Databricks Release notes and new features

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Databricks releases

November 2026 digest

7 releases

Agent Bricks and Mosaic AI

Google Gemini 2.5 Flash is retired

Google Gemini 2.5 Flash is no longer available. The recommended replacement models are Gemini 3.1 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.

Google Gemini 2.5 Flash is retiredDeprecation
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is retiredDeprecation
OpenJev (Qwen3.5 4B) is now available on Unity Gateway

DeprecationOct 2

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Customer-managed keys for query history are now generally available

You can now use a customer-managed key on the system catalog to decrypt statement_text and error_message in the query history system table. See Reading encrypted fields .

GAOct 2

Unity Catalog

JDBC Unity Catalog connections are now generally available

JDBC Unity Catalog connections are now generally available on serverless compute, Databricks Runtime 19 and above, and SQL warehouses 2025.40 and above, including support for SSL certificates. OAuth M2M authentication remains in Beta. See JDBC connection .

GAOct 2

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Databricks, Inc. is an American data and artificial intelligence software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Databricks SQL docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Lakebase docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Unity Catalog OSS releases github.com	github.com	RSS
AI/BI (dashboards, Genie) docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Databricks CLI releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Databricks Connect docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Databricks Runtime docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Declarative Automation Bundles docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Developer tools (CLI, SDK, Terraform) docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Feature Store docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Platform release notes (AWS) docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	RSS
Python SDK releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Serverless compute docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Serverless environment versions docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Terraform provider releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Unity AI Gateway docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
What's coming docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None