Databricks platform release notes

• March 2023
  • Local storage autoscaling feature added to clusters
  • Databricks Runtime 13.0 (Beta)
  • Improved file editor
  • .ipynb (Jupyter) notebook support in Repos (preview)
  • Support for reload4j
  • Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, and identity federation are GA on Google Cloud
  • Execute SQL cells in the notebook in parallel
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.13.0
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.12.0
  • SQL admin console and workspace admin console combined
  • New Data Explorer availability
  • Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS and Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS ML are GA
  • Workspace files are now in Public Preview
• February 2023
  • Updated required permissions for new workspaces
  • Secure a workspace with private connectivity using Google Private Service Connect (Public Preview)
  • Ray on Databricks (Public Preview)
  • Notebook cell output results limit increased
  • Databricks Jobs now supports running continuous jobs
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.10.0
  • Improvements to the MLflow experiment UI
  • Databricks Runtime 12.2 (Beta)
  • Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.2
  • Partner Connect is GA
  • Variable explorer in Databricks notebooks
• January 2023
  • Create a workspace using Terraform (Public Preview)
  • Create a workspace using the Account API (Public Preview)
  • Authenticate to Databricks REST APIs using a Google ID
  • Account SCIM is now GA
  • Easier creation and editing of Databricks jobs in the UI
  • Improvements to the Databricks Jobs UI when viewing job runs
  • REST API Explorer is now available for browsing API documentation
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.1
  • Account users can update email preferences in the account console
  • New account console home screen provides better account management experience
  • Region support consolidated onto one page
  • Databricks Runtime 12.1 and Databricks Runtime 12.1 ML are GA
  • Cluster policies now support limiting the max number of clusters per user
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.9.0
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.8.0
  • Databricks Runtime 12.1 (Beta)
  • Global workspace search
  • Partner Connect supports Sigma
  • New left and right sidebars in Databricks notebooks
• December 2022
  • Databricks SQL Driver for Go is Generally Available
  • Prevent concurrent workspace updates
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.7.0
  • Databricks Runtime 12.0 and 12.0 ML are GA
  • Billable usage graphs can now aggregate by individual tags
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.29
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.32
• November 2022
  • Enhanced notifications for your Databricks jobs (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 12.0 (Beta)
  • Enforce user isolation cluster types on a workspace
  • New Google Cloud region: asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)
  • Upload data UI can now be disabled via admin settings
  • Work with large repositories with Sparse Checkout
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.6.5
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to versions 1.6.3 and 1.6.4
  • Upload data UI now supports multiple files
  • Upload data UI now supports overwrite
  • Search for jobs by name with the Jobs API 2.1
  • Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.6.2
  • Use a Google ID token to authenticate to workspace REST APIs (Public Preview)
• October 2022
  • GA: Repos support for non-notebook files
  • Deploy models for streaming inference with Delta Live Tables notebooks
  • Connect to Fivetran from the add data UI
  • Databricks SQL Driver for Node.js is Generally Available
  • Partner Connect supports connecting to erwin Data Modeler by Quest
  • Optimize performance and control costs by using different pools for the driver node and worker nodes
  • Databricks Runtime 11.3 LTS and 11.3 LTS ML are GA
  • Format Python code in notebooks (Public Preview)
  • DBFS Rest API is available for all customers
  • Add data UI provides a central UI for loading data to Databricks
  • Upload data UI unifies experience for small file upload to Delta Lake
  • Partner Connect Public Preview
  • Cluster UI preview and access mode replaces security mode
  • Partner Connect supports connecting to Hevo Data
  • Account users can access the account console
  • Enable admin protection for Standard clusters (or High Concurrency clusters without table ACLs)
  • SQL persona integrated with new search experience
  • Service principals provide API-only access to Databricks resources (Public Preview)
  • Top navigation bar in the UI
  • Databricks Runtime 11.3 (Beta)
  • The account console is available in multiple languages
• September 2022
  • New reference solution for natural language processing
  • Audit logs now include events for web terminal
  • Audit logs now include events for managing credentials for Git repos
  • Audit logs are GA
  • Cluster and pool tags now propagate to GCE labels
  • Select cluster policies directly in the Delta Live Tables UI
  • New data trasformation card on workspace landing pages
  • Delta cache is now disk cache
  • View and organize assets in the workspace browser across personas
  • Databricks Runtime 11.2 and 11.2 ML are GA
  • Enhanced Spark egress network policy
• August 2022
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.26
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.29
  • Databricks Feature Store client now available on PyPI
  • Databricks Runtime 11.2 (Beta)
  • Decreased storage costs by reducing default boot disk size
  • Reduced message volume in the Delta Live Tables UI for continuous pipelines
  • Easier cluster configuration for your Delta Live Tables pipelines
  • Orchestrate dbt tasks in your Databricks workflows (Public Preview)
  • Control workspace access with Customer Approved Workspace Login
  • Deploy a workspace in a customer-managed VPC (GA)
  • Databricks is now available in region europe-west3
  • Use generated columns when you create Delta Live Tables datasets
  • Improved editing for notebooks with Monaco-based editor (Experimental)
  • Compliance controls for HIPAA (GA)
  • Databricks Runtime 10.3 series support ends
  • Delta Live Tables now supports refreshing only selected tables in pipeline updates
  • Job execution now waits for cluster libraries to finish installing
• July 2022
  • Verbose audit logs now record when a notebook command or Databricks SQL query runs
  • Databricks Runtime 11.1 and 11.1 ML are GA
  • Photon is GA
  • Notification upon notebook completion
  • Increased limit for the number of jobs in your Databricks workspaces
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.27
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.25
  • Databricks Runtime 11.1 (Beta)
  • Improved notebook visualizations
• June 2022
  • Databricks Runtime 6.4 Extended Support reaches end of support
  • Databricks Runtime 10.2 series support ends
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.24
  • Databricks Terraform provider is now GA
  • HIPAA compliance controls (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 11.0 and 11.0 ML are GA; 11.0 Photon is Public Preview
  • Change to Repos default working directory in Databricks Runtime 11.0
  • Databricks Runtime 10.1 series support ends
  • Delta Live Tables now supports SCD type 2
  • Create Delta Live Tables pipelines directly in the Databricks UI
  • Select the Delta Live Tables channel when you create or edit a pipeline
  • Communicate between tasks in your Databricks jobs with task values
  • Enable account switching in the Databricks UI
  • Default instance type is now n2-highmem-4
• May 2022
  • Copy and paste notebook cells between tabs and windows
  • Databricks Runtime 11.0 (Beta)
  • Explore SQL cell results in Python notebooks natively using Python
  • Databricks Repos: Support for more files in a repo
  • Databricks Repos: Fix to issue with MLflow experiment data loss
  • Power BI Desktop system-wide HTTP proxy support
  • Databricks Runtime 10.5 and 10.5 ML are GA; 10.5 Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.25
  • See the user a pipeline runs as in the Delta Live Tables UI
• April 2022
  • Use tags to better manage your Databricks jobs
  • Databricks Runtime 10.0 series support ends
  • Get a visual overview of your job runs with the new jobs matrix view
  • Save time and resources when your Databricks job runs are unsuccessful
  • View the run history for job tasks
  • Assign a new cluster in the jobs UI when the assigned cluster no longer exists
  • Databricks Runtime 10.5 (Beta)
  • New email provider for jobs alerts
  • The Delta Live Tables UI is enhanced to disable unauthorized actions
  • Databricks AutoML is generally available
  • Delta Live Tables is GA on AWS and Azure, and in Public Preview on GCP
  • Delta Live Tables SQL interface: non-breaking change to table names
• March 2022
  • Better performance and cost for your Delta Live Tables pipelines with Databricks Enhanced Autoscaling
  • Customer-managed VPC is Public Preview
  • Files in Repos enabled by default in new workspaces
  • Databricks Feature Store is generally available
  • Share an experiment from the experiment page
  • RStudio Workbench bug fix
  • New workspace language options
  • Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS and 10.4 LTS ML are GA; 10.4 Photon is Public Preview
  • Enhanced access control for Delta Live Tables pipelines
  • Test Delta Live Tables preview functionality with the new channel setting (Public Preview)
  • Improved error handling for Delta Live Tables Python functions (Public Preview)
  • Improvements to Databricks Repos
  • Audit logging for cluster policy changes
  • Databricks Runtime 10.4 (Beta)
• February 2022
  • Easier scheduling for your Delta Live Tables pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Easily browse the history of your Delta Live Tables pipeline updates (Public Preview)
  • Ensure job idempotency for the Jobs API Run now request
  • Jobs service stability and scalability improvements
  • Compare MLflow runs from different experiments
  • Improvements to MLflow compare runs display
  • Improved visibility into job run owners in the clusters UI
  • Drop dataset columns in AutoML
  • Experiments page is GA
  • Support for temporary tables in the Delta Live Tables Python interface
  • User interface improvements for Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 9.0 series support ends
  • Data Science & Engineering landing page updates
  • Databricks Repos now supports AWS CodeCommit for Git integration
  • Improved visualization for your Delta Live Tables pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Updated Markdown parser
  • Delta Live Tables now supports change data capture processing (Public Preview)
  • Select algorithm frameworks to use with AutoML
  • Databricks Runtime 10.3 and 10.3 ML are GA; 10.3 Photon is Public Preview
  • Repos now supports arbitrary file types (Public Preview)
• January 2022
  • MLflow Model Registry Webhooks on Databricks (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 10.3 (Beta)
  • View information on recent job runs
  • Use Markdown in Databricks Repos file editor
  • Improved cluster management for jobs that orchestrate multiple tasks
  • Databricks Runtime 8.3 and Databricks Runtime 8.4 series support ends
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.22
  • MLflow Model Serving on Databricks
  • New Share button replaces Permissions icon in notebooks
  • New workspace language options
• December 2021
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.21
  • Databricks Connector for Tableau 2021.4
  • Databricks Runtime 10.2 and 10.2 ML are GA; 10.2 Photon is Public Preview
  • Updated Markdown parser
  • User interface improvements for Delta Live Tables
  • New workspaces do not rely upon Google Cloud Deployment Manager
  • Databricks Runtime 8.3 series support extended
  • Support for GPU clusters (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 10.2 (Beta)
  • Revert of recent breaking change that removed escaping and quotes from $ in environment variable values for cluster creation
  • Accelerate workloads with Photon (Public Preview)
• November 2021
  • Create tags for feature tables (Public Preview)
  • Syntax highlighting and autocomplete for SQL commands in Python cells
  • Rename, delete, and change permissions for MLflow experiments from experiment page (Public Preview)
  • New data profiles in notebooks: tabular and graphic summaries of your data (Public Preview)
  • Improved logging when schemas evolve while running a Delta Live Tables pipeline
  • Breaking change: remove escaping and quotes from $ in environment variable values for cluster creation
  • Ease of use improvements for Files in Repos
  • Support for legacy SQL widgets ends on January 15, 2022
  • User interface improvements for Databricks jobs
  • Delta Sharing Connector for Power BI
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.19
  • Databricks Runtime 10.1 and 10.1 ML are GA; 10.1 Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 10.1 (Beta)
  • Rename and delete MLflow experiments (Public Preview)
  • Support for creating instance pools with preemptible VM instances using the UI
  • You can now create a cluster policy by cloning an existing policy
  • Change the default language of notebooks and notebook cells more easily
  • Use Files in Repos from the web terminal
• October 2021
  • Databricks Runtime 8.2 series support ends
  • Access Databricks File System (DBFS) mounts using the local file system
  • Databricks Runtime 10.0 and 10.0 ML are GA; 10.0 Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks is available in region asia-southeast1
  • User interface improvements for Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
  • Specify a fixed-size cluster when you create a new pipeline in Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
  • View data quality metrics for tables in Delta Live Tables triggered pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Improved security for cluster connectivity in all regions
  • Jobs orchestration is now GA
  • Databricks Connector for Power BI
  • More detailed job run output with the Jobs API
  • Improved readability of notebook paths in the Jobs UI
  • Open your Delta Live Tables pipeline in a new tab or window
  • New escape sequence for $ in legacy input widgets in SQL
  • Faster model deployment with automatically generated batch inference notebook
• September 2021
  • Databricks Runtime 10.0 (Beta)
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.18
  • Databricks Runtime 9.1 LTS and 9.1 LTS ML are GA; 9.1 LTS Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 8.1 series support ends
  • Databricks JDBC driver 2.6.19
  • Repos now supports .gitignore
  • Enhanced jobs UI is now standard for all workspaces
  • Databricks Runtime 9.1 (Beta)
  • Streamlined management of settings for Databricks jobs
  • Delete feature tables from Feature Store
  • Grant view pipeline permissions in the Delta Live Tables UI (Public Preview)
  • Reduce cluster resource usage with Delta Live Tables (Public Preview)
  • Use MLflow models in your Delta Live Tables pipelines (Public Preview)
