October 2026
Databricks released these features and improvements in October 2026.
Releases are staged. Your Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Run Lakeflow pipelines as a group
October 5, 2026
You can now set a pipeline's run-as identity to an account group, in addition to a user or a service principal. Pipeline updates run with the group's permissions, so a team can own an automated pipeline without tying it to one person's account. See Set the run-as identity to a group.
Schedule automatic data refresh in the Databricks Excel Add-in (Public Preview)
October 1, 2026
You can now schedule automatic refreshes of Databricks data imported into Microsoft Excel. Choose an interval or calendar schedule and the SQL warehouse that runs each refresh, then review recent runs from the Databricks Excel Add-in. See Schedule automatic data refresh in the Databricks Excel Add-in.