Databricks releases, every cloud
- Square managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests point-of-sale data like payments and orders from Square into Databricks.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Wiz Audit Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests Wiz audit log entries, issues, and vulnerability findings into Databricks.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Netskope Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests Netskope event and alert logs into Databricks.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Incremental ingestion for Workday Reports (Beta)
Ingests only changed rows since last pipeline run if a cursor column is configured.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Salesforce Marketing Cloud managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests campaigns, journeys, and email events from Salesforce Marketing Cloud into Databricks.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Lakeflow Designer will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled Coming soon
Replaces manual coding for data preparation and transformation. Available late July 2026.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Run the change, do not just read it. Hands-on labs in your own Databricks workspace, graded when you submit. Browse labs
- AUTO CDC flows for streaming tables in Databricks SQL are generally available
Automatically handles out-of-order records as SCD type 1 or 2, replacing complex MERGE INTO logic.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Azure Databricks UI assets will be served from a new CDN domain Coming soon
Replaces existing domain, requires firewall update to ui-assets.azuredatabricks.net.
- Private Link for account-level resources (Beta)
Connects account console through VPC interface endpoint instead of public internet. Requires configuration.
- Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens (Beta)
Sends emails to workspace admins when tokens expire in 7 days, requiring no configuration.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Lakehouse Replay (Beta)
Automatically replays serverless workloads against upcoming runtime releases. Requires no setup.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Zip connector (Beta)
Ingests data from Zip, a new option in Lakeflow Connect.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Identity federation enabled by default for all new workspaces
Does not affect existing workspaces.
- Reorganized Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow documentation
Conceptual topics are now under Concepts.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - The update_flow API for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow is generally available
Writes to a sink in update output mode, emitting only changed rows. Supports stateful aggregations without a watermark.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Aha! connector (Beta)
Ingests data from Aha!, using Lakeflow Connect.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services is now generally available
Supports Lakebase Autoscaling and Zerobus Ingest.
- Monday.com managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests boards, users, teams, and activity logs from Monday.com into Databricks.
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
- Upcoming behavior change: Choose entitlements when adding principals to workspaces Coming soon
Grants entitlements explicitly when adding principals, replacing inheritance from users system group.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Zoho Books managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests invoices, bills, contacts, and bank transactions from Zoho Books into Databricks.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - AWS Graviton instances are now supported with the compliance security profile
Supports all compliance standards in AWS commercial regions and GovCloud.
- External data access for pipeline streaming tables and materialized views (Public Preview)
Enables external Delta and Iceberg clients to read data without copying. Uses Unity Catalog and Iceberg catalog REST APIs.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Managed SharePoint connector adds structured file ingestion and file metadata support (Beta)
Supports CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, Parquet, Avro, ORC ingestion, replacing unstructured-only approach.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - UNIQUE constraint support is now in Public Preview
Enables join elimination and DISTINCT simplification on Photon-enabled compute. Applies to Unity Catalog Delta Lake tables.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Table update triggers on Delta Sharing and system tables (Beta)
Monitors data shared through Delta Sharing and system tables, triggering jobs on updates, supporting Databricks-to-Databricks sharing only.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta)
Streams messages from RabbitMQ classic queues into Unity Catalog streaming tables.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Pendo connector (Beta)
Ingests data from Pendo into Lakeflow. Requires Lakeflow Connect.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Intra-VNet NSG rule hardening for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview
Restricts workspace traffic to host and worker subnet CIDRs. Applies to classic compute plane workspaces.
- Compliance security profile required for HIPAA, HITRUST, and IRAP Coming soon
Required starting September 1, 2026, for HIPAA, HITRUST, and IRAP data.
- Query-based connectors for Lakeflow Connect are now generally available
Ingests data from databases like Oracle and PostgreSQL without CDC configuration.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Google Drive managed ingestion connector (Beta)
Ingests files from Google Drive into Databricks, supporting unstructured and structured data.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Real-time mode in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow, and the update_flow API are now available (Public Preview)
Achieves end-to-end latency as low as 5ms, uses update output mode.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Refresh policies and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW for materialized views are now generally available
Requires Databricks Runtime 17.3 and above. Available in Databricks SQL.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout
Replaces manual override process, defaults to 2.5 hours.
- Automatic identity management with Microsoft Entra ID is now GA
Replaces SCIM provisioning, syncs users and groups from Microsoft Entra ID.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP, read it on their docs - Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview
XPath no longer fetches external DTDs, fixing failures from malformed URLs.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow parameters are now in Beta
Define key-value pairs at pipeline level, referenced in SQL using named parameter syntax.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Postgres password authentication is now disabled by default for new Lakebase projects
Existing projects are unaffected, enable in project settings to allow.
- Configure Microsoft Entra ID SSO for Power BI (Public Preview)
Uses account-level federation policy, replacing manual config.
- Customer-managed keys for Lakebase available in all AWS and Azure regions
Encrypts project data at rest using a custom cloud KMS key. Available for new projects.
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