  • Find Delta Live Tables pipelines by name (Public Preview)
  • PyTorch TorchScript and other third-party libraries are now supported in Databricks jobs
  • Databricks Runtime 8.0 series support ends
• August 2021
  • Databricks Repos GA
  • New Google Cloud region us-east1
  • Increased timeout for long-running notebook jobs
  • Jobs service stability and scalability improvements
  • User entitlements granted by group membership are displayed in the admin console
  • Manage MLflow experiment permissions (Public Preview)
  • Improved job creation from notebooks
  • Improved support for collapsing notebook headings
  • Databricks Runtime 9.0 and 9.0 ML are GA; 9.0 Photon is Public Preview
  • Databricks Runtime 9.0 (Beta)
  • Simplify and control cluster creation using cluster policies (Public Preview)
  • Manage repos programmatically with the Databricks REST API (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 7.6 series support ends
  • Improved job creation and management workflow
  • Simplified instructions for setting Git credentials (Public Preview)
  • Import multiple notebooks in .html format
• July 2021
  • Manage MLflow experiment permissions with the Databricks REST API
  • Restrict access to Databricks using IP access lists
  • New workspaces automatically enable the required Google APIs on your project
  • Feature freshness information available in Databricks Feature Store UI (Public Preview)
  • Display up to 10,000 result rows
  • Bulk import and export notebooks in a folder as source files
  • Autocomplete in SQL notebooks now uses all-caps for SQL keywords
  • Reorderable and resizable widgets in notebooks
  • Databricks UI usability fixes
  • Store secrets in environment variables
  • Databricks Runtime 8.4 and 8.4 ML are GA; 8.4 Photon is Public Preview
  • High CPU instance types no longer have local SSDs
  • Enhanced data processing and analysis with Databricks jobs (Public Preview)
  • Changes to Compute page
  • Repos API (Public Preview)
  • Databricks Runtime 8.4 (Beta)
  • Improved security for cluster connectivity (Public Preview)
  • New Google Cloud regions
• June 2021
  • Change to Feature Store permissions
  • Improved access to results in the MLflow runs table
  • Databricks ODBC driver 2.6.17
  • Databricks Runtime 7.5 series support ends
  • Registry-wide permissions for Model Registry
  • A user’s home directory is no longer protected when you delete a user using the SCIM API
  • Store the path to a secret in a Spark configuration property
  • Databricks Runtime 8.3 and 8.3 ML are GA; 8.3 Photon is Public Preview
  • Python and SQL table access control (GA)
  • Jobs UI and API now show the owner of a job run
  • New Google Cloud region us-west4
  • Single Node clusters are now available
  • Deliver cluster logs to a GCS bucket using a DBFS path
  • Cluster-scoped init scripts can now be accessed using a DBFS path
  • Redesigned Workspace Settings UI
  • Updates to ListTokens and ListAllTokens database queries expired tokens
  • Confirmation now required when granting or revoking Admin permissions
  • Changes to keyboard shortcuts in the web UI
• May 2021
  • Databricks Machine Learning: a data-native and collaborative solution for the full ML lifecycle
  • Additional instance types and more local SSD support
  • Faster local SSD performance with disk caching
  • Audit log delivery (Public Preview)
  • Increased limit for the number of terminated all-purpose clusters
  • Increased limit for the number of pinned clusters
  • Manage where notebook results are stored (Public Preview)
  • Spark UI displays information about terminated clusters
  • Create and manage pools using the UI
  • Databricks on Google Cloud is GA
  • Subnet address range size calculator for new workspaces
  • Databricks Runtime 7.4 series support ends
  • Jobs service stability and scalability improvements (Public Preview)
• April 2021
  • Databricks Runtime 8.2 (GA)
  • Easier job management with the enhanced jobs user interface
  • MLflow sidebar reflects the most recent experiment
  • Change to default channel for conda.yaml files in MLflow
  • Secret management
  • Notebook-scoped libraries
  • Databricks Runtime 8.2 (Beta)
  • User and group limits
  • Easier monitoring of job run status
  • Receive email notification about activity in Model Registry
• March 2021
  • Databricks now supports dark mode for viewing notebooks
  • Databricks on Google Cloud (Public Preview)
  • Easier job creation and management with the enhanced jobs user interface (Public Preview)
  • Track job retry attempts with a new sequential value returned for each job run attempt
  • Easier way to connect to Databricks from your favorite BI tools and SQL clients
  • Databricks Runtime 8.1 (Beta)
  • Increased limit for the number of terminated all-purpose clusters
  • Increased limit for the number of pinned clusters in a workspace
  • Databricks Runtime 8.0 (GA)
• February 2021
  • New Databricks Power BI connector (GA)
  • Databricks on Google Cloud public preview
    • Google Cloud technology integration
    • Initial account setup
    • What’s in this release?
    • Known issues