Databricks on Azure
1149 releases that have landed on Azure, newest first.
- Changes to OpenSharing (formerly Delta Sharing) open recipient tokens Coming soon
Replaces old Delta Sharing endpoint with recipient-specific URL format. New tokens use https://<recipient-id>.opensharing.us-west-2.cloud.databricks.com.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Create alerts for anomaly detection in the Data Quality Monitoring UI (Beta)
Creates notifications for unusual data patterns, available in Beta.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
Fixes issues with date filters, theme colors, and audit logs, and adds drill-through filters for pivot tables and Genie explanations for chart changes.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes
Inspect improves SQL accuracy with automated verification. Agent mode is now available in more regions.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - SQL alert task for jobs (Beta)
Evaluates SQL alerts as part of workflows, enabling automated condition checks and notifications.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Azure Databricks usage dashboard is now generally available
Account admins can import pre-built dashboards to monitor usage at account and workspace levels.
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- Databricks JDBC driver 2.8.0 is available
Replaces Log4j with SLF4J 2.0.13, enables telemetry by default.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Apps supports uv for Python dependency management
Uses pyproject.toml and uv.lock files. Replaces prior dependency management methods.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Search in metric views fix
Now returns correct results across paginated results and supports filtering by display name.
- Databricks Asset Bundles is now Declarative Automation Bundles
Replaces Databricks Asset Bundles.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Lakebase databases as Databricks Apps resources
Replaces manual database configuration, requires Lakebase setup.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Beta)
Available in all supported regions, controlled from Previews page.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - ABAC policy functions now use snake_case naming
Replaces camelCase with snake_case, old forms still work but will be deprecated.
- Chat in Genie One (Beta)
Replaces Genie Space with Genie Agent routing.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Empty vector search endpoints no longer incur charges
Charges stop 24 hours after last index is deleted.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Health indicators for tables in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)
Shows freshness and completeness status based on anomaly detection.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Account-level Genie One (Beta)
Provides a unified homepage and cross-workspace search across all workspaces.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Dashboard enhancements and improvements
Embeds dashboards in external apps without Databricks accounts, hides logo option.
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- Data quality monitoring documentation moved to Data governance (Unity Catalog)
Moved from Data guides to Data governance chapter.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements
Adds 5 generally available management APIs and fixes instruction length bug.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Lakebase updates: OAuth role management and budget policies and tags
Creates OAuth roles via UI or REST API, and adds budget policies and custom tags to projects.
- New Lakebase instances include autoscaling by default
Autoscaling is on by default for new instances, applies to UI, API, Terraform, and SDK creations.
- Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code
Adds autonomous multi-step data tasks, replaces Databricks Assistant.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime 18: March 11, 2026
Replaces previous behavior where observation metric errors caused query failures.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now GA
Replaces Databricks Runtime 7.3.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks SQL pipelines support notifications and performance mode (Beta)
Supports failure notifications and serverless performance mode for materialized views and streaming tables.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime 18: March 10, 2026
Includes clearer error messages for scalar subqueries and operating system security updates.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (03/10)
Includes bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements for versions 13.3 to 18.0.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - BI compatibility mode for metric views in Power BI (Beta)
Enables standard SQL aggregation functions, rewriting them to use correct measure definitions.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Apps compute sizing support for compliance security profile standards
Available by default for workspaces with compliance security profile enabled, supporting all Databricks compliance standards.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Public Preview)
Enables private connectivity for Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase Autoscaling.
- Multi-table transactions are now in Public Preview
Requires catalog commits on participating tables, supports Unity Catalog managed Delta tables.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - New resources for Databricks Apps
Adds app-to-app communication and governed table access. Requires Unity Catalog tables.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Workday HCM connector (Beta)
Ingests Workday Human Capital Management data into Databricks.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Apps telemetry (Beta)
Collects traces, logs, and metrics via OpenTelemetry protocol to Unity Catalog tables.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta)
Stores logs, traces, and metrics in Unity Catalog Delta tables using OpenTelemetry.
- Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Access via Foundation Model APIs or AI Functions, supporting pay-per-token and batch inference workloads.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Serverless compute now available for IRAP and Canada Protected B workloads on Azure Databricks
Requires environment version 5 to be enabled.
- Dashboard enhancements and improvements
Legacy dashboards are no longer available. Pivot tables now support drill-through filters.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Tree view of the workspace browser side panel (Public Preview)
Provides a flexible tree-based view of workspace folder hierarchy, allowing expansion of descendant folders and root changes.
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