May 2026 platform release notes
These features and SAP Databricks platform improvements were released in May 2026. The cloud the release applies to is indicated for each release note.
Releases are staged. Your SAP Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Workspace sidebar navigation updates
May 29, 2026 | Applies to: 
AWS GCP Azure
The workspace sidebar navigation has updated section groupings:
- A new Analytics section groups Dashboards and Alerts.
- The SQL section is renamed to Lakehouse and contains SQL Editor, Queries, Query History, and SQL Warehouses.
In the app switcher, Lakehouse is also renamed to Analytics and AI.
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
May 28, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 as a Databricks-hosted model. To access this model, use Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token.
Workspace admin setting for serverless notebook execution timeout
May 27, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Workspace admins can now set the default execution timeout for serverless notebooks in the workspace admin settings, replacing the previous manual override process. To configure the timeout, go to Settings > Compute and, under Serverless interactive, update the Serverless interactive execution timeout setting.
The default timeout is 2.5 hours, and users can still override the timeout for an individual notebook by using spark.databricks.execution.timeout.
Automatic identity management with Microsoft Entra ID is now GA
May 26, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP
Automatic identity management with Microsoft Entra ID is now generally available. Automatic identity management lets you sync users, service principals, and groups from Microsoft Entra ID to SAP Databricks without SCIM provisioning. When enabled, you can search for identities in identity federated workspaces and add them directly to your workspace, and group memberships stay in sync with Microsoft Entra ID.
Account access denylist for automatic identity management (Preview)
May 22, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP
The account access denylist is now available in Preview for SAP Databricks accounts that use automatic identity management. Account admins can add users, groups, or service principals to the denylist to block their access to the SAP Databricks account. Denylist membership is transitive, so denying a group also denies all of its members.
Unity Catalog managed Apache Iceberg tables, foreign Apache Iceberg tables, and Apache Iceberg v3 features are generally available
May 21, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
The following Apache Iceberg capabilities in Unity Catalog are now generally available:
- Unity Catalog managed Iceberg tables: Create and manage Iceberg tables in Unity Catalog using external Iceberg-compatible engines. Managed Iceberg tables support liquid clustering and predictive optimization.
- Foreign Iceberg tables: Read Iceberg tables managed by external catalogs such as AWS Glue, Hive metastore, or Snowflake Horizon Catalog.
- Iceberg v3 features: Use deletion vectors, the VARIANT data type, and row lineage on managed Delta Lake tables with UniForm, managed Iceberg tables, and foreign Iceberg tables.
Databricks CLI is now GA
May 21, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
The Databricks CLI is now generally available (GA). As part of this release, the CLI has been updated to store user-to-machine (U2M) tokens in OS-native secure storage.
Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are GA
May 20, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are now generally available. Storage-optimized endpoints have a larger capacity (over one billion vectors at dimension 768) and provide 10-20x faster indexing than standard endpoints. Pricing is optimized for the larger number of vectors.
Fixed LOD expression syntax update for metric views
May 20, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Fixed level of detail (LOD) expressions in metric views are now defined directly in the expr field of a dimension using SQL window functions, replacing the previous two-step approach of pre-computing values in the source query.
Configure Microsoft Entra ID SSO for Power BI (Preview)
May 20, 2026 | Applies to: AWS
You can now configure Microsoft Entra ID as the identity provider for single sign-on (SSO) to SAP Databricks from Power BI using an account-level federation policy.
Edits to resources in the UI now automatically update YAML
May 19, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Edits to jobs and pipeline settings in the UI now automatically update YAML.
SAP Databricks Add-in for Excel support for all compliance security profile standards
May 19, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
The SAP Databricks Add-in for Excel (Preview) now supports all compliance security profile standards supported by SAP Databricks.
View run history for scheduled refreshes in Google Sheets
May 14, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
You can now view the run history of scheduled refreshes in the SAP Databricks Connector for Google Sheets. Each run shows its Run ID, start time, and success status.
Configure an additional recipient for workspace operational emails
May 14, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Workspace admins can now add an additional email recipient to receive operational emails about a workspace. Once configured, this address receives the same operational updates as workspace admins, including things like breaking changes, incident communications, and feature rollout announcements. To deliver to multiple people, use a distribution-list alias.
Databricks SQL alerts are now generally available
May 14, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
The latest version of Databricks SQL alerts is now generally available. SQL alerts let you monitor data and KPIs by running a query on a schedule, evaluating a condition, and notifying recipients when the condition is met. Use SQL alerts to monitor KPI drifts, detect anomalies, and surface data quality issues.
ai_parse_document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
May 13, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
ai_parse_document is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. Use ai_parse_document to parse structured content from unstructured documents including PDFs, images, Word documents, and PowerPoint files.
HIPAA support for the SAP Databricks Add-in for Excel
May 11, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
The SAP Databricks Add-in for Excel (Preview) is now available for workspaces with HIPAA compliance across all supported regions.
Catalog commits are now generally available
May 8, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Catalog commits are now generally available. Catalog commits expand Unity Catalog managed table interoperability, strengthen Unity Catalog governance capabilities, and unlock new features such as multi-statement, multi-table transactions. When catalog commits are enabled on a Unity Catalog managed Delta table, Unity Catalog becomes the table's system of coordination, brokering access and state across engines.
Faster package installs with %uv pip in serverless notebooks
May 7, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
You can now use the %uv pip magic command in serverless notebooks on environment version 5 or above as a faster alternative to %pip for Python package management. %uv pip is powered by the uv package manager and shares the same notebook virtual environment as %pip.
Block identities from your SAP Databricks account with the account access denylist
May 6, 2026 | Applies to: Azure
Use the account access denylist to prevent specific users, groups, or service principals from accessing your SAP Databricks account when automatic identity management is enabled.
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Preview
May 5, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Model Serving now supports Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5 122B A10B as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs. Qwen3.5 122B A10B is available in Preview. Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms.
Automatic identity management
May 5, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Automatic identity management lets you sync users and groups from your identity provider to SAP Databricks. Search for identities in identity federated workspaces and add them to your workspace. Group memberships stay in sync with your identity provider. Microsoft Entra ID is in Preview and supports service principals and nested groups. Okta support is in Preview.
Native data profiling for notebook results tables
May 1, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
You can now view profiling statistics for columns in notebook results tables. From a results table, select column headers and click 
Open selection details to view profiling statistics. This feature is also available in the new Databricks SQL editor.
Azure UK South now has a dedicated regional control plane
May 1, 2026 | Applies to: AWS GCP Azure
Azure UK South now has a dedicated regional control plane in addition to the existing UK West-based control plane. New workspaces created in UK South use the regional control plane and require firewall allowlist entries for the new SCC relay tunnel, Control Plane NAT IPs, Metastore, Log Blob storage, and Event Hubs endpoint. Existing UK South workspaces continue to use the UK West-based control plane and the corresponding UK West values, unless they migrate.