• Friday 5 June 2026
• 02:00 Unit testing for pipelines (Beta) 
• 02:00 External data access for pipeline streaming tables and materialized views (Public Preview) 
• Thursday 4 June 2026
• 02:00 ai_extract and ai_classify will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled 
• 02:00 Improved workspace file write performance on classic compute 
• 02:00 Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Azure Databricks 
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime 18: June 4, 2026 
• 02:00 Set budgets for Genie usage 
• 02:00 Genie Code now supports auto-approve for tool actions 
• 02:00 Genie products will move to pay-as-you-go pricing 
• Wednesday 3 June 2026
• 02:00 Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports web search as a built-in tool 
• 02:00 Full page Genie Code (Beta) 
• 02:00 Genie Code will also use models served through OpenAI on Databricks 
• 02:00 Table update triggers on Delta Sharing and system tables (Beta) 
• Tuesday 2 June 2026
• 02:00 Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta) 
• 02:00 Pendo connector (Beta) 
• 02:00 Slack Access and Integration Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta) 
• 02:00 Zoom Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta) 
• Monday 1 June 2026
• 02:00 Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer 
• 02:00 Intra-VNet NSG rule hardening for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview 
• 02:00 Vector Search is now AI Search 
• Saturday 30 May 2026
• 02:00 Compliance security profile required for HIPAA, HITRUST, and IRAP 
• 00:30 Upcoming behavior change: Choose entitlements when adding principals to workspaces 
• Friday 29 May 2026
• 02:00 Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect are now generally available 
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime 18: May 29, 2026 
• 02:00 Lakeflow Designer updates for May 29, 2026 
• 02:00 Databricks Apps horizontal scaling (Beta) 
• Thursday 28 May 2026
• 02:00 Embed Genie Space will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled 
• 02:00 Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (Beta) 
• 02:00 Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 now available as a Databricks-hosted model 
• Wednesday 27 May 2026
• 02:00 Refresh policies and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW for materialized views are now generally available 
• 02:00 Real-time mode in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, and the update_flow API are now available (Public Preview) 
• 02:00 Databricks SQL alerts will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled 
• 02:00 Google Drive managed ingestion connector (Beta) 
• 02:00 Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout 
• Tuesday 26 May 2026
• 02:00 Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview 
• 02:00 Removed legacy Assistant slash commands 
• 02:00 Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines parameters are now in Beta 
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/26) 
• Monday 25 May 2026
• 02:00 Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled 
• Friday 22 May 2026
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime 18 and Databricks Runtime 18 for Machine Learning are in Beta 
• Thursday 21 May 2026
• 02:00 Unity Catalog managed Apache Iceberg tables, foreign Apache Iceberg tables, and Apache Iceberg v3 features are generally available 
• 02:00 Workspace sidebar navigation updates 
• 02:00 Instance events and instance pools system tables are now available (Public Preview) 
• 02:00 Databricks CLI is now GA 
• 02:00 Postgres password authentication is now disabled by default for new Lakebase Autoscaling projects 
• Wednesday 20 May 2026
• 02:00 Customer-managed keys for Lakebase available in all AWS and Azure regions 
• 02:00 Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are GA 
• 02:00 Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views 
• 02:00 Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta) 
• 02:00 Lakebase Autoscaling now supports compute sizes up to 64 CU (128 GB)