REbricked - Databricks & Snowflake renames, deprecations & new features

[Deprecated] Databricks-hosted RStudio Server

Sun, 01 Aug 2027 00:00:00 +0000

Databricks-hosted RStudio Server is deprecated, replaced by Posit Workbench (deprecated August 2027). RStudio Server running on the Databricks driver node, launched straight from the workspace so R users got a full IDE against cluster data without leaving the platform.

[Legacy] Supervisor Agent

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Supervisor Agent is legacy, replaced by Genie Agents (legacy since October 2026). Agent Bricks capability that orchestrates multiple specialized agents, routing each request to the right one.

[Legacy] Knowledge Assistant

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Knowledge Assistant is legacy, replaced by Genie Agents (legacy since October 2026). Agent Bricks capability: a managed, document-grounded Q&A chatbot that answers questions over your uploaded documents with citations.

[Beta] Genie Code CLI

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Genie Code CLI entered Beta in Databricks - October 2026. A coding agent that runs locally in your terminal, tuned for data and AI work on Databricks - it edits local files, runs commands, and uses the Databricks CLI to discover data and build and deploy pipelines, models, and apps.

[New feature] Genie Code CLI

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Genie Code CLI is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced October 2026. A coding agent that runs locally in your terminal, tuned for data and AI work on Databricks - it edits local files, runs commands, and uses the Databricks CLI to discover data and build and deploy pipelines, models, and a…

[GA] Discover

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Discover reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - October 2026. A centralized Unity Catalog interface for searching, browsing, and previewing governed data assets, organized into business domains.

[GA] Declarative Feature Engineering

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Declarative Feature Engineering reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - October 2026. APIs to define features declaratively from Delta tables, Kafka streams, and request-time data, with time-windowed aggregations that Databricks computes, materializes, and serves for training and online…

[Legacy] Custom Agents

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Custom Agents is legacy, replaced by Agent Bricks CLI (legacy since October 2026). The original code-first brick in Agent Bricks - author an agent in Python with whatever library you like, wrap it in an MLflow ResponsesAgent, and deploy it as a Databricks App with the MLflow AgentServer or to Mod…

[New feature] Agent Runtime

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agent Runtime is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced October 2026. Databricks-hosted serverless compute for agents - it runs your agent server, such as DurableAgentServer, on Databricks Apps, so you deploy agent code from the Agent Bricks CLI instead of provisioning servers.

[Guide] Snowflake's Databricks comparison, fact-checked claim by claim

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Snowflake published a fifteen-minute case against Databricks in September 2026. We took every checkable claim about Databricks to the Databricks docs. Some hold. Some were true until a few weeks before publication. One uses a product name Databricks dropped in June.

[New name] Unity Gateway Skills

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unity Gateway Skills is the current Databricks name, previously Unity Catalog Skills (since September 2026). A central place in Unity Gateway to discover, publish, and govern agent skills across an organization, each skill stored as a Unity Catalog securable so the same grants, tags, and audit th…

[New name] Unity Gateway

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unity Gateway is the current Databricks name, previously Unity AI Gateway (since September 2026). Databricks' governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog: the control plane over the models, MCP servers, agents, and tools an organization uses, setting permissions, rate limits, spe…

[Renamed] Unity Catalog Skills

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unity Catalog Skills was renamed - Databricks now calls it Unity Gateway Skills, as of September 2026. Unity Catalog securable that holds an agent skill, so a team publishes the skill once and governs who can discover, use, and update it with the same grants, tags, and audit that protect its tables.

[Renamed] Unity AI Gateway

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unity AI Gateway was renamed - Databricks now calls it Unity Gateway, as of September 2026. Databricks' governance solution for enterprise AI: a central control plane over model serving endpoints and AI traffic that sets permissions, rate limits, traffic routing, payload logging, and safety guard…

[Retired] Supervisor API

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Supervisor API is retired, replaced by Agent Bricks CLI (retired September 2026). An OpenResponses-compatible endpoint that built an agent in a single request - you supplied the model, tools, and instructions, and Databricks ran the agent loop of calling the model, executing tools, and synthesizi…

[Deprecated] Partner-powered AI features

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Partner-powered AI features is deprecated (deprecated September 2026). The account- and workspace-level toggle that decides whether Genie Code, Genie Agents, Genie One and the other AI assistive features may run on models hosted by a partner provider (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI on Databricks, Anthropic…

[Beta] Managed agent sessions

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Managed agent sessions entered Beta in Databricks - September 2026. A fully managed, Lakebase-backed, framework-agnostic store for an agent's session state - the conversation history an agent reloads at the start of a turn and appends to as it runs.

