Releasesby GlyphEnvironment version 6 is now available
You can now select environment version 6 as your base environment for serverless and standard classic compute. See Environment version 6 .
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Conversational analytics now supports questions about market basket analysis
Conversational analytics now supports questions about market basket analysis . This feature is generally available (GA).
External lineage (General availability)
External lineage is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)
With this release, Restricted Session Scope (RSS) is generally available. An RSS is a privilege ceiling that limits what an agent can do on behalf of a user. It intersects with RBAC and never grants privileges the user doesn't already have through their roles.
Gemini Enterprise: Latency and error rate views for agents
To monitor operational telemetry for your agents, use the two new views on the Observability tab: Latency: Shows response times for your agents. This view displays p50 (median) and p95 (95th percentile) metrics for Time to First Token (TTFT), Time to First Answer (TTFA), and Time to Last Token (TTLT).
Gemini Enterprise: General availability of Workflow Builder (formerly Agent Designer)
Workflow Builder (formerly known as Agent Designer) is generally available (GA) in Gemini Enterprise. Workflow Builder enables users across your organization to build multi-step automated workflows to streamline tasks and connect to enterprise data.
Lyria 3.5 generally available (GA)
Released the next generation of Google's music generation model: lyria-3.5: Full-length song generation with improved musical coherence, natural vocals, and fine-grained duration and structural control. The model supports text and image inputs and generates high-fidelity 44.1 kHz stereo audio. See the Music generation guide for details and code samples.
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Git Folder Serverless is in Beta
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 .
AI Search supports struct and map columns and filter-only queries
You can now index and filter struct and map columns in AI Search, and run filter-only queries that return rows matching a filter without vector or keyword retrieval. See Query an AI Search index .
Databricks Runtime maintenance updates (09/01)
New maintenance updates are available for supported Databricks Runtime versions. These updates include bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements. For details, see: Databricks Runtime 18 LTS Databricks Runtime 18.2 Databricks Runtime 18.1 Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS Databricks Runtime 16.4 LTS Databricks Runtime 15.4 LTS Databricks Runtime...
Automatic change data feed is now generally available
Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) computes row-level changes at query time using row tracking, without requiring you to manually enable change data feed on each Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg v3 table. Auto CDF removes write-time overhead and makes MERGE and UPDATE operations about 15% faster on tables that you query for changes.
Databricks Runtime 19: September 1, 2026
New features and improvements Automatic change data feed is generally available : Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) computes row-level changes at query time using row tracking, without requiring you to manually enable change data feed on each Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg v3 table.
The partner-powered AI features setting will be removed
On November 1, 2026, Databricks will remove the account- and workspace-level toggle for partner-powered AI features. Each workspace will keep its current setting value: if the setting is enabled, it stays enabled, and if it's disabled, it stays disabled. Removing the toggle doesn't change any setting values.
Partner-powered AI features can no longer be disabled in the settings UI
You can no longer disable the partner-powered AI features setting in the account or workspace settings UI, but can still enable it. Until November 1, 2026, you can still use the Settings API to enable or disable the setting. On November 1, 2026, the setting will be removed, and any change will then require contacting your Databricks account team.
See which chunks support each ai_search answer (Beta)
You can now turn on the generate_citations option in the ai_search function to see which retrieved chunks the model used to support each answer it generates. ai_search function