Databricks releases, every cloud
- 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.
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- 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.
- Front-end PrivateLink for performance-intensive services (Beta)
Supports private connectivity to Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase Autoscaling.
- 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.
- Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (GA)
Sends emails 14 days before token expiration, requires token lifetime to be set.
- Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.
- Context based ingress control is now in Public Preview
Enables account admins to set allow and deny rules based on identity, request type, and network source.
- Gemini 3 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Offers speed and scale for video analysis and data extraction. Requires no setup.
- OpenAI GPT-5.2 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.
- Expanded regional availability for C5 and TISAX compliance
Now available in all regions and with serverless compute.
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- 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.
- Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (Public Preview)
Sends emails 7 days before token expiration.
- 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.
- Delta Sharing views automatically permitted in serverless network policies
Permitted regardless of storage location alignment between shared tables and view dependencies. Simplifies network policy configuration.
- Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview
The new editing experience replaces the previous one. It requires the latest 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.
- TISAX compliance controls
Enhances workspace compliance based on ISO/IEC 27001 and VDA ISA.
- Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is now available in Preview
Adds EXECUTE IMMEDIATE constant expressions and LIMIT ALL for recursive CTEs.
- Feedback model deprecated for AI agents
Replaced by log_feedback API in MLflow 3.
- Request logs and assessment logs tables deprecated
Replaced by MLflow 3 for real-time tracing, stops populating November 15, 2025.
- Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog functions and external MCP servers
Delegates tasks to Unity Catalog functions and external MCP servers.
- OpenAI GPT 5 models are now generally available in Mosaic AI Model Serving
Includes GPT-5 mini and nano models.
- Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models now supported on pay-per-token endpoints
Supports pay-per-token endpoints and Function calling.
- Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct now available in Beta
Supports 80B A3B Instruct in us-west-2 and ap-northeast-1 regions via pay-per-token APIs.
- New alert editing experience
Replaces old editor with a multi-tab editor for unified workflow.
- Improved autoscaling behavior for Mosaic AI Model Serving
Ignores brief traffic surges, scaling on sustained load increases. Reduces unnecessary concurrency scaling.
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