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  1. ABAC GRANT policies for models (Beta)

    Grants EXECUTE privilege on models based on governed tags, supporting MLflow and foundation models.

  2. Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools

    Adds Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools, allowing coordinated access.

  3. ai_classify is now generally available

    Classifies text content according to custom labels with support for multi-label classification.

  4. ai_extract is now generally available

    Extracts structured data from text and documents according to a provided schema. Supports nested objects and arrays.

  5. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Annotation lines can be driven by data or calculations. Six new preset themes are available for AI/BI dashboards.

  6. Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is generally available

    Persists OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics to Unity Catalog tables.

  7. Run the change, do not just read it. Hands-on labs in your own Databricks workspace, graded when you submit. Browse labs
  8. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

    Saves visualizations to dashboards and supports Declarative Automation Bundles.

  9. Genie Code now uses models served through OpenAI on Databricks

    Adds OpenAI to existing Azure OpenAI and Anthropic models.

    AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
  10. Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

    Customization now includes account-level colors and logo. Scheduled tasks send emails with customizable formats.

  11. Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams (Beta)

    Allows data questions and answers within Microsoft Teams. Requires @Databricks Genie mention.

  12. Databricks Runtime 18: June 10, 2026

    Adds Spark Declarative Pipelines and IP address functions, requires no changes to existing setups.

  13. Delta Sharing is now OpenSharing

    Replaces Delta Sharing, available on GitHub and natively on Databricks.

  14. Lakehouse Replay (Beta)

    Automatically replays serverless workloads against upcoming runtime releases. Requires no setup.

  15. Schedule deferred policy enforcement for all-purpose compute

    Applies on next restart or immediately, and admins can cancel scheduled enforcements.

  16. Zip connector (Beta)

    Ingests data from Zip, a new option in Lakeflow Connect.

  17. Anthropic Claude Fable 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

    Requires pay-per-token Foundation Model APIs.

  18. Automatic identity management for Okta (Public Preview)

    Syncs Okta users and groups without SCIM provisioning. Requires identity federated workspaces.

    AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
  19. Databricks Genie app for Slack (Public Preview)

    Sends data questions to Genie via direct message or @Genie mention. Requires channel owner to pin a Genie Agent.

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  21. Genie renamed to Genie One

    Capabilities remain unchanged, see updated documentation.

  22. Identity federation enabled by default for all new workspaces

    Does not affect existing workspaces.

  23. Reorganized Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow documentation

    Conceptual topics are now under Concepts.

  24. 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.

  25. Aha! connector (Beta)

    Ingests data from Aha!, using Lakeflow Connect.

  26. AI Search supports selected text columns, sorting, and aggregations (Beta)

    Supports keyword matching in selected columns, sorting by indexed columns, and aggregate counts.

  27. Databricks Runtime 18: June 8, 2026

    Adds NEAREST BY SQL join type and DESCRIBE TABLE PARTITION for v2 catalog tables.

  28. External lineage is now generally available

    Registers external assets like Salesforce or MySQL sources and Tableau dashboards. Automatically records source lineage for Lakeflow Connect pipelines.

  29. Inbound Private Link for performance-intensive services is now generally available

    Supports Lakebase Autoscaling and Zerobus Ingest.

    AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP(not on this cloud)SAP, read it on their docs
  30. Monday.com managed ingestion connector (Beta)

    Ingests boards, users, teams, and activity logs from Monday.com into Databricks.

  31. Upcoming behavior change: Choose entitlements when adding principals to workspaces Coming soon

    Grants entitlements explicitly when adding principals, replacing inheritance from users system group.

  32. Zoho Books managed ingestion connector (Beta)

    Ingests invoices, bills, contacts, and bank transactions from Zoho Books into Databricks.

  33. AWS Graviton instances are now supported with the compliance security profile

    Supports all compliance standards in AWS commercial regions and GovCloud.

    AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP(not on this cloud)SAP(not on this cloud)
  34. 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.

  35. Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available

    Requires account team enablement, controls access to system.ai schema.

  36. 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.

  37. 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.

  38. Dashboard enhancements

    Saves filter combos as shared bookmarks, adds pivot table column expansion.

  39. Databricks Runtime 18: June 4, 2026

    NATURAL JOIN now matches columns case-insensitively by default. Set spark.sql.legacy.naturalJoinCaseSensitiveColumnMatching to true to restore previous behavior.

  40. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

    Adds chat prompt monitoring, knowledge store edit confirmation, and conversation deletion.

  41. Genie Code now supports auto-approve for tool actions

    Approves tool actions without prompts, using an AI classifier to block risky ones.

  42. Genie One enhancements

    Chat and document creation are now generally available, allowing users to ask data questions and generate documents from conversations.

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