Week of May 4, 2026
19 releases between May 4, 2026 and May 10, 2026, 3 of them change something you already run.
- GA
- 3
- Preview
- 1
- Update
- 15
- On
- AWS 16, Azure 15, GCP 14, SAP 5
- Catalog commits are now generally available
Enables multi-statement transactions on Unity Catalog managed Delta tables, supported by products like MLflow and Delta Sharing.
- Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
Improved error messages can be copied, and dashboards support undo and redo on the data page. Y-axis now starts at 0.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks
Requires environment version 5 or above. Replaces %pip for faster installs.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
Exports context as metric views and logs iframe messages.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie One enhancements
Adds custom instruction files and Atlassian/Glean MCP connections. Supports server-sent events.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Graviton instance types are available for the compliance security profile
Graviton instances improve price-performance for many workloads on AWS Commercial workspaces with FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP, or CCCS Medium compliance standards.
- Run the change, do not just read it. Hands-on labs in your own Databricks workspace, graded when you submit. Browse labs
- Standalone pipelines on serverless general compute (Beta)
Requires serverless general compute, created via SQL or Python.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Block identities from your Azure Databricks account with the account access denylist
Prevents access when automatic identity management is enabled, blocking specific users, groups, or service principals.
- Block identities from your SAP Databricks account with the account access denylist
Prevents access when automatic identity management is enabled, applying to Azure setups.
- Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Preview
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, available in Preview.
- Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, available in Public Preview.
- Automatic identity management
Syncs users and groups from identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP, read it on their docs - GitHub managed ingestion connector (Beta)
ingests GitHub data into Databricks, available in Lakeflow Connect.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Outlook managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests email data from Microsoft Outlook into Databricks.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Smartsheet managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests Smartsheet data into Databricks, available in Lakeflow Connect.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime 18: May 4, 2026
Clusters using XPath no longer load external DTDs, and NULL structs are stored as NULL.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA
Replaces 7.3 and 7.3 ML.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime 19 will use a unified release model Coming soon
Replaces multiple feature versions with a single page, updated weekly.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Get this table by email. One Monday mail covering the week, filtered to the clouds and products you run. Weekly digest
- Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is now generally available
Offers agent-first experience with Genie Code for creating production pipelines.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)