Week of September 8, 2025
11 releases between September 8, 2025 and September 14, 2025, 3 of them change something you already run.
- Behavior change
- 1
- GA
- 2
- Preview
- 1
- Update
- 7
- On
- AWS 10, Azure 10, GCP 10
- Mount Delta shares to an existing shared catalog
Replaces need to create a new catalog for each share, now mounts to existing catalog.
- AI/BI dashboard text widget and performance improvements
Enhanced UI for text formatting and image insertion. Resolves performance slowdowns and page loading issues.
- Genie chart fixes and feature enhancements
Fixed thin bars, single-point maps, and increased entity matching limit to 120 columns.
- Serverless jobs and pipelines configured in the UI are now performance optimized by default
aligns UI with existing API, Terraform, and SDK defaults.
- Automatic identity management is generally available
Syncs Microsoft Entra ID users and groups into Azure Databricks. Supports nested groups.
- Google Analytics Raw Data connector GA
Enables ingestion of raw Google Analytics data into Databricks, requires Google Analytics 4 and Google BigQuery setup.
- Run the change, do not just read it. Hands-on labs in your own Databricks workspace, graded when you submit. Browse labs
- Python custom data sources can be used with Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
Supports Python custom data sources and sinks in pipeline definitions.
- Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow now supports stream progress metrics in Public Preview
Supports querying event log for stream progress metrics.
- The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Databricks is generally available
Enables secure data sharing between SAP BDC and Unity Catalog-enabled Databricks workspaces.
- Databricks Apps support for Genie resources
Enables natural language querying over curated datasets, requires adding a Genie Space as an app resource.
- Databricks Runtime maintenance update
Includes bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements.