AI/BI and Genie One release notes 2026

The following AI/BI and Genie One features and improvements were released in 2026.

July 2026

Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

July 2, 2026

• Ontology snippets (Public Preview): Genie One now supports ontology snippets. This feature is in Public Preview. Contact your Databricks account team to sign up.

• Document edit timestamps: Documents now show the date and time they were last edited.

• Links in documents: Documents now support links.

• Scheduled tasks: Fixed a bug that prevented scheduled tasks from running.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

July 2, 2026

• Import reports from Power BI and Tableau: Authors can now import Power BI and Tableau reports as a new AI/BI dashboard directly from the dashboard list page.

• Improved metric view reuse when importing: When importing Tableau and Power BI reports as AI/BI dashboards, Genie Code is now more likely to reference existing Unity Catalog metric views instead of creating new ones.

• Hide dashboard pages before publishing: Authors can now hide dashboard pages so they aren't published, while continuing to edit them in draft mode. See Create multi-page reports.

• STRING_AGG function: You can now use STRING_AGG to concatenate non-null string values within a group, with an optional custom delimiter. See string_agg aggregate function.

• Custom Vega visualization improvements: Two enhancements for custom Vega-Lite visualizations.

  • Cross-filtering now works for Vega-Lite charts. The selection appears in the active filter bar and is preserved in dashboard URLs and share links.
  • Custom Vega-Lite charts can now inherit the dashboard's light or dark mode and custom theme, and authors can reference theme values directly in Vega-Lite expressions.

• Hide pivot table columns: You can now hide columns in a pivot table. See Pivot visualization.

• Counter widget comparison styling: Counter widgets now support text styling on the comparison date and conditional coloring on the comparison field. See Counter visualization.

• More compact filter widgets: Filter widgets on the dashboard canvas now appear more compact.

• Dynamic table column widths: Table columns now adjust their width automatically based on cell content.

• Apply filters fix: Fixed a bug where applying filters did not work.

• Table column resize fix: Fixed an issue where resizing a table column could unintentionally trigger a sort on that column.

• Combo chart hover fix: Fixed a console error that sometimes occurred when hovering over empty areas of a combo chart.

Dashboard relationships (Public Preview)

July 1, 2026

• Dashboard relationships (Public Preview): Build complex multi-fact data models scoped to an AI/BI dashboard.

June 2026

Genie One enhancements

June 25, 2026

• Share chats with account users: You can now share Genie One chats with all users in your account as read-only.

• New external source connections (Beta): Chat in Genie One now supports connecting to Gmail and additional Microsoft 365 apps (Teams, Outlook, and Calendar).

• Scheduled task frequency limit: Scheduled tasks can no longer be created with a frequency greater than daily. Hourly and per-minute frequencies are no longer supported. Contact your Databricks account team if you require more frequent scheduling.

• Scheduled task email prefix: Scheduled task notification emails now use the prefix "Genie Task:" instead of "Task update:".

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

June 25, 2026

• Dynamic annotation lines: Annotation lines can now be driven by data or a calculation instead of a fixed value, letting you show running averages, variable thresholds, or anomaly markers that update with your data. See Annotations.
• Six new preset themes: Six new built-in color and style themes are now available for AI/BI dashboards, giving authors more ready-made options without creating a custom theme. See Choose a preset theme.
• Local metric view and dashboard relationship fix: Fixed a bug where local metric views and dashboard relationships sometimes failed when referencing assets from a Hive Metastore.
• Faceted chart fix: Fixed an issue where faceted charts with a DECIMAL facet column dropped most rows in each facet.
• Combo chart hover bug fix: Fixed an issue where hovering over buckets with null line or area values showed an incorrect tooltip and drew a stray point at the baseline. Null values now remain null instead of displaying as 0.

Genie One enhancements

June 18, 2026

• Scheduled tasks for consumer entitlement users: Consumer entitlement users can now create scheduled tasks without needing the SQL entitlement.

