- Monday 14 September 2026
- 00:00Genie visualizations in Slack replies (Public Preview)
- Friday 11 September 2026
- 00:00Session restore for serverless jobs is in Public Preview
- 00:00DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
- 00:00Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
- 00:00Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
- 00:00Standard performance mode is now available for one-time runs in the Jobs API
- 00:00DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
- Thursday 10 September 2026
- 00:00Managed tables in Lakeflow pipelines (Beta)
- 00:00Databricks-provided MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code are generally available
- 00:00The Azure Databricks Excel Add-in is now generally available
- 00:00Databricks-managed MCP connectors for Genie One are generally available
- 00:00Genie Agents will soon be restricted to only the data sources attached to the agent
- Wednesday 09 September 2026
- 00:00Genie Code adds conversation controls
- 00:00Configurable retention for system tables is in Beta
- 00:00Anaplan connector (Beta)
- 00:00Anysphere Organization connector (Beta)
- 00:00Celigo connector (Beta)
- 00:00External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta)
- 00:00Horizontal scaling for Databricks Apps will soon be available for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Tuesday 08 September 2026
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is rolling out in Current
- 00:00Partner-powered AI features can no longer be disabled in the settings UI
- 00:00The partner-powered AI features setting will be removed
- 00:00See which chunks support each ai_search answer (Beta)
- 00:00ABAC DENY policies are in Beta
- 00:00time_bucket SQL function aligns timestamps to fixed-width time buckets
- 00:00Incremental ingestion for Salesforce formula fields in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available
- Monday 07 September 2026
- 00:00Zerobus Ingest into default storage is now in Public Preview
- Friday 04 September 2026
- 00:00OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway
- 00:00OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway
- Thursday 03 September 2026
- 00:00Data Classification will soon scan Unity Catalog views
- 00:00Environment version 6 is now available
- 00:00Compliance security profile will enforce Azure Virtual Network encryption
- 00:00Private network gateway is in Beta
- 00:00Share metric views with OpenSharing (Beta)
- 00:00Lakebase now available in Azure Japan East region (japaneast)
- Wednesday 02 September 2026
- 00:00Shared Serverless for Git Folders is in Beta
- 00:00AI Search supports struct and map columns and filter-only queries
- 00:00Google Gemini 3.8 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Git Folder Serverless is in Beta
- 00:00Google Gemini 3.8 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- Tuesday 01 September 2026
- 00:00Automatic change data feed is now generally available
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 19: September 1, 2026
- 00:00Genie Code scheduled tasks are now generally available
- 00:00HITRUST and IRAP compliance controls are now generally available
- 00:00Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Genie Code scheduled tasks will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- 00:00Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (09/01)
- 00:00Apache Arrow support for Zerobus Ingest is now generally available
- Monday 31 August 2026
- 00:00August 31, 2026
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is now available in Preview
- 00:00ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and services
- 00:00Lakebase now provides a service level agreement (SLA)
- 00:00Pipeline events system table is in Beta
- Sunday 30 August 2026
- 00:00Nanosecond-precision timestamps (Beta)
- Saturday 29 August 2026
- 00:00Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Restrict service principal OAuth secrets to specific API scopes
- Friday 28 August 2026
- 00:00Monitor and cap external provider costs
- 00:00Monitor and cap external provider costs
- 00:00Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
- Thursday 27 August 2026
- 00:00AI Functions REST API is now generally available
- 00:00Atlassian Audit Logs connector (Beta)
- 00:00Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
- 00:00Lakeflow Designer August Release
- 00:00Lakebase storage quota default increased to 32 TB
- 00:00Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
- 00:00Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)
- Wednesday 26 August 2026
- 00:00Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
- 00:00Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
- 00:00Zerobus Ingest into streaming tables is now generally available
- 00:00Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Query text is now masked by default in system tables and APIs
- Tuesday 25 August 2026
- 00:00ai_parse_document quality improvements: checkboxes, handwriting, and figure text
- 00:00Anysphere Audit Logs connector (Beta)
- 00:00ai_prep_search supports plain text and markdown input (Beta)
- 00:00LTAP Direct Writes accelerates synced table loads (Beta)
- 00:00The Genie One desktop app for macOS is in Beta
- Monday 24 August 2026
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.35 is now available in Preview
- 00:00August 24, 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 19: August 24, 2026
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is rolling out in Current
- 00:00Verkada connector (Beta)
- 00:00Unity Gateway now supports Provisioned Throughput
- 00:00Unity Gateway now supports Provisioned Throughput
- 00:00Private network gateway is in Private Preview
- 00:00Genie Code is now available in the Lakebase project UI
- 00:00The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta
- 00:00Connect to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams with your workspace URL (Public Preview)
- 00:00Postgres minor version updates
- 00:00Secrets in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Friday 21 August 2026
- 00:00Monitor all AI activity with the unified trace table (Beta)
- 00:00Consumer access to query Unity Gateway services will become generally available
- 00:00Monitor all AI activity with the unified trace table (Beta)
- 00:00Lakebase adds compliance security profile standards on Azure
- 00:00Context attributes in ABAC column mask and row filter policies (Beta)
- 00:00Default Python package repositories are GA for Lakeflow pipelines and classic compute
- 00:00Consumer access to query Unity AI Gateway services will become generally available
- 00:00Upcoming end of life for the Supervisor API
