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- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) lineage and entity matching improvements
Now discoverable in Unity Catalog lineage, supports bulk entity matching actions.
- Genie One search and discovery improvements
Filters inactive apps, boosts certified content in search rankings.
- Genie One is generally available
Provides a single interface for business users to interact with data and AI without technical knowledge.
- Level of detail expressions for custom calculations
Control aggregation granularity independently of visualization dimensions. Used for calculating percentages or comparing values to dataset-wide aggregates.
- Value sampling features renamed
Replaces value sampling, example values, and value dictionaries with prompt matching, format assistance, and entity matching.
- Dashboard navigation, pivot tables, and text widget improvements
Thicker scroll bar, larger title character limit, configurable pivot table header height, and markdown table support in text widgets.
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- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) and Databricks Assistant on Databricks on AWS GovCloud GA
Genie Agent and Databricks Assistant are now available on Databricks on AWS GovCloud.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) sample data, Research Agent, and space manager improvements
Adds text answer summaries to API and increases example SQL title character limit to 1024.
- Genie One favorite and filtering improvements
Adds favorite and certified filters to listing pages, marked by a star icon.
- Dashboard pivot tables, filters, and data export improvements
Pivot tables display total rows at top, Excel downloads in pivoted format.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) PDF export, citations, and accuracy improvements
Adds PDF export, SQL example citations, and improved currency formatting to Research Agent reports.
- Change default workspace access to Consumer access (Public Preview)
Preserves existing users' authoring permissions, streamlines consumer onboarding.
- Dashboard enhancements and fixes
Boolean values support custom string aliases, and filter widgets have several fixes and new features.
- Genie enhancements and fixes
Numeric columns are now formatted to handle IDs and currency. Entity matching scans up to 100 million rows.
- Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes
Sorts charts by hidden measure fields, adds spacing to range filters, and fixes Safari cross-filtering.
- Genie enhancements and fixes
Shows Service Principal ID in Monitoring page, fixes API suggested questions issue, and updates Research Agent architecture.
- Dashboard visualization enhancements and fixes
Adds individual series labels and fixes download format options to include CSV, TSV, and Excel.
- Genie Research Agent, benchmark, and answer improvements
Genie now asks clarifying questions, explains benchmark errors, and collapses query result tables when summaries are sufficient.
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- Dashboard visualization enhancements
Pivot table headers render faster with reduced scroll lag.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) limits and Research Agent improvements
Limits increased to 200, adds starter questions and auto-suggested benchmarks.
- Dashboard visualization improvements and bug fixes
Counters now track metrics over time with sparklines. Filters apply instantly by default.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out in Current
Includes new features, see documentation for details.
- Genie APIs and Research Agent in Beta
Genie Create and Update APIs allow creating and updating Genie Agents. Research Agent enables multi-step reasoning and hypothesis testing.
- Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview
Offers a new editing experience, replacing the previous version.
- 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.
- Dashboard search and embedding enhancements
Search now covers widget titles and descriptions, and dataset queries are searchable from the workspace bar.
- Genie navigation and accuracy improvements
Fixes back button error and broken entity matching link. Optimizes column selection for relevance.
- Dashboard filter and counter enhancements
Supports date and number filters, and consumes Unity Catalog metadata.
- Genie visualization and query result improvements
Includes text explanations for empty results and uses query metadata for auto-generated charts.
- List MCP servers in Azure Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
Allows distribution of AI tools and connection to external data sources, requires provider listing.
- List MCP servers in Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
Lets users install MCP servers to connect AI agents to external data sources.
- SQL Editor visualization fix
Tooltips now display in front of the legend.
- Dashboard visualization, pivot table, and authoring improvements
Adds Slack channel subscriptions, Top N scroll bar on mouseover, and export to materialized view.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is now available in Preview
Adds EXECUTE IMMEDIATE constant expressions and LIMIT ALL for recursive CTEs.
- Genie thinking steps and benchmark error resolution
Explains SQL logic in plain language. Replaces technical explanations in Genie Space, now Genie Agent.
- Dashboard publishing, scheduling, and field management improvements
Notify viewers is off by default. Custom calculations support over 170 functions.
- Genie benchmark scaling and SQL function support
Maximum benchmarks per Genie Agent increased to 500. Supports Unity Catalog SQL functions as answers.
- New alert editing experience
Replaces old editor with a multi-tab editor for unified workflow.
- Dashboard pivot tables, gridlines, and drill-through enhancements
Supports contains, startswith, endswith functions in pivot tables. Gridlines can be toggled on and off in charts.
- Genie API updates, benchmark explanations, and JOIN improvements
JOIN relationships are now sortable, Genie API endpoints move from Beta to Public Preview.
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