AI/BI release notes 2025

The following AI/BI features and improvements were released in 2025.

May 2025

The following features and updates were released in May 2025.

May 1, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• View truncated data: You can now view more data in charts with truncated results by clicking Render more data.

AI/BI Genie

• Follow-up questions for text responses: Genie now suggests follow-up questions for text responses that include no generated SQL or results. Previously, follow-up questions appeared only after responses with a result set. Now, prompts such as Explain the data set also return suggested follow-up questions to help Genie space users explore the data.

  

• Improved instruction processing: Genie’s chain-of-thought reasoning has been refined to prioritize and adhere to the most relevant instructions based on the user prompt.

April 2025

The following features and updates were released in April 2025.

April 24, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Choropleth maps available: Choropleth maps are now available for dashboards, allowing users to visualize data across geographical regions with varying colors based on values such as population, income, or other metrics. See Choropleth map.

  

• AI Forecast on line charts: You can now generate a forecast for a line chart (Public Preview). See Generate a forecast.

AI/BI Genie

• Distilled top-k prompt snippet: Replaced the original top-k prompt snippet with a shorter version (25% of the original token count) to reduce irrelevant context and improve LLM response accuracy.
• Clearer permissions warnings: Added a banner that explains when a user tries to access a Genie space containing tables they no longer have access to or that have been removed.
• Clearer next steps for permissions issues: When users try to select a table they can’t read, the error message now explicitly advises them to request access from the asset owner.
• Improved collapsed visualizations: Collapsed visualizations now display the chart title in a full-width header bar with hover feedback and an expand icon. You can click or press Enter or Space to expand or collapse the visualization, improving keyboard accessibility and clarity.
• Genie data sampling can now be enabled from the previews page: Admins can now enable Genie Data Sampling, which allows Genie authors to add value dictionaries that improve Genie's ability to answer user prompt using correct columns and row values, from Previews. See Use value dictionaries to improve Genie's accuracy.

April 17, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Custom dimensions in AI/BI dashboards: Authors can create custom dimensions on AI/BI dashboards. A new set of functions, including CASE WHEN statements, CONCAT, COALESCE, and others, are now supported. See What are custom calculations?.
• Customizable pivot table widths: Pivot tables now support customizable widths.
• Sankey visualization improvements: Sankey visualizations now have reduced flickering on hover and use a lighter gray for flow lines.

AI/BI Genie

• Example and follow-up questions: Genie now uses table metadata to automatically offer example and follow-up questions when users start exploring a Genie space. You can still add your own sample questions.
• Improved response layout: Genie's response layout has been redesigned to simplify chat interactions.
• View and remove missing tables: Users can now view and remove missing tables in a Genie space. The Data tab now shows visual indicators to mark tables that cannot be accessed. You can use the UI to remove those tables.
• Improved data access transparency: The table picker in Genie now prevents choosing tables for which you do not have at least SELECT privileges. This helps to ensure that Genie spaces only include tables that can return results. To learn about data Unity Catalog data privileges, see Unity Catalog privileges and securable objects.

April 10, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• End of support for legacy dashboards: You can no longer create or clone legacy dashboards using the UI or API. Databricks continues to address critical security issues and service outages, but recommends using AI/BI dashboards for all new development. To learn more about AI/BI dashboards, see Dashboards. For help migrating, see Clone a legacy dashboard to an AI/BI dashboard and Use dashboard APIs to create and manage dashboards.
• Source control for dashboards: Dashboards can now be integrated with Databricks Git folders for collaboration and version control(Public Preview). See Source control dashboards.
• Revert draft dashboards to the last published version: You can now discard changes to a draft dashboard and restore it to the most recently published state. This makes it easier to undo edits and return to a known, shared version. See Draft and collaborate on a dashboard.
• PDF export fix: Fixed an issue where PDF export did not apply selected filter values at the time of export.
• Embedded dashboard filter fix: Fixed an issue where filters were not rendering correctly in embedded dashboards.

AI/BI Genie

• Revamped feedback flow: The Genie feedback workflow is now more interactive and responsive. When a response is incorrect, you can explain why it's wrong by choosing from a selection of common issues or entering your own explanation. You can regenerate the response based on the feedback you provide, or send it to a space editor for manual review. See Response feedback.

