AI/BI release notes 2025

The following AI/BI features and improvements were released in 2025.

September 2025

AI/BI dashboard text widget and performance improvements

September 11, 2025

• Improved text widget editor: The dashboard text widget now has an enhanced UI for formatting text, adding links, and inserting images.
• Fixed performance regressions: Resolved issues that caused performance slowdowns, including pages failing to load and URL parameters applying incorrectly.

AI/BI dashboard active filter bar and visualization improvements

September 4, 2025

• Active filter bar: A new filter bar shows all active filters on a dashboard. Any filter (global or page-level) not set to All, as well as any cross-filtering, appears in this bar.
• Minimum and maximum aggregations for date fields: Date fields now support minimum and maximum aggregations.
• Improved histogram labels: Histograms now display both the start and end of each bin, instead of only the start.

August 2025

Dashboard external embedding Public Preview and new custom calculations functions

August 28, 2025

• Custom calculation functions: Support added for ln, log, log10, and round functions. See What are custom calculations?.
• Custom calculations limit increase: You can now define up to 200 custom calculations per dataset.
• Embedding for external users in Public Preview: Embedding dashboards for external users is now available in Public Preview. See Embedding for external users.
• Multi-y charts with apostrophes in column names: Labels now render correctly when column names include apostrophes.
• Custom tooltips for pie charts: Pie charts now support custom tooltips.
• Fixed page and dataset renaming: An issue that prevented users from renaming pages and datasets has been resolved.

Genie follow-up questions and fixes

August 28, 2025

• Fixed cloning issue for large spaces: Spaces with a large number of instructions can now be cloned successfully.
• Fixed CSV download issue on Windows: Downloaded query result files now open reliably on Windows.

Dashboard sorting and formatting improvements

August 21, 2025

• Fixed sorting on temporal categorical axes: Resolved an issue where sorting did not work correctly on temporal categorical axes.

• Numeric formatting as Bytes: Users can now format numeric values as Bytes.

• Totals in histogram tooltips: Histograms now display totals in tooltips.

• Axis gridlines respect custom background colors: Gridlines now automatically update based on custom color palette selections for background color.

Genie SQL validation and space management

August 21, 2025

• SQL expression validation for join relationships: Added validation logic to help authors write correct SQL join relationships. If a join statement contains errors, the validation logic flags them.

• Fixed cloning issue for spaces: Resolved a bug where cloned spaces did not correctly copy over the associated tables.

Dashboard table visualization and chart improvements

August 14, 2025

• Indicator for calculated measures in table editor: Added an indicator in the table visualization editor to show when calculated measures are not displayed in the table.

• Fixed transparent headers in light mode: Resolved a bug where table visualization headers appeared transparent in light mode.

• Fixed pivot table encoding width retention: Resolved an issue where custom encoding widths in pivot table visualizations were not retained after subsequent edits.

• Measure fields appear before dimension fields: In the visualization field picker, measure fields now appear before dimension fields.

• Funnel chart support in AI/BI dashboards: Funnel charts are now supported in AI/BI dashboards. See Funnel chart.

Dashboard theme improvements

August 4, 2025

• Updated selection color in Terra theme: The selection color in the Terra theme has been updated to improve visibility.

July 2025

Sankey visualization and table formatting improvements

July 31, 2025

• Display name support for Sankey visualizations: Sankey charts now support display names for nodes.

• Fixed duplicate $ signs in table formatting: Resolved an issue where table visualizations sometimes displayed duplicate dollar signs.

Dashboard performance optimizations and feature enhancements

July 24, 2025

• Metric views dataset performance improvement: The dataset result table view for Metric views has been removed to reduce query executions and improve performance.

• Undo and redo support: Authors can now undo and redo actions on the canvas using keyboard shortcuts or the toolbar.

• Metric views filtering in data dialog: Within the Add data dialog, authors can now filter to show only metric views.

• Dashboard header menu reorganization: The kebab menu in the dashboard header has been reorganized for improved usability.

• Choropleth maps PNG download: Choropleth maps now support download to PNG format.

• Axis label rotation: Non-categorical axes now support label rotation for better readability.

• AGGREGATE OVER support in custom calculations: Custom calculations now support AGGREGATE OVER to enable window function-like behavior, such as computing moving averages and running totals. See What are custom calculations?.

New workflow for creating metric views from dashboards

July 17, 2025

• Create a metric view from a dashboard dataset: Authors can now promote a dashboard dataset to a metric view using the AI/BI dashboard data tab. See Create a metric view.

Dashboard visualization updates

July 10, 2025

• Area chart error message fix: Fixed an error message that appeared when using disaggregated stacked area charts.
• Point map visualization UI update: Swapped the latitude and longitude sections in Point Map visualizations.

Dashboard theme settings and page enhancements

July 3, 2025

• Dashboard import and export retains theme settings: When you import or export a dashboard as a file, theme settings are now preserved. To learn how to set a theme, see Customize the theme.

• Dashboards now support up to 15 pages: The maximum number of pages per dashboard has increased from ten to fifteen. See Add pages, visualizations, text, and filters to the canvas.

• Annotation lines supported for temporal scales: You can now add annotation lines to charts with temporal scales.

• Parameterized schedules re-enabled: Support for parameterized schedules has been restored. See Create a schedule.

Genie visualization and permissions improvements

July 3, 2025

• Genie visualizations respect SQL sort order: Genie visualizations now default to the same sort order as returned by the SQL query.
• Permissions fix: Users with CAN MANAGE on a Genie space can now delete it.
• Datatype interpretation fix: Resolved an issue where string fields were incorrectly interpreted as date or time values.

June 2025

Dashboard Git integration and workflow improvements

June 26, 2025

• Improved diff review for dashboard files: When committing dashboard changes to Git, queries and text box content now appear across multiple lines in the diff, making changes easier to review.

• Multi-statement queries in Genie on dashboards: Genie on dashboards now supports multistatement SQL queries.

• Improved schedule and subscribe workflow: You can now add subscribers when setting up a new schedule. Previously, you could only add subscribers to an existing schedule. See Create a schedule.

Genie API enhancements and SQL function improvements

June 26, 2025

• New Genie API endpoints in Public Preview: You can now use the Genie API to list all conversations in a space, delete conversations, and delete Genie spaces. See Genie in the REST API reference for details.

• More selective application of SQL functions in Genie: Genie's ability to apply SQL functions to relevant user questions has been improved.

File upload and theme customization features

June 19, 2025

• File upload to Unity Catalog from dashboards: Authors can now upload files to Unity Catalog directly from the dashboard data tab. See Create and manage dashboard datasets.

• Customizable dashboard theme: Authors can now customize the dashboard theme by setting custom font, background, and widget colors. See Dashboard settings.

Genie filter editing and audit log enhancements

June 19, 2025

• Editable filters in Genie: Users can now edit filter values to refine responses. For string columns that have value dictionaries, Genie uses context to determine when editable filters could improve accuracy and offers them accordingly.

• New audit log field for Genie comments: A new comment_type field is available in the audit log response for the createConversationMessageComment action. When a user adds a feedback comment to a conversation message, the interaction is recorded as one of the following types:

  • REQUEST_COMMENT: User leaves a feedback comment.
  • REVIEW_COMMENT: Tracks following comments, such as when a space author responds.
  • THUMBS_DOWN_COMMENT: User clicks Fix it to to get a new response.

• List Spaces Genie API: A new List Spaces Genie API endpoint retrieves all spaces the requestor has access to, including the following fields: Genie space title, description, and ID.

Dashboard visualization fixes and schedule updates

June 12, 2025

• Dashboard visualization fixes:

  • Tooltip field highlighting in combo charts fix: Tooltips shown as you hover over fields in combo charts are now correctly highlighted.
  • Table collapse icon fix: Fixed an issue where expanding and collapsing long text in table cells did not work as expected.
  • Drop-down menu rendering fix: Fixed an issue where some drop-down menus rendered incorrectly.

• Parameterized schedules temporarily disabled: Parameterized schedules have been temporarily disabled due to unexpected conflicts with some existing dashboard schedules.

Consumer access entitlement is generally available

June 5, 2025

• New consumer entitlement is generally available: Workspace admins can now grant consumer access as an entitlement to users, service principals, and groups. Consumer access enables limited workspace UI access, querying SQL warehouses using BI tools, and viewing dashboards with embedded or viewer credentials. See Manage entitlements and Share a dashboard.

