Databricks on Azure
1149 releases that have landed on Azure, newest first.
- AI/BI dashboard active filter bar and visualization improvements
Shows all active filters on a dashboard, including global and page-level filters. Supports min and max aggregations for date fields.
- New Genie API endpoints and improved benchmarks
New endpoints manage conversations, replacing value sampling with prompt matching.
- Databricks Assistant Agent mode: Data Science Agent is in Beta
Orchestrates multi-step workflows from a single prompt, building entire notebooks for tasks like EDA and machine learning.
- AI agents: Authorize on-behalf-of-user Public Preview
Lets agents act as the Databricks user who runs the query for added security.
- Migrate Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow from legacy publishing mode is rolled back to Public Preview
Reverts migration feature to Public Preview due to issues. Requires re-enabling default publishing mode in pipelines.
- Tables backed by default storage can be Delta shared to any recipient (Beta)
Excludes tables with partitioning enabled, works with classic compute recipients.
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- SQL Server connector supports SCD type 2
Maintains a history of changes, rather than overwriting outdated records.
- Account SCIM 2.0 updates
Requires quoted filter values, drops member info from Groups endpoint.
- Interact with Azure Databricks jobs in a Power Automate flow (Public Preview)
Adds Azure Databricks job action to Power Automate flows. Requires adding the action to a flow.
- OLTP Database tab renamed to Lakebase Postgres in Compute section
Used to create and manage Lakebase database instances, replacing OLTP Database tab.
- Admins can now manage a workspace's serverless base environments (Public Preview)
Defines custom environment specs for serverless notebooks, allows setting a default for new notebooks.
- Dashboard external embedding Public Preview and new custom calculations functions
Adds ln, log, log10, and round functions, increases custom calculations limit to 200 per dataset.
- Default warehouse setting is now available in Beta
Applied across SQL editor, AI/BI dashboards, and other tools, with optional user override.
- External MCP servers are in Beta
Enables agent access to external tools, requires connecting to Model Context Protocol servers.
- Genie follow-up questions and fixes
Fixes cloning large spaces and CSV downloads on Windows.
- Lakebase synced tables supports syncing Apache Iceberg and foreign tables in Snapshot mode
Syncs Iceberg and foreign tables in Snapshot mode, requiring a supported Databricks runtime.
- Migrate Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow from legacy publishing mode is now GA
Replaces legacy single-catalog publishing with multi-catalog support.
- Track and navigate notebook runs with the new cell execution minimap
Appears in the right margin, shows cell execution states, and allows clicking to jump to a cell.
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- Canada Protected B is GA
Adheres to Canadian Centre for Cyber Security requirements for handling sensitive government info.
- Databricks Runtime 17.2 and Databricks Runtime 17.2 ML are in Beta
Includes SQL and API enhancements, reliability and performance improvements.
- Governed tags are Public Preview
Enforce consistent tagging with admin-defined keys and values.
- Microsoft SQL Server connector GA
Replaces manual ingestion scripts, requires Lakeflow Connect setup.
- New INSERT REPLACE commands (GA)
Available for Databricks Runtime 17.2, replacing existing INSERT OVERWRITE syntax.
- New table property to control Delta table compression
Sets compression codec for Delta tables, applies to future writes.
- OAuth token federation is now GA
Enables secure API access using identity provider tokens, configurable via UI, CLI, or REST API.
- Automatic liquid clustering is now available for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
Uses CLUSTER BY AUTO to optimize query performance. Requires Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow.
- Budget policy support for Lakebase database instances and synced tables (Public Preview)
Tags database instances and synced tables for billing attribution, also supports custom tags for compute usage.
- Data type mapping update for Lakebase synced tables
Newly created synced tables map TIMESTAMP to TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE. Existing tables still use TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE.
- Expanded region availability for Databricks Apps
Available in ap-northeast-2 and ap-south-1 regions.
- Enhanced autocomplete for complex data types in notebooks
Supports structs, maps, and arrays in SQL cells, and provides column recommendations for CTEs using SELECT *.
- Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector GA
Replaces manual uploads, integrates with Lakehouse Federation.
- Updating workspace virtual network configurations is now in Public Preview
Allows migration to custom VNet or changes to existing VNet injection setups.
- Dashboard sorting and formatting improvements
Sorting now works on temporal categorical axes. Numeric values can be formatted as Bytes.
- Databricks Assistant integrated with compute
Creates compute resources, pools, and policies, and answers questions about them. Available on some compute pages.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.25 is rolling out in Current
Rolls out from August 20th to August 28th, 2025.
- Declarative Automation Bundles support for Lakebase database resources
Defines Lakebase database catalogs, instances, and synced tables for one-command deployment. Starts instances immediately upon bundle deployment.
- Genie SQL validation and space management
Validates SQL join relationships and fixes space cloning issue. Flags errors in join statements.
- Serverless compute runtime updated to 17.1
corresponds to Databricks Runtime 17.1, see release notes for details.
- Set the run-as user for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
Replaces user accounts with a service principal for automated workloads.
- Mosaic AI Vector Search reranker Public Preview
Improves retrieval quality with reranking, see usage details in query documentation.