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December 2018

These features and Databricks platform improvements were released in December 2018.

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Releases are staged. Your Databricks account may not be updated until up to a week after the initial release date.

Databricks Runtime 5.1 for Machine Learning (Beta) release​

Dec 18, 2018

Databricks Runtime 5.1 ML is built on top of Databricks Runtime 5.1 and includes the following new features:

  • PyTorch for building deep learning networks.

Databricks Runtime 5.1 release​

December 18, 2018

Databricks Runtime 5.1 is now available. Databricks Runtime 5.1 includes Apache Spark 2.4.0, new Delta Lake and Structured Streaming features and upgrades, and upgraded Python, R, and Java and Scala libraries.

Library UI​

The library UI update originally released in version 2.85 was reverted on December 7, 2018.