• Wednesday 20 May 2026
• 02:00 Authenticate as a service principal using OAuth U2M (Beta) 
• Tuesday 19 May 2026
• 02:00 Customer-managed keys now support MLflow managed evaluation features 
• 02:00 Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards 
• 02:00 Genie chat will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled 
• 02:00 Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports nesting supervisor agents as subagent tools 
• 02:00 Edits to resources in the UI now automatically update YAML 
• 02:00 Lakeflow Designer updates 
• 02:00 Databricks Container Services for standard compute is now available (Beta) 
• Monday 18 May 2026
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime 18: May 18, 2026 
• 02:00 Unified runs list is generally available 
• Friday 15 May 2026
• 02:00 Share Genie Code chat threads 
• 02:00 Recover a deleted Lakebase project within 7 days 
• 02:00 Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports vector search indexes as subagent tools 
• 02:00 Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines sinks are now generally available 
• Thursday 14 May 2026
• 02:00 Publish a Unity Catalog catalog to Microsoft Fabric (Beta) 
• 02:00 Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines environment versions (Beta) 
• 02:00 Upcoming workspace sidebar navigation updates 
• 02:00 SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now in Public Preview 
• 02:00 View run history for scheduled refreshes in Google Sheets 
• 02:00 Genie Space enhancements and bug fixes 
• 02:00 Databricks SQL alerts are now generally available 
• Wednesday 13 May 2026
• 02:00 New Lakebase Autoscaling instances now scale to zero by default 
• 02:00 ai_parse_document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled 
• 02:00 Version 18.2 
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (05/13) 
• Tuesday 12 May 2026
• 02:00 Lakebase Autoscaling: Lakehouse Sync is now in Public Preview 
• Monday 11 May 2026
• 02:00 HubSpot connector (GA) 
• 02:00 HIPAA support for the Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel 
• 02:00 App telemetry for Databricks Apps is now in Public Preview 
• Friday 8 May 2026
• 02:00 Catalog commits are now generally available 
• Thursday 7 May 2026
• 02:00 Standalone pipelines on serverless general compute (Beta) 
• 02:00 Genie chat enhancements 
• 02:00 Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks 
• Wednesday 6 May 2026
• 02:00 Unified permissions model for projects created with the Database instance API 
• 02:00 Lakehouse Sync is now available on Azure (Beta) 
• 02:00 Postgres password authentication will be disabled by default for new Lakebase Autoscaling projects 
• 02:00 Block identities from your Azure Databricks account with the account access denylist 
• Tuesday 5 May 2026
• 02:00 Excel file format support will soon be available by default 
• 02:00 Outlook managed ingestion connector (Beta) 
• 02:00 Smartsheet managed ingestion connector (Beta) 
• 02:00 AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator (Beta) 
• 02:00 GitHub managed ingestion connector (Beta) 
• 02:00 Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview 
• Monday 4 May 2026
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime 18: May 4, 2026 
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime 19 will use a unified release model 
• 02:00 Upcoming change: Databricks Runtime 19 will use a unified release model 
• 02:00 Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA 
• 02:00 Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available 
• Friday 1 May 2026
• 02:00 Upcoming change: Upgrade to Lakebase Autoscaling 
• 02:00 Tabular attachments in dashboard email subscriptions for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled