Databricks releases, every cloud
- Automatic change data feed is now generally available
Requires Databricks Runtime 19 or above with row tracking enabled. Makes MERGE and UPDATE operations about 15% faster.
- AI Functions REST API is now generally available
Includes ai_parse_document, ai_extract, and ai_classify calls.
- Consumer access to query Unity Gateway services will become generally available Coming soon
Requires account admins to set budgets and rate limits beforehand to control model traffic.
- ai_extract precision mode is now generally available
Supports multi-page documents and schemas with 50+ fields.
- Unity Gateway is now generally available
Controls AI service access and traffic, part of Unity Catalog, with some features still in Beta.
- Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now generally available
Powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0.
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- Budgets are now generally available
Define spending thresholds with optional per-user overrides and actions like email alerts.
- ai_query is now generally available
Lets you query AI models from SQL or Python.
- ai_classify is now generally available
Classifies text content according to custom labels with support for multi-label classification.
- ai_extract is now generally available
Extracts structured data from text and documents according to a provided schema. Supports nested objects and arrays.
- Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints is generally available
Persists OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics to Unity Catalog tables.
- Foundation model Unity Catalog permissions is generally available
Requires account team enablement, controls access to system.ai schema.
- Databricks Runtime 18.2 is now GA
Replaces 7.3 and 7.3 ML.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - ai_parse_document is now generally available
Parses structured content from unstructured documents, limited to 500 pages and 100 MB.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks Runtime 18.1 is now GA
Replaces Databricks Runtime 7.3.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Supervisor Agent is now Generally Available
Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.
- Serverless workspaces are now generally available
Come pre-configured with serverless compute and default storage.
- Databricks Runtime 18.0 is now GA
Replaces Databricks Runtime 7.3.
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- Knowledge Assistant is now generally available
Available in select US regions for workspaces without Enhanced Security.
- OpenAI GPT 5 models are now generally available in Mosaic AI Model Serving
Includes GPT-5 mini and nano models.
- Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS is now GA
Replaces 7.3 LTS, requires Databricks account.
- Databricks Runtime 17.2 is now is now GA
Replaces 7.3 and earlier, requires new cluster creation.
- Databricks Runtime 17.1 is now is now GA
Replaces Databricks Runtime 7.3.
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