Dashboard scheduling and filtering improvements

June 5, 2025

• Dashboard schedule fix: Resolved an issue where schedules for dashboards published with global filters were not executing.
• Cross-filtering fix for histograms: Fixed an issue where cross-filtering with histograms did not work on large datasets.

Genie value dictionaries and SQL editor improvements

June 5, 2025

• More value dictionaries in Genie: Genie can now support up to 60 value dictionaries.

• Genie space SQL editor fix: Resolved an issued that caused the SQL editor in a chat window disappear if the user deleted the generated query. You can now use the editor to delete and rewrite queries.

May 2025

Metric views are in Public Preview

May 29, 2025

• Unity Catalog metric views are now in Public Preview: Metric views provide a centralized way to define and manage consistent, reusable, and governed core business metrics. They abstract complex business logic into a centralized definition, enabling organizations to define key performance indicators once and use them consistently across reporting tools like dashboards, Genie spaces, and alerts. Use a SQL warehouse running on the Preview channel (2025.16) to work with metric views. See Unity Catalog metric views.

Dashboard catalog picker and filter fixes

May 29, 2025

• Catalog and schema picker in the dataset editor: You can now select a catalog and schema from the SQL editor in the Data tab of a draft dashboard. With the catalog and schema selected, you can write queries that reference a table name only, instead of a fully-qualified table name. You can still use a table's three-level namespace to reference it in a query.

  

• Fix for global filters on full-screen widgets: An issue that prevented full-screen widgets from displaying data when used with global filters has been resolved.

Dashboard filter enhancements and visualization improvements

May 22, 2025

• Exclude selected values in filter widgets: Dashboard viewers can now include or exclude the values they select from multi-select filter widgets.

  

• Drop-down selection fix: Fixed an issue where selection options in a drop-down list appeared out of order.

• Global filters panel: Dashboard authors can now add filters to a global filters panel, which applies across all dashboard pages.

• Relative date and time preview improvement: Previews for relative date and time controls are now hidden to avoid confusion caused by time zone differences.

• Dashboard PDF snapshots improvement: Dashboard PDF snapshots now wrap the content of the dashboard and no longer include white space.

• Constant reference line annotations: Horizontal and vertical constants reference line annotations for quantitative axes in cartesian chart types, such as area, bar, line, scatter, heatmap, and histogram charts.

Genie usage guidance and query performance

May 22, 2025

• Usage guidance addition in Genie: You can now add Usage Guidance to clarify how and when SQL examples should be used.

  

• Improved query result display in Genie: Query results now show more quickly. It now displays Running query until the query result is ready and Still thinking if additional work is required.

• UI polling update in Genie: The UI now starts polling for result data sooner rather than waiting until after the visualization and sample questions are generated.

• Fixed missing Trusted badge in Genie: The Trusted badge now appears on certified answers and parameterized queries.

• SQL function de-emphasis in Genie: The option to add SQL functions has been de-emphasized, making adding example SQL the default action.

• Improved result delivery timing in Genie: Descriptions are now generated after the SQL is run, thereby reducing the time it takes to get results.

• Fixed empty visualizations issue in Genie: Fixed an issue where empty visualizations were occasionally rendering in Genie.

Dashboard query updates and calculation support

May 15, 2025

• Genie in dashboards query update: Genie in dashboards will now only query from dashboard datasets, instead of the underlying tables within dashboard datasets.

• Custom calculation support in dashboards: Added support for custom calculations using isnull, isnotnull functions, and the null operator.

• AI/BI dashboard schedule support: AI/BI dashboard schedules now support dashboards without embedded credentials.

• Dashboard tooltip and number formatting fixes:

  • Tooltip fix: Fixed tooltips to display an empty value when the field value is an empty string ("").
  • Number formatting support: Number formatting in table and pivot table cells from notebooks, SQL editor, and legacy dashboards can now be carried over to AI/BI dashboards.

Dashboard data selection and point maps

May 8, 2025

• Select and add multiple tables and views: Users can now select and add multiple tables and views at once from the Add data dialog.

• Draft dashboard scheduling bug fix: Fixed a bug that allowed draft dashboards to be scheduled using the API. Now, only published dashboards can be scheduled.

• AI-assisted point maps in dashboards: You can now use natural-language prompts to generate point map charts in dashboards.

