Databricks Release Notes

Sharing and reading foreign schemas and foreign tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share foreign schemas and tables federated from external data sources using Lakehouse Federation, without copying data into Databricks. See Add foreign schemas or tables to a share for providers and Read data in a shared foreign table or foreign schema for recipients.

Sharing foreign schemas and tables materializes data on the provider's side, which incurs compute and storage costs. See How do I incur and check OpenSharing costs?.

More Tableau calculations in /importBI

Importing Tableau reports with the /importBI Genie Code command now supports more cases of parameterized calculations. See Import BI files using Genie Code.

Relationship-scoped filters (Public Preview)

On a dashboard with relationships, each widget now responds only to filters whose dataset is related to it, so a filter no longer affects unrelated charts. See Dashboard relationships.

Choose the warehouse for materialization

When you export a dashboard dataset as a materialized view in Unity Catalog, you can now choose which SQL warehouse runs the materialization. See Export a dataset as a materialized view.

Include-style LOD expressions

The metric view editor now supports Include-style level of detail (LOD) expressions in YAML.

Scoped starter questions

On a published dashboard, Ask Genie's suggested starter questions are now scoped to the dashboard page and widget you're viewing.

Key insights per page

Key insights now generate for each dashboard page. A New insights badge appears only when new insights are available, along with a live-generating indicator.

Selected chart as Ask Genie context

On a published dashboard, the Ask Genie input bar now shows the chart you selected as context, so you can ask questions about that specific chart. See Ask Genie about a specific chart.

Metric view reuse when building

When building a dashboard, Genie Code now prefers governed metric views over ad-hoc SQL datasets and reuses an existing metric view when one satisfies the request. See Use Genie Code for dashboard authoring.

Export and import dashboard themes

You can now export a dashboard's theme to a JSON file and import a theme file into another dashboard, so you can reuse or share a theme without editing the dashboard JSON. See Export or import a theme.

Line shape control

Line and area charts now have a Line shape control that connects data points with linear, smooth, or stepped lines. See Line shape.

Color scale on pivot table text

The pivot table color scale now includes an Apply to setting, so you can paint the color gradient on the cell text as well as the background. See Value-level settings.

Path maps from point sequences

Path maps can now connect a sequence of ordered points into a line, from separate longitude and latitude columns or a single point geometry column, in addition to a single geometry line column. Use this for trajectories such as GPS tracks. See Path source.

Genie One and Genie Code can now use Databricks-provided MCP connectors for Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Atlassian, Slack, and GitHub to search and act on your company's tools while answering questions.

Every connection is governed through Unity Catalog and Unity Gateway, which authorizes each tool call, enforces built-in policies and approval requirements, and logs usage and audit activity. Each user authenticates individually, and OAuth tokens aren't shared.

See Connect to external tools and sources.

Genie Code skills in Genie One (Beta)

Genie Code skills now appear and are turned on by default in Genie One. Turn individual skills on or off on the customization page.

Backend steering

You can now send steering messages to Genie One while it's answering, so you can guide a response without waiting for it to finish.

PowerPoint uploads

You can now upload PowerPoint (.pptx) files to a Genie One conversation. See Upload a file.

Memory confirmation prompts (Beta)

Genie One can now suggest a memory when it detects a fact worth remembering in your request and asks you to confirm before saving it. Approve, modify, or reject the suggestion. See Add to Genie One's memory.