Releasesby IbisPrivate connectivity from serverless compute to AWS-managed resources is now generally available
GA12 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 17, 2026
AWS Private Link from Databricks serverless compute to AWS-managed resources, such as S3 buckets, previously in Public Preview, is now generally available. Your data traffic remains entirely within the AWS network and never traverses the public internet. See Configure private connectivity to AWS-managed resources .
Topics: Security
More Databricks Data Intelligence Platform releases
Every Databricks Data Intelligence Platform releaseFeature Views will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Feature Views are now generally available. They will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-November 2026. Define and compute features declaratively from batch or streaming data, then use them for model training and online serving. See Feature Views .
Feature Views are now generally available
Feature Views are now generally available for batch, streaming, and request-time data. They will be enabled for compliance security profile workspaces in mid-November 2026. See Feature Views .
On-demand state repartitioning is now generally available
On-demand state repartitioning is now generally available. You can resize the number of shuffle partitions for a stateful Structured Streaming query or Lakeflow pipeline without losing checkpoint state. See On-demand state repartitioning for stateful streaming queries .
AI Runtime will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
AI Runtime is scheduled to become generally available on October 15, 2026, on AWS and Azure for workspaces without the compliance security profile enabled. AI Runtime will be available by default for eligible workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid November. Availability depends on the supported compliance standards and regions.
Databricks AI Runtime SDK replaces serverless_gpu
Starting in GPU environment version 6, the Databricks AI Runtime SDK ( databricks-sdk-air ) replaces the deprecated serverless_gpu package. It provides the @distributed and ray_init APIs and the databricks.air.data utilities under the databricks.air namespace. The gpus and gpu_type arguments are renamed to num_accelerators and accelerator_type .
ADBC driver for Power BI is now generally available
The Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver for the Databricks connector for Power BI is now generally available. ADBC is the default driver for new connections in Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. See Configure ADBC or ODBC driver for Power BI .
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports priority pay-per-token and reserved provisioned throughput
You can now use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with priority pay-per-token for latency-sensitive traffic or reserved provisioned throughput for dedicated capacity.
Context-based ingress policies for inbound private connectivity are now generally available
Context-based ingress policies for inbound Private Link are now generally available. Control which registered VPC endpoints can reach your workspaces, and combine endpoint rules with identity and request type conditions in the same policy.
Also shipped on Oct 12, 2026
Databricks in October 2026Change an incident’s conference bridge without leaving Slack with /pd meeting now Generally Available
Run /pd meeting during an incident, paste the new link, and PagerDuty updates the incident card instantly with a Join meeting button in the channel. Scribe Agent follows along to the new meeting on its own, so you keep the transcript for your post-incident review. Available to customers using the Pa...
New Incident Workflow action: Get Slack Mentions for Incident Participants now Generally Available
This new Incident Workflow action pulls the assignees, acknowledgers, and role holders on an incident and turns them into Slack @mentions. Pair it with Send Slack Message to tag everyone involved without hard-coding names, so the same workflow works across every team and rotation. Available to Pager...
Conference bridge selection in the Slack declare modal now Generally Available
Declare an incident with /pd declare and choose one of your pre-configured PagerDuty conference bridges from a dropdown, or paste a meeting URL if you don't have one set up. The bridge is on the incident from the moment it's declared, so responders can join from Slack in one click. Available to cust...
Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now...
Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now generally available (GA).
Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA)
Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA) .
End-to-end Snowflake Observability is now generally available in Dynatrace
Dynatrace Snowflake Observability is now generally available in the Dynatrace Data Observability app, offering automated telemetry collection and 14 pre-built dashboards for monitoring cost, performance, and data quality.