https://rebricked.org/ Databricks product and feature renames, deprecations, new features, and release milestones (Private Preview through GA) - sourced and dated, newest first. en Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:17:22 +0000 https://rebricked.org/databricks/secrets-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/secrets-in-unity-catalog/#release-public-preview Data governance Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Secrets in Unity Catalog entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2026. Secrets stored and governed as securable objects in Unity Catalog, using the three-level namespace (catalog.schema.secret) and the same privileges and auditing as any other data asset. https://rebricked.org/databricks/secrets-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/secrets-in-unity-catalog/ Data governance Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Secrets in Unity Catalog is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced July 2026. Secrets stored and governed as securable objects in Unity Catalog, using the three-level namespace (catalog.schema.secret) and the same privileges and auditing as any other data asset. https://rebricked.org/databricks/managed-iceberg-materialized-views/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/managed-iceberg-materialized-views/#release-public-preview Data engineering Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Managed Iceberg materialized views entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2026. Unity Catalog managed materialized views that are readable by external Apache Iceberg clients. https://rebricked.org/databricks/managed-iceberg-materialized-views/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/managed-iceberg-materialized-views/ Data engineering Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Managed Iceberg materialized views is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced July 2026. Unity Catalog managed materialized views that are readable by external Apache Iceberg clients. https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-sql-editor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-sql-editor/ Compute / BI Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Legacy SQL editor is deprecated, replaced by New SQL editor (deprecated July 2026). The original Databricks SQL query editor UI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebridge-agentic-converter/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebridge-agentic-converter/#release-beta Developer experience Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakebridge Agentic Converter entered Beta in Databricks - July 2026. An agent that converts legacy SQL dialects - T-SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, BigQuery, Teradata - to ANSI SQL for migration projects, powered by Genie Code. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebridge-agentic-converter/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebridge-agentic-converter/ Developer experience Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakebridge Agentic Converter is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced July 2026. An agent that converts legacy SQL dialects - T-SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, BigQuery, Teradata - to ANSI SQL for migration projects, powered by Genie Code. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-spaces/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-spaces/ AI / BI Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie Spaces was renamed - Databricks now calls it Genie Agents, as of July 2026. Curated, governed conversational query spaces scoped to a business domain, letting business users ask questions of their structured data in plain English (text-to-SQL). https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-agents/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-agents/#release-ga AI / BI Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie Agents reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - July 2026. Governed, curated conversational agents that give business users a natural-language chat interface to ask questions of their data in Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-agents/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-agents/ AI / BI Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie Agents is the current Databricks name, previously Genie Spaces (since July 2026). Governed, curated conversational agents that give business users a natural-language chat interface to ask questions of their data in Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/secureconnect/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/secureconnect/#release-public-preview Data governance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 SecureConnect entered Public Preview in Databricks - June 2026. An OpenSharing option that lets a provider share data from cloud storage behind a firewall or private endpoint without allowlisting each recipient's network. https://rebricked.org/databricks/secureconnect/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/secureconnect/ Data governance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 SecureConnect is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced June 2026. An OpenSharing option that lets a provider share data from cloud storage behind a firewall or private endpoint without allowlisting each recipient's network. https://rebricked.org/databricks/opensharing/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/opensharing/#release-ga Data governance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenSharing reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2026. Open protocol and Databricks service for securely sharing data and AI assets across organizations and platforms, with or without Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/opensharing/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/opensharing/ Data governance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenSharing is the current Databricks name, previously Delta Sharing (since June 2026). Open protocol and Databricks service for securely sharing data and AI assets across organizations and platforms, with or without Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/mosaic-ai-vector-search/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/mosaic-ai-vector-search/ AI / ML Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mosaic AI Vector Search was renamed - Databricks now calls it Databricks AI Search, as of June 2026. Managed, serverless vector (similarity) search over Unity Catalog data, with one-click Delta-to-index sync, scaling to billions of embeddings. https://rebricked.org/databricks/mission-critical/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/mission-critical/#release-public-preview Data governance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mission Critical entered Public Preview in Databricks - June 2026. A workspace add-on that unlocks managed disaster recovery plus the Enhanced Security and Compliance (ESC) controls for a single compute rate, enabled per workspace from the account console. https://rebricked.org/databricks/mission-critical/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/mission-critical/ Data governance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mission Critical is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced June 2026. A workspace add-on that unlocks managed disaster recovery plus the Enhanced Security and Compliance (ESC) controls for a single compute rate, enabled per workspace from the account console. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-replay/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-replay/#release-beta Developer experience Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakehouse Replay entered Beta in Databricks - June 2026. Automatically replays a sample of read-only serverless workloads against upcoming Databricks Runtime releases to catch regressions before they reach production. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-replay/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-replay/ Developer experience Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakehouse Replay is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced June 2026. Automatically replays a sample of read-only serverless workloads against upcoming Databricks Runtime releases to catch regressions before they reach production. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-real-time/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-real-time/#release-beta Compute / BI Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakehouse Real-Time entered Beta in Databricks - June 2026. A serverless compute engine for low-latency, high-concurrency analytical queries, delivering sub-second SQL reads directly on Unity Catalog Delta and Iceberg tables. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-real-time/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-real-time/ Compute / BI Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakehouse Real-Time is a Databricks compute / bi capability, introduced June 2026. A serverless compute engine for low-latency, high-concurrency analytical queries, delivering sub-second SQL reads directly on Unity Catalog Delta and Iceberg tables. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-designer/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-designer/#release-ga Data engineering Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Designer reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2026. A visual, no-code, AI-native experience for building ETL pipelines with a drag-and-drop canvas and natural language, backed by production-ready Lakeflow pipeline code. