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  1. Genie renamed to Genie One

    Capabilities remain unchanged, see updated documentation.

  2. Reorganized Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow documentation

    Conceptual topics are now under Concepts.

  3. 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.

  4. Dashboard enhancements

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

  5. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

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

  6. Genie One enhancements

    Adds workspace-level customization, certified object prioritization, and user skills.

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  8. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Tables support banded rows and default sorting. Median and percentile expressions are added to metric views.

  9. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

    Agent mode thinking traces now cite definitions, respects default sharing settings.

  10. Genie One enhancements

    Adds natural-language query support across Genie Agents and Unity Catalog data.

  11. Refresh policies and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW for materialized views are now generally available

    Requires Databricks Runtime 17.3 and above. Available in Databricks SQL.

  12. Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout

    Replaces manual override process, defaults to 2.5 hours.

  13. Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview

    XPath no longer fetches external DTDs, fixing failures from malformed URLs.

  14. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Adds Tableau and Power BI import, open-source fonts, and parameter values in text widgets. Supports non-table Genie Code outputs.

  15. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

    Genie Agents now use Fields instead of Dimensions in metric views and SQL expressions.

  16. Genie One enhancements

    Adds direct link to dashboard and Ask Genie to workspace homepage.

  17. Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views

    Uses SQL window functions, replacing two-step pre-computation approach.

  18. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Error bars display as bands on line charts. Custom SQL measures no longer require full name paths.

  19. Databricks SQL alerts are now generally available

    Monitors data and KPIs by running scheduled queries, notifying recipients when conditions are met.

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  21. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements and bug fixes

    Max query text characters raised to 40,000.

  22. Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

    Adds 9 new genieChat audit events and fixes chat input field bug.

  23. Version 18.2

    Adds CREATE OR REPLACE TEMP TABLE syntax and upgrades Snowflake JDBC driver to 3.28.0.

  24. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Improved error messages can be copied, and dashboards support undo and redo on the data page. Y-axis now starts at 0.

  25. Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks

    Requires environment version 5 or above. Replaces %pip for faster installs.

  26. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

    Exports context as metric views and logs iframe messages.

  27. Genie One enhancements

    Adds custom instruction files and Atlassian/Glean MCP connections. Supports server-sent events.

  28. Native data profiling for results tables in the SQL editor

    Select column headers and click Open selection details to view statistics.

  29. agg SQL function as a synonym for measure

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

  30. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Publishing dashboards now uses service principal credentials. Line numbers are added to the SQL query editor.

  31. Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements

    Adds weekly digest and PDF upload to monitoring tab. Supports natural language analysis of PDFs.

  32. Genie One scheduled tasks (Public Preview)

    Sends email with results when tasks run, automating weekly digests or daily insights.

  33. Chat in Genie One is now in Public Preview

    Uses natural language to answer questions with existing Genie Agents and data. Enabled from Previews page.

  34. 5X-Large SQL warehouse size (Public Preview)

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

  35. Databricks One renamed to Genie

    Renamed from Databricks One, still offers AI/BI dashboards and natural language queries.

  36. Workspace base environments are now generally available

    Lets workspace admins create pre-built environments for serverless notebooks, enabled by default in compliance security profile workspaces.

  37. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Tables support cross-filtering and drill-through, counters have custom prefixes and suffixes.

  38. Databricks SQL version 2026.10 is rolling out in Current

    Replaces version 2026.09, requires no configuration changes.

  39. Genie Code space configuration

    Replaces Genie Space configuration, updates instructions and descriptions.

  40. Genie One app search

    Searches Databricks Apps from Genie One search bar.

  41. Version 18.1

    Supports DATETIMEOFFSET for Azure Synapse and adds schema evolution with INSERT statements.

  42. Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

    Delays due to warehouse overload now display a message. Fixes widget query batch failures.

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