- Thursday 20 August 2026
- 00:00Salesforce connector mTLS authentication is now generally available
- 00:00Performance mode now applies to materialized view and streaming table refreshes from dbt tasks
- 00:00Write data back to Azure Databricks from Google Sheets
- Wednesday 19 August 2026
- 00:00ai_extract precision mode is now generally available
- 00:00Choose an effort level in Genie Code
- 00:00Role-based access control (RBAC) is generally available
- 00:00Role-based access control (RBAC) will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Tuesday 18 August 2026
- 00:00Lakebase available in four new Azure regions
- 00:00Lakebase available in four new Azure regions
- 00:00User authorization for Databricks Apps will soon be available for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- Monday 17 August 2026
- 00:00August 17, 2026
- 00:00Manage project environments with %uv commands
- 00:00Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta)
- 00:00Base environments are now supported on classic compute (Beta)
- 00:00Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta
- 00:00Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column
- 00:00Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column
- Friday 14 August 2026
- 00:00Lakebase Postgres APIs are now generally available
- 00:00Lakebase Postgres APIs are now generally available
- 00:00Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available
- 00:00Genie Code supports file uploads
- 00:00Workiva connector (Beta)
- Thursday 13 August 2026
- 00:00Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
- 00:00Block or redact sensitive data in requests and responses
- 00:00Smart Routing: Cut AI costs by routing each task to the right model
- 00:00Smart Routing: Cut AI costs by routing each task to the right model
- 00:00Block or redact sensitive data in requests and responses
- 00:00Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
- 00:00Cross-workspace access for serverless (Beta)
- 00:00Custom URL access to workspaces over inbound Private Link (Beta)
- 00:00Identity attributes (Beta)
- 00:00Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available
- 00:00Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta)
- 00:00OpenSharing SecureConnect will be available by default for all accounts
- 00:00Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts
- 00:00Google Gemini 3.7 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
- 00:00Google Drive Audit Logs connector is now available in Beta
- 00:00Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect is generally available
- 00:00SendGrid connector (Beta)
- 00:00SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
- 00:00Expanded networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect
- 00:00Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
- Wednesday 12 August 2026
- 00:00Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
- 00:00Amplitude connector (Beta)
- 00:00Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta
- 00:00Google Search Console connector is available in Beta
- 00:00Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)
- Tuesday 11 August 2026
- 00:00Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is now available in Preview
- 00:00ABAC GRANT policies now cover Unity Gateway resource types (Beta)
- 00:00ABAC GRANT policies now cover Unity Gateway resource types (Beta)
- 00:00REPLACE USING flows for standalone streaming tables (Beta)
- 00:00Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta
- Monday 10 August 2026
- 00:00Databricks Runtime 19: August 10, 2026
- 00:00Lakebase now supports PCI-DSS and HITRUST
- 00:00Target an Azure capacity reservation group for classic compute
- 00:00Notion connector (Beta)
- 00:00READ METADATA privilege is GA
- 00:00Orchestrate continuous pipelines with continuous jobs
- 00:00Alert system tables are in Public Preview
- Friday 07 August 2026
- 00:00Change data feed on materialized views (Beta)
- 00:00ai_search function (Beta)
- 00:00Tag automations (Beta)
- Thursday 06 August 2026
- 00:00Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity Gateway (Beta)
- 00:00Unity Gateway API: Manage resources with SDKs, the CLI, and Terraform
- 00:00Unity Gateway API: Manage resources with SDKs, the CLI, and Terraform
- 00:00Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity Gateway (Beta)
- 00:00Zerobus Ingest is now enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile
- 00:00JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available
- 00:00Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity AI Gateway (Beta)
- Wednesday 05 August 2026
- 00:00Lakebase is enabled by default in compliance security profile workspaces
- 00:00Lakebase support for compliance security profile standards
- 00:00Lakebase support for compliance security profile standards
- 00:00Search and replace text across files
- 00:00REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta)
- 00:00JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available
- 00:00Genie One is now available in Microsoft Excel
- 00:00Genie One is now available in Google Sheets
- 00:00Window measures on a numeric index column in metric views
- Tuesday 04 August 2026
- 00:00Schema-level HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available
- 00:00Unity Gateway is now generally available
- 00:00Unity Gateway is now generally available
- 00:00NetSuite connector (GA)
- 00:00Format AI/BI dashboard widget titles and descriptions with rich text
- 00:00Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
- 00:00Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
- 00:00Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (08/04)
- 00:00Full page Genie Code is now generally available
- 00:00Google Drive connector (GA)
- 00:00PagerDuty connector (Beta)
- 00:00SharePoint connector (GA)
- 00:00Unity AI Gateway is now generally available
- Monday 03 August 2026
- 00:00Serverless compute access control is now generally available
- 00:00Environment variables for serverless jobs are in Beta
- 00:00Serverless compute access control is now generally available
- 00:00Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA
- 00:00MANAGE no longer requires USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA on the same object
- 00:00Refresh materialized views and streaming tables without exempting the pipeline owner from ABAC policies
- 00:00Filter updates for the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in
- 00:00Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027
- 00:00Automatic cost attribution for materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
- 00:00Organize your work with spaces