Dashboard enhancements

June 18, 2026

• Table header color customization: Authors can now set font color, background color, and text formatting for table column headers. See Table layout settings.

• Dashboard relationships (Private Preview): Dashboard relationships, which allow users to create complex multi-fact data models, are now in Private Preview. See Dashboard relationships .

• Local metric view parameters: Local metric views now support parameters, allowing Azure Databricks to dynamically change query inputs based on user selections in a UI.

• Local metric view wildcard expressions: Local metric views now support wildcard expressions, which allows users to inherit all fields from upstream tables or metric views.

• Power BI enhanced report format support (Beta): Genie Code now supports Power BI files exported with the Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR).

• Image upload suggestions for Power BI and Tableau imports (Beta): Genie Code now suggests that authors upload images when importing files from Power BI and Tableau to improve migration quality.

Genie One enhancements

June 15, 2026

• Chat in Genie One (GA): Chat in Genie One is now generally available. Chat provides a unified interface for asking data questions in natural language using your Genie Spaces, dashboards, queries, and metric views.

• Documents in Genie One (GA): You can now create and share documents from Genie One chat conversations without leaving the interface. Ask Genie One to draft a document, or click Draft a document from the homepage. Genie One generates the document and opens it in a canvas pane alongside the conversation, where you can edit and share it.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

June 11, 2026

• Gantt charts now available: Gantt charts display tasks as horizontal bars on a continuous axis to visualize project schedules, manufacturing workflows, and other time-ranged events. Each bar requires matching start and end field types (date, datetime, or numeric). See Gantt chart.

• Custom visualizations (Public Preview): Build custom charts with the Vega-Lite library for customization beyond the built-in visualization types.

• Per-category font customization: You can now customize fonts per category across all visualization types. See Customize colors and fonts.

• Table row cross-filtering and drill-through: Select table rows to cross-filter, or right-click to drill through.

• Cross-filtering and drill-through: Line, combo, and area charts now support cross-filtering and drill-through filters. See Use drill-through to filter data.

• Dashboard details in draft mode: Draft mode now shows dashboard details, making it easier to find dashboard managers and the dashboard's location.

• New metric view low-code editor syntax (Public Preview): The following syntax is now available in the metric view low-code editor:

  • JOIN … RELY
  • WINDOW OFFSET
  • WINDOW INCLUSIVITY

• Genie Code metric view usage: Genie Code now relies more heavily on Unity Catalog metric views rather than creating local ones.

• Global filters pane fix: Fixed a bug where the global filters pane did not open on a user's first view of a dashboard.

• Widget copy-paste fix: Fixed a bug where users could not copy and paste widgets across dashboards.

• Tableau line chart import fix (Beta): Fixed an issue where multi-series line charts imported from Tableau files were recreated as separate line charts.

Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

June 11, 2026

• Account-level Genie customization: You can now customize Genie at the account level, including colors, a logo, a markdown welcome message, and pinned content. See Customize the Genie One homepage.
• Email tool for scheduled tasks: Scheduled tasks now use an email tool to send emails, enabling more customized email formats and send conditions.
• Custom MCP server fix (Public Preview): Fixed an issue that prevented custom MCP servers from being used in Genie One.

Genie renamed to Genie One

June 9, 2026

Genie, the Azure Databricks AI experience for business users, has been renamed to Genie One. The feature and its capabilities are unchanged. See Use Genie One.

Dashboard enhancements

June 4, 2026

• Bookmark filter combinations: Dashboard authors can now save filter combinations as shared bookmarks, which viewers can quickly apply. See Bookmarks.
• Pivot table column improvements: Pivot table columns can now expand and collapse.
• Theme customization enhancements: New theme customization options are now available, including the ability to change axis and grid line colors, adjust widget layout (margin, padding, corner radius, and shadow), and apply a color ramp. See Manage AI/BI dashboard workspace themes.
• Workspace theme settings: New theme settings are now available in workspace-level themes and automatically apply to new dashboards. See Manage AI/BI dashboard workspace themes.
• Dashboard variables: Dashboard authors can now create dashboard variables that allow viewers to swap fields on visualizations. See Use dashboard variables.
• Customizable table headers: Dashboard authors can now customize table column headers.
• Field picker improvements: Field pickers now show which dataset each field belongs to. Combo charts on semantic models use the data field picker for the Y-axis, and tables support adding the same field more than once. This release also includes truncated dataset labels, tooltips on disabled menu items, and a relocated filter toggle.
• Widget-level color gradient: You can now derive a color gradient from the visualization color at the widget level, matching the behavior available in theme settings.

