Query tags are now generally available. You can apply custom key-value tags to SQL workloads for grouping, filtering, and cost attribution on Databricks SQL warehouses and Lakehouse//RT compute. Tags appear in system.query.history and on the Query History page of the Databricks UI. See Query tags .
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) row filters and column masks now extend to views, in addition to tables. This lets you use ABAC policies to control access to sensitive data exposed through views. Account admins can enable the ABAC on Views preview from the account console's Previews page. This feature requires Databricks Runtime 19 or above.
The 1Password Event Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the 1Password Events API to ingest audit events, item usages, and sign-in attempts into Databricks. Authentication uses an Events Reporting bearer token.
The system.ai_gateway.usage system table now includes coding-agent session metadata and invocation source. New token-detail fields capture tokens written to the 5-minute and 1-hour prompt caches, along with file and web search counts. See Track model usage .
You can now apply tags to dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents to organize and categorize your workspace assets. This capability is now generally available. Both governed and ungoverned key-value tags are supported. See Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects .
When you delete a Unity Catalog pipeline that uses the default publishing mode, the UI and the Pipelines DELETE API retain associated materialized views, streaming tables, and views by default. The retained tables can be queried but cannot be updated until moved into an active pipeline.
Genie Code can now build end-to-end document processing pipelines by orchestrating parsing, classification, extraction, and validation. Point it at unstructured PDFs, contracts, or invoices, and it evaluates extraction quality against labeled data and iterates to improve it. See Use Genie Code for intelligent document processing .
Genie usage by service principals is now billed at standard Genie pay-as-you-go pricing. Service principals are excluded from the free monthly usage allowance that applies to individual users. See Manage budgets and cost controls for Genie and Monitor and understand your Genie cost .
Sharing metric views with OpenSharing is now generally available. Add metric views to a share and query them with MEASURE(...) on serverless compute. See Add metric views to a share and Read shared metric views .
The ai_search function can now retrieve from Lakebase synced tables with Lakebase Search enabled, in addition to AI Search indexes. Add a lakebase_search knowledge source to search a Lakebase synced table, or combine it with vector_search sources in the same call. This feature is in Beta . See ai_search function .
You can now build governed data and AI apps without code. Genie App Builder authors apps in natural language, App Spaces enforce governance, and Serverless Micro Apps scale to zero when idle. See Governed agentic app building .
You can now invite OpenSharing recipients by email instead of exchanging a sharing identifier or credential file. OpenSharing emails the recipient a secure activation link to connect and read the shared data. Email sharing is in Beta . See OpenSharing by email .
The system.query.history system table is now generally available. Use it to access account-wide records for queries run on SQL warehouses or serverless compute, including execution status, duration metrics, and query source. See Query history system table reference .
Back a model provider service's API key with a customer-owned Unity Catalog secret. The service reads it at query time, so rotating the secret takes effect with no service change. See Back a provider credential with a Unity Catalog secret .
Unity Gateway estimates external model spend using each provider's published list prices. If your organization has negotiated different pricing with a provider, you can now configure a price multiplier on the model provider service so that spend estimates reflect those rates.
Configuring telemetry for your Databricks apps is now generally available. Databricks Apps telemetry collects traces, logs, and metrics and persists them to Unity Catalog tables using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) protocol.
Lakebase Search is now generally available. It brings scalable vector and keyword search to Lakebase projects through two Postgres extensions, so you can run semantic and exact-term search in a single database without a separate search stack: lakebase_vector adds the lakebase_ann index type for approximate nearest-neighbor vector search.
You can now use base environments to manage Python dependencies on classic compute. You can use Databricks-provided environments or custom workspace-level environments. See Manage dependencies using environments .
Genie One now supports account-only users, so users in a registered identity provider can access account-level Genie One without being assigned to a workspace or granted consumer access . When enabled, eligible users are enrolled automatically. Unity Catalog continues to govern what each user can see. See Account-only user access to Genie One .
Data Classification can now scan Unity Catalog views in addition to tables, classifying columns for sensitive data using the same detection engine. This is a Beta feature. See Classify views .
When a Genie response includes a chart, the visualization now appears as an image in the Slack reply. If you installed the Databricks Genie app for Slack previously, reinstall it to enable this. See Visualizations .
Restore the Python variables and Spark session from a serverless compute job run into a new interactive notebook, so you can debug a failure or explore results without rerunning the entire job. Databricks captures the snapshot automatically for eligible runs. See Session restore for serverless jobs .
Sharing and reading foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share Iceberg tables federated from foreign Iceberg catalogs using Lakehouse Federation, including to recipients using external Iceberg clients.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway with text and image inputs. See supported regions . You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
- More Tableau calculations in /importBI : Importing Tableau reports with the /importBI Genie Code command now supports more cases of parameterized calculations. See Import BI files using Genie Code .
You can now create managed tables in Lakeflow pipelines and write to them with one or more append flows. This feature is in Beta . You can also use import_checkpoint on an append flow to migrate an existing Structured Streaming workload into a pipeline without reprocessing the source. See create_table , CREATE TABLE ... FLOW (pipelines) , and append_flow .
The Databricks Excel Add-in is now generally available. Connect Microsoft Excel to your Databricks workspace to browse and import governed Unity Catalog tables and views, run SQL queries, build pivot tables, use custom functions, and write data back to Unity Catalog.
The Anaplan connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit trail events and user account records from your Anaplan tenant into Databricks. Authentication uses an Anaplan CA certificate and its paired private key. See Anaplan connector .
ABAC DENY policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog. DENY policies can be used to explicitly deny the MANAGE ACCESS CONTROL privilege to prevent specified principals, including object owners, from performing access-management operations. They always take precedence over any grant. For details, see ABAC DENY policies (Beta) .
Ingesting into tables backed by default storage with Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now in Public Preview . See Create or identify the target table .
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now available on Unity Gateway for enterprise reasoning, structured document processing, coding, agentic search, multimodal inputs, and long-context workloads. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
MLflow 3.16.0 includes several major features and improvements Major New Features 🎨 Custom Trace Views : Design your own trace UI in plain English , describe the view you want and the MLflow Assistant builds it for you, laying out exactly the fields you care about with no config files or custom code.
- Ask Genie button hidden when unsupported : In embedded dashboards, the Ask Genie button is now hidden when it isn't supported. See Ask Genie in embedded dashboards . Push notifications for scheduled tasks (Public Preview) : The Genie mobile app can now send push notifications for scheduled tasks to iOS devices. See Push notifications .
You can now share metric views with Databricks users in other metastores or accounts using OpenSharing. See Add metric views to a share and Read shared metric views .
You can now select environment version 6 as your base environment for serverless and standard classic compute. See Environment version 6 .
You can now use Git Folder Serverless to share serverless compute and a pyproject.toml -managed environment across notebooks and files in a Git folder. See Git Folder Serverless .
Model Serving now supports Google Gemini 3.8 Flash as a Databricks-hosted model. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
Apache Arrow support for Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. See Use Arrow Flight with Zerobus Ingest .
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