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Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available Allows sharing tables from OneLake, Hive metastore, or AWS Glue without copying data. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Sep 15, 2026
Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available Includes tables from external Iceberg catalogs via Lakehouse Federation. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Sep 11, 2026
Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally available Sharing foreign schemas and tables doesn't copy data into Databricks. It incurs compute and storage costs on the provider's side. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Sep 11, 2026
Share metric views with OpenSharing (Beta) Allows sharing with users in other metastores or accounts. Requires adding views to a share. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Sep 3, 2026
Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview) Allows read-only access to Delta tables in foreign catalogs like OneLake or AWS Glue. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Aug 27, 2026
Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available Now supports sharing to external Iceberg clients. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Aug 14, 2026
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Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available Enabled by default on a rolling basis, can be shared with classic compute recipients. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Aug 13, 2026
Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts Coming soon Automatically enabled for most Enterprise or Premium tier accounts in mid-September 2026. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Aug 13, 2026
Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta Genie generates views based on plain language descriptions, surfacing relevant trace fields and metrics. #Gen AI #MLflow	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Aug 12, 2026
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available Enables sharing tables with deletion vectors or column mapping. Requires setup in Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Aug 4, 2026
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available Enables reading Delta tables as Iceberg tables, requires Databricks Runtime 8.4 or above. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Aug 4, 2026
Databricks-hosted sample datasets available in the samples catalog Available in Unity Catalog-enabled workspaces through OpenSharing as samples.databricks.datasets. #Delta Sharing #Unity Catalog	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Jul 22, 2026
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now generally available Stores traces in OpenTelemetry format with unlimited storage and SQL query access. #MLflow #Unity Catalog	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Jul 16, 2026
Trigger.AvailableNow support for OpenSharing streaming (GA) Replaces Trigger.Once, requires Databricks Runtime 18.0 or above. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Jul 14, 2026
Protobuf tensor input for custom model serving endpoints (Public Preview) Replaces JSON with serialized KServe v2 ModelInferRequest. Requires endpoints deployed after July 9, 2026. #Machine Learning #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Jul 9, 2026
OIDC is now supported for sharing to Iceberg clients Supports Iceberg REST Catalog clients like Snowflake or OSS Spark. Requires OpenID Connect federation. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Jun 15, 2026
Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta) Supports multimodal models and PEFT recipes, unlike Foundation Model APIs. #Machine Learning #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	Not on GCP	Not on SAP	May 20, 2026
Customer-managed keys now support MLflow managed evaluation features Supports MLflow 3 scorers and requires non-CMK encrypted catalog. #MLflow #Security	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	May 19, 2026
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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	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	Not on GCP	Not on SAP	May 5, 2026
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now in Public Preview Stores OpenTelemetry traces, governed by Unity Catalog permissions, queryable from Databricks SQL or MLflow Python SDK. #MLflow #Unity Catalog	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Apr 30, 2026
Cloud token access for open Delta Sharing sharing (GA) Supports directory-based access mode, includes cloud storage location and temporary credentials. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Apr 28, 2026
Column-level SAP governance tags sync into Unity Catalog Includes fieldSemantics, isPotentiallyPersonal, and isPotentiallySensitive tags for ABAC policies. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Apr 13, 2026
Share foreign Iceberg tables with Delta Sharing (Public Preview) Adds read-only access to federated foreign Iceberg tables. Requires Delta Sharing. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Apr 9, 2026
SAP semantic metadata syncs automatically into Unity Catalog Includes table and column comments, primary keys, and foreign keys. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	On SAP, read it on their docs	Apr 6, 2026
Changes to OpenSharing (formerly Delta Sharing) open recipient tokens Coming soon Replaces old Delta Sharing endpoint with recipient-specific URL format. New tokens use https://<recipient-id>.opensharing.us-west-2.cloud.databricks.com. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Not on SAP	Mar 19, 2026
Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta) Stores logs, traces, and metrics in Unity Catalog Delta tables using OpenTelemetry. #Machine Learning #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	Not on GCP	Not on SAP	Mar 6, 2026
Store and query MLflow traces in Unity Catalog (Beta) Stores MLflow traces in Delta tables for long-term retention and analysis using OpenTelemetry format. #Gen AI #MLflow	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	Not on GCP	Unknown on SAP	Jan 26, 2026
Update request parameters for Delta Sharing recipient audit log events Includes catalog_name, in addition to share_name. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Dec 19, 2025
Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview Supports Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark clients with zero-copy access. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Dec 15, 2025
New token expiration policy for open Delta Sharing New tokens expire in 1 year, existing ones expire on December 8, 2026. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Dec 8, 2025
ABAC-secured assets shared using Delta Sharing is in Public Preview Applies to tables and schemas, but not streaming tables or materialized views. #Delta Sharing #Unity Catalog	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Nov 17, 2025
Delta Sharing views automatically permitted in serverless network policies Permitted regardless of storage location alignment between shared tables and view dependencies. Simplifies network policy configuration. #Delta Sharing #Security	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Nov 17, 2025
SAP BDC connector for Azure Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing Supports sharing data between different cloud environments. #Delta Sharing	Not on AWS	On Azure, read it on their docs	Not on GCP	Unknown on SAP	Nov 6, 2025
SAP BDC connector for Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing Enables data sharing between different cloud environments. Requires SAP Business Data Cloud setup. #Delta Sharing	On AWS, read it on their docs	Not on Azure	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Nov 6, 2025
Function calling and structured output now available using the Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct model (Beta) Supports Qwen3-Next 80B A3B Instruct model. #Databricks AI #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	Not on Azure	Not on GCP	Unknown on SAP	Nov 4, 2025
OpenAI GPT 5 models are now generally available in Mosaic AI Model Serving Includes GPT-5 mini and nano models. #Databricks AI #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	Not on Azure	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Oct 28, 2025
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct now available in Beta Supports 80B A3B Instruct in us-west-2 and ap-northeast-1 regions via pay-per-token APIs. #Databricks AI #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	Not on GCP	Unknown on SAP	Oct 22, 2025
The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Azure Databricks is generally available Enables secure data sharing between SAP BDC and Unity Catalog-enabled Azure Databricks workspaces. #Delta Sharing	Not on AWS	On Azure, read it on their docs	Not on GCP	Unknown on SAP	Oct 15, 2025
Improved autoscaling behavior for Mosaic AI Model Serving Ignores brief traffic surges, scaling on sustained load increases. Reduces unnecessary concurrency scaling. #Databricks AI #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	On Azure, read it on their docs	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Oct 13, 2025
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5 models (preview) Supports GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano models for batch inference with AI Functions. #Databricks AI #Model Serving	On AWS, read it on their docs	Not on Azure	On GCP, read it on their docs	Unknown on SAP	Oct 6, 2025

Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
Allows sharing tables from OneLake, Hive metastore, or AWS Glue without copying data.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Sep 15, 2026
Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
Includes tables from external Iceberg catalogs via Lakehouse Federation.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Sep 11, 2026
Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
Sharing foreign schemas and tables doesn't copy data into Databricks. It incurs compute and storage costs on the provider's side.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Sep 11, 2026
Share metric views with OpenSharing (Beta)
Allows sharing with users in other metastores or accounts. Requires adding views to a share.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Sep 3, 2026
Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
Allows read-only access to Delta tables in foreign catalogs like OneLake or AWS Glue.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 27, 2026
Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available
Now supports sharing to external Iceberg clients.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 14, 2026
Run the change, do not just read it. Hands-on labs in your own Databricks workspace, graded when you submit. Browse labs
Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available
Enabled by default on a rolling basis, can be shared with classic compute recipients.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 13, 2026
Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts Coming soon
Automatically enabled for most Enterprise or Premium tier accounts in mid-September 2026.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 13, 2026
Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta
Genie generates views based on plain language descriptions, surfacing relevant trace fields and metrics.

#Gen AI #MLflow

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 12, 2026
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
Enables sharing tables with deletion vectors or column mapping. Requires setup in Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 4, 2026
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Enables reading Delta tables as Iceberg tables, requires Databricks Runtime 8.4 or above.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Aug 4, 2026
Databricks-hosted sample datasets available in the samples catalog
Available in Unity Catalog-enabled workspaces through OpenSharing as samples.databricks.datasets.

#Delta Sharing #Unity Catalog

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Jul 22, 2026
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now generally available
Stores traces in OpenTelemetry format with unlimited storage and SQL query access.

#MLflow #Unity Catalog

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Jul 16, 2026
Trigger.AvailableNow support for OpenSharing streaming (GA)
Replaces Trigger.Once, requires Databricks Runtime 18.0 or above.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Jul 14, 2026
Protobuf tensor input for custom model serving endpoints (Public Preview)
Replaces JSON with serialized KServe v2 ModelInferRequest. Requires endpoints deployed after July 9, 2026.

#Machine Learning #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Jul 9, 2026
OIDC is now supported for sharing to Iceberg clients
Supports Iceberg REST Catalog clients like Snowflake or OSS Spark. Requires OpenID Connect federation.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Jun 15, 2026
Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving (Beta)
Supports multimodal models and PEFT recipes, unlike Foundation Model APIs.