Genie One enhancements

June 4, 2026

• Workspace-level Genie One customization: Workspace admins can now customize Genie One at the workspace level. Under workspace settings, admins can configure colors, a logo, a markdown welcome message, and pinned content. See Customize the Genie One homepage.
• Certified object prioritization: Chat in Genie One now acknowledges and prioritizes certified objects.
• User skills (Public Preview): You can now create personal user skills to extend chat in Genie One with custom capabilities. A skill is a repeatable task you teach Genie One once and run whenever you need it, such as building your weekly metrics report.
• Rich output (Public Preview): Genie One responses for non-SQL answers, such as search results and MCP reads, can now include rich HTML, CSS, and JavaScript content, enabling more varied data presentations beyond plain prose.
• Genie Ontology (Public Preview): Genie One now automatically builds and maintains a map of your business by extracting and ranking knowledge from sources such as dashboards, notebooks, and pipelines, improving response accuracy and reducing latency. See Genie Ontology .

May 2026

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

May 28, 2026

• Banded rows in tables: Tables can now display banded rows.

• Custom geographies in maps: Custom geographies are now available in choropleth and point maps. See Custom geographic data.

• Median and percentile expressions in metric views: Low-code metric view building now supports two new expression types: median and percentile. See Create and edit metric views.

• AGGREGATE OVER enhancements: The AGGREGATE OVER operator now supports an optional INCLUSIVE or EXCLUSIVE keyword for TRAILING and LEADING ranges, and an optional OFFSET clause that shifts the range by a specified interval. See Aggregate window functions.

• Point map shape field: Point maps now support a shape field to differentiate data points by category.

• Default table sorting: Tables now support default sorting, allowing dashboard authors to define a default sort order for table columns.

• Aggregated variable Y-axis fix: Fixed a bug where adding an aggregated variable to a bar, line, or area chart's Y-axis prevented adding a second field.

• Symbol map interaction fix: Fixed symbol map interaction issues where clicking an empty area did not deselect markers and the cursor did not indicate that markers were clickable on hover.

• Cross-filter conditional formatting fix: Fixed a bug where cross-filter hover and selection styling overrode conditional formatting colors on table cells.

• SQL Editor results visibility fix: Fixed an issue where filtered results in the SQL Editor were not visible even though the data was present, caused by the table container collapsing within the page layout.

• Symbol map field picker fix: Fixed an issue where the latitude and longitude field pickers in the symbol map editor did not work when using a semantic model as a dataset.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

May 21, 2026

• Import BI workbooks (Beta): Add a Tableau or Power BI file to Genie Code and it builds an AI/BI dashboard that replicates your visualizations.

• Open-source fonts: Over 20 new open-source fonts are now available as defaults. See Customize colors and fonts.

• Parameter values in text widgets: Dashboard authors can now reference parameter values in text widgets. See Use parameters in text widgets.

• Genie Code non-table outputs: Genie Code can now render non-table outputs, including charts, text blocks, and other content.

• Answer now for Genie on published dashboards: Genie on published dashboards now supports Answer now. Answer now stops Genie from thinking and produces an immediate answer to the user question, at the cost of deeper analysis.

