August 2026
Databricks released these features and improvements in August 2026.
Releases are staged. Your Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Organize your work with spaces
August 3, 2026
You can now use spaces to organize your work in the Databricks editor. Each space lets you focus on a specific folder or project while preserving your open tabs, so you can easily pick up where you left off.
See Organize your work with spaces.
Automatic cost attribution for materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
August 3, 2026
Materialized view and streaming table refreshes in Databricks SQL now inherit custom tags from the enclosing SQL warehouse environment. These tags propagate to billing surfaces like system.billing.usage, enabling proper cost attribution of materialized view and streaming table updates back to the source SQL warehouse. See Attribute costs to the SQL warehouse with custom tags.
Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027
August 3, 2026
Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents is extended through January 31, 2027. This promotion was previously set to end on July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply to these products during the promotional period.
The promotion covers usage by users only. Service principals are excluded, and their Genie One and Genie Agents usage continues to be billed.
Genie Code is not included in the free usage promotion. Each Genie Code user continues to receive 150 free DBUs per month, and usage above that allowance receives a 25% discount through January 31, 2027. You can combine this discount with applicable Serverless Real-Time Inference discounts. For more information about pricing, see Databricks pricing.
To track free and billed usage in the billing system tables, see Monitor and understand your Genie cost.
Filter updates for the Databricks Excel Add-in
August 3, 2026
The Databricks Excel Add-in now supports cascading filters and case-insensitive string matching. Additionally, the LIKE, NOT LIKE, IN, and NOT IN filters are no longer available in the filters list.
See Filter imported data.
Refresh materialized views and streaming tables without exempting the pipeline owner from ABAC policies
August 3, 2026
You can now refresh a pipeline-managed materialized view or streaming table even when the pipeline owner or run-as identity is subject to an attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy.
Previously, refreshing a materialized view or streaming table managed by a pipeline required the pipeline owner or run-as identity to be exempt from any applicable ABAC policy. That limitation has been removed.
When a pipeline refreshes a materialized view or streaming table, policies are evaluated using the pipeline owner's or run-as identity. If you don't want the persisted data to be masked or filtered, add the pipeline owner or run-as identity to the EXCEPT clause of ABAC policies associated with all the tables being read during the pipeline refresh. Use the TO clause to specify which users and groups receive masked or filtered data.
See ABAC policies on materialized views and streaming tables.