Databricks releases, every cloud
- Upcoming general availability of Unity Gateway Coming soon
Extends Unity Catalog governance to runtime interactions, controls AI service usage, and monitors traffic. Available by default for workspaces with compliance security profile in mid-September.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, requires compliance with applicable terms.
- Google Gemini 3.6 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, requires compliance with applicable terms.
- Warehouse-level statement timeouts (Beta)
Set via statement_timeout field in Create or Update warehouse APIs.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Azure Databricks-provided MCP Services will GA soon Coming soon
Enables read and write operations by default for tools like Slack and GitHub, and can be disabled in Unity Gateway.
- Databricks-provided MCP Services will GA soon Coming soon
Enables read and write operations for Slack, GitHub, and others by default, can be disabled in Unity Gateway.
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- OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna now available as Databricks-hosted models
Access via Foundation Model APIs on a pay-per-token basis, requiring compliance with applicable terms.
- Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image now available as Databricks-hosted models
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, requiring customer compliance with applicable terms.
- Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
Delivers sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables. Built for low-latency workloads.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in Preview
Adds IP address functions, NEAREST BY join type, and QUALIFY clause, with fixes for MERGE WITH SCHEMA EVOLUTION.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Genie Code Chat/Agent mode selector removed
Genie Code now runs exclusively in Agent mode, use prompts to disable autonomous task execution.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools
Adds Unity Catalog volumes as subagent tools, allowing coordinated access.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Lakehouse Replay (Beta)
Automatically replays serverless workloads against upcoming runtime releases. Requires no setup.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - AI Search supports selected text columns, sorting, and aggregations (Beta)
Supports keyword matching in selected columns, sorting by indexed columns, and aggregate counts.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - 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.
- Full page Genie Code (Beta)
Runs multiple threads in parallel, personalizes with skills and servers.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Databricks SQL version 2026.15 is now available in Preview
XPath no longer fetches external DTDs, fixing failures from malformed URLs.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Removed legacy Assistant slash commands
/settings and /rename are replaced by notebook UI settings and rename options.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Get this table by email. One Monday mail covering the week, filtered to the clouds and products you run. Weekly digest
- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports nesting supervisor agents as subagent tools
Enables nested multi-agent orchestration by adding Supervisor Agents as subagent tools.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Google Gemini 3.5 Flash now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, requires compliance with applicable terms.
- 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.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - 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.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Share Genie Code chat threads
Recipients get read-only access, can be users, groups, or service principals.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - 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) - 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.
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.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Manage Supervisor Agent programmatically with the Databricks SDK (Beta)
Creates and manages Supervisor Agent and tools via Python SDK. Requires Databricks SDK for Python.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - 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.
- 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) - 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.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Supervisor API for building agents (Beta)
Replaces multiple API calls with a single call to build agents.
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Accessible via Foundation Model APIs, supports pay-per-token queries.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - AI Gateway now governs MCP servers (Beta)
Enforces access control and monitors usage across MCP interactions, replacing prior governance methods.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - ai_prep_search (Beta)
Transforms ai_parse_document output into search-ready chunks for vector search and RAG pipelines.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available in additional regions
Available in ap-south-1 region, requires cross-geo processing.
- Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now available on GCP
Available in 6 GCP regions, requiring cross-geo processing in europe-west3 and asia-southeast1.
- Agent Bricks now covers all Databricks AI capabilities
Covers declarative agents and all other Databricks AI capabilities.
- 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) - Supervisor Agent supports long-running tasks
Supports tasks that exceed 2-minute timeout, using task continuation.
- OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano now available as Databricks-hosted models
Access via Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token, requires compliance with OpenAI's Acceptable Use Policy.
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