Genie One enhancements

May 21, 2026

• Direct link to associated dashboard: Genie One now surfaces a direct link to the associated dashboard when hovering over entities in the chat pane.
• Ask Genie on the workspace homepage: Ask Genie has been added to the workspace homepage. See Homepage.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

May 14, 2026

• Error bars on line charts: Line charts now support displaying error bars as bands.
• Custom SQL measure bug fix (Public Preview): Fixed a bug where a measure defined using the custom SQL option would fail if a dataset-scoped measure didn't specify the full name path. For example, sum(orders.field) was previously required rather than sum(field).
• Genie Code dashboard visualization authoring: Genie Code can now author the full set of dashboard visualization configuration options.

Genie One enhancements and bug fixes

May 14, 2026

• Additional chat audit logs in Genie One: Nine new genieChat audit events are now available for granular tracking: mcpToolInvocation, steerGenieChatConversation, updateGenieChatConversationFeedback, cancelGenieChatConversation, getGenieChatConversation, and scheduled task operations (createScheduledTask, getScheduledTask, updateScheduledTask, deleteScheduledTask). See Chat events in Genie One.
• Chat input fix in Genie One: Fixed a bug where text lingered in the chat input field after submission.
• Simplified email text formatting for scheduled chat tasks in Genie One: Email text formatting for scheduled tasks is now more viewer friendly.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

May 7, 2026

• Improved error messages: Dashboard error messages can now be more easily viewed and copied.
• Reset draft API: An API is now available for dashboard authors to reset the draft to the last published version.
• Undo-redo on the data page: Dashboards in draft mode now support undo and redo on the data page.
• Y-axis fix: Fixed a bug where the Y-axis of faceted bar and area charts started at -0.5 instead of 0.
• Multi-select filter fix: Fixed a usability issue where multi-select filters always scrolled to the top of the list after a selection.
• Local metric view Hive Metastore fix (Public Preview): Fixed an issue causing local metric views to fail when referencing Hive Metastore tables rather than Unity Catalog tables.
• Local metric view preview fix (Public Preview): Fixed an issue where preview charts for measures and dimensions defined in a local metric view were not rendering in the data tab.
• Metric view SQL editor improvements (Public Preview): Several UX improvements to the metric view SQL editor, including taller SQL and expression editors in the side pane, layout padding improvements, and a cropping fix in the join modal table source selector.
• Local metric view join autofill (Public Preview): Local metric views now autopopulate join conditions when joining two or more tables.

April 2026

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

April 30, 2026

• Publish with service principal credentials: Authors can now publish dashboards using the data credentials of a service principal. See Publish a dashboard.
• Service principal draft view fix: Fixed a bug where a dashboard published via a service principal loses the ability to view draft.
• Text widget menu fix: Removed Show visualization query from the kebab menu on text widgets.
• Service principal ownership: Workspace admins can now transfer dashboard ownership to a service principal in the UI. See Transfer ownership of a dashboard.
• Choropleth map admin levels: Choropleth maps now support US admin levels 3 (regions, multi-state groupings) and 4 (states). See Map visualizations.
• Publish notification fix: Fixed a bug where a publish success notification appeared even if the underlying publish failed.
• SQL editor line numbers: The SQL query editor now displays line numbers to help with legibility and debugging.
• PDF subscription page selection: Dashboard authors can now select which pages to include in PDF email subscriptions. See Manage scheduled dashboard updates and subscriptions.
• Parameter values in widget titles and descriptions: Dashboard authors can now reference parameter values in widget titles and descriptions, so the text updates dynamically as viewers change parameter selections. See Work with dashboard parameters.

Databricks One renamed to Genie

April 27, 2026

Databricks One, the simplified Databricks interface, has been renamed to Genie. The feature and its capabilities are unchanged. Genie enables users to:

• View and interact with AI/BI dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and analyze metrics.
• Ask data questions in natural language using Genie.
• Use custom-built Databricks Apps that combine analytics, AI, and workflows.