[New feature] Managed agent sessions

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Managed agent sessions is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced September 2026. A fully managed, Lakebase-backed, framework-agnostic store for an agent's session state - the conversation history an agent reloads at the start of a turn and appends to as it runs.

[Legacy] Legacy change data feed

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Legacy change data feed is legacy, replaced by Automatic change data feed (legacy since September 2026). The per-table change data feed for Delta Lake, which materializes change events at write time once delta.enableChangeDataFeed is set on the table, and which the docs now file as legacy with a…

[GA] Lakebase Search

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lakebase Search reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - September 2026. Hybrid vector and keyword search built into Lakebase Postgres projects through two Postgres extensions - lakebase_vector for pgvector-compatible approximate nearest-neighbor search and lakebase_text for BM25 full-te…

[Retired] Lakebase Provisioned

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lakebase Provisioned is retired, replaced by Lakebase (retired September 2026). The original Lakebase offering - a managed Postgres OLTP database instance running on fixed-size compute you provisioned and scaled by hand, with one primary node for writes and optional secondaries across zones.

[Beta] Git Folder Serverless

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Git Folder Serverless entered Beta in Databricks - September 2026. One serverless compute resource shared by every notebook and file in a Git folder, with the Python environment for the whole folder managed by a pyproject.toml at its root instead of per notebook.

[New feature] Git Folder Serverless

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Git Folder Serverless is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced September 2026. One serverless compute resource shared by every notebook and file in a Git folder, with the Python environment for the whole folder managed by a pyproject.toml at its root instead of per notebook.

[GA] Genie One MCP server

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Genie One MCP server reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - September 2026. Databricks-provided MCP Service in Unity Gateway that exposes Genie as a conversational tool, so any MCP client can ask a natural-language question of workspace data and get an answer grounded in Genie Ontology…

[Beta] Genie App Builder

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Genie App Builder entered Beta in Databricks - September 2026. A Databricks-native tool that builds Databricks apps from natural-language prompts, directly in the Databricks UI, inside an App Space that governs who can create apps, how they are shared, and what permissions they have.

[New feature] Genie App Builder

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Genie App Builder is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced September 2026. A Databricks-native tool that builds Databricks apps from natural-language prompts, directly in the Databricks UI, inside an App Space that governs who can create apps, how they are shared, and what perm…

[Beta] External secrets in Unity Catalog

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

External secrets in Unity Catalog entered Beta in Databricks - September 2026. Unity Catalog schemas backed by a cloud secret manager, so the values stay in AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault and only appear in Unity Catalog as read-only securables governed by Unity Catalog privileges.

[New feature] External secrets in Unity Catalog

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

External secrets in Unity Catalog is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced September 2026. Unity Catalog schemas backed by a cloud secret manager, so the values stay in AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault and only appear in Unity Catalog as read-only securables governed by Unity…

[GA] Databricks Excel Add-in

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Databricks Excel Add-in reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - September 2026. A Microsoft Excel add-in that signs in to a Databricks workspace over SSO so you can browse and import governed Unity Catalog tables, run SQL, build pivot tables, and write data back, without leaving the spr…

[Renamed] Change data feed

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Change data feed was renamed - Databricks now calls it Automatic change data feed, as of September 2026. Delta Lake table feature that, once turned on for a table, records every row-level insert, update, and delete on each write so downstream jobs can read only what changed between two versions.

[GA] Automatic change data feed

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Automatic change data feed reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - September 2026. Change data feed computed at read time from row tracking on Delta Lake tables and row lineage on Apache Iceberg v3 tables, so any qualifying Unity Catalog table serves row-level changes without being conf…

[New feature] Automatic change data feed

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Automatic change data feed is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced September 2026. Change data feed computed at read time from row tracking on Delta Lake tables and row lineage on Apache Iceberg v3 tables, so any qualifying Unity Catalog table serves row-level changes without bein…

[Beta] Agent Bricks CLI

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agent Bricks CLI entered Beta in Databricks - September 2026. A command-line tool for developers who build custom agents in code - scaffold a project from a framework template, run it locally against Databricks model serving, and deploy it to the Databricks agent runtime.

[New feature] Agent Bricks CLI

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agent Bricks CLI is a Databricks ai / ml capability, introduced September 2026. A command-line tool for developers who build custom agents in code - scaffold a project from a framework template, run it locally against Databricks model serving, and deploy it to the Databricks agent runtime.

