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AI/BI release notes 2026

The following AI/BI features and improvements were released in 2026.

February 2026​

Dashboard enhancements and improvements​

February 26, 2026

  • Unity Catalog metric view lineage: Dashboard info now shows Unity Catalog metric views in the lineage section.
  • Dashboard refresh cancellation: Cancelling a dashboard refresh now shows the last available data instead of an error.
  • DD-MM-YYYY date format: The DD-MM-YYYY date format is now available for date fields.
  • Date range parameter "All" selection: Date range parameters now support All. When All is selected, the parameter value is null and all rows are returned. See Apply date range parameters.
  • Genie agentic experience (Public Preview): Genie for dashboard insights now offers an agentic experience (Public Preview) by default.
  • Point map recentering: Point maps now recenter upon relevant points when a filter is applied.
  • Datetime drop-down menu fix: Fixed an issue where datetime drop-down menus could not be set in the global filters panel.

Genie enhancements and improvements​

February 26, 2026

  • Metric view display names: Genie now uses metric view display names and display formats for query result tables.
  • Automatic JOIN relationships: Creating and updating Genie spaces using the API now automatically creates JOIN relationships based on the primary and foreign keys defined in source tables.
  • Context tab for space consumers: A new Context tab is now available for Genie space consumers with CAN VIEW or CAN RUN permissions. Consumers can view the space description and common questions at any point during their Genie interactions. See Use a Genie space to explore business data.
  • Agent mode (Beta) thinking traces: Agent mode now streams thinking traces in-line for improved readability.
  • Agent mode (Beta) parallel queries: Agent mode now runs queries in parallel for faster results.

Dashboard visualization and interaction enhancements​

February 19, 2026

  • Pivot table hierarchies: You can now expand and collapse hierarchies in pivot tables.
  • Stacked bar chart labels: Stacked bar charts now support showing min/max label values and total labels.
  • Area and line chart sorting: Area and line charts now support sorting axes by measures.
  • Dashboard content search: Global search in Lakehouse and Databricks One now matches on dashboard content, not just titles.
  • Chart faceting: Charts now support faceting, rendering one chart per dimension value. See Faceting.

Genie Agent mode rename and improvements​

February 18, 2026

  • Research Agent renamed to Agent mode (Beta): The rename better aligns with the feature's function. See Agent mode in Genie spaces.
  • Improved Agent mode (Beta) responses: Agent mode now produces more concise and faster responses for "what" type questions through improved system prompting.

Dashboard enhancements and improvements​

February 12, 2026

  • Workspace admin theme permissions: Fixed a bug where workspace admins couldn't edit workspace-level themes.
  • Level of detail calculations: Level of detail calculations now support EXCLUDE syntax on multiple fields. See Defining expressions at a coarser level of detail
  • Color legend sorting: You can now sort color legends by another field in visualizations.
  • Pivot table cell styles: Pivot tables now support HTML, JSON, and image cell styles.
  • Pivot table cross filtering: Pivot tables now support cross filtering.
  • Table resizing: You can now resize table and pivot table headers and columns.
  • Histogram and funnel chart labels: Histogram and funnel charts can now show "total" labels.
  • Assistant for dashboard authoring improvements: Assistant for dashboard authoring now supports creating labels and setting color encoding values.
  • Multi-select parameter enhancement: Multi-select parameters now support selecting all values. See Allow multiple selections.
  • Table visualization enhancements: Table visualizations now support aggregations and measures, inherit formatting from locales, and support background color styling, including conditional formatting and color gradients. As a result of this change:
    • Table formatting now uses the visualization library's formatting capabilities, ensuring consistency and allowing inheritance from locale settings.
    • The resize columns option has been removed to reduce bugs. Set column widths in the Style tab instead.
  • Dashboard grid expansion: Dashboard layouts in the canvas now support 12 columns across instead of 6, providing more flexibility for widget placement.

Genie enhancements and improvements​

February 12, 2026

  • Heatmap and sankey visualizations: You can now generate heatmap and sankey visualizations in Genie.
  • Query tagging for benchmarks: In query history, Genie attaches query tags to queries generated from benchmarks, helping you differentiate workloads from end users versus benchmarks.
  • Auto-generated space titles: Space titles now automatically generate based on the context of selected tables.
  • Persistent knowledge store suggestions: Knowledge store suggestions now persist on messages so you can navigate to other tabs within Genie before returning and accepting suggestions.
  • Knowledge store suggestions on download: Genie now suggests adding query results to the knowledge store when you download them.
  • Inspect mode (Beta): Inspect mode is now in Beta. This mode automatically improves standard Genie's accuracy by reviewing the initially generated SQL, authoring smaller SQL statements to verify specific aspects of the query, and generating improved SQL as needed. See Improve response accuracy using inspect mode.
  • Increased table limit: The table limit for Genie spaces has been increased from 25 to 30 tables.