• Customer-managed key support: Genie spaces created after April 10, 2025 are now encrypted and compatible with customer-managed keys. See Customer-managed keys for encryption.

April 3, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Streamlined publish flow: All publish actions now embed the publishing user's warehouse permission. The only decision is whether to embed the data credential. Embedding credentials removes the previous requirement of all users requiring individual access to the selected warehouse if the dashboard was published without embedded credentials. See Data for shared dashboards.
• Continue Genie conversations: When Genie is enabled for a dashboard, opening it now resumes the last conversation until a new one is started.
• Stable color assignment: Color assignment is now stable as filter values change.
• PNG download support for maps: Downloading PNGs for maps is now supported.
• Sankey visualizations: Sankey visualizations are now available on AI/BI dashboards. See Sankey diagram.

AI/BI Genie

• Genie API performance improvement: API response latency has been improved by removing unnecessary completion steps.
• Create Genie spaces from Catalog Explorer: An issue with creating Genie spaces from Catalog Explorer has been resolved.

March 2025

The following features and updates were released in March 2025.

March 27, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Chart migration fix: Dual-axis charts are now converted as expected when migrating from legacy dashboards to AI/BI dashboards.
• More space for titles: Narrow widgets and filter drop-downs now allocate more space for titles.
• Customize dashboard visualization settings by locale: Use the editing panel on your draft dashboard to select a locale and customize settings across all filter and visualization widgets.
• Improved URL stability: Importing a new version of a dashboard in draft and publishing no longer breaks filter values saved in existing URLs. See Filters in published dashboard URLs.

AI/BI Genie

• Improved creation flow: When you create a new Genie space, you need only to add tables to the space to start testing and iterating. See Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space.
• Conversations API update: Messages sent through the Conversations API now appear in the monitoring tab.

March 20, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Query history update: When viewing the query history, scheduled dashboard update queries now display the dashboard publisher as the user instead of System Service Principal.
• Simplified actions menu: The Ask Genie button no longer appears in a widget's kebab menu when Genie is not enabled on a dashboard.
• Increased custom sorting limits: You can now custom sort up to 500 items in a visualization.
• Resolved issue with subscription emails: Dashboards created using jobs now correctly apply subscription settings set at the workspace level.

AI/BI Genie

• New Genie space UI: Genie now has a redesigned UI for authoring and chats. The new layout has more space for conversations and a reorganized interface for adding and refining instructions. See Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space.
• Privileged users can help refine instructions: Users with at least CAN EDIT permissions can now view the source SQL used to generate answers, allowing them to help refine Genie instructions.
• Restricted table selection: To return results, users must have at least SELECT privileges on the Unity Catalog objects in the space. Authors are now restricted from adding tables where they have insufficient permissions.
• Improved SQL matching: Genie can now better utilize example SQL statements when user prompts closely match the example SQL.

March 13, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• New audit log emitted for dashboard downloads: Downloading dashboards as PDF now triggers the audit log event triggerDashboardSnapshot.
• Dashboards are supported as a task type in workflows: Create a job task with the Dashboard task type to refresh dashboard results and optionally send subscription emails.
• Calculated measures from dashboards better supported: Genie spaces created from dashboards are now better able to use any calculated measures defined on the dashboard.
• Fixed null value styling: Pivot table cells with null values now display with the correct styling.
• Sorting with filters now supported: Single-value and multi-value filters now support sorting.

AI/BI Genie

• Easier to understand audit events: The updateConversationMessageFeedback audit event now includes a feedback_rating field to quickly see whether a rating is positive or negative.
• Genie Conversations API in Public Preview: The Genie Conversation API is now in Public Preview. Use the API to ask questions, retrieve generated SQL and query results, or get the details associated with a Genie space. For more details, see Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space.
• Genie data sampling is now available in Public Preview: This feature improves Genie’s ability to translate user prompts into the right column and row values. To test this feature, contact your Databricks account team.
• Genie now self-reflects: As Genie generates SQL, it self-reflects to fix issues and return higher-quality answers. This improves Genie’s ability to author filter conditions and fewer SQL errors.
• Improved keyword contextualization: Genie has improved its ability to provide relevant context in its responses based on keywords in the user question.
• Improved benchmark evaluation logic: Genie now supports column and row reordering and permits extraneous column selection in SQL results.

