Databricks releases, every cloud
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
Adds API access to reasoning traces and message comments, increases token limit for Agent mode.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Column-level SAP governance tags sync into Unity Catalog
Includes fieldSemantics, isPotentiallyPersonal, and isPotentiallySensitive tags for ABAC policies.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
Embeds as an iframe, adds space thumbnails and table visualizations with conditional formatting.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Share foreign Iceberg tables with Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
Adds read-only access to federated foreign Iceberg tables. Requires Delta Sharing.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - SAP semantic metadata syncs automatically into Unity Catalog
Includes table and column comments, primary keys, and foreign keys.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
Adds column display names and programmatically starts conversations.
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
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
Adds option to share with all account users, respects workspace SQL download settings.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Connect external data sources to chat in Genie One (Beta)
Allows chat to search company documents, requires individual user authentication.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Changes to OpenSharing (formerly Delta Sharing) open recipient tokens Coming soon
Replaces old Delta Sharing endpoint with recipient-specific URL format. New tokens use https://<recipient-id>.opensharing.us-west-2.cloud.databricks.com.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes
Inspect improves SQL accuracy with automated verification. Agent mode is now available in more regions.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Chat in Genie One (Beta)
Replaces Genie Space with Genie Agent routing.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Some partner-powered AI features are now available in-country for Brazil, Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK
Requires Enforce data processing within workspace Geography enabled. Data does not leave the country.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements
Adds 5 generally available management APIs and fixes instruction length bug.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements
Uses metric view display names and formats for query result tables. Automatically creates JOIN relationships based on primary and foreign keys.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) Agent mode rename and improvements
Renamed from Research Agent, now produces faster and more concise responses for what-type questions.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and improvements
Genie now generates heatmap and sankey visualizations and increases table limit to 30.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) improvements
Embedded compute credentials are now included for all users. Column lists are paginated.
- Partner-powered AI features are now supported in the Canada, Brazil, and United Kingdom Azure Geographies
Uses models hosted in the same Azure Geography as the workspace, requires cross-geo processing for some features.
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- Genie Agents are now available in the Japan and Korea Azure Geographies
Workspaces no longer require cross-Geo processing to use Genie Agents.
- Regional model hosting for Genie Agents in Japan
Genie Agents in asia-northeast1 use locally hosted models, eliminating cross-Geo processing.
- Regional model hosting for Genie Agents in Japan and Korea
Models are now hosted locally in Tokyo and Seoul, eliminating cross-Geo processing for Genie Agents.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) API and user experience improvements
Supports downloads up to 1 GB, fixes chart generation, and adds collapsible error messages.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) lineage and entity matching improvements
Now discoverable in Unity Catalog lineage, supports bulk entity matching actions.
- Value sampling features renamed
Replaces value sampling, example values, and value dictionaries with prompt matching, format assistance, and entity matching.
- 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 Agent (formerly Genie Space) PDF export, citations, and accuracy improvements
Adds PDF export, SQL example citations, and improved currency formatting to Research Agent reports.
- Update request parameters for Delta Sharing recipient audit log events
Includes catalog_name, in addition to share_name.
- Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview
Supports Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark clients with zero-copy access.
- New token expiration policy for open Delta Sharing
New tokens expire in 1 year, existing ones expire on December 8, 2026.
- ABAC-secured assets shared using Delta Sharing is in Public Preview
Applies to tables and schemas, but not streaming tables or materialized views.
- 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.
- SAP BDC connector for Azure Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing
Supports sharing data between different cloud environments.
- SAP BDC connector for Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing
Enables data sharing between different cloud environments. Requires SAP Business Data Cloud setup.
- The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Azure Databricks is generally available
Enables secure data sharing between SAP BDC and Unity Catalog-enabled Azure Databricks workspaces.
- Delta Sharing recipients can apply row filters and column masks (GA)
Recipients can filter and mask shared tables, but providers can't share tables with existing row-level security.
- Delta Sharing on Lakehouse Federation is in Beta
Shares foreign schemas and tables from query federation.
- Mount Delta shares to an existing shared catalog
Replaces need to create a new catalog for each share, now mounts to existing catalog.
- The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Databricks is generally available
Enables secure data sharing between SAP BDC and Unity Catalog-enabled Databricks workspaces.
- Tables backed by default storage can be Delta shared to any recipient (Beta)
Excludes tables with partitioning enabled, works with classic compute recipients.
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