December 2025

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

nota

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

Vector Search reranker is now generally available

December 8, 2025

The Vector Search reranker is now generally available. Reranking can help improve retrieval quality. For more information, see Use the reranker in a query.

Built-in Excel file format support (Beta)

December 2, 2025

Databricks now provides built-in support for reading Excel files. You can query Excel files directly using Spark DataFrames without external libraries. See Read Excel files.