Disable legacy features

Disable legacy features is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced August 2025.

An account setting that provisions new workspaces without access to the old way of doing things - no DBFS root or mounts, no Hive metastore, no no-isolation shared clusters, and no runtime older than 13.3 LTS.

• It is a single switch that turns off four separate things, three of which this site already tracks as legacy or deprecated, which makes it the closest Databricks has come to shipping a rebricked button. 🔗
• The setting has already outlived its own usefulness for new customers. Accounts created from mid-December 2025 onward cannot see it, because they never get the legacy features in the first place. 🔗

⚠ Limitations: Not available for accounts created after December 19, 2025 (those have no legacy access by default). It only affects new workspaces, a workspace admin can still enable or disable each legacy feature at the workspace level even when the account setting is Disabled, it can break workspace-creation automation that relies on DBFS root, mounts or the Hive metastore, and it can take up to five minutes to take effect. 🔗

Category

Data governance

Introduced

August 2025🔗

Also known as

disable legacy features setting, legacy features account setting

Verified

2026-09-20