Databricks platform release notes
- December 2024
- November 2024
- Databricks Assistant can use Databricks-hosted models
- FedRAMP Moderate and PCI-DSS now support serverless compute in
us-west-2
- Emergency access for workspaces without unified login
- Mosaic AI Model Training serverless forecasting (Public Preview)
- Automatic cluster update and enhanced security and compliance UI are generally available
- Expanded support for Python debugger in notebooks
- Improved web terminal experience
- Query history and query profile support for Delta Live Tables
- Mosaic AI Model Training rebrand
- Reuse SQL outputs as
_sqldf
in subsequent SQL cells - Warehouses system table is now available (Public Preview)
- Cross-platform view sharing (Public Preview)
- Clean Rooms public preview is ungated, with new features
- Databricks Runtime 16.0 is GA
- Breaking change: Hosted RStudio is end-of-life
- Predictive optimization enabled for all new Databricks accounts
- Updated and unified read-only code blocks
- Increased Quick Fix recommendations
- Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token available in all Model Serving supported regions
- Unity Catalog-governed access to external cloud services using service credentials (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 14.2 series support ends
- October 2024
- Enable cost attribution of fine-grained access control on single user compute
- Databricks Assistant helps optimize SQL queries
- Databricks Runtime 15.1 series support ends
- Llama 2 70B Chat model retirement in Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token
- Enable a metastore to be assigned automatically to new workspaces
- Configure an encryption algorithm on an external location
- Structured outputs supported on Mosaic AI Model Serving (Public Preview)
- Fine-grained access control on single user compute is generally available
- AI Functions now available in EU regions
- Attribute serverless usage with budget policies (Public Preview)
- Serverless compute automatically enabled on eligible accounts
- The billable usage system table now attributes networking costs
- Databricks Assistant Autocomplete is now generally available
- Filters on notebook results tables now persist
- Improvements to comments in notebooks
- Databricks Runtime 16.0 (Beta)
- Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports batch inference
- Create secure data and AI apps for your users with Databricks Apps (Public Preview)
- More reliable reloading of modified Python modules with improvements to
autoreload
- Salesforce ingestion connector simplification
- Compliance security profile with serverless compute support
- Serverless compute is now available in the
eu-west-2
region
- September 2024
- Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct now supported on Databricks Function Calling
vector_search()
now available to all customers (Public Preview)- External models now supports instance profiles for Amazon Bedrock
- Emergency access no longer requires single sign-on
- Meta Llama 3.2 3B and 1B models are supported in Model Serving
- Meta Llama 3.2 3B and 1B models are supported in Foundation Model Fine-tuning
- Publish to Power BI is now generally available
- Use
@
to reference tables in Databricks Assistant prompts - Prototype and export tool-calling GenAI Agents in AI Playground
- Control external access to data in Unity Catalog using the new
EXTERNAL USE SCHEMA
privilege - GTE v1.5 (English) embedding models are now supported in Foundation Model API provisioned throughput
- Databricks Assistant Quick Fix debugs code inline
- AI Gateway is now Public Preview
- Meta Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models supported in Foundation Model Fine-tuning
- Extended AI-generated comments support
- Monitor clean room usage in the billable usage table
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code is GA
- Function calling is now supported on Foundation Model APIs provisioned throughput
- Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token available in
eu-central-1
andeu-west-1
- System tables are now generally available
- August 2024
- Monitor Unity Catalog object usage against quotas using the new Resource Quotas APIs
- MPT 7B Instruct and MPT 30B Instruct model retirements
- AskSupport replaced by Databricks assistant
- Lakeflow system tables are extend with additional columns
- Python code formatting error highlights
- Databricks on AWS GovCloud is now GA
- Delta Sharing: More Delta Lake features now supported by the Python and Power BI connectors
- Delta Sharing adds support for TimestampNTZ
- The Databricks Jobs
For each
task is GA - Databricks Runtime 15.4 LTS is GA
- Personalized notebook autocomplete
- Configure your workspace’s default access mode for jobs compute
- New slash commands for Databricks Assistant
- Workspace search now supports volumes
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.40
- Databricks personal access tokens revoked if unused after 90 days
- Serverless SQL warehouses with the compliance security profile is now GA
- Clusters API now supports partial configuration updates
- Wrap lines in notebook cells
- Specify columns to sync for Mosaic AI Vector Search
- Files can no longer have identical names in workspace folders
- Compute policy enforcement now available
- Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token is now GA
- Collaborate on data projects securely and privately using Databricks Clean Rooms (Public Preview)
- Mosaic AI Vector Search is now HIPAA-compliant
- Format columns in notebook and query results tables
- Row filters and column masks are now GA, with improvements
- Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity (CCCS) Medium (Protected B) compliance controls
- Lakehouse Federation is generally available (GA)
- Meta Llama 3.1 405B models supported in Foundation Model Fine-tuning
- Create a new workspace with enhanced security and compliance features
- July 2024
- Increased limit for simultaneous tasks
- Embed and drag & drop images in notebooks
- Command palette available in notebooks
- Workflow system schema renamed to
lakeflow
- LakeFlow Connect (gated Public Preview)
- Support for Cloudflare R2 storage is GA
- Monitor Databricks Assistant activities with system tables (Public Preview)
- Sharing schemas using Delta Sharing is now GA
- Mosaic AI Agent Framework is available in
eu-central-1
- Databricks Assistant can diagnose issues with jobs (Public Preview)
- Updates to Databricks Git folders authentication and sharing behaviors
- Cluster library installation timeout
- Compute plane outbound IP addresses must be added to a workspace IP allow list
- Databricks Runtime 9.1 series support extended
- Single sign-on (SSO) is supported in Lakehouse Federation for SQL Server
- Enable cross-Geo processing
- Model sharing using Delta Sharing is now generally available
- Share comments and primary key constraints using Delta Sharing
- New Databricks JDBC Driver (OSS)
- Databricks Runtime 15.4 LTS (Beta)
- Scala is GA on Unity Catalog shared compute
- Single user compute supports fine-grained access control, materialized views, and streaming tables
- Node timeline system table is now available (Public Preview)
- Meta Llama 3.1 is now supported in Model Serving
- Unity Catalog will soon drop support for storage credentials that use non-self-assuming IAM roles
- Notebooks: toggle more visible cell titles
/
in workspace asset names is deprecated- Delta Sharing lets you share tables that use liquid clustering
- Query history system table is now available (Public Preview)
- Vulnerability scan reports are now emailed to admins
- Partition metadata logging for Unity Catalog external tables
- Serverless compute for workflows is GA
- Serverless compute for notebooks is GA
- Databricks Connect for Python now supports serverless compute
- Filter data outputs using natural language prompts
- Plaintext secrets support for external models
- Forecast time series data using
ai_forecast()
- SQL File task support for files with multi-statement SQL queries is GA
- Lakehouse Federation supports Salesforce Data Cloud (Public Preview)
- Databricks Assistant system table now available (Public Preview)
- Account SCIM API v2.1 (Public Preview)
- Foundation Model Fine-tuning available to all
us-west-2
customers (Public Preview) - UK Cyber Essentials Plus compliance controls
- End of life for Databricks-managed passwords
- Sign-in with one-time passcodes and external accounts
- Resource quota increase for tables per Unity Catalog metastore
- Databricks Assistant can diagnose notebook errors automatically
- Support for the
:param
syntax with the SQL file task is GA - OAuth in Databricks on AWS GovCloud
- June 2024
- Notebooks - out of order syntax highlighting
- Notebooks Assistant automatically diagnoses errors
- Catalog Explorer improvements
- Serve multiple external models from a single model serving endpoint
- Databricks Assistant is now GA
- Databricks Assistant now gives titles to threads
- Serverless notebooks environment manager
- Notebooks debugging console
- Quickly add a periodic schedule to a Databricks workflow
- Emergency access for single sign-on GA
- Databricks Runtime 15.3 is GA
- Databricks Geos is GA
- New improved catalog creation UI
- The billing system tables are enabled by default
- Lakehouse Monitoring is GA
- Volume sharing using Delta Sharing is now generally available
- Create budgets to monitor account spending (Public Preview)
