Databricks preview releases
Databricks regularly provides previews to give you a chance to evaluate and provide feedback on features before they’re generally available (GA). These preview releases can come in various degrees of maturity, each of which is defined in this article. The following tables list the Databricks support team that is associated with the corresponding release type.
Platform preview releases
Databricks platform features can be released at any of the following preview levels:
Release type |
Who can use? |
Maturity |
Use in production |
Interface stable |
SLA |
Support |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Private Preview |
Invite only |
Low-Med |
No |
No |
No |
Engineering team |
Features are usually not documented in the public Databricks documentation. |
Public Preview |
Everyone |
Med-High |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Support team |
Features are documented in the public Databricks documentation. Public Preview features are stable and intended to advance to GA. Most public previews are open to all customers. Some, however, require that you request access. |
Limited Availability (LA) |
Invite only |
High |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Support team |
LA features are rare, providing GA-level functionality to a limited set of customers. These features are not documented in the public Databricks documentation. |
Databricks Runtime preview releases
Preview releases of Databricks Runtime are always labeled Beta.
Release type |
Who can use? |
Maturity |
Use in production |
Interface stable |
SLA |
Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Beta |
Everyone |
Low-Med |
No |
No |
No |
Engineering team |
Features included in a Databricks Runtime can be released at any of the following preview levels:
Release type |
Who can use? |
Maturity |
Use in production |
Interface stable |
SLA |
Support |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Private Preview |
Invite only |
Low-Med |
No |
No |
No |
Engineering team |
Features are usually not documented in the public Databricks documentation. The API may change. |
Experimental |
Everyone |
Low-Med |
No |
No |
No |
Engineering team |
Features are documented in the public Databricks documentation. The API may change. |
Public Preview |
Everyone |
Med-High |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Support team |
Features are documented in the public Databricks documentation. The API will not change, either during the Public Preview or when the feature becomes GA. Most public previews are open to all customers. Some, however, require that you request access. |
For more information about Databricks Runtime releases, including support lifecycle and long-term-support (LTS), see Databricks runtime support lifecycles.