Databricks Release Notes

The Discover page is now in Public Preview. Discover is a curated browsing experience that helps users find data assets governed by Unity Catalog without requiring deep knowledge of catalog hierarchies. Use domains and subdomains to organize tables, dashboards, and Genie Agents by business area, highlight key assets with custom curation, and explore AI-recommended assets.

You can now enable access requests at the Unity Catalog metastore level. This feature also lets you set a metastore-level destination that's inherited by all catalogs, schemas, and other objects without their own destination. By enabling metastore-level access requests, users can request access to objects even when no destination is explicitly configured. See Manage access requests.

The legacy compute_preview system schema is deprecated and will be removed from the system catalog. Use the system.compute schema instead. For a list of current system schemas and tables, see System tables reference.

The Netskope Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest event and alert logs from Netskope into Databricks. See Netskope Logs connector.

Lakebase now supports Postgres 18. Postgres 17 remains the default version. To use Postgres 18, select it when creating a new project. For a full list of supported versions, see Postgres compatibility.

The Salesforce Marketing Cloud connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest marketing data, including campaigns, journeys, email engagement events, and data extensions, from Salesforce Marketing Cloud into Databricks. See Salesforce Marketing Cloud connector.

The Workday Reports connector in Lakeflow Connect now supports incremental ingestion in Beta. If you configure a cursor column for a report, the connector ingests only the rows that have changed since the last pipeline run, improving performance and reducing costs. See Ingest Workday reports incrementally.

Providers can now share a Genie Agent with users outside their organization using OpenSharing. Databricks creates a point-in-time snapshot of the space's data assets and instructions. Recipients can mount the share to create a local Genie Agent. See Share a Genie Agent using OpenSharing.

Omnigent is now available in Beta. Omnigent is a coding agent meta-harness that wraps coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex with a common platform: a web UI, persistent and shareable sessions, team collaboration, mobile access, contextual policies, and deployment infrastructure. Swap one line of configuration to switch runtimes while your tools, policies, and prompts stay the same.

See Omnigent on Databricks.

Syncing comments on foreign tables is now in Beta. Lakehouse Federation can sync table and column comments from supported external data sources to foreign tables in Unity Catalog. Synced comments appear in table metadata, including Catalog Explorer, DESCRIBE, and DESCRIBE EXTENDED output.

See Comments on foreign tables.

Lakeflow Designer will be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in late July 2026.

Lakeflow Designer is a visual, no-code experience for preparing and transforming data on a drag-and-drop canvas, with all workflows backed by production-ready code governed by Unity Catalog.

See Lakeflow Designer.

Lakeflow Designer is now generally available. Lakeflow Designer is a visual, no-code experience for preparing and transforming data on a drag-and-drop canvas, with all workflows backed by production-ready code governed by Unity Catalog. Lakeflow Designer lets analysts build, preview, and schedule data transformation workflows using built-in operators or natural language.

See Lakeflow Designer.

Lakeflow Designer is coming soon to workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled.

You can now connect Genie to Microsoft Copilot Cowork through the Genie managed MCP server, so users can ask natural-language questions about their Databricks data without leaving Copilot Cowork. See Genie plugin for Microsoft Copilot Cowork.

You can now discover, install, and run third-party data and AI applications from Databricks Marketplace directly in your own Unity Catalog-governed workspace. The provider's code stays closed-source, and you authorize any external access the app needs when you install it. Open Marketplace and filter by the Apps category to get started. See Get access to third-party apps.

For serverless compute and classic compute running Databricks Runtime 18 and above, common file access patterns are now detected for workspace files, and directory metadata and file contents are prefetched in the background. Workloads that read many files, such as find, grep, Python imports, and Git operations, run much faster. See What are workspace files?.

You can now use the Databricks Genie mobile app to access Genie One from iOS and Android devices. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Using the Genie mobile app, you can:

• Ask data questions in natural language.
• View and interact with AI/BI dashboards, optimized for mobile.
• Chat with dashboards using dashboard-embedded Genie.
• Discover and run Databricks Apps.

See Use Genie on mobile.

Databricks Runtime 19 and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning are now in Beta, powered by Apache Spark 4.2.0.

For release notes, see Databricks Runtime 19 (Beta) and Databricks Runtime 19 for Machine Learning (Beta).

Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing supports sharing across regulatory domains. Commercial workspaces can also share with AWS GovCloud, AWS GovCloud DoD, and Azure China. Sharing between Azure China and either AWS GovCloud or AWS GovCloud DoD is not supported. See Databricks-to-Databricks OpenSharing support matrix for cloud environments.