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- Base environments are now supported on classic compute (Beta)
Manages Python dependencies using Databricks-provided or custom environments.
- Partner-powered AI features can no longer be disabled in the settings UI
Settings API still allows enable or disable until November 1, 2026.
- The partner-powered AI features setting will be removed Coming soon
Settings will remain as is, but changes will require contacting the account team after removal.
- Git Folder Serverless is in Beta
Shares serverless compute and pyproject.toml environment across notebooks and files.
- Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
Generates distributed training code and resolves environment issues. Requires AI Runtime.
- Default Python package repositories are GA for Lakeflow pipelines and classic compute
Supports private or authenticated registries as workspace defaults. Applies to UI and API created classic compute.
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- Manage project environments with %uv commands
Requires environment version 5 or above. Supports serverless notebooks.
- Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta)
Provides a centralized view of tag usage, summarizes governed tags, and offers recommendations for invalid values. Requires account admins to enable from Previews page.
- Target an Azure capacity reservation group for classic compute
Requires VNet injection, guarantees compute capacity for constrained VM types.
- Serverless compute access control is now generally available
Governs access to notebooks, jobs, and pipelines through Default Interactive and Automated Compute objects. Existing workloads run unchanged.
- Web terminal on serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is in Public Preview
Runs shell commands, monitors GPU usage, and manages files on serverless GPU compute. Requires environment version 5 or above.
- Dedicated group clusters will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled Coming soon
Enables shared compute for groups with compliance security profile, supporting Databricks Runtime for ML and RDD APIs.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens are now generally available
Sends emails to workspace admins 7 days before token expiration for used tokens with lifetime over 7 days. No configuration is required.
- Governance Hub is in Beta
Enables monitoring of data health and AI usage, requires account admin enablement from Previews page.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Serverless compute is now available in the Azure UK West region
Supports notebooks, jobs, pipelines, and SQL warehouses, with private connectivity.
- Protobuf tensor input for custom model serving endpoints (Public Preview)
Replaces JSON with serialized KServe v2 ModelInferRequest. Requires endpoints deployed after July 9, 2026.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Custom Docker images for AI Runtime CLI workloads (Beta)
Allows custom system library versions and complex dependencies, requires setup via Use custom Docker images.
- Legacy compute_preview system schema deprecated
Replaced by system.compute schema.
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- AI Runtime CLI (Beta)
Submits and manages distributed training workloads on serverless GPU compute from a local machine.
- Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens (Beta)
Sends emails to workspace admins when tokens expire in 7 days, requiring no configuration.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Managed disaster recovery is now in Public Preview
Replicates metadata, table data, and workspace assets to a secondary region. Requires account team enablement.
- Mission Critical add-on is now in Public Preview
Unlocks managed disaster recovery and ESC for a single compute rate, enabled per workspace.
- Schedule deferred policy enforcement for all-purpose compute
Applies on next restart or immediately, and admins can cancel scheduled enforcements.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Instance events and instance pools system tables are now available (Public Preview)
Track instance state transitions and instance pool configurations via system.compute.instance_events and system.compute.instance_pools tables.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta)
Supports multimodal models and PEFT recipes, unlike Foundation Model APIs.
- Databricks Container Services for standard compute is now available (Beta)
Requires Databricks Runtime 18.3 or later, allows custom Docker images in shared compute.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Configure an additional recipient for workspace operational emails
Receives operational updates like breaking changes and incident communications, use a distribution-list alias for multiple people.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP, read it on their docs - AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator (Beta)
Supports 1xH100 accelerator, see Hardware options for details.
- Compute log delivery to volumes is now GA
Delivers Spark driver, worker, and event logs to Unity Catalog volumes, recommended for log storage.
AWS, read it on their docsAzure, read it on their docsGCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) - Updated AWS tag character restrictions
Tag keys and values now cannot contain spaces or /. Tag keys also cannot be just . , .. , or _index.
- AI Runtime is now in Public Preview
Adds GPU support to serverless compute for deep learning workloads.
- Serverless compute is enabled by default
Eligible Google Cloud workspaces are affected, account admins no longer need to manually enable it.
- Declarative Feature Engineering APIs (Beta)
Define time-windowed aggregation features from data sources, materialize to Delta tables or Lakebase. Available in us-east-1 and us-west-2 regions.
- Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta)
Stores logs, traces, and metrics in Unity Catalog Delta tables using OpenTelemetry.
- Flexible node types are now generally available
Falls back to alternative instance types when specified type is unavailable, improving launch reliability.
- Configure compute to use AWS Capacity Blocks
Replaces on-demand instances, requires AWS account setup.
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