- Importable cost management dashboard added to account console (Public Preview)
- Unified login is now generally available
- Customer managed keys (CMK) for Databricks Vector Search are now GA
- Mosaic AI Agent Framework (Public Preview)
- Predictive optimization is now GA
- Route optimization is available for serving endpoints
- Column mapping is now GA
- Workflow system tables are now available (Public Preview)
- Function calling is Public Preview
- Query a vector search index using
vector_search()
- Mosaic AI Vector Search now supports hybrid search
- GTE is now supported in Model Serving
- Route optimized serving endpoints enforce network restrictions
- Databricks Assistant: Threads & queries experience enabled by default
- New entry points for in-product help
- Improved notebook Markdown editor
- Quickly access Catalog Explorer tables from notebooks
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.8.2
- The new Databricks Notebook UI is now generally available
- May 2024
- Serverless firewall configuration now supports more compute types
- Databricks Runtime 15.0 series support ends
- Databricks Runtime 15.3 (Beta)
- The compute metrics UI is now available on all Databricks Runtime versions
- Improved search and filtering in notebook and SQL editor results tables
- New dashboard helps Databricks Marketplace providers monitor listing usage
- View system-generated federated queries in
Query Profile
- Compute plane outbound IP addresses must be added to a workspace IP allow list
- OAuth is supported in Lakehouse Federation for Snowflake
- Bulk move and delete workspace objects from the workspace browser
- Unity Catalog objects are available in recents and favorites
- New dbt-databricks connector 1.8.0 adopts decoupled dbt architecture
- New compliance and security settings APIs (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 15.2 is GA
- New Tableau connector for Delta Sharing
- New deep learning recommendation model examples
- Bind storage credentials and external locations to specific workspaces (Public Preview)
- Git folders are GA
- Pre-trained models in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Mosaic AI Vector Search is GA
- The compliance security profile now supports AWS Graviton instance types
- Databricks Assistant autocomplete (Public Preview)
- Meta Llama 3 support in Foundation Model Training
- New changes to Git folder UI
- Compute now uses EBS GP3 volumes for autoscaling local storage
- Unified Login now supported with AWS PrivateLink (Private Preview)
- Foundation Model Training (Public Preview)
- Allow users to copy data to the clipboard from results table
- Attribute tag values for Unity Catalog objects can now be 1000 characters long (Public Preview)
- New Previews page
- New capabilities for Mosaic AI Vector Search
- Credential passthrough and Hive metastore table access controls are deprecated
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.38
- Unified Login now supported with AWS PrivateLink (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 15.2 (Beta)
- Notebooks now detect and auto-complete column names for Spark Connect DataFrames
- April 2024
- Databricks Runtime 15.1 is GA
- Databricks Assistant: Threads & history
- Cancel pending serving endpoint updates in Model Serving
- Data lineage now captures reads on tables with column masks and row-level security
- Meta Llama 3 is supported in Model Serving for AWS
- Notebooks now automatically detect SQL
- New columns added to the billable usage system table (Public Preview)
- Delta Sharing supports tables that use column mapping (Public Preview)
- Get serving endpoint schemas (Public Preview)
- Creation and installation of workspace libraries is no longer available
- Jobs created through the UI are now queued by default
- Configuring access to resources from serving endpoints is GA
- Serverless compute for workflows is in public preview
- Lakehouse Federation supports foreign tables with case-sensitive identifiers
- Compute cloning now clones any libraries installed on the original compute
- Route optimization is available for serving endpoints
- Delta Live Tables notebook developer experience improvements (Public Preview)
- Databricks on AWS GovCloud (Public Preview)
- March 2024
- DBRX Base and DBRX Instruct are now available in Model Serving
- Model Serving is HIPAA compliant in all regions
- Provisioned throughput in Foundation Model APIs is GA and HIPAA compliant
- MLflow now enforces quota limits for experiments and runs
- The Jobs UI is updated to better manage jobs deployed by Databricks Asset Bundles
- Google Cloud Vertex AI supported as model provider for external models
- Accessing resources from serving endpoints using instance profiles is GA
- Interactive notebook debugging
- Self-service sign-up for private exchange providers in Marketplace
- Databricks Runtime 15.0 is GA
- Databricks Repos changed to Git folders
- Databricks Runtime 14.1 and 14.2 series support extended
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.8.0
- SQL warehouses for notebooks is GA
- Delegate the ability to view an object’s metadata in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 15.0 (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 14.0 series support ends
- New computation for sys.path and CWD in Repos
- Feature Serving is GA
- Predictive optimization available in more regions
- February 2024
- Use Delta Live Tables in Feature Engineering (Public Preview)
- Restrict creating a personal access token for a service principal
- Restrict changing a job owner and the run as setting
- Automatic cluster update is enabled if the compliance security profile is enabled (GA)
- Account admins can enable enhanced security and compliance features (Public Preview)
- Support for Cloudflare R2 storage to avoid cross-region egress fees (Public Preview)
- Notebooks for monitoring and managing Delta Sharing egress costs are now available
- Add data UI supports XML file format
- Support for cloud storage firewall from serverless compute (Public Preview)
- Use AI Functions to invoke a generative AI model from Foundation Model APIs
- Unity Catalog volumes are GA
- Full-page AI-powered search
- Run SQL notebook jobs on a SQL warehouse
- File arrival triggers in Databricks Jobs is GA
- Search for machine learning models in Unity Catalog using global workspace search
- Databricks Git server proxy is GA
- Databricks Git server proxy no longer requires CAN_ATTACH_TO permissions
- Workspace file support for the dbt and SQL file tasks is GA
- Databricks Connect is GA for Scala
- Create tables from files in volumes
- Databricks Runtime 14.3 LTS is GA
- Delta Sharing supports tables that use deletion vectors (Public Preview)
- January 2024
- Native XML file format support (Public Preview)
- Share AI models using Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview)
- Workspace path update
- Streamlined creation of Databricks jobs
- Monitor GPU model serving workloads using inference tables
- URI path-based access to Unity Catalog external volumes
- Access controls lists can be enabled on upgraded workspaces
- Marketplace listing events system table now available (Public Preview)
- Updated UI for notebook cells (Public Preview)
- Quick Fix help with syntax errors in the notebook
- Databricks Runtime 14.3 LTS (Beta)
- Share AI models using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
- Databricks Marketplace supports volume sharing
- Create widgets from the Databricks UI
- Warehouse events system table is now available (Public Preview)
- UI experience for OAuth app registration
- Reuse subnets across workspaces for customer-managed VPCs
- Workspace file size limit is now 500MB
- Feature removal notice for legacy Git integration in Databricks
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.7.7
- Databricks Runtime 13.2 series support ends
- December 2023
- Share dynamic views using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
- Share volumes using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
- Entity Relationship Diagram for primary keys and foreign keys
- Unity Catalog volume file upload size limit increase
- New notebook cell results rendering available (Public Preview)
- Notebook editor themes available
- External models support in Model Serving is in Public Preview
- Databricks Online Tables is Public Preview
- Repos & Git Integration Settings UI now correctly notes support for GitHub Enterprise Server
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.36
- Support for referencing workspace files from init scripts
- Feature & Function Serving is Public Preview
- Foundation Model APIs is Public Preview
- New unified admin settings UI
- Init scripts on DBFS are end-of-life
- Legacy global and cluster-named init scripts are end-of-life
- November 2023
- Mosaic AI Vector Search is Public Preview
- IAM policies for storage credentials now require an external ID
- Access controls lists can no longer be disabled
- AI assistive features are enabled by default
- New behaviors and actions in Catalog Explorer for volumes
- Databricks Runtime 14.2 is GA
- Databricks SQL Connector for Python version 3.0.0
- Libraries in workspace files supported on no-isolation shared clusters
- Deprecation of workspace libraries
- Delegate the ability to create a storage credential in Unity Catalog
- Search for Databricks Marketplace listings using global workspace search
- Consume data products in Databricks Marketplace using external platforms
- Automatic enablement of Unity Catalog for new workspaces
- Authentication using OAuth is GA
- Databricks Runtime 14.2 (beta)
- Databricks Marketplace includes Databricks Solution Accelerators
- Lakehouse Federation adds support for Google BigQuery
- October 2023
- Published partner OAuth applications are easier to use by default
- View the YAML source for a Databricks job
- Add conditional logic to your Databricks workflows
- Configure parameters on a Databricks job that can be referenced by all job tasks
- Support for new GPU instance types
- Auto-enable deletion vectors
- Unity Catalog support for
UNDROP TABLE
is GA - Partner Connect supports Dataiku
- AutoML generated notebooks are now saved as MLflow artifacts
- Predictive optimization (Public Preview)
- Compute system tables are now available (Public Preview)
- On-demand feature computation is GA
- Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog is GA
- AI-generated table comments (Public Preview)
- Compliance security profile works with serverless SQL warehouses in
ap-southeast-2
region (Public Preview) - Models in Unity Catalog is GA
- Libraries now supported in compute policies (Public Preview)
- Partner Connect supports Monte Carlo
- Semantic search (Public Preview)
- Enable Databricks Assistant at the workspace level
- IP access lists for the account console is GA
- New Photon defaults
- Databricks Runtime 14.1 is GA
- Developer tools release notes have moved
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.5
- Predictive I/O for updates is GA
- Deletion vectors are GA
- Automatic enablement of Unity Catalog for new workspaces
- Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) compliance controls
- Partner Connect supports RudderStack
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.207.0 (Public Preview)
- Run selected cells in a notebook
- Use workspace-catalog binding to give read-only access to a catalog
- New in-product Help experience (Public Preview)
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.4
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.10.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.22.0 (Beta)
- September 2023
- Lakehouse Federation available on single user clusters
- Databricks Runtime 14.1 (Beta)
- GPU model serving optimized for LLMs in Public Preview
- Prevent runs of a job from being skipped when you reach concurrency limits
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.27.0
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.206.0 (Public Preview)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.21.0 (Beta)
- Inference tables for model serving endpoints is Public Preview
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.7.5
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.3
- Running jobs as a service principal is GA
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.205.2 (Public Preview)
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.205.1 (Public Preview)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.20.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.9.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.7.1 (Beta)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.26.0
- Databricks Connect for Databricks Runtime 14.0
- Configure Tableau and Power BI OAuth with SAML SSO
- Lakeview dashboards in Public Preview
- Fleet clusters now support Graviton instances
- Databricks Connect V2 is Public Preview for Scala
- GPU model serving in Public Preview
- On-demand feature computation now available in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Unified login for accounts created before June 21, 2023 (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 14.0 is GA
- Account email notifications upgrade
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.25.1
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.19.2 (Beta)
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.205.0 (Public Preview)
- Reserved location for
/Workspace
- Databricks Asset Bundles (Public Preview)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.25.0
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.2
- Partner Connect supports Snowplow
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.204.1 (Public Preview)
- Filter sensitive data with row filters and column masks (Public Preview)
- System tables now include Marketplace schema (Public Preview)
- Pricing system table is now available (Public Preview)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.19.1 (Beta)
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.7.3
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.204.0 (Public Preview)
- Data Explorer is now Catalog Explorer
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.19.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.8.0 (Beta)
- Delegate allowlist privileges in Unity Catalog
- GitHub apps integration in Repos is GA
- August 2023
- Tables now appear in navigational search
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.3 (Public Preview)
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.34
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.18.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.7.0 (Beta)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.24.1
- Init scripts on DBFS end of life extended to Dec 1, 2023
- Databricks Runtime 14.0 (Beta)
- Custom workspace tags
- Unified navigation experience is GA
- Allow additional ports from your classic compute plane to control plane by January 31, 2024
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.24.0
- Shared access mode clusters can now connect to public networks outside of Databricks VPC
- Databricks Runtime for Genomics setting removed from the workspace admin settings page
- Container Services setting removed from the workspace admin settings page
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.2 (Public Preview)
- Go to definition for functions and variables in Python notebooks
- Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTS is GA
- Introducing tags with Unity Catalog
- Allowlist for init scripts, JARs, and Maven coordinates on Unity Catalog shared clusters is in Public Preview
- Volumes support for init scripts and JARs is in Public Preview
- Easier Databricks Repos .ipynb file output commits
- IPYNB notebook support in Databricks Repos is GA
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.17.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.6.0 (Beta)
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.1 (Public Preview)
- Unified schema browser is now GA
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.16.0 (Beta)
- Partner Connect supports Census
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.5.0 (Beta)
- Programmatic write support for workspace files
- Access resources from serving endpoints with instance profiles (Public Preview)
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.203.0 (Public Preview)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.23.0
- Groups can now be renamed
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.15.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.4.0 (Beta)
- Third-party iFraming prevention configuration setting was removed
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.1
- LangChain available in 13.1 and above
- Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog is Public Preview
- Improved error handling for repeated continuous job failures
- Share schemas using Delta Sharing (Public Preview)
- Run tasks conditionally in your Databricks jobs
- Compliance security profile works with serverless SQL warehouses in some regions (Public Preview)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.22.0
- Lakehouse Monitoring is Public Preview
- Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTS (Beta)
- New Git operations are generally available: Merge branches, rebase and pull with conflict resolution
- July 2023
- Email addresses in Databricks are now case insensitive
- Workspace admins can now create account groups
- Group manager role is in Public Preview
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.202.0 (Public Preview)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.3.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.14.1 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.14.0 (Beta)
- Run another job as a task in a Databricks job
- All users can access data products in Databricks Marketplace by default
- Classic keyboard shortcuts mode
- Lakehouse Federation lets you run queries against external database providers (Public Preview)
- Move to trash enabled for Repos
- Create alerts for slow-running or stuck jobs
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.13.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.2.0 (Beta)
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.201.0 (Public Preview)
- Databricks SDK for Python updated to version 0.2.1 (Beta)
- Databricks Assistant is in Public Preview
- Deactivate users and service principals from your account
- Account-level SCIM provisioning now deactivates users when they are deactivated in the identity provider
- Trash directory admin access
- Prevention of MIME type sniffing and XSS attack page rendering are now always enabled
- Unity Catalog volumes are in Public Preview
- Simplified experience for submitting product feedback from the workspace
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code updated to version 1.1.0
