4.0
• March 2018
  • Command execution details
  • Databricks CLI supports --profile
  • ACLs enabled by default for new Premium SKU customers
  • Azure Databricks is now generally available
  • New doc site theme
  • Autoscaling local storage
  • Virtual network (VNet) peering
  • Cluster event log
  • Databricks CLI: 0.6.0 release
  • Job run management
  • Edit cluster permissions now requires edit mode
  • Databricks ML Model Export
• February 2018
  • New line chart supports time-series data
  • More visualization improvements
  • Delete job runs using Job API
  • KaTeX math rendering library updated
  • Databricks CLI: 0.5.0 release
  • DBUtils API library
  • Filter for your jobs only
  • Spark-submit from the Create Job page
  • Select Python 3 from the Create Cluster page
  • Workspace UI improvements
  • Autocomplete for SQL commands and database names
  • Serverless pools now support R
  • XGBoost available as a Spark Package
  • Table access control for SQL and Python (Beta)
• January 2018
  • Mount points for Azure Blob storage containers and Data Lake Stores
  • Cluster tags
  • Table Access Control for SQL and Python (Private Preview)
  • Exporting notebook job run results via API
  • Apache Airflow 1.9.0 includes Databricks integration