July 2025
These features and Databricks platform improvements were released in July 2025.
Releases are staged. Your Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Serverless notebooks: Restore Python variables after idle termination
July 14, 2025
Databricks now snapshots your notebook’s Python variables before terminating idle serverless compute. When you reconnect, your notebook is automatically restored from its snapshot, letting you continue your work seamlessly.
See Automated session restoration for serverless notebooks.
Must be metastore admin to transfer share ownership for Delta Sharing
July 14, 2025
To change the ownership of a share for Delta Sharing, you must now be the metastore admin. Share owners can no longer transfer ownership. See Update shares.
Automatic add-on enrollment for enhanced security features
July 11, 2025
Automatic cluster update and enhanced security monitoring now automatically add the Enhanced Security and Compliance add-on when enabled on a workspace. Previously, this add-on had to be added manually. See Automatic cluster update and Enhanced security monitoring.
Git support for alerts
July 11, 2025
You can now use Databricks Git folders to track and manage changes to alerts. To track alerts with Git, place them in a Databricks Git folder. Newly cloned alerts only appear in the alerts list page or API after a user interacts with them. They have paused schedules and need to be explicitly resumed by users.
See How Git integration works with alerts.
Databricks connector for Power BI now supports the ADBC driver (Public Preview)
July 11, 2025
You can set the Databricks connector for Power BI to use the Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver instead of the ODBC driver.
See Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver connector implementation.
Expanded feature support for FIPS-Compliant environments
July 11, 2025
Model Serving Foundation Model API pay-per-token endpoints and batch inference using Databricks-hosted models are now available in FIPS-compliant environments. This includes support for the following compliance standards offered through the compliance security profile:
- FedRAMP Moderate
- IRAP
- Canada Protected B
See Compliance security profile standards: Foundation Model APIs workloads for region availability of these standards.
Databricks Apps support for Lakebase resources
July 8, 2025
Databricks Apps now supports adding Lakebase database instances as app resources. You can then include these resources as environment variables and access them from your app code.
See Add a Lakebase resource to a Databricks app.
Parent tasks (Run job and For each) now have a separate limit
July 4, 2025
Tasks that wait on child processes (Run job and For each tasks) now have a separate limit for the number of tasks that can run simultaneously, and do not count against the overall limit.
See Resource limits.
Git folders now supports multiple Git credentials per user (Public Preview)
July 2, 2025
Use the UI to add and manage multiple Git credentials in the workspace, from one or multiple Git providers.