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July 2025 platform release notes

These features and SAP Databricks platform improvements were released in July 2025.

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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.

Organization name required to enable Delta Sharing on metastore​

July 29, 2025

When enabling Delta Sharing on your metastore, you must specify a name for your organization if you plan to share data with a SAP Databricks recipient who is not in your account. An organization name helps the recipient identify the share provider.

Serverless compute runtime updated to 17.0​

July 28, 2025

Serverless compute for notebooks now uses an upgraded runtime, which roughly corresponds to Databricks Runtime 17.0. See Version 17.0.

Improvements to the notebook editing experience​

July 25, 2025

The following improvements have been made to the notebook editing experience:

  • Add a split view to edit notebooks side by side.
  • Pressing Cmd + F (Mac) or Ctrl + F (Windows) in a notebook now opens the native Databricks find-and-replace tool. This allows you to quickly search and replace text throughout your entire notebook, including content outside the current viewport.
  • Quickly switch between tab groups based on authoring contexts using the Home icon., Query editor icon., and Pipeline icon. icons on the top left in the editor.

Expanded region availability for ai_parse_document​

July 25, 2025

ai_parse_document is now available in all the following AWS regions:

  • ap-northeast-1
  • ap-southeast-1
  • ap-southeast-2
  • eu-central-1

New columns available in query history system table​

July 24, 2025

New columns are now available in the query history system table, providing additional query insights:

  • cache_origin_statement_id: For query results fetched from cache, this field contains the statement ID of the query that originally inserted the result into the cache.
  • query_parameters: A struct containing named and positional parameters used in parameterized queries.
  • written_rows: The number of rows of persistent data written to cloud object storage.
  • written_files: Number of files of persistent data written to cloud object storage.

Google Gemma 3 12B now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving​

July 15, 2025

Google Gemma 3 12B is now available on Mosaic AI Model Serving as a Databricks-hosted foundation model.

Gemma 3 12B model supports text inputs for the following Model Serving features:

  • Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.
  • Foundation Model APIs provisioned throughput.
  • AI Functions. Both real time inference and batch inference workloads are supported.

The CAN VIEW permission on SQL warehouses is now generally available​

July 15, 2025

The CAN VIEW permission allows users to view SQL warehouses, including query history and query profiles. These users cannot run queries on the warehouse.

Serverless notebooks: Restore Python variables after idle termination​

July 14, 2025

Databricks now snapshots your notebook’s Python variables before terminating idle serverless compute. When you reconnect, your notebook is automatically restored from its snapshot, letting you continue your work seamlessly.

Must be metastore admin to transfer share ownership for Delta Sharing​

July 14, 2025

To change the ownership of a share for Delta Sharing, you must now be the metastore admin. Share owners can no longer transfer ownership.

Git support for alerts​

July 11, 2025

You can now use Databricks Git folders to track and manage changes to alerts. To track alerts with Git, place them in a Databricks Git folder. Newly cloned alerts only appear in the alerts list page or API after a user interacts with them. They have paused schedules and need to be explicitly resumed by users.

Expanded feature support for FIPS-Compliant environments​

July 11, 2025

Model Serving Foundation Model API pay-per-token endpoints and batch inference using Databricks-hosted models are now available in FIPS-compliant environments. This includes support for the following compliance standards offered through the compliance security profile:

  • FedRAMP Moderate
  • IRAP

Git folders now supports multiple Git credentials per user (Preview)​

July 2, 2025

Use the UI to add and manage multiple Git credentials in the workspace, from one or multiple Git providers.

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