Databricks releases, every cloud
- Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions
Now available in 9 more regions, see list of supported regions for details.
- Lakebase now available in three additional regions
Adds Canada Central, Europe London, and South America São Paulo regions.
- Lakebase now includes high availability
Pairs primary compute with 1-3 secondary instances across zones, automatically promoting a secondary if primary fails.
- Managed OAuth flows for external MCP servers
Eliminates need to register own OAuth app, supports Glean, GitHub, Google Drive, and SharePoint APIs.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - OpenAI GPT-5.3 Codex now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Available via Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token, requiring compliance with OpenAI's Acceptable Use Policy.
- Change to use_case field in VPC endpoint API responses Coming soon
Changes from WORKSPACE_ACCESS to GENERAL_ACCESS, see API docs for details.
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- Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is rolling out in Current
Replaces version 2025.39, requires no setup changes.
- Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Access via Foundation Model APIs, AI Functions for batch inference.
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.
- Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B now available in Public Preview as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is now available in Preview
Adds SQL scripting with procedural logic and expands parameter markers and IDENTIFIER clause support.
- Supervisor Agent is now Generally Available
Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, supports pay-per-token and query reasoning and vision models.
- OpenAI GPT-5.2 Codex now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Excels at code generation and refactoring tasks. Accessible via Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.
- OpenAI GPT-5.2 Codex now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Excels at code generation and debugging tasks, accessed via Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.
- Knowledge Assistant is now available in more regions
Available in us-east-2, ca-central-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, ap-southeast-1, and ap-southeast-2. Requires cross-geo processing in ap-southeast-1 and ap-southeast-2.
- Managed MCP servers is now Public Preview
Allows AI agents to connect to Databricks resources and external APIs.
- Lakebase is now generally available
Includes autoscaling and point-in-time recovery.
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- Manage Lakebase from the Lakebase App
Replaces Compute tab navigation in Lakehouse UI, accessed via apps switcher.
- Knowledge Assistant is now generally available
Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.
- OpenAI GPT-5.1 Codex Max and Codex Mini now available as Databricks-hosted models
Access via Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token, subject to OpenAI's Acceptable Use Policy.
- OpenAI GPT-5.1 Codex Max and Codex Mini now available as Databricks-hosted models
Supports code generation and refactoring via Foundation Model APIs. Requires pay-per-token access.
- Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.
- Connect to Lakebase from the SQL editor with read-write access
Supports full read-write access, see documentation for setup.
- Lakebase metrics dashboard
Monitors system and database health with metrics like RAM and CPU usage.
- Gemini 3 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Offers speed and scale for video analysis and data extraction. Requires no setup.
- Lakebase ACL support
Grants CAN CREATE or CAN MANAGE permissions from project settings.
- Lakebase now in Public Preview
Introduces autoscaling compute and database branching on AWS. Free until January 2026.
- OpenAI GPT-5.2 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs and AI Functions, supports pay-per-token and batch inference workloads.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out in Current
Includes new features, see documentation for details.
- Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs and AI Functions, supporting pay-per-token and batch inference workloads.
- Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs and AI Functions for pay-per-token and batch inference workloads.
- Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview
Offers a new editing experience, replacing the previous version.
- OpenAI GPT-5.1 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs and AI Functions for pay-per-token and batch inference workloads.
- Convert foreign tables to Unity Catalog managed or external tables (Public Preview)
Requires Databricks Runtime 17.0 LTS or above. Uses ALTER TABLE SET MANAGED or SET EXTERNAL.
- New MCP server tab
Shows managed and external servers, and lists available servers from Databricks Marketplace.
- SQL Editor visualization fix
Tooltips now display in front of the legend.
- Function calling and structured output now available using the Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct model (Beta)
Supports Qwen3-Next 80B A3B Instruct model.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is now available in Preview
Adds EXECUTE IMMEDIATE constant expressions and LIMIT ALL for recursive CTEs.
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