August 2025 platform release notes

These features and SAP Databricks platform improvements were released in August 2025. The cloud the release applies to is indicated for each release note.

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

Account SCIM 2.0 updates

August 29, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

To enhance stability and support future growth, Databricks has updated the Account SCIM API for identity management as follows:

• Calling GET with filter params filter=displayName eq value_without_quotes results in a syntax error. To prevent this error, use quotation marks to wrap the value (for example, filter=displayName eq "value_with_quotes").

• Calling GET /api/2.0/accounts/{account_id}/scim/v2/Groups no longer returns members. Instead, iterate through get group details to get membership information. See get group details.

• Calling PATCH /api/2.0/accounts/{account_id}/scim/v2/Groups/{id} returns a 204 response instead of a 200 response.

These changes apply to new accounts and will be grandfathered into existing accounts. Current integrations will continue to work without disruption.

Track and navigate notebook runs with the new cell execution minimap

August 28, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Use the cell execution minimap to track your notebook’s progress at a glance. The minimap appears in the right margin and shows each cell’s execution state (skipped, queued, running, success, or error). Hover to see cell details, or click to jump directly to a cell.

Admins can now manage a workspace's serverless base environments (Preview)

August 28, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Base environments are custom environment specifications for serverless notebooks that define a serverless environment version and a set of dependencies.

Workspace admins can now create and manage the base environments available in their workspace. They can also set a default base environment for all new serverless notebooks. This allows workspace users to quickly start working in a consistent, cached environment.

SAP Databricks is now available in Google Cloud Platorm (GCP)

August 26, 2025 | Applies to: GCP

SAP Databricks is now available in the following GCP regions: asia-south1, europe-west3. and us-central1.

Governed tags are in Preview

August 26, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

You can now create governed tags to enforce consistent tagging across data assets such as catalogs, schemas, and tables. Using governed tags, admins define the allowed keys and values and control which users and groups can assign them to objects. This helps standardize metadata for data classification, cost tracking, access control, and automation.

New table property to control Delta table compression

August 26, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

You can now explicitly set the compression codec for a Delta table using the delta.parquet.compression.codec table property. This property ensures that all future writes to the table use the chosen codec.

Enhanced autocomplete for complex data types in notebooks

August 22, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Notebook autocomplete now supports enhanced suggestions for complex data types including structs, maps, and arrays in SQL cells. Additionally, when referencing common table expressions (CTEs) that use SELECT *, autocomplete provides column recommendations based on the underlying table structure.

Serverless compute runtime updated to 17.1

August 19, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Serverless compute for notebooks, jobs, and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines now uses an upgraded runtime, which roughly corresponds to Databricks Runtime 17.1. See Serverless compute release notes.

Mosaic AI Vector Search reranker (Preview)

August 15, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Mosaic AI Vector Search now offers reranking to help improve retrieval quality.

Token-based rate limits now available on AI Gateway

August 14, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

You can now configure token-based rate limits on your model serving endpoints.

Databricks-hosted models for Assistant are now GA

August 14, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Databricks Assistant with Databricks-hosted models is now generally available on all cloud platforms. This version of the Assistant is fully powered by models hosted and served directly on Databricks infrastructure — at no additional cost to customers.

OpenAI GPT OSS models now support function calling

August 13, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

The Databricks-hosted foundation models, OpenAI GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B now support function and tool calling.

OpenAI GPT OSS models now supported on provisioned throughput

August 13, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

The Databricks-hosted foundation models, OpenAI GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B are now supported on Provisioned throughput Foundation Model APIs.

Databricks Assistant: User and workspace instructions now available

August 12, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

You can now tailor how Databricks Assistant responds by adding custom user instructions. Guide the Assistant with preferences, coding conventions, and response guidelines.

Admins can also add workspace-wide instructions, which take priority over user instructions.

Instructions apply across Assistant experiences like Inline Assistant, General Chat, Suggest Fix, and Edit mode.

