- Monday 08 June 2026
- 00:00Upcoming behavior change: Choose entitlements when adding principals to workspaces
- Friday 05 June 2026
- 00:00External data access for pipeline streaming tables and materialized views (Public Preview)
- 00:00Managed SharePoint connector adds structured file ingestion and file metadata support (Beta)
- 00:00Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available
- 00:00UNIQUE constraint support is now in Public Preview
- Thursday 04 June 2026
- 00:00Genie Code now supports auto-approve for tool actions
- 00:00Set budgets for Genie usage
- 00:00Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Azure Databricks
- 00:00Improved workspace file write performance on classic compute
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18: June 4, 2026
- 00:00Genie One enhancements
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements
- 00:00ai_extract and ai_classify will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Wednesday 03 June 2026
- 00:00Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports web search as a built-in tool
- 00:00Table update triggers on Delta Sharing and system tables (Beta)
- 00:00Full page Genie Code (Beta)
- 00:00Declarative Automation Bundles will soon default to use the direct deployment engine
- Tuesday 02 June 2026
- 00:00Slack Access and Integration Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- 00:00Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta)
- 00:00Zoom Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- 00:00Pendo connector (Beta)
- Monday 01 June 2026
- 00:00Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer
- 00:00Intra-VNet NSG rule hardening for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview
- 00:00Vector Search is now AI Search
- 00:00Lakebase snapshot storage is now billed
- Saturday 30 May 2026
- 00:00Compliance security profile required for HIPAA, HITRUST, and IRAP
- Friday 29 May 2026
- 00:00Lakeflow Designer updates for May 29, 2026
- 00:00Databricks Apps horizontal scaling (Beta)
- 00:00Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect are now generally available
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18: May 29, 2026
- Thursday 28 May 2026
- 00:00Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (Beta)
- 00:00Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Genie One enhancements
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Wednesday 27 May 2026
- 00:00Refresh policies and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW for materialized views are now generally available
- 00:00Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout
- 00:00Google Drive managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- 00:00Real-time mode in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow, and the update_flow API are now available (Public Preview)
- Tuesday 26 May 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/26)
- 00:00Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow parameters are now in Beta
- 00:00Removed legacy Assistant slash commands
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview
- Monday 25 May 2026
- 00:00Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Friday 22 May 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are in Beta
- Thursday 21 May 2026
- 00:00Instance events and instance pools system tables are now available (Public Preview)
- 00:00Databricks CLI is now GA
- 00:00Postgres password authentication is now disabled by default for new Lakebase Autoscaling projects
- 00:00Unity Catalog managed Apache Iceberg tables, foreign Apache Iceberg tables, and Apache Iceberg v3 features are generally available
- 00:00Workspace sidebar navigation updates
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes
- 00:00Genie One enhancements
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Wednesday 20 May 2026
- 00:00Authenticate as a service principal using OAuth U2M (Beta)
- 00:00Lakebase Autoscaling now supports compute sizes up to 64 CU (128 GB)
- 00:00Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta)
- 00:00Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views
- 00:00Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are GA
- 00:00Customer-managed keys for Lakebase available in all AWS and Azure regions
- Tuesday 19 May 2026
- 00:00Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards
- 00:00Edits to resources in the UI now automatically update YAML
- 00:00Lakeflow Designer updates
- 00:00Databricks Container Services for standard compute is now available (Beta)
- 00:00Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports nesting supervisor agents as subagent tools
- 00:00Customer-managed keys now support MLflow managed evaluation features
- Monday 18 May 2026
- 00:00Unified runs list is generally available
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18: May 18, 2026
- Friday 15 May 2026
- 00:00Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow sinks are now generally available
- 00:00Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports vector search indexes as subagent tools
- 00:00Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog tables as subagent tools
- 00:00Share Genie Code chat threads
- 00:00Recover a deleted Lakebase project within 7 days
- Thursday 14 May 2026
- 00:00Publish a Unity Catalog catalog to Microsoft Fabric (Beta)
- 00:00SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now in Public Preview
- 00:00Databricks SQL alerts are now generally available
- 00:00Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow environment versions (Beta)
- 00:00View run history for scheduled refreshes in Google Sheets
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes
- 00:00Genie One enhancements and bug fixes
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Wednesday 13 May 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/13)
- 00:00ai_parse_document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- 00:00New Lakebase Autoscaling instances now scale to zero by default
- 00:00Version 18.2
- Tuesday 12 May 2026
- 00:00Lakebase Autoscaling: Lakehouse Sync is now in Public Preview
- Monday 11 May 2026
- 00:00HubSpot connector (GA)
- 00:00HIPAA support for the Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel
- 00:00App telemetry for Databricks Apps is now in Public Preview
- Friday 08 May 2026
- 00:00Catalog commits are now generally available
- Thursday 07 May 2026
- 00:00Standalone pipelines on serverless general compute (Beta)
- 00:00Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- 00:00Genie One enhancements
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Wednesday 06 May 2026