- Functions now displayed in Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.21.0
- The maximum offset for the
List all jobs
andList job runs
API requests is now limited - Databricks Runtime 13.2 is GA
- Delta Sharing and Databricks Marketplace support view sharing (Public Preview)
- Init scripts on DBFS reach end of life on Sept 1, 2023
- June 2023
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.20.0
- Databricks CLI updated to version 0.200.1 (Public Preview)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.12.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Go updated to version 0.11.0 (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Python (Beta)
- Databricks SDK for Go (Beta)
- Access audit log, billable usage, and lineage system tables (Public Preview)
- Models in Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Databricks Marketplace is now GA
- Databricks Runtime 13.2 (Beta)
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (General Availability)
- See a visual overview of completed job runs in the Databricks Jobs UI
- Databricks CLI (Public Preview)
- Unified Login GA for new accounts
- Test single sign-on
- Improved pagination of results from
List all jobs
andList job runs
API requests - Full-page workspace browser includes Repos
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.19.0
- Run jobs as a service principal (Public Preview)
- New service principal UI provides better management experience
- Home folders restored when users are re-added to workspaces
- Databricks Marketplace: Private exchanges are now available
- Databricks Marketplace: Consumers can uninstall data products using the UI
- Databricks Marketplace: providers can create their own profiles
- Databricks Connect V2 is GA for Python
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.18.0
- New Databricks Marketplace providers
- Databricks Runtime 13.1 is GA
- Partner Connect supports Hunters
- View data from notebooks, SQL editor, and Catalog Explorer with the unified schema browser (Public Preview)
- May 2023
- Create or modify table UI supports Avro, Parquet, and text file uploads
- Use the add data UI to load data using Unity Catalog external locations (Public Preview)
- Run Databricks notebooks on SQL warehouses (Public Preview)
- Prevent Enter key from accepting autocomplete suggestion
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.17.0
- Upload data UI supports new column data types
- Configure your workspace to use IMDS v2 (GA)
- M7g and R7g Graviton3 instances are now supported on Databricks
- Bind Unity Catalog catalogs to specific workspaces
- All users can connect to Fivetran using Partner Connect (Public Preview)
- Authentication using OAuth tokens for service principals (Public Preview)
- Schedule automatic cluster update (Public Preview)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.16.1
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.33
- Partner Connect supports Alation
- New default theme for editor
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.16.0
- New region: Europe (Paris)
- Compliance security profile now supports more EC2 instance types
- Databricks Runtime 13.1 (Beta)
- Run file-based SQL queries in a Databricks workflow
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.15.0
- Account nicknames now available in the account console
- Share notebooks using Delta Sharing
- Deprecation of cluster-scoped init scripts on DBFS
- New region: South America (São Paulo)
- Unified navigation (Public Preview)
- AWS fleet instance types now available
- April 2023
- Databricks Marketplace (Public Preview): an open marketplace for data, analytics, and AI
- Configure the Python formatter
- Workspace files are GA
- Cluster-scoped init scripts can now be stored in workspace files
- New Delta Sharing privileges enable delegation of share, recipient, and provider management tasks
- Databricks Connect V2 (Public Preview)
- New cluster metrics UI
- Databricks Runtime 13.0 is GA
- Control access to the account console by IP address ranges (Public Preview)
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.14.3
- Audit log entries for changed admin settings for workspaces and accounts
- Workspaces with security profile or ESM include audit logs rows for system and monitor logs
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to versions 1.14.1 and 1.14.2
- Combined SQL user settings and general user settings
- Legacy notebook visualizations deprecated
- Create or modify table from file upload page supports JSON file uploads
- March 2023
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.14.0
- Databricks Runtime 7.3 LTS ML support ends
- C7g Graviton 3 instances are now supported on Databricks
- Distributed training with TorchDistributor
- Databricks Runtime 13.0 (Beta)
- Improved file editor
- Databricks no longer creates a serverless starter SQL warehouse
- In SQL Warehouses API, enabling serverless compute now must be explicit
- Changes for workspace settings for serverless SQL warehouses
- Changes for serverless compute settings for accounts and workspaces
- Databricks SQL Serverless is GA
- .ipynb (Jupyter) notebook support in Repos (preview)
- Support for reload4j
- Execute SQL cells in the notebook in parallel
- Create job tasks using Python code stored in a Git repo
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.13.0
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.12.0
- SQL admin console and workspace admin console combined
- Model Serving is GA
- Automatic feature lookup is GA
- New Catalog Explorer availability
- View frequent queries and users of a table using the Insights tab
- Exact match search is available in global search
- View lineage information for your Databricks jobs
- Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS and Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS ML are GA
- Workspace files are now in Public Preview
- February 2023
- SAML single sign-on (SSO) in the account console is generally available
- Ray on Databricks (Public Preview)
- Notebook cell output results limit increased
- Databricks Jobs now supports running continuous jobs
- Trigger your Databricks job when new files arrive
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.10.0
- Legacy global init scripts and cluster-named init scripts disabled
- Improvements to the MLflow experiment UI
- Databricks Runtime 12.2 (Beta)
- Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (Public Preview)
- Serverless Real-Time Inference Public Preview now available to all customers
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.2
- Variable explorer in Databricks notebooks
- January 2023
- Authenticate to Power BI and Tableau using OAuth
- Audit logs include entries for OAuth SSO authentication to the account console (Public Preview)
- Account SCIM is now GA
- Easier creation and editing of Databricks jobs in the UI
- Improvements to the Databricks Jobs UI when viewing job runs
- REST API Reference is now available for browsing API documentation
- New account console home screen provides better account management experience
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.1
- Account users can update email preferences in the account console
- Region support consolidated onto one page
- Databricks Runtime 12.1 and Databricks Runtime 12.1 ML are GA
- Cluster policies now support limiting the max number of clusters per user
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.0
- Partner Connect supports connecting to Privacera
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.8.0
- Databricks Runtime 12.1 (Beta)
- Partner Connect supports Sigma
- New left and right sidebars in Databricks notebooks
- December 2022
- Databricks SQL Driver for Go is Generally Available
- Prevent concurrent workspace updates
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.7.0
- Databricks Runtime 12.0 and 12.0 ML are GA
- Jobs are now available in global search
- Billable usage graphs can now aggregate by individual tags
- Use SQL to specify schema- and catalog-level storage locations for Unity Catalog managed tables
- Capturing lineage data with Unity Catalog is now generally available
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.29
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.32
- Partner Connect supports connecting to AtScale
- Improved serverless SQL warehouse support for customer-managed keys
- November 2022
- Enhanced notifications for your Databricks jobs (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 12.0 (Beta)
- Upload data UI can now be disabled via admin settings
- Partner Connect support for Unity Catalog is GA
- Work with large repositories with Sparse Checkout
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.6.5
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to versions 1.6.3 and 1.6.4
- Specify a cloud storage location for Unity Catalog managed tables at the catalog and schema levels
- Access recent objects from the search field in the top bar of your workspace
- Create or modify table from file upload page now supports multiple files
- Create or modify table from file upload page now supports overwrite
- Search for jobs by name with the Jobs API 2.1
- Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.6.2
- Search for tables in Unity Catalog is GA
- October 2022
- GA: Repos support for non-notebook files
- Deploy models for streaming inference with Delta Live Tables notebooks
- Connect to Fivetran from the add data UI