See Use Genie One.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

April 23, 2026

• Table cross-filtering and drill-through: Tables now support cross-filtering and drill-through.
• Counter prefix and suffix: Numbers in counters now support custom prefixes and suffixes. See Format template.
• Schema browser default dataset type (Public Preview): Adding a table to a dashboard from the schema browser now creates a local metric view by default instead of a SQL dataset.
• Service principal dashboard fix: Fixed a bug where dashboards published as a service principal continued to run temporarily even after the service principal was disabled.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

April 16, 2026

• Warehouse overload message: Dashboards now show a message explaining when rendering is delayed due to the warehouse being overloaded.
• Tabular attachments in email subscriptions: Dashboard email subscriptions now include tabular attachments.
• Fullscreen scroll position: Exiting fullscreen mode on a published dashboard now returns you to your previous scroll position instead of jumping to the top of the page.
• Widget query batch fix: Fixed a bug where a widget query failing for one widget caused all other widgets in the same query batch to fail.

Visualization enhancements

April 16, 2026

• Dashed and dotted line styles: You can now style lines as dashed or dotted in the Pattern section of the configuration pane.

Metric view enhancements

April 16, 2026

• Measures and dimensions creation use Builder mode by default (Public Preview): Builder mode, the UI-based transformation tool, is now the default experience for editing measures and dimensions in metric views.

Dashboard enhancements

April 9, 2026

• Local metric views (Public Preview): A new dataset type lets you create metric views directly in a dashboard using a low-code visual interface, without publishing to Unity Catalog first. See Local metric views.

• Edit hex color values inline: Authors can now click directly on a hex color value to edit it in place.

• View SQL for visualization widgets: Authors can now view the SQL behind specific visualization widgets while in draft mode. See View the visualization query.

• External embedding is now generally available: Embedding dashboards for external users is now generally available. See What is embedding for external users?

• Waterfall chart totals: Waterfall charts with categorical X-axis now support a total bar.

• Scatter plot shape field: Scatter plots now support a shape field to differentiate data points by category.

• Vertical annotations with dual axis: Fixed a bug where vertical annotations did not appear in charts with dual axis enabled.

• Text widget character limit: Fixed a bug where the text widget accepted more characters than supported but silently failed to save.

Genie One enhancements

April 9, 2026

• Account-level Genie One is now generally available: Account-level Genie One now includes Databricks Apps, Domains, and Genie. See Use Genie One.
• Updated workspace Genie One navigation: The workspace Genie One left-hand navigation has been updated and now includes Genie Code chat history.

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

April 2, 2026

• Clear applied filters individually: Dashboard viewers can now individually clear applied filters from the active selection bar.
• Text box vertical alignment: Text box widgets now support vertical alignment (top, center, and bottom).
• Choropleth map boundaries: Choropleth maps now support additional boundary types, including ZIP code and NUTS regions.
• Waterfall chart total bar visibility: The waterfall chart editor now hides the total bar toggle when the x-axis configuration doesn't support it, reducing authoring confusion.

• Embedding disabled error message: Fixed an error message when embedding is disabled to clarify that the workspace administrator, not the account administrator, must update the workspace setting.
• Y-axis label alignment: Fixed an incorrect width measurement for horizontal y-axis labels that caused misaligned axis text.
• Filter picker label truncation: Long field and parameter names in the filter picker dropdown are now truncated to prevent layout overflow.

Genie One enhancements

April 2, 2026

• Account Genie One is now in Public Preview: Account-level Genie One is now in Public Preview. Genie One provides a single location to view dashboards, apps, and Genie across all workspaces. See Use Genie One.
• Navigation between Genie One surfaces: Users can now navigate between Account Genie One and workspace Genie One.

March 2026

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

March 26, 2026

• Legacy dashboard color palette setting removed: The workspace setting for the legacy dashboard color palette has been removed, as legacy dashboards are no longer supported. AI/BI workspace-level color palettes remain available and unchanged.

