Delta Live Tables release 2024.20

May 23 - 29, 2024

These features and improvements were released with the 2024.20 release of Delta Live Tables.

Databricks Runtime versions used by this release

Channel:

• CURRENT (default): Databricks Runtime 12.2 or 14.1
• PREVIEW: Databricks Runtime 14.3

Note

Because Delta Live Tables channel releases follow a rolling upgrade process, channel upgrades are deployed to different regions at different times. Your release, including Databricks Runtime versions, might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date. To find the Databricks Runtime version for a pipeline, see Runtime information.

New features and improvements in this release

• Materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL are public preview and available to all customers. The public preview release includes the following changes:

  • REFRESH of materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL is now synchronous by default. See REFRESH (MATERIALIZED VIEW or STREAMING TABLE).
  • Errors that occur during a refresh operation of a Databricks SQL materialized view or streaming table are returned in the SQL Editor.

  To learn how to use materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL, see Use materialized views in Databricks SQL and Load data using streaming tables in Databricks SQL.

Bug fixes in this release

• This release fixes a bug that prevented ALTER SCHEDULE queries on Databricks SQL materialized views and streaming tables from being applied until the next REFRESH operation was performed. With this release, ALTER SCHEDULE queries are applied immediately. See Schedule materialized view refreshes.

• This release fixes an issue that caused the pipelines list to load slowly when Only my pipelines is selected.