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Databricks, August 2026 new features

132 releases · 8 products · 31 GA · 11 Preview · 43 Beta · 3 Deprecation · 1 Pricing

DateRelease
Aug 31ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and services
Aug 31Databricks SQL version 2026.36 is now available in Preview
Aug 31Pipeline events system table is in Beta
Aug 29Restrict service principal OAuth secrets to specific API scopes
Aug 29Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Aug 29ai_transcribe function (Beta)
Aug 28Monitor and cap external provider costs
Aug 28Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
Aug 27AI Functions REST API is now generally available
Aug 27Atlassian Audit Logs connector (Beta)
Aug 27Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
Aug 27Genie Agents enhancements
Aug 27Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
Aug 27Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)
Aug 27Genie One enhancements
Aug 27Lakeflow Designer August Release
LakeflowPreview
Aug 27Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
Aug 26Genie Agents enhancements
Aug 26Query text is now masked by default in system tables and APIs
Aug 26Zerobus Ingest into streaming tables is now generally available
Aug 26Zhipu AI GLM 5.3 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
Aug 26xAI Grok 4.6 is now available on Unity Gateway
Aug 25Anysphere Audit Logs connector (Beta)
Aug 25LTAP Direct Writes accelerates synced table loads (Beta)
Aug 25The Genie One desktop app for macOS is in Beta
Aug 25ai_prep_search supports plain text and markdown input (Beta)
Aug 24Connect to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams with your workspace URL (Public Preview)
Aug 24Databricks Runtime 19: August 24, 2026
Aug 24Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is rolling out in Current
Aug 24Genie Code is now available in the Lakebase project UI
LakebaseUpdate
Aug 24Postgres minor version updates
LakebaseUpdate
Aug 24Private network gateway is in Private Preview
Aug 24Secrets in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Aug 24The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta
Aug 24Unity Gateway now supports Provisioned Throughput
Aug 24Verkada connector (Beta)
Aug 21Consumer access to query Unity Gateway services will become generally available
Aug 21Context attributes in ABAC column mask and row filter policies (Beta)
Aug 21Default Python package repositories are GA for Lakeflow pipelines and classic compute
Aug 21Monitor all AI activity with the unified trace table (Beta)
Aug 21Upcoming end of life for the Supervisor API
Aug 20Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
Aug 20Genie One enhancements
Aug 20Performance mode now applies to materialized view and streaming table refreshes from dbt tasks
LakeflowUpdate
Aug 20Salesforce connector mTLS authentication is now generally available
Aug 20Write data back to Databricks from Google Sheets
Aug 19Choose an effort level in Genie Code
Aug 19Role-based access control (RBAC) is generally available
Aug 19Role-based access control (RBAC) will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Aug 19ai_extract precision mode is now generally available
Aug 18User authorization for Databricks Apps will soon be available for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Aug 17Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta)
Aug 17Manage project environments with %uv commands
Aug 17Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta
Aug 17Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column
Unity CatalogDeprecation
Aug 17Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column
Unity CatalogDeprecation
Aug 14DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) is now available on Unity Gateway
Aug 14Genie Code supports file uploads
Aug 14Lakebase Postgres APIs are now generally available
Aug 14Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available
Aug 14Workiva connector (Beta)
Aug 13Block or redact sensitive data in requests and responses
Aug 13Cross-workspace access for serverless (Beta)
Aug 13Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
Aug 13Expanded networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect
Aug 13Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes
Aug 13Genie One enhancements
Aug 13Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
Aug 13Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
Aug 13Identity attributes (Beta)
Aug 13OpenSharing SecureConnect will be available by default for all accounts
Aug 13SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
LakeflowUpdate
Aug 13SendGrid connector (Beta)
Aug 13Share data behind a firewall with SecureConnect is generally available
Aug 13Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available
Aug 13Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts
Aug 13Smart Routing: Cut AI costs by routing each task to the right model
Aug 13Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta)
Aug 12Amplitude connector (Beta)
Aug 12Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta
Aug 12Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)
Aug 12Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
Aug 12Google Search Console connector is available in Beta
Aug 11ABAC GRANT policies now cover Unity Gateway resource types (Beta)
Aug 11Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is now available in Preview
Aug 11REPLACE USING flows for standalone streaming tables (Beta)
Aug 11Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta
Aug 10Alert system tables are in Public Preview
Aug 10Databricks Runtime 19: August 10, 2026
Aug 10DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is now available on Unity Gateway
Aug 10Lakebase now supports PCI-DSS and HITRUST
LakebaseUpdate
Aug 10Notion connector (Beta)
Aug 10Orchestrate continuous pipelines with continuous jobs
LakeflowUpdate
Aug 10READ METADATA privilege is GA
Aug 7Change data feed on materialized views (Beta)
Aug 7Tag automations (Beta)
Aug 7ai_search function (Beta)
Aug 6Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
Aug 6Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity Gateway (Beta)
Aug 6Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes
Aug 6Genie Code web search is in Beta
Aug 6Genie One enhancements
Aug 6JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available
Aug 6JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available
Aug 6Moonshot AI Kimi K3 is now available on Unity Gateway
Aug 6Unity Gateway API: Manage resources with SDKs, the CLI, and Terraform
Aug 6Zerobus Ingest is now enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile
LakeflowUpdate
Aug 5Genie One is now available in Google Sheets
Aug 5Genie One is now available in Microsoft Excel
Aug 5Lakebase is enabled by default in compliance security profile workspaces
LakebaseUpdate
Aug 5REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta)
Aug 5Search and replace text across files
Aug 4Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (08/04)
Aug 4Format AI/BI dashboard widget titles and descriptions with rich text
Aug 4Full page Genie Code is now generally available
Aug 4Google Drive connector (GA)
Aug 4NetSuite connector (GA)
Aug 4PagerDuty connector (Beta)
Aug 4Schema-level HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available
Aug 4SharePoint connector (GA)
Aug 4Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Aug 4Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
Aug 4Unity Gateway is now generally available
Aug 3Automatic cost attribution for materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
LakeflowUpdate
Aug 3Environment variables for serverless jobs are in Beta
Aug 3Filter updates for the Databricks Excel Add-in
Aug 3Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027
Aug 3MANAGE no longer requires USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA on the same object
Aug 3Organize your work with spaces
Aug 3Refresh materialized views and streaming tables without exempting the pipeline owner from ABAC policies
LakeflowUpdate
Aug 3Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA
Aug 3Serverless compute access control is now generally available

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