• Collapsible visualization editor: The visualization editor is now collapsible when editing draft dashboards.
• Field comments on hover: When configuring visualizations on a draft dashboard, hovering over a field now displays the comment associated with the underlying field.
• Waterfall chart total bar: The waterfall chart editor now includes a Show total toggle that renders a cumulative total bar alongside incremental change bars.
• Simplified scheduling UI: The dashboard scheduling interface has been redesigned for easier setup and navigation. See Create a schedule.
• Advanced cells in pivot tables: Pivot tables now support advanced cells including image, HTML, JSON, and link. See Pivot table configuration.
• Parameters in custom calculations: Custom calculations now support parameters. See Use parameters in custom calculations.
• Annotation render loop fix: Fixed an infinite render loop on some dashboards with charts that have annotations.
• Loading and no-data state display: Visualizations now correctly distinguish between loading and no-data states, and disable the animation slider while data loads.
• Dot notation in field names: Visualization expressions now correctly handle field names that contain dots.

Connect external data sources to chat in Genie One (Beta)

March 23, 2026

You can now connect external data sources such as Google Drive or SharePoint to a chat conversation in Genie One, allowing chat to search your company documents when answering questions. Each user authenticates individually using their own credentials. You can also connect custom MCP servers as additional data sources. See Connect to external tools and sources .

Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes

March 19, 2026

• Date filter keyboard input: Fixed an issue where entering a date value via keyboard for relative date ranges failed to accept the input.
• Dashboard theme color palette: Fixed a bug where the visualization color palette was hidden when editing dashboard themes at the workspace level.
• Pivot table column width: The minimum width of pivot table columns is now 30px, reduced from 50px.
• Drill-through for pivot tables: Drill-through filters are now available for pivot tables. See Use drill-through to filter data.
• Dashboard snapshot audit logs: Fixed a bug where audit logs for triggerDashboardSnapshot included internal system calls from thumbnail generation and probe snapshots. These internal requests are now excluded from the audit logs.
• Custom font data labels: Custom dashboard fonts now apply to data point labels.
• Forecast x-axis time binning: Forecast visualizations now properly apply x-axis time binning.
• Pivot table date cell formatting: Pivot table date cells no longer wrap at hyphens.
• Dashboard subscription audit logs: Audit logs now include the sendDashboardSnapshot event when a dashboard subscription sends a snapshot to a Slack or Teams destination. See AI/BI dashboard events.

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

March 12, 2026

• Dashboard embedding for external users is generally available: Embed AI/BI dashboards in external applications without requiring viewers to have Azure Databricks accounts. See What is embedding for external users?.
• Hide Databricks logo in embedded dashboards: Externally embedded dashboards now support hiding the Databricks logo using the hideDatabricksLogo option. See Hide the Databricks logo.
• Metric view lineage highlighting: Hovering over metric views in the lineage pane now highlights the visualizations built on those metric views.
• Certification and deprecation icons in lineage: Data objects in the dashboard lineage pane now show their certification or deprecation status.
• Clear individual active filters: You can now remove a single filter selection from the active filter bar without resetting all active filters.
• Mobile layouts: Dashboards now automatically render in a mobile-friendly layout when viewed on small screens in Genie One. See Mobile layout.
• Custom subscription email subjects: When configuring a dashboard subscription, authors can now edit the subject line of notification emails sent to subscribers.
• Accounting-style number formatting: Number fields now support accounting-style formatting, which displays negative values in parentheses and vertically aligns currency symbols. See Format numeric values.
• Custom fonts: Dashboard authors can now select custom fonts for dashboards. Fonts must be preinstalled on viewer machines. If a font is not available, dashboards fall back to Databricks default fonts. See Set a custom font.

Account-level Genie One (Beta)

March 12, 2026

Account-level Genie One is now available in Beta. Users can now discover and interact with AI/BI dashboards from all workspaces in their account from a single entry point. Account-level Genie provides a unified homepage, cross-workspace search, and recommendations and favorites across workspaces. See Account-level Genie.

