Databricks Release Notes

LTAP Direct Writes speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase. When you create a synced table, Lakebase loads a full copy of your Unity Catalog data into your Postgres branch. LTAP Direct Writes accelerates that initial load and full refreshes by writing directly to the storage layer instead of through your compute endpoint, so large loads finish faster without competing with your queries. It requires a project running Postgres 17, and you opt in when you create the synced table. See Serve lakehouse data with synced tables.

The Genie One desktop app is now in Beta. The native macOS app opens Genie One on your desktop instead of in a browser tab, so business users can chat with data in natural language, work with their threads and documents, and use Genie Agents without a browser. See Use Genie One on desktop.

The Anysphere Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.

The connector uses the Anysphere (Cursor) Admin API to incrementally ingest team audit-log events into Databricks. Authentication uses a Cursor Admin API key.

See Anysphere Audit Logs connector.

The ai_prep_search() SQL function now accepts plain text and markdown STRING content in addition to the structured VARIANT output of ai_parse_document. You can now chunk and prepare text that you already have as a string for AI Search indexing and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, without first running it through document parsing.

See ai_prep_search function.

ai_parse_document further improves checkbox extraction and handling of strikethrough text and handwriting. It also improves extraction of text from figures. See ai_parse_document function.

Databricks SQL version 2026.32 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.32.

Lakebase updated its supported Postgres versions to 16.15, 17.11, and 18.6. These minor releases bring you the latest upstream Postgres fixes and security patches. When a new minor version is available, Lakebase applies it the next time your compute restarts. See Manage updates.

A new Genie entry in the Lakebase project sidebar opens Genie Code, the agentic Databricks assistant, scoped to your Lakebase project. Ask it in natural language to run multi-step data and AI tasks: explore your databases and tables, investigate and debug issues, and create and populate tables. It's the same Genie Code you use elsewhere in Databricks, here working on your Lakebase project, and it's now available for all Lakebase projects. See Genie Code.

Genie Code in the Lakebase project UI, opened from the Genie entry in the project sidebar, showing example prompts such as "Tell me about my Lakebase project" and "Create a table and insert data".

Govern Provisioned Throughput (PT) traffic through Unity Gateway, bringing PT models under the same access controls, usage tracking, rate limits, payload logging, and guardrails as other model traffic.

See AI governance with Unity Gateway.

The Verkada connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page.

The connector ingests organization audit logs and access users from your Verkada organization into Databricks. Authentication uses a Verkada organization API key.

See Verkada connector.

Private network gateway is in Private Preview. A private network gateway connects Databricks serverless compute to resources in your VPC, on-premises systems, and the internet through a single managed gateway, reusing your existing network connectivity configuration (NCC). Use it for broad private connectivity without onboarding each resource individually, to route serverless egress through your own security appliances for content inspection, or to send egress from a stable set of IP addresses. See Private network gateway.

When you sign in to the Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams, you can now enter your workspace URL instead of a server hostname to connect to your Databricks account. See Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams.

The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta in Unity Catalog. These privileges are least-privilege alternatives to MODIFY that let you grant write access to a table's data without also granting the ability to change its schema or other metadata.

The privileges require Databricks Runtime 18.1 or above.

For details, see Fine-grained DML privileges.

The unified trace table is in Beta. It captures every request and response across your Unity Gateway services into one Unity Catalog table in OpenTelemetry format, giving you a single place to monitor, debug, secure, and audit all AI activity.

See Monitor all AI activity using the unified trace table.

Configuring default Python package repositories is now generally available for Lakeflow pipelines and for classic compute created via the UI and API. Workspace admins can set private or authenticated registries as the workspace default for these workloads. See Configure default package repositories.

Mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for the Salesforce connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. With mTLS, Databricks and Salesforce exchange and verify client certificates to establish two-way trust, combined with the OAuth client credentials flow. Choose it for API-only users or when your organization requires mTLS. See Mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication.