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- Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview
XPath no longer fetches external DTDs, fixing failures from malformed URLs.
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- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes
Genie Agents now use Fields instead of Dimensions in metric views and SQL expressions.
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- Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views
Uses SQL window functions, replacing two-step pre-computation approach.
- Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
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- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes
Max query text characters raised to 40,000.
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Adds 9 new genieChat audit events and fixes chat input field bug.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Version 18.2
Adds CREATE OR REPLACE TEMP TABLE syntax and upgrades Snowflake JDBC driver to 3.28.0.
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- Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks
Requires environment version 5 or above. Replaces %pip for faster installs.
- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
Exports context as metric views and logs iframe messages.
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- Native data profiling for results tables in the SQL editor
Select column headers and click Open selection details to view statistics.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - agg SQL function as a synonym for measure
Replaces measure, used as agg(measure_column) in metric views.
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- Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
Adds weekly digest and PDF upload to monitoring tab. Supports natural language analysis of PDFs.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks One renamed to Genie
Renamed from Databricks One, still offers AI/BI dashboards and natural language queries.
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- Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
- Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is rolling out in Current
Replaces version 2026.09, requires no configuration changes.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie Code space configuration
Replaces Genie Space configuration, updates instructions and descriptions.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie One app search
Searches Databricks Apps from Genie One search bar.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Version 18.1
Supports DATETIMEOFFSET for Azure Synapse and adds schema evolution with INSERT statements.
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- 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) - Metric view enhancements
Replaces SQL mode as default for editing measures and dimensions.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Visualization enhancements
Adds dashed and dotted line styles to the Pattern section.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Dashboard enhancements
Creates metric views without Unity Catalog, edits hex colors inline.
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.
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- Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes 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
Adds column display names and programmatically starts conversations.
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- Genie One enhancements
- Databricks Documentation site table of contents tabs
Replaces static sidebar with tabbed navigation, includes 6 context tabs.
- Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
- 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.
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
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.
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