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  1. Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available

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

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  2. Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Azure Databricks

    Writes to Unity Catalog tables, overwriting existing ones if needed.

    #Integrations
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  3. Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Databricks

    Writes to Unity Catalog tables, overwriting existing ones if needed.

    #Integrations
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  4. Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports web search as a built-in tool

    Returns synthesized answers with source citations, also available as databricks_web_search tool in Supervisor API.

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  5. Full page Genie Code (Beta)

    Runs multiple threads in parallel, personalizes with skills and servers.

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  6. Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

    Access via Foundation Model APIs, pay-per-token.

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  8. Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout

    Replaces manual override process, defaults to 2.5 hours.

    #Admin#Serverless
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  9. Removed legacy Assistant slash commands

    /settings and /rename are replaced by notebook UI settings and rename options.

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  10. Genie Code Agent mode is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

    Requires HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FedRAMP Moderate controls. Automates code generation and error fixing.

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  11. Configure Microsoft Entra ID SSO for Power BI (Public Preview)

    Uses account-level federation policy, replacing manual config.

    #Integrations#Security
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  12. Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports nesting supervisor agents as subagent tools

    Enables nested multi-agent orchestration by adding Supervisor Agents as subagent tools.

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  13. Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards

    Supports all Azure Databricks compliance security profiles.

    #Integrations#Security
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  14. Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards

    Supports all Databricks compliance security profiles. Requires Public Preview.

    #Integrations#Security
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  15. Google Gemini 3.5 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model

    Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, requires compliance with applicable terms.

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  16. Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog tables as subagent tools

    Adds Unity Catalog tables as subagent tools, usable in coordinated multi-agent systems.

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  17. Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports vector search indexes as subagent tools

    Adds support for vector search indexes as subagent tools, usable in coordinated multi-agent systems.

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  18. Share Genie Code chat threads

    Recipients get read-only access, can be users, groups, or service principals.

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  19. Publish a Unity Catalog catalog to Microsoft Fabric (Beta)

    Creates a read-only mirrored catalog, allowing Fabric users to query Unity Catalog tables without data movement.

    #Integrations
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  21. View run history for scheduled refreshes in Google Sheets

    Shows Run ID, start time, and success status for each run.

    #Integrations
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  22. ai_parse_document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled

    Requires compliance security profile and specific controls like HIPAA and PCI-DSS. Parses structured content from unstructured documents.

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  23. Version 18.2

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

    #Serverless
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  24. HIPAA support for the Azure Databricks Add-in for Excel

    Available for workspaces with HIPAA compliance across all supported regions. Requires a workspace with HIPAA compliance enabled.

    #Integrations#Security
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  25. HIPAA support for the Databricks Add-in for Excel

    Available for workspaces with HIPAA compliance across all supported regions.

    #Integrations#Security
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  26. Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks

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

    #Notebooks#Serverless
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  27. Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview

    Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, available in Public Preview.

    #Databricks AI#Model Serving
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  28. 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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  29. Azure Databricks Excel Add-in requires workspace preview enablement

    Enabled from the Previews page by a workspace admin.

    #Integrations
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  30. Databricks Excel Add-in requires workspace preview enablement

    Enabled from the Previews page by a workspace admin.

    #Integrations
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  31. 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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  32. OpenAI GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro now available as Databricks-hosted models

    Access via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis, requiring compliance with applicable terms.

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  33. 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.

    #Admin#Serverless
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  34. 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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  35. Supervisor API for building agents (Beta)

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

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  36. Version 18.1

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

    #Serverless
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  37. ai_parse_document is now generally available

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

    #Databricks AI
    AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud)
  38. Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

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

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

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

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  40. Connect Lovable apps to Azure Databricks

    Uses REST API and OAuth authentication. Requires machine-to-machine authentication setup.

    #Integrations
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  41. Connect Lovable apps to Databricks

    Uses REST API and OAuth machine-to-machine authentication.

    #Integrations
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  42. Upcoming breaking change: default behavior when deleting a Unity Catalog pipeline Coming soon

    Deletes now retain associated tables by default, set cascade=true to remove them.

    #API#Lakeflow
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