- Databricks SQL Driver for Node.js is Generally Available
- Partner Connect supports connecting to erwin Data Modeler by Quest
- Enforce user isolation cluster types on a workspace
- Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS and 11.3 LTS ML are GA
- Format Python code in notebooks (Public Preview)
- IP access lists no longer block PrivateLink traffic
- AWS PrivateLink support is now generally available
- Improvements to AWS PrivateLink support for updating workspaces
- Update a failed workspace with Databricks-managed VPC to use a customer-managed VPC
- Personal Compute cluster policy is available by default to all users
- Add data UI provides a central UI for loading data to Databricks
- Create or modify table from file upload page unifies experience for small file upload to Delta Lake
- Partner Connect supports connecting to Hevo Data
- Enable admin protection for No Isolation Shared clusters
- SQL persona integrated with new search experience
- Databricks is a FedRAMP® Authorized Cloud Service Offering (CSO) at the moderate impact Level
- Serverless SQL warehouses are available in regions
eu-central-1
andus-east-2
- Privilege inheritance in now supported in Unity Catalog
- Top navigation bar in the UI
- Databricks Runtime 11.3 (Beta)
- The account console is available in multiple languages
- September 2022
- New reference solution for natural language processing
- More regions for Unity Catalog
- Protect and control access to some types of encrypted data with customer-managed keys (GA)
- Compliance security profile workspaces support
i4i
instance types - Audit logs now include events for web terminal
- Audit logs now include events for managing credentials for Git repos
- Select cluster policies directly in the Delta Live Tables UI
- New data trasformation card on workspace landing pages
- Orchestrate Databricks SQL tasks in your Databricks workflows (Public Preview)
- Delta cache is now disk cache
- Capture and view lineage data with Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Search for tables using Catalog Explorer (Public Preview)
- View and organize assets in the workspace browser across personas
- Databricks Runtime 11.2 and 11.2 ML are GA
- Support for AWS Graviton instances is GA
- August 2022
- Account users can access the account console
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.26
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.29
- Databricks Feature Store client now available on PyPI
- Unity Catalog is GA
- Delta Sharing is GA
- Databricks Runtime 11.2 (Beta)
- Reduced message volume in the Delta Live Tables UI for continuous pipelines
- Easier cluster configuration for your Delta Live Tables pipelines
- Orchestrate dbt tasks in your Databricks workflows (Public Preview)
- Users can be members of multiple Databricks accounts
- Identity federation is GA
- Partner Connect supports connecting to Stardog
- Databricks Feature Store integration with Serverless Real-Time Inference
- Additional data type support for Databricks Feature Store automatic feature lookup
- Bring your own key: Encrypt Git credentials
- Cluster UI preview and access mode replaces security mode
- Unity Catalog limitations (Public Preview)
- Serverless Real-Time Inference in Public Preview
- Serverless SQL warehouses improvements
- Share VPC endpoints among Databricks accounts
- AWS PrivateLink private access level
ANY
is deprecated - Improvements to AWS PrivateLink connectivity
- Improved workspace search is now GA
- Use generated columns when you create Delta Live Tables datasets
- Improved editing for notebooks with Monaco-based editor (Experimental)
- Compliance controls FedRAMP Moderate, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA (GA)
- Add security controls with the compliance security profile (GA)
- Add image hardening and monitoring agents with enhanced security monitoring (GA)
- Databricks Runtime 10.3 series support ends
- Delta Live Tables now supports refreshing only selected tables in pipeline updates
- Job execution now waits for cluster libraries to finish installing
- July 2022
- Databricks Runtime 11.1 and 11.1 ML are GA
- Photon is GA
- Notification upon notebook completion
- Increased limit for the number of jobs in your Databricks workspaces
- Verbose audit logs now record when Databricks SQL queries are run
- Databricks SQL Serverless supports instance profiles whose name does not match its associated role
- Configure your workspace to use IMDS v2 (Public Preview)
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.27
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.25
- Databricks Runtime 11.1 (Beta)
- Improved notebook visualizations
- June 2022
ALTER TABLE
permission changes for Unity Catalog- Databricks Runtime 6.4 Extended Support reaches end of support
- Databricks Runtime 10.2 series support ends
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.24
- Databricks Terraform provider is now GA
- Serverless SQL warehouses available for E2 workspaces (Public Preview)
- Enable enhanced security controls with a security profile (Public Preview)
- PCI-DSS compliance controls (Public Preview)
- HIPAA compliance controls for E2 (Public Preview)
- Enhanced security monitoring (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 11.0 and 11.0 ML are GA; 11.0 Photon is Public Preview
- Change to Repos default working directory in Databricks Runtime 11.0
- Databricks Runtime 10.1 series support ends
- Audit logs can now record when a notebook command is run
- Delta Live Tables now supports SCD type 2
- Create Delta Live Tables pipelines directly in the Databricks UI
- Select the Delta Live Tables channel when you create or edit a pipeline
- Communicate between tasks in your Databricks jobs with task values
- Enable account switching in the Databricks UI
- Updating the AWS Region for a failed workspace is no longer supported
- May 2022
- Copy and paste notebook cells between tabs and windows
- Additional data type support for Databricks Feature Store automatic feature lookup
- Databricks Runtime 11.0 (Beta)
- Improved workspace search (Public Preview)
- Explore SQL cell results in Python notebooks natively using Python
- Databricks Repos: Support for more files in a repo
- Databricks Repos: Fix to issue with MLflow experiment data loss
- Upgrade wizard makes it easier to copy databases and multiple tables to Unity Catalog (Public Preview)
- Power BI Desktop system-wide HTTP proxy support
- Streamline billing and account management by signing up for Databricks using AWS Marketplace
- Databricks Runtime 10.5 and 10.5 ML are GA; 10.5 Photon is Public Preview
- Authenticate to the account console using SAML 2.0 (Public Preview)
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.25
- See the user a pipeline runs as in the Delta Live Tables UI
- April 2022
- Use tags to better manage your Databricks jobs
- Databricks Runtime 10.0 series support ends
- Get a visual overview of your job runs with the new jobs matrix view
- Save time and resources when your Databricks job runs are unsuccessful
- View the run history for job tasks
- Assign a new cluster in the jobs UI when the Single User access no longer exists
- Databricks Runtime 10.5 (Beta)
- Feature Store now supports publishing features to AWS DynamoDB
- The Delta Live Tables UI is enhanced to disable unauthorized actions
- AutoML is generally available
- Use datasets from Unity Catalog with AutoML
- Delta Live Tables is GA on AWS and Azure, and in Public Preview on GCP
- Delta Live Tables SQL interface: non-breaking change to table names
- March 2022
- Better performance and cost for your Delta Live Tables pipelines with Databricks enhanced autoscaling
- Files in Repos enabled by default in new workspaces
- Databricks Feature Store is generally available
- Share an experiment from the experiment page
- RStudio Workbench bug fix
- New workspace language options
- Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS and 10.4 LTS ML are GA; 10.4 Photon is Public Preview
- Unity Catalog is available in Public Preview
- Delta Sharing is available in Public Preview
- Enhanced access control for Delta Live Tables pipelines
- Test Delta Live Tables preview functionality with the new
channel
setting (Public Preview) - Improved error handling for Delta Live Tables Python functions (Public Preview)
- Improvements to Databricks Repos
- Audit logging for cluster policy changes
- Databricks Runtime 10.4 (Beta)
- February 2022
- Easier scheduling for your Delta Live Tables pipelines (Public Preview)
- Easily browse the history of your Delta Live Tables pipeline updates (Public Preview)
- Ensure job idempotency for the Jobs API Run now request
- Jobs service stability and scalability improvements
- Compare MLflow runs from different experiments
- Improvements to MLflow compare runs display
- Improved visibility into job run owners in the clusters UI
- Drop dataset columns in AutoML
- Experiments page is GA
- Support for temporary tables in the Delta Live Tables Python interface
- User interface improvements for Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 9.0 series support ends
- Data Science & Engineering landing page updates
- Databricks Repos now supports AWS CodeCommit for Git integration
- Improved visualization for your Delta Live Tables pipelines (Public Preview)
- Updated Markdown parser
- Delta Live Tables now supports change data capture processing (Public Preview)
- Select algorithm frameworks to use with AutoML
- Customer-managed VPCs are now available in ap-northeast-2
- Databricks hosted MLflow models can now look up features from online stores
- Databricks Runtime 10.3 and 10.3 ML are GA; 10.3 Photon is Public Preview
- January 2022
- MLflow Model Registry Webhooks on Databricks (Public Preview)
- Breaking change: cluster idempotency token cleared on cluster termination
- Databricks Runtime 10.3 (Beta)
- View information on recent job runs
- Use Markdown in Databricks Repos file editor
- Improved cluster management for jobs that orchestrate multiple tasks
- Add or rotate the customer-managed key for managed services on a running workspace
- Delta Sharing Private Preview adds functionality and new terms
- Address AWS GuardDuty alerts related to Databricks access to your S3 bucket
- Databricks Runtime 8.3 and Databricks Runtime 8.4 series support ends
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.22
- Support for G5 family of GPU-accelerated EC2 instances (Public Preview)
- New Share button replaces Permissions icon in notebooks
- New workspace language options
- December 2021
- Databricks Runtime 6.4 Extended Support series end-of-support date extended
- Databricks Runtime 5.5 Extended Support series reaches end of support
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.21
- Databricks Connector for Tableau 2021.4
- Databricks Runtime 10.2 and 10.2 ML are GA; 10.2 Photon is Public Preview
- Workspaces in the
ap-southeast-1
region now support AWS PrivateLink - Updated Markdown parser
- User interface improvements for Delta Live Tables
- Databricks Runtime 8.3 series support extended
- Databricks Runtime 10.2 (Beta)
- Revert of recent breaking change that removed escaping and quotes from $ in environment variable values for cluster creation
- serverless SQL warehouses are available in region
eu-west-1
- November 2021
- Create tags for feature tables (Public Preview)
- Syntax highlighting and autocomplete for SQL commands in Python cells
- Rename, delete, and change permissions for MLflow experiments from experiment page (Public Preview)
- New data profiles in notebooks: tabular and graphic summaries of your data (Public Preview)
- Improved logging when schemas evolve while running a Delta Live Tables pipeline
- Databricks Partner Connect GA
- Breaking change: remove escaping and quotes from $ in environment variable values for cluster creation
- Ease of use improvements for Files in Repos
- Support for legacy SQL widgets ends on January 15, 2022
- User interface improvements for Databricks jobs
- Delta Sharing Connector for Power BI
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.19
- Databricks Runtime 10.1 and 10.1 ML are GA; 10.1 Photon is Public Preview
- Databricks Runtime 10.1 (Beta)
- Rename and delete MLflow experiments (Public Preview)
- Photon support for additional cluster instance families
- You can now create a cluster policy by cloning an existing policy
- Single sign-on (SSO) in the account console is Generally Available
- Change the default language of notebooks and notebook cells more easily
- Use Files in Repos from the web terminal
- October 2021
- Databricks Runtime 8.2 series support ends
- Databricks Runtime 10.0 and 10.0 ML are GA; 10.0 Photon is Public Preview
- Limit the set of VPC endpoints your workspace can use for AWS PrivateLink connections (Public Preview)
- User interface improvements for Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
- Specify a fixed-size cluster when you create a new pipeline in Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
- View data quality metrics for tables in Delta Live Tables triggered pipelines (Public Preview)
- Jobs orchestration is now GA
- Databricks Connector for Power BI
- Repos now supports arbitrary file types
- More detailed job run output with the Jobs API
- Improved readability of notebook paths in the Jobs UI
- Open your Delta Live Tables pipeline in a new tab or window
- New escape sequence for
$
in legacy input widgets in SQL - Faster model deployment with automatically generated batch inference notebook
- September 2021
- Databricks Runtime 10.0 (Beta)
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.18
- Customer control of workspace login by Databricks staff
- Databricks Runtime 9.1 LTS and 9.1 LTS ML are GA; 9.1 LTS Photon is Public Preview
- Databricks Runtime 8.1 series support ends
- Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.19
- Share feature tables across workspaces
- Security and usability improvements when resetting passwords
- Repos now supports
.gitignore
- Enhanced jobs UI is now standard for all workspaces
- Databricks now available in region
ap-southeast-1
- PrivateLink supported in all availability zones within the supported regions
- Databricks Runtime 9.1 (Beta)
- Streamlined management of settings for Databricks jobs
- Databricks SQL Public Preview available in all workspaces
- Delete feature tables from Feature Store
- Grant view pipeline permissions in the Delta Live Tables UI (Public Preview)
- Reduce cluster resource usage with Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
- Use MLflow models in your Delta Live Tables pipelines (Public Preview)
- Find Delta Live Tables pipelines by name (Public Preview)
- PyTorch TorchScript and other third-party libraries are now supported in Databricks jobs
- Databricks Runtime 8.0 series support ends
- August 2021
- Databricks Repos GA
- Serverless SQL provides instant compute, minimal management, and cost optimization for SQL queries (Public Preview)
- User interface improvements for Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
- More control over how tables are materialized in Delta Live Tables pipelines (Public Preview)
- Increased timeout for long-running notebook jobs
- Jobs service stability and scalability improvements
- User entitlements granted by group membership are displayed in the admin console
- Manage MLflow experiment permissions (Public Preview)
- Improved job creation from notebooks
- Improved support for collapsing notebook headings
- Databricks Runtime 9.0 and 9.0 ML are GA; 9.0 Photon is Public Preview
- Low-latency delivery of audit logs is generally available
- Databricks Runtime 9.0 (Beta)
- Manage repos programmatically with the Databricks CLI (Public Preview)
- Manage repos programmatically with the Databricks REST API (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 7.6 series support ends
- Log delivery APIs now report delivery status
- Use the AWS EBS SSD gp3 volume type for all clusters in a workspace
- Audit events are logged when you interact with Databricks Repos
- Improved job creation and management workflow
- Simplified instructions for setting Git credentials (Public Preview)
- Import multiple notebooks in
.html
format - Usability improvements for Delta Live Tables
- Configure Databricks for SSO with Microsoft Entra ID in your Azure tenant
- July 2021
- Manage MLflow experiment permissions with the Databricks REST API
- Databricks web interface is localized in Portuguese and French (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 5.5 LTS for Machine Learning support ends, replaced by Extended Support version
- Databricks Light 2.4 support ends September 5, replaced by Extended Support version
- Reduced permissions for cross-account IAM roles
- Feature freshness information available in Databricks Feature Store UI (Public Preview)
- Display up to 10,000 result rows
- Bulk import and export notebooks in a folder as source files
- Autocomplete in SQL notebooks now uses all-caps for SQL keywords
- Reorderable and resizable widgets in notebooks
- Databricks UI usability fixes
- Quickly define pipeline settings when you create a new Delta Live Tables pipeline
- Databricks Runtime 8.4 and 8.4 ML are GA; 8.4 Photon is Public Preview
- Use Spark SQL with the Delta Live Tables Python API
- Enhanced data processing and analysis with Databricks jobs (Public Preview)
- Reduced cost for Delta Live Tables default clusters (Public Preview)
- Sort pipelines by name in the Delta Live Tables UI (Public Preview)
- Changes to Compute page
- Databricks Runtime 5.5 LTS support ends, replaced by Databricks Runtime 5.5 Extended Support through the end of 2021
- Repos API (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 8.4 (Beta)
- June 2021
- Correction: Repos for Git is enabled by default in new and existing workspaces in some regions
- Change to Feature Store permissions
- Improved access to results in the MLflow runs table
- Better cost visibility for Delta Live Tables
- Enhanced data quality constraints for Delta Live Tables
- API changes for updating and replacing IP address lists
- Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.17
- Use an API to download usage data directly
- Databricks Runtime 7.5 series support ends
- Optimize performance and control costs by using different pools for the driver node and worker nodes
- Photon runtimes now support
i3.xlarge
instances (Public Preview) - Registry-wide permissions for Model Registry
- A user’s home directory is no longer protected when you delete a user using the SCIM API
- Accelerate SQL workloads with Photon (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 8.3 and 8.3 ML are GA; 8.3 Photon is Public Preview
- Python and SQL table access control (GA)
- Jobs UI and API now show the owner of a job run
- Protect sensitive Spark configuration properties and environment variables using secrets (Public Preview)
