Week of August 18, 2025
11 releases between August 18, 2025 and August 24, 2025.
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- AWS 9, Azure 10, GCP 9
- 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.
- Updates for customer-managed VPC workspaces (Public Preview)
Adds Private Service Connect conversion and network config changes.
- 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.
- Run the change, do not just read it. Hands-on labs in your own Databricks workspace, graded when you submit. Browse labs
- 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.