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  1. Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports custom MCP servers and custom agents on Databricks Apps

    Adds support for custom MCP servers and custom agents hosted in Databricks Apps as subagents.

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  2. agg SQL function as a synonym for measure

    Replaces measure, used as agg(measure_column) in metric views.

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  3. 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Public Preview)

    Provides 512 workers, available in all regions, controlled from Previews page.

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  4. Manage Supervisor Agent programmatically with the Databricks SDK (Beta)

    Creates and manages Supervisor Agent and tools via Python SDK. Requires Databricks SDK for Python.

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  5. Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is rolling out in Current

    Replaces version 2026.09, requires no configuration changes.

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  6. CPU_MEDIUM and CPU_LARGE workload types for Model Serving (Beta)

    Trade concurrency for more memory per worker on same CPU hardware, for models needing more memory than standard CPU workload.

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  8. Supervisor API for building agents (Beta)

    Replaces multiple API calls with a single call to build agents.

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  9. ai_parse_document is now generally available

    Parses structured content from unstructured documents, limited to 500 pages and 100 MB.

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  10. Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

    Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, supports pay-per-token queries.

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    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
  11. AI Gateway now governs MCP servers (Beta)

    Enforces access control and monitors usage across MCP interactions, replacing prior governance methods.

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  12. ai_prep_search (Beta)

    Transforms ai_parse_document output into search-ready chunks for vector search and RAG pipelines.

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  13. Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in additional regions

    Available in ap-south-1 region, requires cross-geo processing.

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  14. New SQL editor default enablement and legacy SQL editor retirement Coming soon

    New SQL editor becomes default in May, legacy editor retires in July.

    #Databricks SQL
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  15. Agent Bricks now covers all Databricks AI capabilities

    Covers declarative agents and all other Databricks AI capabilities.

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  16. ai_classify and ai_extract now support v2 signatures (Public Preview)

    Supports improved quality and performance with native composability with ai_parse_document.

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  17. Classification and Information Extraction are in Public Preview

    Built on v2 signatures of ai_classify and ai_extract, they provide visual UIs for document analysis.

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  18. Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is now available in Preview

    Fixes observation metric errors, optimizes Unity Catalog writes, and uses session timezone for timestamp partitions.

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  19. Supervisor Agent is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers

    Requires compliance security profile and specific controls like HIPAA or PCI-DSS.

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  21. Supervisor Agent supports long-running tasks

    Supports tasks that exceed 2-minute timeout, using task continuation.

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  22. Search in metric views fix

    Now returns correct results across paginated results and supports filtering by display name.

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  23. 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Beta)

    Available in all supported regions, controlled from Previews page.

    #Databricks SQL
    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
  24. Empty vector search endpoints no longer incur charges

    Charges stop 24 hours after last index is deleted.

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  25. Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model

    Access via Foundation Model APIs or AI Functions, supporting pay-per-token and batch inference workloads.

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    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
  26. Knowledge Assistant is now available by default for Enhanced Security and Compliance customers

    Requires compliance security profile and HIPAA controls.

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    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(not on this cloud)
  27. Supervisor Agent is now available in additional regions

    Now available in 9 more regions, see list of supported regions for details.

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  28. Managed OAuth flows for external MCP servers

    Eliminates need to register own OAuth app, supports Glean, GitHub, Google Drive, and SharePoint APIs.

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  29. Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is rolling out in Current

    Replaces version 2025.39, requires no setup changes.

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  30. Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

    Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.

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  31. 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.

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    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown)
  32. Databricks SQL version 2025.40 is now available in Preview

    Adds SQL scripting with procedural logic and expands parameter markers and IDENTIFIER clause support.

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  33. Supervisor Agent is now Generally Available

    Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.

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

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    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown)
  35. 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.

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    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown)
  36. Managed MCP servers is now Public Preview

    Allows AI agents to connect to Databricks resources and external APIs.

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  37. Knowledge Assistant is now generally available

    Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.

    #Databricks AI
    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown)
  38. Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

    Accessible via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis.

    #Databricks AI
    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown)
  39. 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 AI
    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown)
  40. Databricks SQL version 2025.35 is rolling out in Current

    Includes new features, see documentation for details.

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    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown)
  41. Databricks SQL alerts are now in Public Preview

    Offers a new editing experience, replacing the previous version.

    #Data Warehousing#Databricks SQL
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  42. 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.

    #Databricks SQL#Unity Catalog
    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown)

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