- Repos for Git is enabled by default in new and existing workspaces in some regions
- Redesigned Workspace Settings UI
- Updates to
ListTokens
andListAllTokens
database queries expired tokens - Confirmation now required when granting or revoking Admin permissions
- Changes to keyboard shortcuts in the web UI
- May 2021
- Databricks Mosaic AI: a data-native and collaborative solution for the full ML lifecycle
- SQL Analytics is renamed to Databricks SQL
- Create and manage ETL pipelines using Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
- Reduced scope of required egress rules for customer-managed VPCs
- Workspaces in the
eu-west-2
region now support AWS PrivateLink - Encrypt Databricks SQL queries and query history using your own key (Public Preview)
- Increased limit for the number of terminated all-purpose clusters
- Increased limit for the number of pinned clusters
- Manage where notebook results are stored (Public Preview)
- The new improved account console is GA
- Customer-managed keys for workspace storage (Public Preview)
- Changes to the Account API for customer-managed keys
- Google Cloud Storage connector (GA)
- Databricks Runtime 7.4 series support ends
- Better governance with enhanced audit logging
- Use SSO to authenticate to the account console (Public Preview)
- Repos users can now integrate with Azure DevOps using personal access tokens
- Jobs service stability and scalability improvements (Public Preview)
- Service principals provide API-only access to Databricks resources (Public Preview)
- April 2021
- Databricks Runtime 8.2 (GA)
- AWS PrivateLink for Databricks workspaces (Public Preview)
- Update running workspaces with new credentials or network configurations
- Databricks can now send in-product messages and product tours directly to your workspace (Public Preview)
- Easier job management with the enhanced jobs user interface
- Cluster policy changes are applied automatically to existing clusters at restart and edit
- Track retries in your job tasks when task attempts fail
- Quickly view cluster details when you create a new cluster
- MLflow sidebar reflects the most recent experiment
- Change to default channel for
conda.yaml
files in MLflow - New free trial and pay-as-you-go customers are now on the E2 version of the platform
- Databricks Runtime 8.2 (Beta)
- User and group limits
- Easier monitoring of job run status
- Better governance with enhanced audit logging
- Global init scripts no longer run on model serving clusters
- Databricks Runtime 6.4 series support ends
- March 2021
- Databricks now supports dark mode for viewing notebooks
- Databricks Runtime 8.1 (GA)
- Easier job creation and management with the enhanced jobs user interface (Public Preview)
- Track job retry attempts with a new sequential value returned for each job run attempt
- Increased limit for the number of saved jobs in Premium and Enterprise workspaces
- Easier way to connect to Databricks from your favorite BI tools and SQL clients
- Databricks Repos let you use Git repositories to integrate Databricks with CI/CD systems
- Automatic retries for failed job clusters reverted
- Databricks Runtime 8.1 (Beta)
- Limit username and password authentication with password ACLs (GA)
- Receive email notification about activity in Model Registry
- Model Serving now supports additional model types
- New options for searching Model Registry
- Increased limit for the number of terminated all-purpose clusters
- Increased limit for the number of pinned clusters in a workspace
- Databricks Runtime 8.0 (GA)
- February 2021
- New Databricks Power BI connector (GA)
- Add and manage account admins using the SCIM API (E2 accounts, Public Preview)
- Added modification_time to the DBFS REST API get-status and list responses
- Easily copy long experiment names in MLflow
- Adjust memory size and number of cores for serving clusters
- Web terminal is now GA
- Auto-AZ: automatic selection of availability zone (AZ) when you launch clusters, available on all deployment types
- Delegate account management beyond the account owner (E2 accounts, Public Preview)
- Separate account-level and workspace-level audit logging configurations help you monitor account and workspace activity more effectively
- Databricks Runtime 7.2 series support ends
- Databricks Runtime 7.6 GA
- Databricks Runtime 8.0 (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime for Genomics now deprecated
- View more readable JSON in the MLflow run artifact display
- Provide comments in the Model Registry using REST API
- Easily specify default cluster values in API calls
- Tune cluster worker configuration according to current worker allocation
- Pass context specific information to a job’s task with task parameter variables
- Error messages from job failures no longer contain possibly sensitive information
- Download usage data from the new account console for E2 accounts
- January 2021
- Databricks Runtime 7.1 series support ends
- Start clusters faster with Docker images preloaded into instance pools
- Notebook find and replace now supports changing all occurrences of a match
- Single Node clusters (GA)
- Free form cluster policy type renamed to Unrestricted
- Cluster policy field not shown if a user only has access to one policy
- G4 family of GPU-accelerated EC2 instances GA
- Databricks Runtime 7.0 series support ends
- Billable usage and audit log S3 bucket policy and object ACL changes
- E2 platform comes to the Asia Pacific region
- December 2020
- Databricks Runtime 7.5 GA
- Existing Databricks accounts migrate to E2 platform today
- Jobs API now supports updating existing jobs
- New global init script framework is GA
- New account console enables customers on the E2 platform to create and manage multiple workspaces (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 7.5 (Beta)
- Auto-AZ: automatic selection of availability zone (AZ) when you launch clusters
- Jobs API end_time field now uses epoch time
- Find DBFS files using new visual browser
- Visibility controls for jobs, clusters, notebooks, and other workspace objects are now enabled by default on new workspaces
- Improved display of nested runs in MLflow
- Admins can now lock user accounts (Public Preview)
- Updated NVIDIA driver
- Use your own keys to secure notebooks (Public Preview)
- November 2020
- Databricks Runtime 6.6 series support ends
- MLflow Model Registry GA
- Filter experiment runs based on whether a registered model is associated
- Partner integrations gallery now available through the Data tab
- Cluster policies now use allowlist and blocklist as policy type names
- Automatic retries when the creation of a job cluster fails
- Navigate notebooks using the table of contents
- Databricks SQL (Public Preview)
- Web terminal available on Databricks Community Edition
- Single Node clusters now support Databricks Container Services
- Databricks Runtime 7.4 GA
- Databricks JDBC driver update
- Databricks Connect 7.3 (Beta)
- October 2020
- New Databricks Power BI connector available in the online Power BI service (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 7.4 (Beta)
- Expanded experiment access control (ACLs)
- High fidelity import and export of Jupyter notebook (ipynb) files
- SCIM API improvement: both indirect and direct groups returned in user record response
- Databricks Runtime 6.5 series support ends
- Self-service, low-latency audit log configuration (Public Preview)
- SCIM API improvement:
$ref
field response - Databricks Runtime 7.3, 7.3 ML, and 7.3 Genomics declared Long Term Support (LTS)
- Render images at higher resolution using matplotlib
- September 2020
- Databricks Runtime 7.3, 7.3 ML, and 7.3 Genomics are now GA
- Debugging hints for SAML credential passthrough misconfigurations
- Single Node clusters (Public Preview)
- DBFS REST API rate limiting
- New sidebar icons
- Running jobs limit increase
- Artifact access control lists (ACLs) in MLflow
- MLflow usability improvements
- New Databricks Power BI connector (Public Preview)
- New JDBC and ODBC drivers bring faster and lower latency BI
- MLflow Model Serving (Public Preview)
- Clusters UI improvements
- Visibility controls for jobs, clusters, notebooks, and other workspace objects
- Ability to create tokens no longer permitted by default
- Support for c5.24xlarge instances
- MLflow Model Registry supports sharing of models across workspaces
- Databricks Runtime 7.3 (Beta)
- E2 architecture—now GA—provides better security, scalability, and management tools
- Account API is generally available on the E2 version of the platform
- Secure cluster connectivity (no public IPs) is now the default on the E2 version of the platform
- August 2020
- Token Management API is GA and admins can use the Admin Console to grant and revoke user access to tokens
- Message size limits for Shiny apps increased
- Improved instructions for setting up a cluster in local mode
- View version of notebook associated with a run
- Databricks Runtime 7.2 GA
- Databricks Runtime 7.2 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 7.2 Genomics GA
- Permissions API (Public Preview)
- Databricks Connect 7.1 (GA)
- Repeatable installation order for cluster libraries
- Customer-managed VPC is GA
- Secure cluster connectivity (no public IPs) is GA
- Multi-workspace API (Account API) adds pricing tier
- Create model from MLflow registered models page (Public Preview)
- Databricks Container Services supports GPU images
- July 2020
- Web terminal (Public Preview)
