February 2025

These features and Databricks platform improvements were released in February 2025.

Note

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

Unity Catalog-governed access to external cloud services using service credentials is now GA

February 7, 2025

Service credentials enable simple and secure authentication with your cloud tenant’s services from Databricks. Service credentials are generally available and now support Scala SDKs, in addition to the Python SDK that was supported in the public preview. The fully-GA feature requires compute on Databricks Runtime 16.2 or above. See Manage access to external cloud services using service credentials.

Scala SDK support is not yet available on serverless compute, but is coming very soon.

Download as Excel is now supported in notebooks connected to SQL warehouses

February 6, 2025

For notebooks connected to SQL warehouses, you can now download cell results that contain tabular data as an Excel file. See Download results.

Write data from pipelines to external services with Delta Live Tables sinks (Public Preview)

February 5, 2025

The Delta Live Tables sink API is in Public Preview. With Delta Live Tables sinks, you can write data transformed by your pipeline to targets like event streaming services such as Apache Kafka or Azure Event Hubs, and external tables managed by Unity Catalog or the Hive metastore. See Stream records to external services with Delta Live Tables sinks.