[Guide] Undocumented Databricks: more task slots, not more nodes

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

CPU sits at 30 percent while the node count climbs, because what ran out is task slots, not cores. SPARK_WORKER_CORES runs more task threads on the same cores. Undocumented on Databricks, and paid for in heap.

[Beta] Unity Gateway Skills

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unity Gateway Skills entered Beta in Databricks - August 2026. A central place in Unity Gateway to discover, publish, and govern agent skills across an organization, each skill stored as a Unity Catalog securable so the same grants, tags, and audit that protect tables decide who can use it.

[GA] Unity Gateway

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unity Gateway reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2026. Databricks' governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog: the control plane over the models, MCP servers, agents, and tools an organization uses, setting permissions, rate limits, spend limits, payload lo…

[GA] Unity AI Gateway

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unity AI Gateway reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2026. Databricks' governance solution for enterprise AI: a central control plane over model serving endpoints and AI traffic that sets permissions, rate limits, traffic routing, payload logging, and safety guardrails across…

[Beta] Tag automations

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tag automations entered Beta in Databricks - August 2026. Rules that assign or remove governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes matching conditions you define, so tags keep up with data and metadata that keep changing.

[New feature] Tag automations

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tag automations is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced August 2026. Rules that assign or remove governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes matching conditions you define, so tags keep up with data and metadata that keep changing.

[New feature] Spaces

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Spaces is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced August 2026. An organizational tool in the Databricks editor that groups your work by focusing the editor window on a single folder or set of open tabs, preserving them so you can pick up where you left off.

[GA] Serverless compute access control

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Serverless compute access control reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2026. Workspace-admin governance over who may run serverless workloads, expressed as Can Use / Can Manage permissions on two built-in serverless compute objects: Default Interactive Compute (notebooks and D…

[New feature] Serverless compute access control

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Serverless compute access control is a Databricks compute / bi capability, introduced August 2026. Workspace-admin governance over who may run serverless workloads, expressed as Can Use / Can Manage permissions on two built-in serverless compute objects: Default Interactive Compute (notebooks and…

[GA] SecureConnect

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

SecureConnect reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 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.

[GA] Secrets in Unity Catalog

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Secrets in Unity Catalog reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 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.

[GA] Role-based access control (RBAC)

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Role-based access control (RBAC) reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2026. Databricks access-control model where a user assumes a role - implemented as a group - and acts with only that role's permissions for the duration of the session, instead of the permissions they have a…

[Private Preview] Private network gateway

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Private network gateway entered Private Preview in Databricks - August 2026. Managed gateway that connects Databricks serverless compute to resources in your own VPC, and to whatever that VPC routes to, through one subnet, a cross-account IAM role, and your existing network connectivity configura…

[New feature] Private network gateway

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Private network gateway is a Databricks compute / bi capability, introduced August 2026. Managed gateway that connects Databricks serverless compute to resources in your own VPC, and to whatever that VPC routes to, through one subnet, a cross-account IAM role, and your existing network connectivi…

[Beta] Pages

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pages entered Beta in Databricks - August 2026. Governed, authoritative definitions of business concepts - a term, acronym, or KPI - authored in Unity Catalog semantics, organized by domain, and read by Genie One as trusted context.

[New feature] Pages

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pages is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced August 2026. Governed, authoritative definitions of business concepts - a term, acronym, or KPI - authored in Unity Catalog semantics, organized by domain, and read by Genie One as trusted context.

[GA] Model services

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Model services reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - August 2026. A Unity Catalog securable that represents a governed LLM endpoint, so an endpoint is defined once and shared across workspaces through Unity Catalog privileges instead of being duplicated per workspace.

[Beta] LTAP Direct Writes

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LTAP Direct Writes entered Beta in Databricks - August 2026. An opt-in option on a Lakebase synced table that writes its bulk loads straight into the storage layer behind the Lakebase branch instead of through the live compute endpoint, so the initial load (and every Snapshot-mode refresh) finish…

[New feature] LTAP Direct Writes

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LTAP Direct Writes is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced August 2026. An opt-in option on a Lakebase synced table that writes its bulk loads straight into the storage layer behind the Lakebase branch instead of through the live compute endpoint, so the initial load (and every Sn…

[Public Preview] Lakehouse Replay

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lakehouse Replay entered Public Preview in Databricks - August 2026. Automatically replays a sample of read-only serverless workloads against upcoming Databricks Runtime releases to catch regressions before they reach production.