- 00:00Block identities from your Azure Databricks account with the account access denylist
- 00:00Lakehouse Sync is now available on Azure (Beta)
- Tuesday 05 May 2026
- 00:00Smartsheet managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- 00:00GitHub managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- 00:00AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator (Beta)
- 00:00Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview
- 00:00Outlook managed ingestion connector (Beta)
- Monday 04 May 2026
- 00:00Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18: May 4, 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 19 will use a unified release model
- Friday 01 May 2026
- 00:00Azure UK South now has a dedicated regional control plane
- 00:00Community connectors (Beta)
- 00:00Native data profiling for notebook results tables
- 00:00Native data profiling for results tables in the SQL editor
- 00:00Upcoming change: Upgrade to Lakebase Autoscaling
- Thursday 30 April 2026
- 00:00MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now in Public Preview
- 00:00Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports custom MCP servers and custom agents on Databricks Apps
- 00:00Disabling tasks in Lakeflow Jobs is now GA
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- 00:00Genie One scheduled tasks (Public Preview)
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- 00:00agg SQL function as a synonym for measure
- 00:00Power BI connections will transition to ADBC
- Wednesday 29 April 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/29)
- 00:00Configure private endpoints for serverless compute in Azure China
- 00:00Chat in Genie One is now in Public Preview
- Tuesday 28 April 2026
- 00:00Cloud token access for open Delta Sharing sharing (GA)
- 00:00Zendesk Support connector (GA)
- 00:00Tag Unity Catalog functions
- 00:00Connect Azure Databricks to on-premises resources using an SSH reverse tunnel
- 00:00Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow updates are retained for 60 days
- 00:005X-Large SQL warehouse size (Public Preview)
- 00:00Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now generally available
- Monday 27 April 2026
- 00:00Recently Resolved Incidents section in Data Quality Monitoring (Beta)
- 00:00Databricks One renamed to Genie
- Saturday 25 April 2026
- 00:00Confluence connector (GA)
- Friday 24 April 2026
- 00:00Workspace base environments are now generally available
- 00:00Azure Databricks Excel Add-in requires workspace preview enablement
- 00:00Manage Supervisor Agent programmatically with the Databricks SDK (Beta)
- Thursday 23 April 2026
- 00:00Genie Code space configuration
- 00:00Genie One app search
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is rolling out in Current
- 00:00Workspace object permissions will soon be inherited from all account groups
- Wednesday 22 April 2026
- 00:00Language selector for AI-generated comments in Catalog Explorer
- 00:00Lakeflow Designer is now in Public Preview
- Tuesday 21 April 2026
- 00:00CPU_MEDIUM and CPU_LARGE workload types for Model Serving (Beta)
- Monday 20 April 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18: April 20, 2026
- 00:00Supervisor API for building agents (Beta)
- 00:00Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/20)
- 00:00Databricks Data Classification is now GA
- 00:00Version 18.1
- Friday 17 April 2026
- 00:00Altering a catalog or schema's managed storage location is now GA
- 00:00BI compatibility mode removed from Power BI connector
- Thursday 16 April 2026
- 00:00Customer-managed keys now support model serving
- 00:00Compute log delivery to volumes is now GA
- 00:00ai_parse_document is now generally available
- 00:00Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Databricks Connector for Google Sheets is now generally available
- 00:00Metric view enhancements
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- 00:00Visualization enhancements
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Wednesday 15 April 2026
- 00:00AI Gateway now governs MCP servers (Beta)
- 00:00Updated UI navigation for Databricks Apps
- 00:00Sample Data Explorer is generally available
- 00:00Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect (Public Preview)
- Tuesday 14 April 2026
- 00:00Create and write to Unity Catalog tables from external Delta clients (Beta)
- 00:00Lakebase Autoscaling: Customer-managed keys
- Monday 13 April 2026
- 00:00SQL reference documentation for managing governed tags
- 00:00Vector Search retrieval quality (Beta)
- 00:00Connect Lovable apps to Azure Databricks
- 00:00Column-level SAP governance tags sync into Unity Catalog
- Friday 10 April 2026
- 00:00C5, TISAX, and K-FSI compliance controls are now generally available
- Thursday 09 April 2026
- 00:00Share foreign Iceberg tables with Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
- 00:00New cascade field for deleting Unity Catalog pipelines (Beta)
- 00:00Genie One enhancements
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements
- 00:00Upcoming breaking change: default behavior when deleting a Unity Catalog pipeline
- Wednesday 08 April 2026
- 00:00ai_prep_search (Beta)
- 00:00Scoped personal access tokens are now generally available
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18.2 and Databricks Runtime 18.2 ML are in Beta
- Tuesday 07 April 2026
- 00:00Git-backed app deployments are now generally available
- Monday 06 April 2026
- 00:00SAP semantic metadata syncs automatically into Unity Catalog
- 00:00Workspace skills for Genie Code are now available
- 00:00Databricks Marketplace listing creation wizard
- Thursday 02 April 2026
- 00:00Genie One enhancements
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 18: April 2, 2026
- 00:00Governed tags are generally available
- 00:00Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (04/02)
- 00:00Genie One enhancements
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Tuesday 31 March 2026
- 00:00Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in additional regions
- Monday 30 March 2026
- 00:00Databricks Connector for Google Sheets updates
- 00:00New SQL editor default enablement and legacy SQL editor retirement
- Friday 27 March 2026
- 00:00ai_classify and ai_extract now support v2 signatures (Public Preview)
- 00:00Classification and Information Extraction are in Public Preview
- 00:00Agent Bricks now covers all Databricks AI capabilities
- Thursday 26 March 2026
- 00:00Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- 00:00Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is now available in Preview
- Wednesday 25 March 2026
- 00:00New fields in lineage system table entity metadata