#Machine Learning #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(not on this cloud) May 20, 2026
Customer-managed keys now support MLflow managed evaluation features
Supports MLflow 3 scorers and requires non-CMK encrypted catalog.

#MLflow #Security

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) May 19, 2026
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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

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(not on this cloud) May 5, 2026
MLflow trace storage in Unity Catalog is now in Public Preview
Stores OpenTelemetry traces, governed by Unity Catalog permissions, queryable from Databricks SQL or MLflow Python SDK.

#MLflow #Unity Catalog

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Apr 30, 2026
Cloud token access for open Delta Sharing sharing (GA)
Supports directory-based access mode, includes cloud storage location and temporary credentials.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Apr 28, 2026
Column-level SAP governance tags sync into Unity Catalog
Includes fieldSemantics, isPotentiallyPersonal, and isPotentiallySensitive tags for ABAC policies.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Apr 13, 2026
Share foreign Iceberg tables with Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
Adds read-only access to federated foreign Iceberg tables. Requires Delta Sharing.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Apr 9, 2026
SAP semantic metadata syncs automatically into Unity Catalog
Includes table and column comments, primary keys, and foreign keys.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docs SAP, read it on their docs Apr 6, 2026
Changes to OpenSharing (formerly Delta Sharing) open recipient tokens Coming soon
Replaces old Delta Sharing endpoint with recipient-specific URL format. New tokens use https://<recipient-id>.opensharing.us-west-2.cloud.databricks.com.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(not on this cloud) Mar 19, 2026
Endpoint telemetry for custom model serving endpoints (Beta)
Stores logs, traces, and metrics in Unity Catalog Delta tables using OpenTelemetry.

#Machine Learning #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(not on this cloud) Mar 6, 2026
Store and query MLflow traces in Unity Catalog (Beta)
Stores MLflow traces in Delta tables for long-term retention and analysis using OpenTelemetry format.

#Gen AI #MLflow

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown) Jan 26, 2026
Update request parameters for Delta Sharing recipient audit log events
Includes catalog_name, in addition to share_name.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Dec 19, 2025
Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview
Supports Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark clients with zero-copy access.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Dec 15, 2025
New token expiration policy for open Delta Sharing
New tokens expire in 1 year, existing ones expire on December 8, 2026.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Dec 8, 2025
ABAC-secured assets shared using Delta Sharing is in Public Preview
Applies to tables and schemas, but not streaming tables or materialized views.

#Delta Sharing #Unity Catalog

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Nov 17, 2025
Delta Sharing views automatically permitted in serverless network policies
Permitted regardless of storage location alignment between shared tables and view dependencies. Simplifies network policy configuration.

#Delta Sharing #Security

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Nov 17, 2025
SAP BDC connector for Azure Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing
Supports sharing data between different cloud environments.

#Delta Sharing

AWS(not on this cloud)Azure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown) Nov 6, 2025
SAP BDC connector for Databricks supports cross-cloud sharing
Enables data sharing between different cloud environments. Requires SAP Business Data Cloud setup.

#Delta Sharing

AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Nov 6, 2025
Function calling and structured output now available using the Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct model (Beta)
Supports Qwen3-Next 80B A3B Instruct model.

#Databricks AI #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown) Nov 4, 2025
OpenAI GPT 5 models are now generally available in Mosaic AI Model Serving
Includes GPT-5 mini and nano models.

#Databricks AI #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Oct 28, 2025
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Next Instruct now available in Beta
Supports 80B A3B Instruct in us-west-2 and ap-northeast-1 regions via pay-per-token APIs.

#Databricks AI #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown) Oct 22, 2025
The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connector for Azure Databricks is generally available
Enables secure data sharing between SAP BDC and Unity Catalog-enabled Azure Databricks workspaces.

#Delta Sharing

AWS(not on this cloud)Azure, read it on their docsGCP(not on this cloud)SAP(unknown) Oct 15, 2025
Improved autoscaling behavior for Mosaic AI Model Serving
Ignores brief traffic surges, scaling on sustained load increases. Reduces unnecessary concurrency scaling.

#Databricks AI #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docs Azure, read it on their docs GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Oct 13, 2025
Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI GPT 5 models (preview)
Supports GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano models for batch inference with AI Functions.

#Databricks AI #Model Serving

AWS, read it on their docsAzure(not on this cloud)GCP, read it on their docsSAP(unknown) Oct 6, 2025

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