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-designer/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-designer/ Data engineering Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Designer is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced June 2026. A visual, no-code, AI-native experience for building ETL pipelines with a drag-and-drop canvas and natural language, backed by production-ready Lakeflow pipeline code. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-one/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-one/ AI / BI Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie One is the current Databricks name, previously Genie (since June 2026). Business-user-facing UI giving non-technical users a single conversational entry point to data and AI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie/ AI / BI Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie was renamed - Databricks now calls it Genie One, as of June 2026. Business-user-facing UI giving non-technical users a single conversational entry point to data and AI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/ Data governance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Sharing was renamed - Databricks now calls it OpenSharing, as of June 2026. Open protocol and Databricks service for securely sharing live data across organizations and platforms, with or without Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-ai-search/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-ai-search/ AI / ML Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks AI Search is the current Databricks name, previously Mosaic AI Vector Search (since June 2026). Managed search over Unity Catalog data; now supports full-text and hybrid search without pre-computed embeddings. https://rebricked.org/databricks/classification/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/classification/#release-ga AI / ML Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Classification reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2026. Agent Bricks capability with a no-code UI that sorts documents and unstructured text into categories you define, built on the ai_classify SQL function. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-managed-iceberg-tables/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-managed-iceberg-tables/#release-ga Data engineering Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog managed Iceberg tables reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2026. Apache Iceberg tables created and fully managed by Unity Catalog, readable and writable by external Iceberg engines through the Unity Catalog Iceberg REST Catalog API. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-managed-iceberg-tables/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-managed-iceberg-tables/ Data engineering Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog managed Iceberg tables is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced May 2026. Apache Iceberg tables created and fully managed by Unity Catalog, readable and writable by external Iceberg engines through the Unity Catalog Iceberg REST Catalog API. https://rebricked.org/databricks/standalone-pipelines/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/standalone-pipelines/#release-beta Data engineering Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Standalone pipelines entered Beta in Databricks - May 2026. Declarative pipelines - materialized views and streaming tables - created from a notebook on serverless general compute, in SQL or Python. https://rebricked.org/databricks/standalone-pipelines/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/standalone-pipelines/ Data engineering Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Standalone pipelines is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced May 2026. Declarative pipelines - materialized views and streaming tables - created from a notebook on serverless general compute, in SQL or Python. https://rebricked.org/databricks/new-sql-editor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/new-sql-editor/#release-ga Compute / BI Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 New SQL editor reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2026. The redesigned Databricks SQL query editor, with multi-statement tabs, inline results, and Genie-assisted authoring. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-pipelines-editor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-pipelines-editor/#release-ga Data engineering Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Pipelines Editor reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2026. The IDE for developing Lakeflow (Spark Declarative) pipelines - code-first, folder-based, with selective execution, data previews, and pipeline graphs on one surface. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/#release-ga BI / Dashboards Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL alerts (new) reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2026. The rebuilt Databricks SQL alerts - threshold notifications on scheduled queries, created and managed from a single UI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-cli/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-cli/#release-ga Developer experience Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks CLI (v0.205+) reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2026. The modern Databricks command-line interface - a standalone, dependency-free binary with complete coverage of the Databricks REST API. https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/ Data governance Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced May 2026. Unity Catalog access-control model that grants or restricts access by evaluating governed tags (attributes) on securables, so one policy on a catalog or schema applies to everything beneath it. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-designer/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-designer/#release-public-preview Data engineering Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Designer entered Public Preview in Databricks - April 2026. A visual, no-code, AI-native experience for building ETL pipelines with a drag-and-drop canvas and natural language, backed by production-ready Lakeflow pipeline code. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-one/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-one/ AI / BI Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks One was renamed - Databricks now calls it Genie One, as of April 2026. Business-user-facing UI giving non-technical users a single conversational entry point to data and AI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/#release-ga Data governance Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Attribute-based access control (ABAC) reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - April 2026. Unity Catalog access-control model that grants or restricts access by evaluating governed tags (attributes) on securables, so one policy on a catalog or schema applies to everything beneath it. https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-dashboards/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-dashboards/ BI / Dashboards Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Legacy dashboards is retired, replaced by AI/BI Dashboards (retired March 2026). The deprecation-era name for the original Redash-based Databricks SQL dashboards. https://rebricked.org/databricks/information-extraction/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/information-extraction/#release-public-preview AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Information Extraction entered Public Preview in Databricks - March 2026. Agent Bricks capability with a no-code UI that turns unstructured documents into a structured table by extracting fields against a schema. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-code/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-code/#release-ga AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie Code reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - March 2026. AI coding assistant that generates and fixes SQL and Python across notebooks, the SQL editor, and pipelines, grounded in Unity Catalog metadata. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-code/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-code/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie Code is the current Databricks name, previously Databricks Assistant (since March 2026). AI coding assistant that generates and fixes SQL and Python across notebooks, the SQL editor, and pipelines, grounded in Unity Catalog metadata. https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-feature-engineering/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-feature-engineering/#release-beta AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Declarative Feature Engineering entered Beta in Databricks - March 2026. APIs to declaratively define and compute time-windowed aggregation features in Unity Catalog, materialize them to Delta or Lakebase, and serve them to online model serving. https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-feature-engineering/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-feature-engineering/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Declarative Feature Engineering is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced March 2026. APIs to declaratively define and compute time-windowed aggregation features in Unity Catalog, materialize them to Delta or Lakebase, and serve them to online model serving. https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-automation-bundles/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-automation-bundles/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Declarative Automation Bundles is the current Databricks name, previously Databricks Asset Bundles (since March 2026). Infrastructure-as-code format for defining and deploying Databricks resources (jobs, pipelines, etc.) as a versioned bundle. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-assistant/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-assistant/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Assistant was renamed - Databricks now calls it Genie Code, as of March 2026. AI coding assistant that generates and fixes SQL and Python across notebooks, the SQL editor, and pipelines, grounded in Unity Catalog metadata. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-asset-bundles/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-asset-bundles/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Asset Bundles was renamed - Databricks now calls it Declarative Automation Bundles, as of March 2026. Infrastructure-as-code format for defining and deploying Databricks resources (jobs, pipelines, etc.) as a versioned bundle. https://rebricked.org/databricks/classification/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/classification/#release-public-preview AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Classification entered Public Preview in Databricks - March 2026. Agent Bricks capability with a no-code UI that sorts documents and unstructured text into categories you define, built on the ai_classify SQL function. https://rebricked.org/databricks/classification/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/classification/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Classification is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced March 2026. Agent Bricks capability with a no-code UI that sorts documents and unstructured text into categories you define, built on the ai_classify SQL function. https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-runtime/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-runtime/#release-public-preview Compute / BI Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI Runtime (GPU serverless) entered Public Preview in Databricks - March 2026. GPU support for Databricks serverless compute - on-demand accelerators for deep-learning training and fine-tuning, single-node and multi-node, with no clusters to provision. https://rebricked.org/databricks/supervisor-agent/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/supervisor-agent/#release-ga AI / ML Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Supervisor Agent reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - February 2026. Agent Bricks capability that orchestrates multiple specialized agents, routing each request to the right one. https://rebricked.org/databricks/supervisor-agent/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/supervisor-agent/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Supervisor Agent is the current Databricks name, previously Agent Bricks: Multi-Agent Supervisor (since February 2026). Agent Bricks capability that orchestrates multiple specialized agents, routing each request to the right one. https://rebricked.org/databricks/simba-spark-odbc-driver/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/simba-spark-odbc-driver/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Simba Spark ODBC Driver was renamed - Databricks now calls it Databricks ODBC Driver, as of February 2026. The ODBC driver for connecting BI tools and applications to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebase/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebase/ Data engineering Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakebase is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced February 2026. A fully managed, serverless Postgres (OLTP) database integrated into the Databricks platform, for building real-time transactional apps alongside lakehouse data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/discover/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/discover/#release-beta Data governance Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Discover entered Beta in Databricks - February 2026. A centralized Unity Catalog interface for searching, browsing, and previewing governed data assets, organized into business domains. https://rebricked.org/databricks/discover/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/discover/ Data governance Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Discover is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced February 2026. A centralized Unity Catalog interface for searching, browsing, and previewing governed data assets, organized into business domains. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-odbc-driver/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-odbc-driver/#release-ga Developer experience Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks ODBC Driver reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - February 2026. The ODBC driver for connecting BI tools and applications to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-odbc-driver/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-odbc-driver/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks ODBC Driver is the current Databricks name, previously Simba Spark ODBC Driver (since February 2026). The ODBC driver for connecting BI tools and applications to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters. https://rebricked.org/databricks/agent-bricks-multi-agent-supervisor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/agent-bricks-multi-agent-supervisor/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Agent Bricks: Multi-Agent Supervisor was renamed - Databricks now calls it Supervisor Agent, as of February 2026. Agent Bricks capability that orchestrates multiple specialized agents, routing each request to the right one. https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-workspaces/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-workspaces/#release-ga Compute / BI Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Serverless workspaces reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - January 2026. A workspace preconfigured with serverless compute and default storage - a fully managed SaaS experience with no compute or storage running in your own cloud account. https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-workspaces/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-workspaces/ Compute / BI Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Serverless workspaces is a Databricks compute / bi capability, introduced January 2026. A workspace preconfigured with serverless compute and default storage - a fully managed SaaS experience with no compute or storage running in your own cloud account. https://rebricked.org/databricks/personal-access-tokens/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/personal-access-tokens/ Developer experience Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Personal access tokens (PATs) is legacy, replaced by OAuth token federation (legacy since 2026). Long-lived bearer tokens used to authenticate to the Databricks REST API, CLI, and integrations. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebase/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebase/#release-ga Data engineering Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lakebase reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - January 2026. A fully managed, serverless Postgres (OLTP) database integrated into the Databricks platform, for building real-time transactional apps alongside lakehouse data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/knowledge-assistant/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/knowledge-assistant/#release-ga AI / ML Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Knowledge Assistant reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - January 2026. Agent Bricks capability: a managed, document-grounded Q&A chatbot that answers questions over your uploaded documents with citations. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-one/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-one/#release-ga AI / BI Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Genie One reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - January 2026. Business-user-facing UI giving non-technical users a single conversational entry point to data and AI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/custom-llm/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/custom-llm/ AI / ML Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Custom LLM is legacy (legacy since 2026). Agent Bricks capability for building a task-specialized text LLM from your own data - summarization, classification, transformation, and generation - with auto-optimized cost versus quality. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/#release-public-preview BI / Dashboards Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL alerts (new) entered Public Preview in Databricks - November 2025. The rebuilt Databricks SQL alerts - threshold notifications on scheduled queries, created and managed from a single UI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/#release-public-preview Data governance Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Attribute-based access control (ABAC) entered Public Preview in Databricks - November 2025. Unity Catalog access-control model that grants or restricts access by evaluating governed tags (attributes) on securables, so one policy on a catalog or schema applies to everything beneath it. https://rebricked.org/databricks/multi-file-editor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/multi-file-editor/ Data engineering Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 multi-file editor was renamed - Databricks now calls it Lakeflow Pipelines Editor, as of September 2025. The IDE for developing Lakeflow (Spark Declarative) pipelines - code-first, folder-based, with selective execution, data previews, and pipeline graphs on one surface. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-pipelines-editor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-pipelines-editor/#release-public-preview Data engineering Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Pipelines Editor entered Public Preview in Databricks - September 2025. The IDE for developing Lakeflow (Spark Declarative) pipelines - code-first, folder-based, with selective execution, data previews, and pipeline graphs on one surface. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-pipelines-editor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-pipelines-editor/ Data engineering Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Pipelines Editor is the current Databricks name, previously multi-file editor (since September 2025). The IDE for developing Lakeflow (Spark Declarative) pipelines - code-first, folder-based, with selective execution, data previews, and pipeline graphs on one surface. https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-one/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/genie-one/#release-public-preview AI / BI Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Genie One entered Public Preview in Databricks - September 2025. Business-user-facing UI giving non-technical users a single conversational entry point to data and AI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-workspaces/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-workspaces/#release-public-preview Compute / BI Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Serverless workspaces entered Public Preview in Databricks - August 2025. A workspace preconfigured with serverless compute and default storage - a fully managed SaaS experience with no compute or storage running in your own cloud account. https://rebricked.org/databricks/oauth-token-federation/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/oauth-token-federation/#release-ga Developer experience Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 OAuth token federation reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2025. Lets external systems authenticate to Databricks using their own identity provider's OIDC/JWT tokens, exchanged for Databricks access - with no stored Databricks secrets. https://rebricked.org/databricks/supervisor-agent/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/supervisor-agent/#release-beta AI / ML Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Supervisor Agent entered Beta in Databricks - July 2025. Agent Bricks capability that orchestrates multiple specialized agents, routing each request to the right one. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-managed-iceberg-tables/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-managed-iceberg-tables/#release-public-preview Data engineering Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog managed Iceberg tables entered Public Preview in Databricks - June 2025. Apache Iceberg tables created and fully managed by Unity Catalog, readable and writable by external Iceberg engines through the Unity Catalog Iceberg REST Catalog API. https://rebricked.org/databricks/liquid-clustering/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/liquid-clustering/#release-ga Data engineering Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Liquid Clustering reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2025. Delta Lake data-layout optimization that supersedes Z-ordering and Hive-style partitioning; clustering keys can evolve without rewriting existing data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-declarative-pipelines/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-declarative-pipelines/#release-ga Data engineering Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2025. Declarative framework for batch and streaming ETL pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-declarative-pipelines/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-declarative-pipelines/ Data engineering Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines is the current Databricks name, previously Delta Live Tables (since June 2025). Declarative framework for batch and streaming ETL pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebase/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakebase/#release-public-preview Data engineering Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lakebase entered Public Preview in Databricks - June 2025. A fully managed, serverless Postgres (OLTP) database integrated into the Databricks platform, for building real-time transactional apps alongside lakehouse data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/knowledge-assistant/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/knowledge-assistant/#release-beta AI / ML Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Knowledge Assistant entered Beta in Databricks - June 2025. Agent Bricks capability: a managed, document-grounded Q&A chatbot that answers questions over your uploaded documents with citations. https://rebricked.org/databricks/knowledge-assistant/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/knowledge-assistant/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Knowledge Assistant is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced June 2025. Agent Bricks capability: a managed, document-grounded Q&A chatbot that answers questions over your uploaded documents with citations. https://rebricked.org/databricks/information-extraction/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/information-extraction/#release-beta AI / ML Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Information Extraction entered Beta in Databricks - June 2025. Agent Bricks capability with a no-code UI that turns unstructured documents into a structured table by extracting fields against a schema. https://rebricked.org/databricks/information-extraction/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/information-extraction/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Information Extraction is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced June 2025. Agent Bricks capability with a no-code UI that turns unstructured documents into a structured table by extracting fields against a schema. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-live-tables/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-live-tables/ Data engineering Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Live Tables was renamed - Databricks now calls it Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, as of June 2025. Declarative framework for batch and streaming ETL pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/custom-llm/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/custom-llm/#release-beta AI / ML Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Custom LLM entered Beta in Databricks - June 2025. Agent Bricks capability for building a task-specialized text LLM from your own data - summarization, classification, transformation, and generation - with auto-optimized cost versus quality. https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/attribute-based-access-control/#release-beta Data governance Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Attribute-based access control (ABAC) entered Beta in Databricks - June 2025. Unity Catalog access-control model that grants or restricts access by evaluating governed tags (attributes) on securables, so one policy on a catalog or schema applies to everything beneath it. https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-runtime/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-runtime/#release-beta Compute / BI Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 AI Runtime (GPU serverless) entered Beta in Databricks - June 2025. GPU support for Databricks serverless compute - on-demand accelerators for deep-learning training and fine-tuning, single-node and multi-node, with no clusters to provision. https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-runtime/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-runtime/ Compute / BI Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 AI Runtime (GPU serverless) is a Databricks compute / bi capability, introduced June 2025. GPU support for Databricks serverless compute - on-demand accelerators for deep-learning training and fine-tuning, single-node and multi-node, with no clusters to provision. https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-gateway/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-gateway/#release-ga AI / ML Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 AI Gateway reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2025. A centralized governance and monitoring layer for model serving endpoints - permissions, rate limits, payload logging, and safety guardrails for the generative-AI models an organization uses. https://rebricked.org/databricks/agent-bricks/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/agent-bricks/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Agent Bricks is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced June 2025. Databricks' automated, declarative way to build production AI agents: you describe the task in natural language and connect your data, and it auto-generates evaluations and auto-optimizes the agent. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/#release-beta BI / Dashboards Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL alerts (new) entered Beta in Databricks - May 2025. The rebuilt Databricks SQL alerts - threshold notifications on scheduled queries, created and managed from a single UI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-apps/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-apps/#release-ga Developer experience Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Apps reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2025. A serverless way to build and deploy interactive data and AI applications - dashboards, chatbots, forms, ops tools - directly on Databricks, in common Python or JavaScript frameworks and governed by Unity Catalog. https://rebricked.org/databricks/standard-and-dedicated-access-modes/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/standard-and-dedicated-access-modes/#release-ga Compute / BI Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Standard and Dedicated access modes reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - March 2025. Compute access modes that determine Unity Catalog support, language availability, and whether a cluster is shared. https://rebricked.org/databricks/standard-and-dedicated-access-modes/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/standard-and-dedicated-access-modes/ Compute / BI Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Standard and Dedicated access modes is the current Databricks name, previously Shared / Single user access modes (since March 2025). Compute access modes that determine Unity Catalog support, language availability, and whether a cluster is shared. https://rebricked.org/databricks/shared-single-user-access-modes/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/shared-single-user-access-modes/ Compute / BI Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Shared / Single user access modes was renamed - Databricks now calls it Standard and Dedicated access modes, as of March 2025. Compute access modes that determine Unity Catalog support, language availability, and whether a cluster is shared. https://rebricked.org/databricks/liquid-clustering/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/liquid-clustering/#release-public-preview Data engineering Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Liquid Clustering entered Public Preview in Databricks - February 2025. Delta Lake data-layout optimization that supersedes Z-ordering and Hive-style partitioning; clustering keys can evolve without rewriting existing data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-clean-rooms/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-clean-rooms/ Data governance Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Clean Rooms is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced February 2025. A secure, privacy-protecting environment where multiple parties collaborate on sensitive data - sharing tables, volumes, and views and running approved notebook code - without direct access to each other'… https://rebricked.org/databricks/workflows/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workflows/ Data engineering Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Workflows was renamed - Databricks now calls it Lakeflow Jobs, as of 2025. Orchestration for multi-task jobs and pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/oauth-token-federation/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/oauth-token-federation/#release-public-preview Developer experience Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 OAuth token federation entered Public Preview in Databricks - January 2025. Lets external systems authenticate to Databricks using their own identity provider's OIDC/JWT tokens, exchanged for Databricks access - with no stored Databricks secrets. https://rebricked.org/databricks/oauth-token-federation/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/oauth-token-federation/ Developer experience Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 OAuth token federation is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced January 2025. Lets external systems authenticate to Databricks using their own identity provider's OIDC/JWT tokens, exchanged for Databricks access - with no stored Databricks secrets. https://rebricked.org/databricks/no-isolation-shared-access-mode/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/no-isolation-shared-access-mode/ Compute / BI Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 No isolation shared access mode is deprecated, replaced by Standard and Dedicated access modes (deprecated 2025). The legacy compute access mode that shares a cluster across users without process isolation or Unity Catalog governance. https://rebricked.org/databricks/new-sql-editor/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/new-sql-editor/ Compute / BI Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 New SQL editor is a Databricks compute / bi capability, introduced 2025. The redesigned Databricks SQL query editor, with multi-statement tabs, inline results, and Genie-assisted authoring. https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-sql-alerts/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-sql-alerts/ BI / Dashboards Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Legacy SQL alerts is deprecated, replaced by Databricks SQL alerts (new) (deprecated 2025). The original Databricks SQL alerts that notified when a scheduled query crossed a threshold. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-jobs/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-jobs/#release-ga Data engineering Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Jobs reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - 2025. Orchestration for multi-task jobs and pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-jobs/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeflow-jobs/ Data engineering Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeflow Jobs is the current Databricks name, previously Workflows (since 2025). Orchestration for multi-task jobs and pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/hive-metastore/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/hive-metastore/ Data governance Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Hive metastore is legacy, replaced by Unity Catalog (legacy since 2025). The per-workspace metastore that catalogs tables and views within a single workspace, predating Unity Catalog. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-alerts/ BI / Dashboards Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL alerts (new) is a Databricks bi / dashboards capability, introduced 2025. The rebuilt Databricks SQL alerts - threshold notifications on scheduled queries, created and managed from a single UI. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-clean-rooms/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-clean-rooms/#release-ga Data governance Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Clean Rooms reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - January 2025. A secure, privacy-protecting environment where multiple parties collaborate on sensitive data - sharing tables, volumes, and views and running approved notebook code - without direct access to each other's data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-apps/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-apps/#release-public-preview Developer experience Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Apps entered Public Preview in Databricks - October 2024. A serverless way to build and deploy interactive data and AI applications - dashboards, chatbots, forms, ops tools - directly on Databricks, in common Python or JavaScript frameworks and governed by Unity Catalog. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-apps/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-apps/ Developer experience Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Apps is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced October 2024. A serverless way to build and deploy interactive data and AI applications - dashboards, chatbots, forms, ops tools - directly on Databricks, in common Python or JavaScript frameworks and governed by Unity Ca… https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-gateway/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-gateway/#release-public-preview AI / ML Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 AI Gateway entered Public Preview in Databricks - September 2024. A centralized governance and monitoring layer for model serving endpoints - permissions, rate limits, payload logging, and safety guardrails for the generative-AI models an organization uses. https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-gateway/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-gateway/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 AI Gateway is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced September 2024. A centralized governance and monitoring layer for model serving endpoints - permissions, rate limits, payload logging, and safety guardrails for the generative-AI models an organization uses. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-federation/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-federation/#release-ga Data governance Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lakehouse Federation reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2024. Query external databases (Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, Redshift, and more) in place through Unity Catalog foreign catalogs, with query pushdown and governance - no data movement. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-clean-rooms/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-clean-rooms/#release-public-preview Data governance Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Clean Rooms entered Public Preview in Databricks - August 2024. A secure, privacy-protecting environment where multiple parties collaborate on sensitive data - sharing tables, volumes, and views and running approved notebook code - without direct access to each other's data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeview-dashboards/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeview-dashboards/ BI / Dashboards Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeview dashboards was renamed - Databricks now calls it AI/BI Dashboards, as of June 2024. AI-assisted dashboards for visualizing and sharing query results. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-assistant/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-assistant/#release-ga AI / ML Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Assistant reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2024. AI coding assistant that generates and fixes SQL and Python across notebooks, the SQL editor, and pipelines, grounded in Unity Catalog metadata. https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-bi-dashboards/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-bi-dashboards/#release-ga BI / Dashboards Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 AI/BI Dashboards reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2024. AI-assisted dashboards for visualizing and sharing query results. https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-bi-dashboards/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/ai-bi-dashboards/ BI / Dashboards Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 AI/BI Dashboards is the current Databricks name, previously Lakeview dashboards (since June 2024). AI-assisted dashboards for visualizing and sharing query results. https://rebricked.org/databricks/mosaic-ai-vector-search/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/mosaic-ai-vector-search/#release-ga AI / ML Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Mosaic AI Vector Search reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2024. Managed, serverless vector (similarity) search over Unity Catalog data, with one-click Delta-to-index sync, scaling to billions of embeddings. https://rebricked.org/databricks/git-folders/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/git-folders/#release-ga Developer experience Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Git folders reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2024. In-workspace Git client for version-controlling notebooks and files. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-ai-search/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-ai-search/#release-ga AI / ML Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks AI Search reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - May 2024. Managed search over Unity Catalog data; now supports full-text and hybrid search without pre-computed embeddings. https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-automation-bundles/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-automation-bundles/#release-ga Developer experience Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Declarative Automation Bundles reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - April 2024. Infrastructure-as-code format for defining and deploying Databricks resources (jobs, pipelines, etc.) as a versioned bundle. https://rebricked.org/databricks/git-folders/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/git-folders/ Developer experience Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Git folders is the current Databricks name, previously Databricks Repos (since March 2024). In-workspace Git client for version-controlling notebooks and files. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-repos/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-repos/ Developer experience Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Repos was renamed - Databricks now calls it Git folders, as of March 2024. In-workspace Git client for version-controlling notebooks and files. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-volumes/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-volumes/#release-ga Data governance Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog Volumes reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - February 2024. Unity Catalog objects that govern non-tabular data (files of any format) alongside tables - a recommended alternative to the deprecated DBFS mounts. https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-model-registry/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-model-registry/ AI / ML Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Workspace Model Registry is legacy, replaced by Models in Unity Catalog (legacy since 2024). The legacy per-workspace MLflow model registry, including model stages (None/Staging/Production/Archived). https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-feature-store/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-feature-store/ AI / ML Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Workspace Feature Store is deprecated, replaced by Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog (deprecated 2024). The legacy per-workspace feature store, for workspaces not enabled for Unity Catalog, with its own Feature Store UI to browse and search features. https://rebricked.org/databricks/liquid-clustering/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/liquid-clustering/ Data engineering Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Liquid Clustering is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced 2024. Delta Lake data-layout optimization that supersedes Z-ordering and Hive-style partitioning; clustering keys can evolve without rewriting existing data. https://rebricked.org/databricks/dbfs-mounts/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/dbfs-mounts/ Data governance Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 DBFS mounts is deprecated, replaced by Unity Catalog Volumes (deprecated 2024). Mounting cloud object storage into the DBFS namespace under /mnt. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-vector-search/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-vector-search/ AI / ML Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Vector Search was renamed - Databricks now calls it Databricks AI Search, as of 2024. Managed vector (similarity) search over Unity Catalog data, turning a Delta table into an auto-syncing vector index for RAG apps. https://rebricked.org/databricks/init-scripts-on-dbfs/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/init-scripts-on-dbfs/ Developer experience Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Init scripts on DBFS is retired, replaced by Unity Catalog Volumes (retired December 2023). Cluster initialization shell scripts stored on DBFS, plus the older legacy global and cluster-named init-script mechanisms. https://rebricked.org/databricks/mosaic-ai-vector-search/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/mosaic-ai-vector-search/#release-public-preview AI / ML Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Mosaic AI Vector Search entered Public Preview in Databricks - November 2023. Managed, serverless vector (similarity) search over Unity Catalog data, with one-click Delta-to-index sync, scaling to billions of embeddings. https://rebricked.org/databricks/models-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/models-in-unity-catalog/#release-ga AI / ML Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Models in Unity Catalog reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - October 2023. Model lifecycle management governed by Unity Catalog - registered models live in the three-level namespace with aliases instead of stages. https://rebricked.org/databricks/feature-engineering-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/feature-engineering-in-unity-catalog/#release-ga AI / ML Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - October 2023. Feature management built on Unity Catalog - any Delta table with a primary key can serve as a feature table, with UC lineage and governance. https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-automation-bundles/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/declarative-automation-bundles/#release-public-preview Developer experience Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Declarative Automation Bundles entered Public Preview in Databricks - October 2023. Infrastructure-as-code format for defining and deploying Databricks resources (jobs, pipelines, etc.) as a versioned bundle. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeview-dashboards/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakeview-dashboards/#release-public-preview BI / Dashboards Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Lakeview dashboards entered Public Preview in Databricks - September 2023. AI-assisted dashboards for visualizing and sharing query results. https://rebricked.org/databricks/data-explorer/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/data-explorer/ Data governance Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Data Explorer was renamed - Databricks now calls it Catalog Explorer, as of September 2023. In-workspace UI for browsing Unity Catalog data - schemas and tables - viewing sample data, and handing out grants. https://rebricked.org/databricks/catalog-explorer/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/catalog-explorer/#release-ga Data governance Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Catalog Explorer reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - September 2023. In-workspace UI for browsing and managing Unity Catalog securables - schemas, tables, models, functions, and other assets. https://rebricked.org/databricks/catalog-explorer/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/catalog-explorer/ Data governance Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Catalog Explorer is the current Databricks name, previously Data Explorer (since September 2023). In-workspace UI for browsing and managing Unity Catalog securables - schemas, tables, models, functions, and other assets. https://rebricked.org/databricks/feature-engineering-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/feature-engineering-in-unity-catalog/#release-public-preview AI / ML Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog entered Public Preview in Databricks - August 2023. Feature management built on Unity Catalog - any Delta table with a primary key can serve as a feature table, with UC lineage and governance. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-volumes/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-volumes/#release-public-preview Data governance Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog Volumes entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2023. Unity Catalog objects that govern non-tabular data (files of any format) alongside tables - a recommended alternative to the deprecated DBFS mounts. https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-federation/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-federation/#release-public-preview Data governance Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Lakehouse Federation entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2023. Query external databases (Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, Redshift, and more) in place through Unity Catalog foreign catalogs, with query pushdown and governance - no data movement. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-assistant/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-assistant/#release-public-preview AI / ML Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Assistant entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2023. AI coding assistant that generates and fixes SQL and Python across notebooks, the SQL editor, and pipelines, grounded in Unity Catalog metadata. https://rebricked.org/databricks/models-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/models-in-unity-catalog/#release-public-preview AI / ML Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Models in Unity Catalog entered Public Preview in Databricks - June 2023. Model lifecycle management governed by Unity Catalog - registered models live in the three-level namespace with aliases instead of stages. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-connect/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-connect/#release-ga Developer experience Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Connect (13.3 LTS+) reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - June 2023. The client library for running local DataFrame and Python code against a remote Databricks cluster, rebuilt on Spark Connect. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-cli/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-cli/#release-public-preview Developer experience Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks CLI (v0.205+) entered Public Preview in Databricks - June 2023. The modern Databricks command-line interface - a standalone, dependency-free binary with complete coverage of the Databricks REST API. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-connect/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-connect/#release-public-preview Developer experience Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Connect (13.3 LTS+) entered Public Preview in Databricks - April 2023. The client library for running local DataFrame and Python code against a remote Databricks cluster, rebuilt on Spark Connect. https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-real-time-inference/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-real-time-inference/ AI / ML Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Serverless Real-Time Inference was renamed - Databricks now calls it Model Serving, as of March 2023. Highly available, low-latency service for deploying ML and GenAI models behind autoscaling REST endpoints. https://rebricked.org/databricks/model-serving/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/model-serving/#release-ga AI / ML Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Model Serving reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - March 2023. Highly available, low-latency service for deploying ML and GenAI models behind autoscaling REST endpoints. https://rebricked.org/databricks/model-serving/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/model-serving/ AI / ML Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Model Serving is the current Databricks name, previously Serverless Real-Time Inference (since March 2023). Highly available, low-latency service for deploying ML and GenAI models behind autoscaling REST endpoints. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-volumes/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog-volumes/ Data governance Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog Volumes is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced 2023. Unity Catalog objects that govern non-tabular data (files of any format) alongside tables - a recommended alternative to the deprecated DBFS mounts. https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-warehouse/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-warehouse/#release-ga Compute / BI Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 SQL Warehouse reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - 2023. SQL-optimized compute that powers Databricks SQL. https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-warehouse/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-warehouse/ Compute / BI Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 SQL Warehouse is the current Databricks name, previously SQL Endpoint (since 2023). SQL-optimized compute that powers Databricks SQL. https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-endpoint/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-endpoint/ Compute / BI Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 SQL Endpoint was renamed - Databricks now calls it SQL Warehouse, as of 2023. SQL-optimized compute that powers Databricks SQL. https://rebricked.org/databricks/models-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/models-in-unity-catalog/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Models in Unity Catalog is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced 2023. Model lifecycle management governed by Unity Catalog - registered models live in the three-level namespace with aliases instead of stages. https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-databricks-connect/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-databricks-connect/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Legacy Databricks Connect is deprecated, replaced by Databricks Connect (13.3 LTS+) (deprecated 2023). The original Databricks Connect client for running local code against a remote cluster, on Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS and below. https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-databricks-cli/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/legacy-databricks-cli/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Legacy Databricks CLI is legacy, replaced by Databricks CLI (v0.205+) (legacy since 2023). The original Python-based command-line interface (versions 0.18 and below). https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-federation/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/lakehouse-federation/ Data governance Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Lakehouse Federation is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced 2023. Query external databases (Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, Redshift, and more) in place through Unity Catalog foreign catalogs, with query pushdown and governance - no data movement. https://rebricked.org/databricks/feature-engineering-in-unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/feature-engineering-in-unity-catalog/ AI / ML Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced 2023. Feature management built on Unity Catalog - any Delta table with a primary key can serve as a feature table, with UC lineage and governance. https://rebricked.org/databricks/dbx/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/dbx/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 dbx is deprecated, replaced by Declarative Automation Bundles (deprecated 2023). Databricks Labs CLI that templated and deployed jobs via the Jobs API. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-dashboards/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql-dashboards/ BI / Dashboards Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL dashboards was renamed - Databricks now calls it AI/BI Dashboards, as of 2023. Databricks SQL's original built-in dashboards for pinning query visualizations onto a shared, drag-and-drop canvas. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-connect/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-connect/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Connect (13.3 LTS+) is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced 2023. The client library for running local DataFrame and Python code against a remote Databricks cluster, rebuilt on Spark Connect. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-cli/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-cli/ Developer experience Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks CLI (v0.205+) is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced 2023. The modern Databricks command-line interface - a standalone, dependency-free binary with complete coverage of the Databricks REST API. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog/#release-ga Data governance Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2022. The unified governance layer for data and AI across Databricks - a three-level namespace (catalog.schema.object) with centralized access control, lineage, and auditing. https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-real-time-inference/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/serverless-real-time-inference/#release-public-preview AI / ML Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Serverless Real-Time Inference entered Public Preview in Databricks - August 2022. Highly available, low-latency service for deploying ML and GenAI models behind autoscaling REST endpoints. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/#release-ga Data governance Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Sharing reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2022. Open protocol and Databricks service for securely sharing live data across organizations and platforms, with or without Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-live-tables/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-live-tables/#release-ga Data engineering Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Live Tables reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - April 2022. Declarative framework for batch and streaming ETL pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-feature-store/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-feature-store/#release-ga AI / ML Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Workspace Feature Store reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - March 2022. The legacy per-workspace feature store, for workspaces not enabled for Unity Catalog, with its own Feature Store UI to browse and search features. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog/#release-public-preview Data governance Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog entered Public Preview in Databricks - March 2022. The unified governance layer for data and AI across Databricks - a three-level namespace (catalog.schema.object) with centralized access control, lineage, and auditing. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/#release-public-preview Data governance Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Sharing entered Public Preview in Databricks - March 2022. Open protocol and Databricks service for securely sharing live data across organizations and platforms, with or without Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/unity-catalog/ Data governance Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Unity Catalog is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced 2022. The unified governance layer for data and AI across Databricks - a three-level namespace (catalog.schema.object) with centralized access control, lineage, and auditing. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-sharing/#release-private-preview Data governance Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Sharing entered Private Preview in Databricks - January 2022. Open protocol and Databricks service for securely sharing live data across organizations and platforms, with or without Databricks. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql/#release-ga Compute / BI Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - December 2021. The serverless data warehouse for running SQL queries, dashboards, and BI on the lakehouse. https://rebricked.org/databricks/workflows/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workflows/#release-ga Data engineering Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Workflows reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - October 2021. Orchestration for multi-task jobs and pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-repos/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-repos/#release-ga Developer experience Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Repos reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2021. In-workspace Git client for version-controlling notebooks and files. https://rebricked.org/databricks/workflows/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workflows/#release-public-preview Data engineering Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Workflows entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2021. Orchestration for multi-task jobs and pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-feature-store/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-feature-store/#release-public-preview AI / ML Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Workspace Feature Store entered Public Preview in Databricks - May 2021. The legacy per-workspace feature store, for workspaces not enabled for Unity Catalog, with its own Feature Store UI to browse and search features. https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-analytics/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/sql-analytics/ Compute / BI Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 SQL Analytics was renamed - Databricks now calls it Databricks SQL, as of May 2021. The SQL query, dashboard, and BI service that let data analysts run data-warehouse-style workloads directly on the data lake. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-live-tables/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-live-tables/#release-public-preview Data engineering Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Live Tables entered Public Preview in Databricks - May 2021. Declarative framework for batch and streaming ETL pipelines. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql/ Compute / BI Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL is the current Databricks name, previously SQL Analytics (since May 2021). The serverless data warehouse for running SQL queries, dashboards, and BI on the lakehouse. https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-model-registry/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-model-registry/#release-ga AI / ML Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Workspace Model Registry reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - November 2020. The legacy per-workspace MLflow model registry, including model stages (None/Staging/Production/Archived). https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-sql/#release-public-preview Compute / BI Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks SQL entered Public Preview in Databricks - November 2020. The serverless data warehouse for running SQL queries, dashboards, and BI on the lakehouse. https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-model-registry/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/workspace-model-registry/#release-public-preview AI / ML Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Workspace Model Registry entered Public Preview in Databricks - March 2020. The legacy per-workspace MLflow model registry, including model stages (None/Staging/Production/Archived). https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-lake/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-lake/ Data engineering Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Lake is the current Databricks name, previously Databricks Delta (since April 2019). The open table format that adds ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and time travel to data lakes. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-delta/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-delta/ Data engineering Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Delta was renamed - Databricks now calls it Delta Lake, as of April 2019. The proprietary Databricks table format that adds ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and time travel to data lakes. https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-lake/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/delta-lake/#release-ga Data engineering Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Delta Lake reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - February 2019. The open table format that adds ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and time travel to data lakes. https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-delta/ https://rebricked.org/databricks/databricks-delta/#release-private-preview Data engineering Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Databricks Delta entered Private Preview in Databricks - May 2018. The proprietary Databricks table format that adds ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and time travel to data lakes.