• Deploy dashboard tasks using Databricks Asset Bundles: You can now use dashboard tasks within a job resource when deploying bundles. To learn more about Databricks Asset Bundles, see What are Databricks Asset Bundles?. To learn more about programmatically configuring a dashboard task in a job, see the Jobs API.

Dashboard data truncation improvements

May 1, 2025

• View truncated data: You can now view more data in charts with truncated results by clicking Render more data.

Genie follow-up questions and instruction processing

May 1, 2025

• Follow-up questions for text responses in Genie: Genie now suggests follow-up questions for text responses that include no generated SQL or results. Previously, follow-up questions appeared only after responses with a result set. Now, prompts such as Explain the data set also return suggested follow-up questions to help Genie space users explore the data.

  

• Improved instruction processing in Genie: Genie's chain-of-thought reasoning has been refined to prioritize and adhere to the most relevant instructions based on the user prompt.

April 2025

Dashboard choropleth maps and AI forecast

April 24, 2025

• Choropleth maps available: Choropleth maps are now available for dashboards, allowing users to visualize data across geographical regions with varying colors based on values such as population, income, or other metrics. See Choropleth map.

  

• AI Forecast on line charts: You can now generate a forecast for a line chart (Public Preview). See Generate a forecast.

Dashboard custom dimensions and pivot table improvements

April 17, 2025

• Custom dimensions: Authors can create custom dimensions on AI/BI dashboards. A new set of functions, including CASE WHEN statements, CONCAT, COALESCE, and others, are now supported. See What are custom calculations?.

• Customizable pivot table widths: Pivot tables now support customizable widths.

• Sankey visualization improvements: Sankey visualizations now have reduced flickering on hover and use a lighter gray for flow lines.

Genie example questions and table management

April 17, 2025

• Example and follow-up questions: Genie now uses table metadata to automatically offer example and follow-up questions when users start exploring a Genie space. You can still add your own sample questions.

• Improved response layout: Genie's response layout has been redesigned to simplify chat interactions.

• View and remove missing tables: Users can now view and remove missing tables in a Genie space. The Data tab now shows visual indicators to mark tables that cannot be accessed. You can use the UI to remove those tables.

• Improved data access transparency: The table picker in Genie now prevents choosing tables for which you do not have at least SELECT privileges. This helps to ensure that Genie spaces only include tables that can return results. To learn about data Unity Catalog data privileges, see Unity Catalog privileges and securable objects.

End of support for legacy dashboards

April 10, 2025

You can no longer create or clone legacy dashboards using the UI or API. Databricks continues to address critical security issues and service outages, but recommends using AI/BI dashboards for all new development. To learn more about AI/BI dashboards, see Dashboards. For help migrating, see Clone a legacy dashboard to an AI/BI dashboard and Use dashboard APIs to create and manage dashboards.

Dashboard source control and export fixes

April 10, 2025

• Source control for dashboards: Dashboards can now be integrated with Databricks Git folders for collaboration and version control(Public Preview). See Source control dashboards.

• Revert draft dashboards to the last published version: You can now discard changes to a draft dashboard and restore it to the most recently published state. This makes it easier to undo edits and return to a known, shared version. See Draft and collaborate on a dashboard.

• Dashboard PDF export and embedded filter fixes:

  • PDF export fix: Fixed an issue where PDF export did not apply selected filter values at the time of export.
  • Embedded dashboard filter fix: Fixed an issue where filters were not rendering correctly in embedded dashboards.

Dashboard publishing and visualization updates

April 3, 2025

• Streamlined publish flow: All publish actions now embed the publishing user's warehouse permission. The only decision is whether to embed the data credential. Embedding credentials removes the previous requirement of all users requiring individual access to the selected warehouse if the dashboard was published without embedded credentials. See What are embedded credentials?.

• Continue Genie conversations: When Genie is enabled for a dashboard, opening it now resumes the last conversation until a new one is started.

• Stable color assignment: Color assignment is now stable as filter values change.

• PNG download support for maps: Downloading PNGs for maps is now supported.

• Sankey visualizations: Sankey visualizations are now available on AI/BI dashboards. See Sankey diagram.

Genie API performance and space creation fixes

April 3, 2025

• Genie API performance improvement: API response latency has been improved by removing unnecessary completion steps.