March 6, 2025

Dashboards

• New visual indicators for column names: Duplicate column names are now greyed out to indicate lack of support.
• Fixed an issue with color mappings: Color mappings in the visualization editor now align with the renderer.
• Restricted character set: The name propertycustomer_ref_id in the serialized dashboard format is now restricted to alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. Before, there was no restriction in the character set.
• Dual-axis charts now support zoom: You can now click and drag to zoom in on non-combo dual-axis charts.
• Inclusive relative date ranges: The dates you select when choosing relative date periods in the date range picker, such as last week or last month, are now inclusive of the current date. See Date range picker.
• Freeze table columns: You can now freeze table columns to the left side of the table display. Columns stay in view as you scroll right on the table. See Dashboard visualizations.
• Fixed an issue with combo charts: Resolved misalignment between x-axis labels and bars when using a temporal field on the x-axis.

Genie

• Improved benchmarks: The benchmark evaluation function now more accurately detects incorrect results.

February 2025

The following features and updates were released in February 2025.

February 27, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Relative dates update: The relative dates in date and date range pickers now include the current day.
• Error message improvement: Error messages for calculated measures now indicate that filter clauses are not supported.
• Publish notification feature: Dashboard authors can now send publish notifications when updating a dashboard. See Publish a dashboard.
• Ask Genie about specific charts: You can now ask questions about specific charts in Genie-enabled published dashboards. Genie uses the selected chart's title and dataset query as context for the conversation. See Ask Genie about a specific chart.

AI/BI Genie

• File uploads in gated Public Preview: A new feature that allows users to upload CSV and Excel files directly to a Genie space. See Upload a file. To enable file uploads, contact your Databricks account team.
• X-axis formatting: The x-axis for Combo charts now applies formatting for improved readability.
• Consistent security settings: Genie now respects the workspace level setting to enable Results tables clipboard features in admin security settings. See Manage your workspace.

February 21, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Quickly navigate to the most popular dashboards: Dashboard thumbnails are now shown for all dashboards published with embedded credentials. The dashboards listing page attempts to show thumbnails for the four most popular dashboards you can access. Dashboards you don't have access to do not appear on the listing page.

• Pivot tables support more cells: Pivot tables now accommodate up to 1,000 rows and 1,000 columns, up from the previous limit of 100 rows and 100 columns.

• Edit box plot display names: You can now edit the Y-axis display names in box plots, enabling a more customized presentation.

• Multiple Y fields for generated charts: Visualizations generated using the Databricks Assistant now support multiple Y fields.

• ColorBy performance optimization: Rendering is now optimized for charts with a very large number of groupings. This optimization prevents performance issues and crashes.

AI/BI Genie

Edit parameters in a response: You can now edit the parameter values used to generate a response to a trusted question. See Review a response.

• View data sources: Genie now displays the tables used as source data for each response.

• Avoid unnecessary wait times: You can now cancel a SQL query execution during the Waiting for warehouse state to avoid unnecessary wait times.

• Improved error messaging: Removed duplicate error messages from generated visualizations.

February 13, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Fixed dashboards listing page: An issue that caused some dashboards to be excluded from the listing page has been resolved. The listing page now shows all dashboards that you have permission to access.

AI/BI Genie

• Improved reasoning about generated SQL: Genie’s model for translating text into SQL now uses Chain-of-Thought reasoning to break down questions into manageable steps: first, identifying useful columns; next, planning the SQL generation; and finally, combining the parts into a single SQL query. This upgrade results in more robust and accurate SQL translations. You should see improvements in Genie’s ability to pick precise filter conditions and improved reasoning on nuanced questions.
• Fixed progress indication: Resolved an issue where Genie was showing a Still thinking status after a result had already been returned.
• Sharing a Genie space now sends an email notification to the recipient. See Share a Genie space.

