February 2025

These features and Azure Databricks platform improvements were released in February 2025.

Note

Releases are staged. Your Azure Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.

Dedicated control plane for Azure Canada East region

February 14, 2025

Databricks now offers a dedicated control plane for the Azure Canada East region, previously managed by the Canada Central control plane. See IP addresses and domains for Azure Databricks services and assets.

Serverless SQL warehouses now available in additional regions

February 12, 2025

Serverless SQL warehouses are now available in the following Azure regions: East Asia, Korea Central, Switzerland North, West Central US, and West US 3. See Azure Databricks regions.

Databricks Runtime 16.2 is GA

February 10, 2025

Databricks Runtime 16.2 and Databricks Runtime 16.2 ML are now generally available.

See Databricks Runtime 16.2 and Databricks Runtime 16.2 for Machine Learning.

Support of Scala streaming foreach, foreachBatch, and flatMapGroupsWithState on shared access mode compute

February 7, 2025

Shared access mode compute now supports the Scala streaming function DataStreamWriter.foreach on Databricks Runtime 16.1 and above. On Databricks Runtime 16.2 and above, the functions DataStreamWriter.foreachBatch and KeyValueGroupedDataset.flatMapGroupsWithState are supported.

Unity Catalog-governed access to external cloud services using service credentials is now GA

February 7, 2025

Service credentials enable simple and secure authentication with your cloud tenant’s services from Azure Databricks. Service credentials are generally available and now support Scala SDKs, in addition to the Python SDK supported in the Public Preview. The fully-GA feature requires compute on Databricks Runtime 16.2 or above. See Manage access to external cloud services using service credentials.

Download as Excel is now supported in notebooks connected to SQL warehouses

February 6, 2025

For notebooks connected to SQL warehouses, you can now download cell results that contain tabular data as an Excel file. See Download results.

Write data from pipelines to external services with Delta Live Tables sinks (Public Preview)

February 5, 2025

The Delta Live Tables sink API is in Public Preview. With Delta Live Tables sinks, you can write data transformed by your pipeline to targets like event streaming services such as Apache Kafka or Azure Event Hubs, and external tables managed by Unity Catalog or the Hive metastore. See Stream records to external services with Delta Live Tables sinks.

Automatic identity management (Public Preview)

February 5, 2025

You can now add users, service principals, and groups from Microsoft Entra ID into Azure Databricks without configuring an application in Microsoft Entra ID using automatic identity management. When automatic identity management is enabled, you can directly search in identity federated workspaces for Microsoft Entra ID users, service principals, and groups and add them to your workspace. Databricks uses Microsoft Entra ID as the source of record, so any changes to group memberships are respected in Azure Databricks. Automatic identity management also supports nested groups.

See Sync users and groups automatically from Microsoft Entra ID.

New region: Mexico Central

February 4, 2025

Azure Databricks is now available in Mexico Central. See Azure Databricks regions.