February 2025
These features and Databricks platform improvements were released in February 2025.
Releases are staged. Your Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Model serving billing records are now logged at five-minute intervals
February 18, 2025
To improve cost observability, billing records are now logged for every five minutes of model serving and provisioned throughput usage. Previously, the records were logged at one-hour intervals. See Billable usage system table reference. Note that Foundation Model Api Pay-Per-Token usage is still aggregated at an hourly-interval.
Automatic liquid clustering (Public Preview)
February 18, 2025
You can use enable automatic liquid clustering on Unity Catalog managed tables. Automatic liquid clustering intelligently selects clustering keys to optimize data layout for your queries. See Automatic liquid clustering.
Serverless compute can now use instance profiles for data access
February 12, 2025
Your workspace’s serverless compute resources can now use an instance profile for data access. Previously, this setting was used to give your workspace’s SQL warehouses access to an instance profile, but now applies to both serverless compute and SQL warehouses. See Data access configurations.
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 standard access mode compute (formerly shared access mode)
February 7, 2025
Standard 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 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.