[Renamed] Lakebase Autoscaling

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lakebase Autoscaling was renamed - Databricks now calls it Lakebase, as of August 2026. The second version of Lakebase, organising Postgres into projects and branches on elastic compute with autoscaling, scale-to-zero, branching, and instant restore, shipped alongside the original provisioned pro…

[New name] Lakebase

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lakebase is the current Databricks name, previously Lakebase Autoscaling (since August 2026). A fully managed, serverless Postgres (OLTP) database integrated into the Databricks platform, for building real-time transactional apps alongside lakehouse data.

[Beta] Identity attributes

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Identity attributes entered Beta in Databricks - August 2026. A fixed set of nine attributes (title, userType, locality, region, country, costCenter, organization, division, department) that Databricks stores on account users and syncs from your identity provider, so Unity Catalog ABAC policies c…

[New feature] Identity attributes

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Identity attributes is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced August 2026. A fixed set of nine attributes (title, userType, locality, region, country, costCenter, organization, division, department) that Databricks stores on account users and syncs from your identity provider, so Uni…

[GA] Variant

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Variant reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - July 2026. A column type for semi-structured data: one column holds arbitrary nested JSON-shaped data with no declared schema, created with parse_json() and queried by path, while shredding gives it query performance closer to real typed c…

[GA] Transactions

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Transactions reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - July 2026. Multi-statement, multi-table ACID transactions on Unity Catalog managed tables, grouped with BEGIN ATOMIC ... END or BEGIN TRANSACTION ... COMMIT so every change commits together or rolls back together.

[Public Preview] Secrets in Unity Catalog

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.

[New feature] Secrets in Unity Catalog

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.

[Public Preview] Role-based access control (RBAC)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Role-based access control (RBAC) entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2026. Databricks access-control model where a user assumes a role - implemented as a group - and acts with only that role's permissions for the duration of the session, instead of the permissions they have accumulated.

[New feature] Role-based access control (RBAC)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced July 2026. Databricks access-control model where a user assumes a role - implemented as a group - and acts with only that role's permissions for the duration of the session, instead of the permissions they hav…

[Public Preview] Managed Iceberg materialized views

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.

[New feature] Managed Iceberg materialized views

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.

[Beta] Lakebridge Agentic Converter

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.

[Renamed] Lakebridge Agentic Converter

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lakebridge Agentic Converter was renamed - Databricks now calls it Agentic code converter, as of 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.

[Beta] Governance Hub

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Governance Hub entered Beta in Databricks - July 2026. A centralized, account-level UI in the account console for monitoring governance across a Databricks account, with Data, AI, Cost, and Tags pages covering data health and coverage, AI usage and spend, cost drivers, and how tags are applied.

[New feature] Governance Hub

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Governance Hub is a Databricks data governance capability, introduced July 2026. A centralized, account-level UI in the account console for monitoring governance across a Databricks account, with Data, AI, Cost, and Tags pages covering data health and coverage, AI usage and spend, cost drivers, a…

[Renamed] Genie Spaces

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).

[New name] Genie Agents

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.

[Public Preview] Declarative Feature Engineering

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Declarative Feature Engineering entered Public Preview in Databricks - July 2026. APIs to define features declaratively from Delta tables, Kafka streams, and request-time data, with time-windowed aggregations that Databricks computes, materializes, and serves for training and online inference.

[GA] Budgets

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Budgets reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - July 2026. Account-level spending thresholds in USD at list price, account-wide or filtered by workspace, team, or custom tags, with email alerts and - for Unity Gateway requests, including Genie - per-user limits that can block usage.

[Beta] Agentic code converter

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agentic code converter entered Beta in Databricks - July 2026. Beta migration tool that uses Genie Code subagents to convert existing SQL from legacy dialects - T-SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, BigQuery, Teradata - into ANSI SQL that runs on Databricks, tracked file by file in a migration proj…

[New name] Agentic code converter

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agentic code converter is the current Databricks name, previously Lakebridge Agentic Converter (since July 2026). Beta migration tool that uses Genie Code subagents to convert existing SQL from legacy dialects - T-SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, BigQuery, Teradata - into ANSI SQL that runs on D…

[GA] Agent mode

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agent mode reached general availability (GA) in Databricks - July 2026. The mode inside a Genie Agent that answers complex, exploratory questions with multi-step reasoning and hypothesis testing, as opposed to the one-question-one-answer Chat mode.

[GA] Spatial SQL