Dashboard enhancements and new capabilities​

February 5, 2026

  • Parameterized dashboard tasks: Dashboard tasks in Jobs can now be parameterized, allowing job parameters to dynamically set dashboard filter values at runtime.
  • Workspace-level dashboard themes: Dashboard themes can now be configured at the workspace level. See Manage AI/BI dashhoard workspace themes.
  • Top-aligned text widgets: Text widgets now default to top-aligned text.
  • Refresh-only schedules for individual data permissions: Authors and viewers of dashboards published with individual data permissions can now create refresh-only schedules that trigger cache refreshes without sending notifications, improving dashboard load times. See Subscribe to an existing schedule.
  • Genie spaces enabled by default: Genie is now on by default for published dashboards, allowing viewers to ask questions using the Ask Genie button.
  • Tag search: Tag search is now supported for dashboards, allowing users to find dashboards by their assigned tags.
  • Assistant for dashboard authoring (Beta): Authors can now automate multi-step dashboard workflows using natural language prompts to create datasets, visualizations, layouts, and filters. The legacy inline-visualization prompting experience now redirects to the Assistant side panel. See Use Assistant for dashboard authoring.

Databricks One app thumbnail support​

February 5, 2026

  • App thumbnail uploads: Customers can now upload thumbnails as the preview image for Databricks apps.

Genie space improvements​

February 5, 2026

  • Embedded compute credentials: Compute credentials are now embedded for all users of a Genie space. These credentials are embedded when a Genie space author changes the attached warehouse in the Genie space.
  • Paginated column lists: Column lists in the Configure tab are now paginated for improved usability, especially for rendering tables with many columns.
  • Tag search: Tag search is now supported for Genie spaces, allowing users to find spaces by their assigned tags.

Regional model hosting for Genie in Japan​

February 2, 2026

For workspaces in asia-northeast1 (Tokyo, Japan), Genie now uses models hosted in the same region. Users in this region no longer require cross-Geo processing to use Genie.

See Availability of Designated Services in each Geo for more information on which features require cross-geo processing.

January 2026​

Dashboard visualization and data improvements​

January 29, 2026

  • Fixed access request availability: Resolved an issue where the option to request access was not available and a "Resource not found" error was incorrectly shown.
  • Full-width pivot tables: Widgets now render pivot tables at full width for better readability.
  • Tooltip encodings on charts: Combo and dual-axis charts now support tooltip encodings.
  • Image rendering in pivot tables: Cells can now display images directly in pivot tables.
  • Dark mode scrollbar visibility: Scrollbars are now easier to see when using dark mode.
  • Increased pivot data download limits: Download limits now support up to 10,000 rows by 1,000 columns for pivoted data.
  • Fixed filter paste behavior: Resolved an issue where pasting a comma-separated list into a single-select filter only parsed the first element instead of keeping all values.
  • Fixed stacked chart label rendering: Labels on stacked charts with a quantitative x-axis now render correctly in notebooks and in the SQL Editor.

Genie API and user experience improvements​

January 29, 2026

  • Full query result downloads: A new API endpoint supports downloading complete result sets up to about 1 GB.
  • Fixed chart generation from prompts: Resolved an issue where requesting charts directly in the prompt would not create visualizations.
  • Collapsible error messages: Errors now appear in a collapsible modal for improved readability.
  • Catalog permission warnings: Users now see an informative banner when they lack USE CATALOG permissions on attached tables, rather than encountering errors at SQL execution time.

Databricks One search and discovery improvements​

January 22, 2026

  • Databricks Apps filtering: Databricks One consumers can now filter to include or exclude inactive Databricks apps when browsing. Inactive apps are those with a status other than Running, such as Stopped, Deploying, or Crashed. See App status.
  • Dashboard widget title search: Search now supports dashboard widget titles.
  • Enhanced search rankings: Certified and favorite content is now boosted in search rankings in Databricks One.
  • Recents and favorites in discovery: Recents and favorites are now surfaced in the For you page.

Dashboard subscriptions, custom calculations, and visualization improvements​

January 22, 2026

  • Account-level user subscriptions: Dashboard authors can now subscribe account-level users to scheduled dashboard updates. See Manage scheduled dashboard updates and subscriptions.
  • Custom calculation references: Custom calculations can now reference custom calculations on dashboard datasets.
  • Cumulative totals on stacked bar charts: Stacked bar charts can now display the cumulative total of values.
  • Improved tooltips on combo and dual axis charts: Tooltips are now easier to access when hovering over combo and dual axis charts.
  • Fixed static widget filter drop-down menu values: Resolved an issue where values in static widget filter drop-down menus were not available when applied on a metric view.
  • Fixed text widget character limit error message: Resolved an issue where trying to save a dashboard with text widgets exceeding 50,000 characters would fail without an error message. An error message now appears informing the author.

