January 2026

These features and Databricks platform improvements were released in January 2026.

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Releases are staged. Your Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.

Create skills for Databricks Assistant

January 6, 2026

You can now create skills to extend Databricks Assistant in agent mode with specialized capabilities for domain-specific tasks. User skills follow the open Agent Skills standard and are automatically loaded when relevant.

See Extend the Assistant with agent skills.

Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens (GA)

January 6, 2026

Automatic email notifications for expiring personal access tokens are now generally available. For more information, see Set the maximum lifetime of new personal access tokens.