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- Improved full refresh flow for managed database connectors
Reduces downtime by delaying table refresh until snapshot completion, minimizing PENDING_RESET errors.
- Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines has been renamed to Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
Replaces Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, see Spark Declarative Pipelines for details.
- SQL Editor visualization fix
Tooltips now display in front of the legend.
- Serverless notebook tasks can now use jobs environment
Replaces inherited serverless environment with configurable job environment.
- JAR tasks are now supported on serverless compute
Run JAR jobs without a cluster.
- Salesforce ingestion connector supports history tracking (SCD type 2)
Enables history tracking, overwriting default SCD type 1 behavior.
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- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is now available in Preview
Adds EXECUTE IMMEDIATE constant expressions and LIMIT ALL for recursive CTEs.
- Serverless compute has been updated to version 17.3
Updated from version 17.2, requires no configuration changes.
- New alert editing experience
Replaces old editor with a multi-tab editor for unified workflow.
- Jobs can now be triggered on source table update
Triggers require Databricks Runtime 7.0 or later.
- Create backfill job runs
Triggers job runs to load past data, useful for repairing processing failures.
- The billable usage table now records the performance mode of serverless jobs and pipelines
Records performance mode in product_features.performance_target column with values PERFORMANCE_OPTIMIZED, STANDARD, or null.
- Visualizations fix
Fixes legend selection for charts with aliased series names in SQL editor and notebooks.
- Semantic metadata in metric views
Requires YAML 1.1 and Databricks Runtime 17.3 or higher.
- New requirement to create connections for Salesforce ingestion
Requires Databricks connected app installed. Applies to new connections only.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.30 is now available in Preview
Adds LIKE operator support for UTF8 collations and ST_ExteriorRing function.
- Google Analytics Raw Data connector GA
Enables ingestion of raw Google Analytics data into Databricks, requires Google Analytics 4 and Google BigQuery setup.
- Python custom data sources can be used with Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
Supports Python custom data sources and sinks in pipeline definitions.
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- SQL Server connector supports SCD type 2
Maintains a history of changes, rather than overwriting outdated records.
- Microsoft SQL Server connector GA
Replaces manual ingestion scripts, requires Lakeflow Connect setup.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.25 is rolling out in Current
Rolls out from August 20th to August 28th, 2025.
- Set the run-as user for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow
Replaces user accounts with a service principal for automated workloads.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.25 is now available in Preview
Adds recursive common table expressions and spatial SQL expressions.
- Fixed timeout handling for materialized views and streaming tables
New views and tables apply warehouse timeout, existing ones require CREATE OR REFRESH. Default timeout is 2 days.
- Jobs in continuous mode can now have task-level retries for failed tasks
Task-level retries replace job-level retries, require continuous mode.
- ServiceNow connector GA
Replaces manual API configuration, requires Lakeflow Connect setup.
- Preset date ranges for parameters in the SQL editor
Includes options like This week, Last 30 days, and Last year for timestamp and date parameters.
- Jobs & Pipelines list now includes Databricks SQL pipelines
Includes materialized views and streaming tables created with Databricks SQL.
- Inline execution history in SQL editor
Shows past results without re-executing queries, links to past query profiles.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.20 is now available in Current
Rolls out in stages to the Current channel, see 2025.20 features for details.
- SQL editor updates
Supports date-range and multi-select parameters, and rearranges the run button and catalog picker to the header.
- Git support for alerts
Tracks alert changes, requires placing alerts in a Databricks Git folder. Newly cloned alerts are paused.
- Parent tasks (Run job and For each) now have a separate limit
Separate limit doesn't count against overall limit, see Resource limits.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.20 is now available in Preview
Includes new features and behavioral changes in Preview channel.
- Databricks SQL Serverless engine upgrades
Upgrades bring up to 25% lower latency and add Predictive Query Execution and Photon vectorized shuffle.
- User interface updates
Emits listHistoryQueries and getHistoryQuery events on Query History page and query profile opens.
- User interface updates
New queries are created in Drafts folder by default, moving out when saved or renamed.
- User interface updates
Tooltips in charts now follow number formatting defined in Data labels tab.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.16 is now available
Available in Preview channel, includes new features and bug fixes.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.15 is now available
Available in Preview channel, includes new features and bug fixes.
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