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These features and Azure Databricks platform improvements were released in June 2026.
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Releases are staged. Your Azure Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Write data from Microsoft Excel back to Azure Databricks
June 4, 2026
Use the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in to write data from Microsoft Excel back to a Unity Catalog table. Create a new table or overwrite an existing table in Azure Databricks without leaving Excel. See Write data back to Azure Databricks using the Azure Databricks Excel Add-in.
Set budgets for Genie usage
June 4, 2026
On July 6, 2026, Genie products will move to a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Each user receives 150 DBUs of free LLM usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region. Usage beyond the free allowance is billed in DBUs. For more information, see what's coming.
To prepare, account admins can now create budgets to monitor and control spending on Genie usage. Scope a budget to Genie to track spend across your account, workspaces, user groups, or individual users, configure email alerts, and set per-user spending limits. See Manage budgets and cost controls for Genie.
Genie Code now supports auto-approve for tool actions
June 4, 2026
Genie Code now offers an auto-approve mode that approves tool actions, like running code or editing notebooks, without prompting you for each request. An AI classifier reviews each action and blocks risky ones. Auto-approve is a productivity feature, not a security boundary. Databricks recommends keeping it off when working with production data or shared resources. See Approve tool actions.
Full page Genie Code (Beta)
June 3, 2026
Full page Genie Code is now available in Beta. The full page experience is a command center for Genie Code, where the active thread is shown prominently, surfacing assets like notebooks and files alongside it as tabs when needed. You can run multiple threads in parallel, switch between them easily, and easily personalize Genie Code with skills, instructions, and MCP servers. See Full page Genie Code.
Table update triggers on Delta Sharing and system tables (Beta)
June 3, 2026
Table update triggers in Lakeflow Jobs can now monitor data shared through Delta Sharing and system tables, in addition to local tables. You can trigger a job whenever a provider updates a shared table or view, or whenever new operational data lands in a system table. This feature supports Databricks-to-Databricks Delta Sharing only. See Add a trigger to Delta Sharing and system tables.
Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent now supports web search as a built-in tool
June 3, 2026
You can now enable web search on your Supervisor Agent to answer questions that require current information from the public web. The supervisor returns a synthesized answer with source citations. Web search is also available as a web_search tool in the Supervisor API. See Use Supervisor Agent to create a coordinated multi-agent system.
Pendo connector (Beta)
June 2, 2026
Lakeflow Connect now supports a managed connector for ingestion from Pendo. See Pendo connector.
Zoom Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
June 2, 2026
The Zoom Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest user sign-in/sign-out activity logs and admin operation logs from Zoom into Azure Databricks. See Zoom Logs connector.
Managed RabbitMQ connector (Beta)
June 2, 2026
The managed RabbitMQ connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to stream messages from RabbitMQ classic queues into streaming tables in Unity Catalog. See RabbitMQ connector.
Slack Access and Integration Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
June 2, 2026
The Slack Access and Integration Logs connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest workspace access logs and app integration change logs from Slack into Azure Databricks. See Slack Access and Integration Logs connector.
Vector Search is now AI Search
June 1, 2026
Vector Search has been renamed to AI Search. You can now create full text search indexes without any vectors or embeddings needed. See Databricks AI Search.
Intra-VNet NSG rule hardening for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview
June 1, 2026
You can now harden the intra-VNet NSG rule to restrict workspace traffic to your host and worker subnet CIDRs instead of the entire virtual network. Applies to VNet injection workspaces on the classic compute plane. See Harden intra-VNet network security group (NSG) rules for Azure Databricks.
Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer
June 1, 2026
Column popularity is now available in the Catalog Explorer UI. To find the most popular columns in a table, go to the table's Overview tab. Popularity is determined by the number of queries against the table that read from a given column. See Popularity.