Releasesby GlyphZhipu AI GLM 5.2 now available as a Databricks-hosted model
Model Serving now supports GLM 5.2 as a Databricks-hosted model. This mixture of experts (MoE) model supports a 1 million token context window and is optimized for long-horizon reasoning, coding, and agentic tool use. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
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External search with AlloyDB now supports Apache Solr in Preview
External search with AlloyDB now supports Apache Solr in Preview . You can use the external_search_fdw extension to connect to a Solr cluster and query its data directly from your database.
Grok 4.1 models deprecation
The Grok 4.1 model family (including xai/grok-4.1-fast-reasoning and xai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning ) on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is deprecated and will be shut down on August 20, 2026. After this date, Google Agent Platform Model as a Service (MaaS) will no longer serve these models.
Memory Bank IngestEvents is generally available (GA)
The Memory Bank IngestEvents API is generally available. The IngestEvents API decouples event ingestion from memory generation, letting you continuously stream content to Memory Bank and configure when memory generation is triggered.
Innersource security advisories are generally available
GitHub Advanced Security enterprise customers can now publish internal security advisories. Innersource advisories work similarly to GitHub’s open source advisories, but their visibility is restricted to repositories owned by the enterprise.
Deploy managed Copilot settings via MDM in VS Code and CLI
Enterprise administrators can now deliver managed GitHub Copilot settings directly to devices through native mobile device management (MDM) and file-based configuration, in addition to the existing server-managed channel. This is generally available for GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code.
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, June 2026 releases
This changelog covers VS Code v1.123 through v1.127 , shipped throughout June and early July 2026. The latest VS Code releases build on the Copilot experience developers use every day, making it easier to manage agent work, understand usage, choose the right models, and stay in the flow.
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Object metadata column is now in Public Preview
The _object_metadata column is now in Public Preview. The _object_metadata column is a hidden metadata column that exposes object-level properties for objects in cloud storage, including MIME type, ETag, user-defined key-value metadata, system-defined metadata, and object tags. It is available starting from Databricks Runtime 18.1.
Budgets are now generally available
Budgets, including budgets for Unity Gateway, are now generally available. Budgets let admins define spending thresholds. For requests managed through Unity Gateway, including Genie interactions, admins can set additional per-user thresholds and overrides, with configurable actions such as email alerting and usage blocking.
Private Link for account-level resources (Beta)
You can now use Private Link to privately connect to Databricks account-level resources, such as the account console, through a VPC interface endpoint instead of the public internet. See Configure inbound Private Link for account-level resources .
July 6, 2026
This serverless compute release includes updates from Databricks Runtime 18 . New features Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow streaming query ID : Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow can now set the streaming query ID on demand.
Automatic upgrades will roll out more features to existing tables
Automatic upgrades apply recommended features to your Unity Catalog managed tables after verifying workload compatibility. Databricks is expanding the features that automatic upgrades apply to existing tables. Starting in July 2026, automatic upgrades will roll out row tracking and Checkpoint V2 to existing tables.
View warehouse activity details (General Availability)
The Activity details toggle in the SQL warehouse monitoring UI is now generally available. View color-coded annotations on the Running clusters chart that explain why a warehouse remains active, including query activity, fetching queries, open sessions, and idle states.
Okta support for automatic identity management is now generally available
Okta support for automatic identity management is now generally available. Automatic identity management lets you sync users and groups from Okta into Databricks without SCIM provisioning.
Allowlist partner platform IPs in context-based ingress control (Beta)
Context-based ingress control now supports Partner Platforms as a network source. Select a partner platform to allowlist the IPs that third-party apps use to connect to Databricks, including Power BI, Tableau Cloud, and dbt platform. Databricks manages and updates these IP lists automatically. See Network sources .