• Create Genie spaces from Catalog Explorer fix: An issue with creating Genie spaces from Catalog Explorer has been resolved.

March 2025

Dashboard migration and localization improvements

March 27, 2025

• Chart migration fix: Dual-axis charts are now converted as expected when migrating from legacy dashboards to AI/BI dashboards.

• More space for titles: Narrow widgets and filter drop-downs now allocate more space for titles.

• Customize dashboard visualization settings by locale: Use the editing panel on your draft dashboard to select a locale and customize settings across all filter and visualization widgets.

• Improved URL stability: Importing a new version of a dashboard in draft and publishing no longer breaks filter values saved in existing URLs. See Filters in published dashboard URLs.

• Conversations API update: Messages sent through the Conversations API now appear in the monitoring tab.

Dashboard query history and sorting enhancements

March 20, 2025

• Query history update: When viewing the query history, scheduled dashboard update queries now display the dashboard publisher as the user instead of System Service Principal.

• Simplified actions menu: The Ask Genie button no longer appears in a widget's kebab menu when Genie is not enabled on a dashboard.

• Increased custom sorting limits: You can now custom sort up to 500 items in a visualization.

• Resolved issue with subscription emails: Dashboards created using jobs now correctly apply subscription settings set at the workspace level.

Dashboard audit logs and workflow integration

March 13, 2025

• New audit log emitted for dashboard downloads: Downloading dashboards as PDF now triggers the audit log event triggerDashboardSnapshot.

• Dashboards are supported as a task type in workflows: Create a job task with the Dashboard task type to refresh dashboard results and optionally send subscription emails.

• Calculated measures from dashboards better supported: Genie spaces created from dashboards are now better able to use any calculated measures defined on the dashboard.

• Fixed null value styling: Pivot table cells with null values now display with the correct styling.

• Sorting with filters now supported: Single-value and multi-value filters now support sorting.

Dashboard visual indicators and chart improvements

March 6, 2025

• New visual indicators for column names: Duplicate column names are now greyed out to indicate lack of support.

• Fixed an issue with color mappings: Color mappings in the visualization editor now align with the renderer.

• Restricted character set: The name propertycustomer_ref_id in the serialized dashboard format is now restricted to alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. Before, there was no restriction in the character set.

• Dual-axis charts now support zoom: You can now click and drag to zoom in on non-combo dual-axis charts.

• Inclusive relative date ranges: The dates you select when choosing relative date periods in the date range picker, such as last week or last month, are now inclusive of the current date. See Date range picker.

• Freeze table columns: You can now freeze table columns to the left side of the table display. Columns stay in view as you scroll right on the table. See Dashboard visualizations.

• Fixed an issue with combo charts: Resolved misalignment between x-axis labels and bars when using a temporal field on the x-axis.

Genie benchmark evaluation improvements

March 6, 2025

• Improved benchmarks in Genie: The benchmark evaluation function now more accurately detects incorrect results.

February 2025

Dashboard date controls and notification features

February 27, 2025

• Relative dates update: The relative dates in date and date range pickers now include the current day.

• Error message improvement: Error messages for calculated measures now indicate that filter clauses are not supported.

• Publish notification feature: Dashboard authors can now send publish notifications when updating a dashboard. See Publish a dashboard.

Dashboard thumbnails and table enhancements

February 21, 2025

• Quickly navigate to the most popular dashboards: Dashboard thumbnails are now shown for all dashboards published with embedded credentials. The dashboards listing page attempts to show thumbnails for the four most popular dashboards you can access. Dashboards you don't have access to do not appear on the listing page.

• Pivot tables support more cells: Pivot tables now accommodate up to 1,000 rows and 1,000 columns, up from the previous limit of 100 rows and 100 columns.

• Edit box plot display names: You can now edit the Y-axis display names in box plots, enabling a more customized presentation.

• Multiple Y fields for generated charts: Visualizations generated using the Databricks Assistant now support multiple Y fields.

• ColorBy performance optimization: Rendering is now optimized for charts with a very large number of groupings. This optimization prevents performance issues and crashes.

Dashboard listing page fixes

February 13, 2025

• Fixed dashboards listing page: An issue that caused some dashboards to be excluded from the listing page has been resolved. The listing page now shows all dashboards that you have permission to access.

