May 2022

These features and Databricks platform improvements were released in May 2022.

Note

Releases are staged. Your Databricks account may not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.

Copy and paste notebook cells between tabs and windows

May 31 - June 6, 2022: Version 3.73

You can now copy and paste cells between notebooks in different browser tabs or windows. See Cut, copy, and paste cells.

Databricks Runtime 11.0 (Beta)

May 24, 2022

Databricks Runtime 11.0, 11.0 Photon, and 11.0 ML are now available as Beta releases.

See the full release notes at Databricks Runtime 11.0 (unsupported) and Databricks Runtime 11.0 for Machine Learning (unsupported).

Explore SQL cell results in Python notebooks natively using Python

May 16-23, 2022: Version 3.72

In Python notebooks, the results of SQL cells are now available as a PySpark DataFrame _sqldf for easy exploration in Python. See Explore SQL cell results in Python notebooks using Python.

Note

This feature was delayed and will be rolled out over Databricks platform releases 3.74 through 3.76.

Databricks Repos: Support for more files in a repo

May 16-23, 2022: Version 3.72

Databricks increased the number of files supported in a repo:

  • The notebook limit: 5,000.

  • The limit for the total of all files including notebooks: 10,000.

Previously, you were limited to 5,000 total files in a repo.

For details, see File and repo size limits.

Databricks Repos: Fix to issue with MLflow experiment data loss

May 16-23, 2022: Version 3.72

Previously, in some situations, switching branches in Databricks Repos could cause the MLflow experiment associated with a notebook to be deleted. This issue has been fixed for most scenarios.

Power BI Desktop system-wide HTTP proxy support

May 11, 2022

The Power BI connector now supports automatic detection of the system HTTP proxy configuration in Power BI Desktop. See Automated HTTP proxy detection.

Databricks Runtime 10.5 and 10.5 ML are GA; 10.5 Photon is Public Preview

May 4, 2022

Databricks Runtime 10.5 and Databricks Runtime 10.5 ML are now generally available. Databricks Runtime 10.5 Photon is in Public Preview.

See Databricks Runtime 10.5 (unsupported) and Databricks Runtime 10.5 for Machine Learning (unsupported).

Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.25

May 3, 2022

We have released the Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.25 (download). The driver is also available as an Apache Maven artifact. This release optimizes the default configuration used to connect to Databricks. See also Databricks ODBC Driver Downloads.

See the user a pipeline runs as in the Delta Live Tables UI

May 2-9, 2022: Version 3.71

The Run as user value is added to the Pipeline details panel in the Delta Live Tables user interface. The Run as user is the pipeline owner, and pipeline updates run with this user’s permissions.