- New, more secure global init script framework (Public Preview)
- IP access lists now GA
- New file upload dialog
- SCIM API filter and sort improvements
- Databricks Runtime 7.1 GA
- Databricks Runtime 7.1 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 7.1 Genomics GA
- Databricks Connect 7.1 (Public Preview)
- IP Access List API updates
- Python notebooks now support multiple outputs per cell
- View notebook code and results cells side by side
- Pause job schedules
- Jobs API endpoints validate run ID
- Format SQL in notebooks automatically
- Support for r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge instances
- Use password access control to configure which users are required to log in using SSO or authenticate using tokens (Public Preview)
- Reproducible order of installation for Maven and CRAN libraries
- Take control of your users’ personal access tokens with the Token Management API (Public Preview)
- Customer-managed VPC deployments (Public Preview) can now use regional VPC endpoints
- Encrypt traffic between cluster worker nodes (Public Preview)
- Table access control supported on all accounts with the Premium plan (Public Preview)
- IAM credential passthrough supported on all accounts with the Premium plan (Public Preview)
- Restore cut notebook cells
- Assign jobs CAN MANAGE permission to non-admin users
- Non-admin Databricks users can view and filter by username using the SCIM API
- Link to view cluster specification when you view job run details
- June 2020
- Billable usage logs delivered to your own S3 bucket (Public Preview)
- Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.6
- Databricks Runtime 7.0 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 7.0 GA, powered by Apache Spark 3.0
- Databricks Runtime 7.0 for Genomics GA
- Stage-dependent access controls for MLflow models
- Notebooks now support disabling auto-scroll
- Skipping instance profile validation now available in the UI
- Account ID is displayed in account console
- Internet Explorer 11 support ends on August 15
- Databricks Runtime 6.2 series support ends
- Simplify and control cluster creation using cluster policies (Public Preview)
- SCIM Me endpoint now returns SCIM compliant response
- G4 family of GPU-accelerated EC2 instances now available for machine learning application deployments (Beta)
- Deploy multiple workspaces in your Databricks account (Public Preview)
- Deploy Databricks workspaces in your own VPC (Public Preview)
- Secure cluster connectivity with no open ports on your VPCs and no public IP addresses on Databricks workers (Public Preview)
- Restrict access to Databricks using IP access lists (Public Preview)
- Encrypt locally attached disks (Public Preview)
- May 2020
- Databricks Runtime 6.6 for Genomics GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.6 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.6 GA
- Easily view large numbers of MLflow registered models
- Libraries configured to be installed on all clusters are not installed on clusters running Databricks Runtime 7.0 and above
- Databricks Runtime 7.0 for Genomics (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 7.0 ML (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 6.6 for Genomics (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 6.6 ML (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 6.6 (Beta)
- Job clusters now tagged with job name and ID
- DBFS REST API delete endpoint size limit
- Restore deleted notebook cells
- Jobs pending queue limit
- April 2020
- MLflow tracking UI enhancement
- Notebook usability improvements
- Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.5
- Databricks Runtime 6.1 and 6.1 ML support ends
- Databricks Runtime 6.5 GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.5 for Machine Learning GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.5 for Genomics GA
- Authenticate to S3 buckets automatically using your IAM credentials (Public Preview)
- IAM role renamed to instance profile
- Easier notebook title changes
- Cluster termination reporting enhancement
- DBFS REST API delete endpoint size limit
- Databricks Runtime 6.0 and 6.0 ML support ends
- March 2020
- Managed MLflow Model Registry collaborative hub available (Public Preview)
- Load data from hundreds of data sources into Delta Lake using Stitch
- Databricks Runtime 7.0 (Beta) previews Apache Spark 3.0
- Databricks Runtime 6.5 ML (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 6.5 (Beta)
- Optimized autoscaling on all-purpose clusters running Databricks Runtime 6.4 and above
- Single-sign-on (SSO) now available on all pricing plans
- Develop and test Shiny applications inside RStudio Server
- Change the default language of a notebook
- Databricks to add anonymized usage analytics
- Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.4
- Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.3
- February 2020
- Databricks Runtime 6.4 for Genomics GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.4 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.4 GA
- The Clusters and Jobs UIs now reflect new cluster terminology and cluster pricing
- New interactive charts offer rich client-side interactions
- New data ingestion network adds partner integrations with Delta Lake (Public Preview)
- Flags to manage workspace security and notebook features now available
- January 2020
- All cluster and pool tags now propagate to usage reports
- Cluster and pool tag propagation to EC2 instances is more accurate
- Databricks Runtime 6.3 for Genomics GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.3 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.3 GA
- Cluster worker machine images now use chrony for NTP
- Cluster standard autoscaling step is now configurable
- SCIM API supports pagination for Get Users and Get Groups (Public Preview)
- File browser swimlane widths increased to 240px
- Databricks Runtime 3.5 LTS support ends
- December 2019
- Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.2
- Databricks Runtime 6.2 for Genomics GA
- Azure Databricks SCIM provisioning connector available in the app gallery
- Databricks Runtime 5.3 and 5.4 support ends
- Databricks Runtime 6.2 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.2 GA
- Databricks Connect now supports Databricks Runtime 6.1
- November 2019
- October 2019
- Databricks Runtime 6.1 for Genomics GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.1 for Machine Learning GA
- MLflow API calls are now rate limited
- Pools of instances for quick cluster launch generally available
- New instance types (Beta)
- Databricks Runtime 6.1 GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.0 for Genomics GA
- Non-admin Databricks users can read user and group names and IDs using SCIM API
- Workspace API returns notebook and folder object IDs
- Databricks Runtime 6.0 ML GA
- Databricks Runtime 6.0 GA
- Account usage reports now show usage by user name
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- Coming soon: Databricks 6.0 will not support Python 2
- Ideas Portal
- Preload the Databricks Runtime version on pool idle instances
- Custom cluster tags and pool tags play better together
- MLflow 1.1 brings several UI and API improvements
- pandas DataFrame display renders like it does in Jupyter
- New regions
- Databricks Runtime 5.5 with Conda (Beta)
- Set permissions on pools (Public Preview)
- Databricks Runtime 5.5 for Machine Learning
- Databricks Runtime 5.5
- Keep a pool of instances on standby for quick cluster launch (Public Preview)
- Global series color
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- Purge deleted MLflow experiments and runs
- Databricks Light generally available
- Searchable cluster selector
- Upcoming usage display changes
- Manage groups from the Admin Console
- Notebooks automatically have associated MLflow experiment
- Z1d series Amazon EC2 instance types (Beta)
- Two private IP addresses per node
- Databricks Delta public community
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- Libraries API supports Python wheel files
- IPython notebook export
- New instance types (beta)
- Cluster mode and High Concurrency clusters
- Table access control
- RStudio integration
- R Markdown support
- Home page redesign, with ability to drop files to import data
- Widget default behavior
- Table creation UI
- Multi-line JSON data import
- June 2018
- May 2018
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- HorovodEstimator
- MLeap ML Model Export
- Notebook cells: hide and show
- Doc site search
- Databricks Runtime 4.1 for Machine Learning (Beta)
- New GPU cluster types
- Secret management
- Cluster pinning
- Cluster autostart
- Workspace purging
- Databricks CLI 0.7.1
- Display() support for image data types
- Databricks Delta update
- S3 Select connector
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- New line chart supports time-series data
- More visualization improvements
- Delete job runs using Job API
- Bring your own S3 bucket
- KaTeX math rendering library updated
- Databricks CLI: 0.5.0 release
- DBUtils API library
- Filter for your jobs only
- Spark-submit from the Create Job page
- Select Python 3 from the Create Cluster page
- Workspace UI improvements
- Autocomplete for SQL commands and database names
- Serverless pools now support R
- Distributed TensorFlow and Keras Libraries Support
- XGBoost available as a Spark Package
- Table access control for SQL and Python (Beta)
- January 2018