Dashboard customization and page management

February 6, 2025

• Customize sort order and label angles: Control the sorting order of data on the axis and adjust the angle of labels in visualizations. See Format axis settings.

• Custom column widths for tables: All column types in table visualizations now support custom widths. Drag the handle at the top of a column to adjust its size.

• Clone dashboard pages: You can now duplicate dashboard pages. See Clone a page.

• Updated timezone handling: Visualizations now use the timezone from the dataset or compute resource instead of the browser settings. If a widget includes two columns with different time zones, the second is formatted to match the first.

January 2025

Dashboard calculated measures and data display

January 30, 2025

• Create calculated measures: Perform calculations and visualize new data fields without modifying the SQL queries that define a dataset. For details, see What are custom calculations?.

• Sort dashboards by name: You can now sort dashboards by name on the dashboard listing page.

• Expanded data display in charts: Dashboard visualizations now support up to 15,000 rows of data.

Genie visualization generation and warehouse status

January 30, 2025

• Genie-generated visualizations: When Genie detects that a visualization would improve response clarity, it includes one with the result.

• Improved warehouse status visibility: Genie now displays a Waiting for warehouse message when a request is queued and awaiting processing by the associated SQL warehouse.

• Updated warehouse picker UI: The warehouse picker in Genie spaces now automatically selects the first running warehouse from the list. Its updated appearance matches other compute selectors in the Azure Databricks UI.

• Fixed results table issue: Genie now reliably includes table results in responses.

Dashboard service principal publishing and cross-filtering

January 23, 2025

• Publish using a service principal: You can now use the REST API to publish dashboards with service principal credentials. See Use a service principal to publish and share dashboards.

• Reorder datasets: Drag and drop dataset names to change their order in the Data tab.

• Cross-filtering support for point maps: Cross-filtering is now available for point map charts. For a list of chart types that support cross-filtering, see Apply cross-filtering.

• New scatter chart scaling options: A Log (Symmetric) scale function is now available for scatter charts.

• Fixed range sliders: The Range slider filter now correctly limits items to those within the selected range.

• Fixed tooltips: Tooltips now display accurate totals for charts with labels.

Genie table quoting and query fixes

January 23, 2025

• Fixed table identifier quoting: Genie now properly quotes table name identifiers in queries by adding backticks around each part of the catalog, schema, and table name. For example, catalog.schema.table is now formatted as `catalog`.`schema`.`table` to prevent TABLE_OR_VIEW_NOT_FOUND errors.

• Fixed ANY keyword error: Genie now replaces the ANY keyword with the IN keyword when querying list columns to avoid common SQL errors.

• Improved query descriptions: Genie now uses an updated model to generate more precise and accurate query descriptions.

Dashboard PDF download and dataset visualization

January 16, 2025

• Download as PDF: You can now download a PDF copy of a published dashboard. See Download a published dashboard.

• Visually identify datasets in use: A visual indicator now marks whether datasets in the data tab are used in visualizations on the canvas. Datasets that support canvas widgets have a blue icon and a bolded title. Unused datasets have a grey icon and a non-bolded title.

  

• Generate new charts with Databricks Assistant: Databricks Assistant now supports creating dual-axis charts from natural language requests.

• COUNT(*) added as a measure: When choosing fields from the visualization editor, COUNT(*) is now in the measure section.

• Dashboard hover lines and Excel download fixes:

  • Fix: Hover lines now appear correctly on horizontal charts.
  • Fix: Downloading datasets as Excel files now preserves the correct numeric data types.

Genie warehouse selector improvements

January 16, 2025

• See warehouse details in Genie: The Default Warehouse selector in the space settings has been updated to display status, size, and warehouse type. You can also type to filter and select warehouses.

Dashboard full-screen mode and page name display

January 9, 2025

• Dashboard full-screen mode fixes: Filters and context menus now appear in full-screen mode as expected.

• Show page names: Dashboard page names can now display 50% more characters before being truncated.

Genie table count and syntax fixes

January 9, 2025

• Genie table count and syntax improvements:
  • Improvement: Genie now correctly responds with the number of tables in a space.
  • Improvement: Reduced the frequency of PARSE_SYNTAX_ERROR issues triggered by improper use of backticks.