Visualizations

• Fixed zoom behavior:
  • Resolved an issue where zooming in on a chart altered the colors associated with quantitative values.
  • Resolved an issue that prevented zooming in on categorical charts with temporal fields.
• Improved chart migration: Visualizations created in the SQL editor, legacy dashboards, and notebooks that do not include sorting now migrate as expected.

February 6, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Customize sort order and label angles: Control the sorting order of data on the axis and adjust the angle of labels in visualizations. See Format axis settings.
• Custom column widths for tables: All column types in table visualizations now support custom widths. Drag the handle at the top of a column to adjust its size.
• Clone dashboard pages: You can now duplicate dashboard pages. See Clone a page.
• Updated timezone handling: Visualizations now use the timezone from the dataset or compute resource instead of the browser settings. If a widget includes two columns with different time zones, the second is formatted to match the first.

AI/BI Genie

• Hide visualizations in the chat window: Visualizations include a collapse icon in the upper-right corner that you can use to hide a chart. Click Show visualization to expand. To learn more about working with visualizations in Genie, see Generate visualizations.

January 2025

The following features and updates were released in January 2025.

January 30, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Create calculated measures: Perform calculations and visualize new data fields without modifying the SQL queries that define a dataset. For details, see What are custom calculations?.
• Sort dashboards by name: You can now sort dashboards by name on the dashboard listing page.
• Expanded data display in charts: Dashboard visualizations now support up to 15,000 rows of data.

AI/BI Genie

• Genie-generated visualizations: When Genie detects that a visualization would improve response clarity, it includes one with the result.
• Improved warehouse status visibility: Genie now displays a Waiting for warehouse message when a request is queued and awaiting processing by the associated SQL warehouse.
• Updated warehouse picker UI: The warehouse picker in Genie spaces now automatically selects the first running warehouse from the list. Its updated appearance matches other compute selectors in the Databricks UI.
• Fixed results table issue: Genie now reliably includes table results in responses.

January 23, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Publish using a service principal: You can now use the REST API to publish dashboards with service principal credentials. See Use a service principal to publish and share dashboards.
• Reorder datasets: Drag and drop dataset names to change their order in the Data tab.
• Cross-filtering support for point maps: Cross-filtering is now available for point map charts. For a list of chart types that support cross-filtering, see Apply cross-filtering.
• New scatter chart scaling options: A Log (Symmetric) scale function is now available for scatter charts.
• Fixed range sliders: The Range slider filter now correctly limits items to those within the selected range.
• Fixed tooltips: Tooltips now display accurate totals for charts with labels.

AI/BI Genie

• Fixed table identifier quoting: Genie now properly quotes table name identifiers in queries by adding backticks around each part of the catalog, schema, and table name. For example, catalog.schema.table is now formatted as `catalog`.`schema`.`table` to prevent TABLE_OR_VIEW_NOT_FOUND errors.
• Fixed ANY keyword error: Genie now replaces the ANY keyword with the IN keyword when querying list columns to avoid common SQL errors.
• Improved query descriptions: Genie now uses an updated model to generate more precise and accurate query descriptions.

January 16, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Download as PDF: You can now download a PDF copy of a published dashboard. See Download a published dashboard.

• Visually identify datasets in use: A visual indicator now marks whether datasets in the data tab are used in visualizations on the canvas. Datasets that support canvas widgets have a blue icon and a bolded title. Unused datasets have a grey icon and a non-bolded title.

  

• Generate new charts with Databricks Assistant: Databricks Assistant now supports creating dual-axis charts from natural language requests.

• COUNT(*) added as a measure: When choosing fields from the visualization editor, COUNT(*) is now in the measure section.

• Fix: Hover lines now appear correctly on horizontal charts.

• Fix: Downloading datasets as Excel files now preserves the correct numeric data types.

AI/BI Genie

• See warehouse details: The Default Warehouse selector in the space settings has been updated to display status, size, and warehouse type. You can also type to filter and select warehouses.

January 9, 2025

AI/BI dashboards

• Fix: Filters and context menus now appear in full-screen mode as expected.
• Show page names: Dashboard page names can now display 50% more characters before being truncated.

AI/BI Genie

• Improvement: Genie now correctly responds with the number of tables in a space.
• Improvement: Reduced the frequency of PARSE_SYNTAX_ERROR issues triggered by improper use of backticks.