Genie lineage and entity matching improvements​

January 22, 2026

  • Unity Catalog lineage for Genie spaces: Genie spaces are now discoverable in Unity Catalog lineage.
  • Bulk actions for entity matching: Users can now make bulk actions for entity matching (add, remove, and refresh).

Databricks One is generally available​

January 20, 2026

Databricks One is now generally available. Databricks One is a simplified user interface designed for business users, providing a single, intuitive entry point to interact with data and AI in Databricks without requiring technical knowledge of compute resources, queries, models, or notebooks. Using Databricks One, business users can view and interact with dashboards, ask data questions in natural language using Genie, and use custom-built Databricks Apps that combine analytics, AI, and workflows. See What is Databricks One?.

Level of detail expressions for custom calculations​

January 19, 2026

Level of detail expressions let you control aggregation granularity independently of the dimensions in your visualizations. Use fixed level of detail expressions to aggregate over specific dimensions regardless of visualization groupings, or use coarser level of detail expressions to aggregate at a higher level by excluding dimensions. Common use cases include calculating percentages of total, comparing values to dataset-wide aggregates, and creating cohort-level metrics. See Level of detail expressions.

Value sampling features renamed​

January 16, 2026

The value sampling features in Genie have been renamed to better describe their function:

Dashboard navigation, pivot tables, and text widget improvements​

January 15, 2026

  • Dashboard page navigation scroll bar: The horizontal scroll bar to navigate between dashboard pages is now thicker.
  • Dashboard title character limit: Dashboard titles now have more horizontal space before truncating.
  • Pivot table header height: Pivot table header height can be configured to enable wrapping for multi-row heights.
  • Text widget markdown tables: Text widgets now support markdown table syntax.

Databricks One favorite and filtering improvements​

January 15, 2026

  • Mark assets as favorites: Click the star icon next to asset names in Databricks One to mark them as favorites.
  • Favorite and certified content filtering: Filter content by favorite and certified status in Databricks One. See Listing pages.

Genie sample data, Research Agent, and space manager improvements​

January 15, 2026

  • Sample data tab: View sample data to understand the context behind a Genie space. See Manage data objects.
  • Text answer summaries in API: Text answer summaries are now returned in the API.
  • Research Agent starter questions (Beta): Curated starter questions are now available for Research Agent mode.
  • Landing page redesign: The landing page has been redesigned to improve starter question readability.
  • Benchmark execution: Benchmarks with AI functions now execute correctly.
  • Space manager feedback management: Space managers can update thumbs up/down feedback from other users and re-run query results from other users' messages using their own data credentials to debug feedback.
  • Example SQL title character limit: The maximum character length for example SQL titles has been increased to 1024.

Dashboard pivot tables, filters, and data export improvements​

January 8, 2026

  • JSON cell copy-paste improvement: JSON objects in table cells now remain expanded when you drag to copy-paste.
  • Parameterized default catalog and schemas: Parameterize the default catalog and schemas when deploying dashboards using Databricks Asset Bundles. See dashboard.
  • Multi-select filter paste enhancement: Paste comma-separated and newline-separated values into multi-select filters.
  • Pivot table total rows: Pivot tables can now display total rows at the top.
  • Dashboard widget drag handles: Dashboard widgets now have drag handles for resizing and repositioning.
  • Pivoted table Excel downloads: Download dashboard data to Excel in pivoted format rather than flattened. See Download pivot tables to Excel.
  • Timezone display fixes: Fixed a number of timezone-related issues, ensuring that displayed timezones match underlying data timezones instead of displaying UTC.
  • Selective data point labels: Labels can now be shown only for first/last or min/max data points.

Genie PDF export, citations, and accuracy improvements​

January 8, 2026

  • PDF export for Research Agent (Beta) reports: Export Genie Research Agent reports as PDF files. See Export Agent mode reports.
  • SQL example citations: Genie's analysis steps now cite the SQL examples used. See Review a response.
  • Currency formatting improvements: Numeric columns in table results now use more conservative currency formatting rules to avoid incorrect assumptions.
  • Improved question type handling: Genie now categorizes common question types (top K, percentage, and distribution) more accurately so the right context is applied, improving results.

Change default workspace access to Consumer access (Public Preview)​

January 6, 2026

Workspace admins can configure new users to receive Consumer access by default using group cloning. Consumer access provides access to Databricks One, a view-only experience for business users who need to view and interact with dashboards, Genie spaces, and apps without creating workspace objects. The process creates a new group for existing users and updates the users group to grant only Consumer entitlement to new users by default. This preserves existing users' authoring privileges while streamlining consumer onboarding at scale. See Change default workspace access to consumer access.