Column masks now retained when replacing a table

August 12, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

If a column in the new table matches a column name from the original table, its existing column mask is now retained, even if no mask is specified. This change prevents accidental removal of column-level security policies during table replacement. Previously, replacing a table dropped all existing column masks, and only newly defined masks were applied.

This change affects SQL commands ([CREATE OR] REPLACE TABLE), DataFrame APIs (saveAsTable, replace, createOrReplace), and other similar update table operations.

Access requests in Unity Catalog (Preview)

August 11, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

You can now enable self-service access requests in Unity Catalog by configuring access request destinations on securable objects.

Users can request access to Unity Catalog objects that they discover. These requests are sent to configured destinations, such as emails, Slack or Microsoft Teams channels, or they can be redirected to an internal access management system.

You can also enable default email destinations so requests automatically go to the catalog or object owner’s email if no other destination is set. This ensures that access requests are delivered even when no destination is manually configured for an object.

Create external Delta tables from third-party clients (Preview)

August 8, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

You can now create Unity Catalog external tables backed by Delta Lake from external clients and systems, such as Apache Spark.

Path credential vending (Preview)

August 8, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

You can now use path credential vending to grant short-lived credentials to external locations in your Unity Catalog metastore.

Use OpenAI GPT OSS models for batch inference and structured outputs

August 7, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

The Databricks-hosted foundation models, OpenAI GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B are now optimized for AI Functions, which means you can perform batch inference using these models and AI Functions like ai_query(). Inference workloads that use these models also now support specifying structured outputs.

Databricks ODBC driver 2.9.2

August 5, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

The Databricks ODBC Driver version 2.9.2 is now available for download from the ODBC driver download page.

This release includes the following fixes and new features:

• The process name is now used as the default UserAgentEntry if the UserAgentEntry is not explicitly set.
• Added support for Databricks domains cloud.databricks.us and cloud.databricks.mil.
• Enhanced recognition and handling of timestamp_ntz columns across multiple data source functions including SQLGetTypeInfo, SQLColumns, and SQLColAttribute.
• Added CRL (Certificate Revocation Lists) cache support on Windows when UseSystemTruststore is enabled.
• Added VOID type column support, so that VOID columns are now correctly listed in SQLGetColumns.
• Enabled OAuth Token exchange for IDPs different from the host, which allows the exchange of OAuth access tokens (including BYOT) for Databricks in-house tokens.
• Added support for Windows Server 2025.
• Fixed a memory leak in the driver.

This release includes upgrades to several third-party libraries:

• OpenSSL upgraded from 3.0.15 to 3.0.16
• libcURL upgraded from 8.11.0 to 8.12.1
• Expat upgraded from 2.6.3 to 2.7.1

This release includes the following behavior changes:

• The connector no longer supports Databricks Runtime version 10.4 LTS.
• The default maximum catalog name length and maximum schema name length has been changed from 128 to 1024.
• Ubuntu 20.04 is no longer supported.

For complete configuration information, see the Databricks ODBC Driver Guide installed with the driver download package.

OpenAI GPT OSS models now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving

August 5, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Mosaic AI Model Serving now supports OpenAI's GPT OSS 120B and GPT OSS 20B as Databricks-hosted foundation models. You can access these models using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.

PrivateLink connections from serverless compute to resources in your VPC via an NLB is generally available

August 4, 2025 | Applies to: AWS

You can now enable AWS PrivateLink to resources in your VPC (virtual private cloud) via an NLB (network load balancer) from serverless compute.

AI Playground is now GA

August 1, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

AI Playground is now GA. See Chat with LLMs and prototype generative AI apps using AI Playground.

Edit mode in Assistant does multi-cell code refactoring and more

August 1, 2025 | Applies to: AWS GCP

Databricks Assistant now supports edit mode, which performs reasoning and editing steps across multiple cells in a notebook. Edit mode handles complex, multi-step tasks efficiently, coordinating changes across multiple cells without requiring manual intervention or repetitive prompting.