Week of March 9, 2026
33 releases between March 9, 2026 and March 15, 2026, 5 of them change something you already run.
- Behavior change
- 4
- GA
- 1
- Preview
- 3
- Update
- 25
- On
- AWS 25, Azure 23, GCP 22, SAP 7
- 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.
- Automatic deletion of empty vector search endpoints
Charges stop 24 hours after last index deletion.
- 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 (Preview)
Shows table freshness and completeness status based on anomaly detection.
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- 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) - Some partner-powered AI features are now available in-country for Brazil, Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK
Requires Enforce data processing within workspace Geography enabled. Data does not leave the country.
- 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.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Data quality monitoring documentation moved to Data governance
Moved from Data guides to Unity Catalog chapter. Applies to AWS, GCP, Azure.
- 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 Autoscaling updates
Adds OAuth roles and budget policies via UI, REST API, or SQL.
- 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.
- Lakebase updates: OAuth role management, budget policies and tags, and Lakehouse sync
Creates OAuth roles via UI or REST API, and replicates Postgres tables to Unity Catalog Delta tables.
- New Lakebase instances are created as Autoscaling projects by default
Applies to UI, API, Terraform, and SDK creations. Existing Provisioned instances remain unchanged.
- New Lakebase instances include autoscaling by default
Autoscaling is on by default for new instances, applies to UI, API, Terraform, and SDK creations.
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- Serverless compute is enabled by default
Eligible Google Cloud workspaces are affected, account admins no longer need to manually enable it.
- 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) - Declarative Feature Engineering APIs (Beta)
Define time-windowed aggregation features from data sources, materialize to Delta tables or Lakebase. Available in us-east-1 and us-west-2 regions.
- Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services (Public Preview)
Enables private connectivity for Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase Autoscaling.
- Multi-table transactions are now in Preview
Requires catalog-managed commits on Unity Catalog managed Delta tables. Uses BEGIN ATOMIC syntax.
- 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)