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

March 5, 2026

• Embedded dashboard kebab menu: The Copy link to widget option is no longer shown in the kebab menu for embedded dashboards.
• Dashboard import warehouse ID fix: Importing a dashboard without a specified warehouse ID no longer clears the previously selected warehouse.
• End of life for legacy dashboards: Legacy dashboards (previously referred to as Databricks SQL dashboards) have reached end of life and are no longer available.
• Bar and line chart x-axis spacing fix: The x-axis spacing of temporal data labels is now consistent between bar and line charts.
• Pivot table drill-through filters: You can now drill through data in pivot tables. See Use drill-through to filter data.
• Point map recentering on filter changes: Point maps automatically recenter to show relevant data when a filter is applied.
• AI chart suggestion fix: AI generated chart suggestions no longer disappear in some scenarios.
• Waterfall chart faceting: You can now apply faceting (also known as trellis or small multiple charts) to waterfall charts.

February 2026

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

February 26, 2026

• Unity Catalog metric view lineage: Dashboard info now shows Unity Catalog metric views in the lineage section.
• Dashboard refresh cancellation: Cancelling a dashboard refresh now shows the last available data instead of an error.
• DD-MM-YYYY date format: The DD-MM-YYYY date format is now available for date fields.
• Date range parameter "All" selection: Date range parameters now support All. When All is selected, the parameter value is null and all rows are returned. See Apply date range parameters.
• Genie agentic experience (Public Preview): Genie for dashboard insights now offers an agentic experience (Public Preview) by default.
• Point map recentering: Point maps now recenter upon relevant points when a filter is applied.
• Datetime drop-down menu fix: Fixed an issue where datetime drop-down menus could not be set in the global filters pane.

Dashboard visualization and interaction enhancements

February 19, 2026

• Pivot table hierarchies: You can now expand and collapse hierarchies in pivot tables.
• Stacked bar chart labels: Stacked bar charts now support showing min/max label values and total labels.
• Area and line chart sorting: Area and line charts now support sorting axes by measures.
• Dashboard content search: Global search in Lakehouse and Genie One now matches on dashboard content, not just titles.
• Chart faceting: Charts now support faceting (also known as trellis or small multiple charts), rendering one chart per dimension value. See Faceting.

Dashboard enhancements and improvements

February 12, 2026

• Workspace admin theme permissions: Fixed a bug where workspace admins couldn't edit workspace-level themes.
• Level of detail calculations: Level of detail calculations now support EXCLUDE syntax on multiple fields. See Defining expressions at a coarser level of detail
• Color legend sorting: You can now sort color legends by another field in visualizations.
• Pivot table cell styles: Pivot tables now support HTML, JSON, and image cell styles.
• Pivot table cross filtering: Pivot tables now support cross filtering.
• Table resizing: You can now resize table and pivot table headers and columns.
• Histogram and funnel chart labels: Histogram and funnel charts can now show "total" labels.
• Assistant for dashboard authoring improvements: Assistant for dashboard authoring now supports creating labels and setting color values.
• Multi-select parameter enhancement: Multi-select parameters now support selecting all values. See Allow multiple selections.
• Table visualization enhancements: Table visualizations now support aggregations and measures, inherit formatting from locales, and support background color styling, including conditional formatting and color gradients. As a result of this change:
  • Table formatting now uses the visualization library's formatting capabilities, ensuring consistency and allowing inheritance from locale settings.
  • The resize columns option has been removed to reduce bugs. Set column widths in the Style tab instead.
• Dashboard grid expansion: Dashboard layouts in the canvas now support 12 columns across instead of 6, providing more flexibility for widget placement.

Dashboard enhancements and new capabilities

February 5, 2026

• Parameterized dashboard tasks: Dashboard tasks in Jobs can now be parameterized, allowing job parameters to dynamically set dashboard filter values at runtime.
• Workspace-level dashboard themes: Dashboard themes can now be configured at the workspace level. See Manage AI/BI dashboard workspace themes.
• Top-aligned text widgets: Text widgets now default to top-aligned text.
• Refresh-only schedules for individual data permissions: Authors and viewers of dashboards published with individual data permissions can now create refresh-only schedules that trigger cache refreshes without sending notifications, improving dashboard load times. See Subscribe to an existing schedule.
• Genie Spaces enabled by default: Genie is now on by default for published dashboards, allowing viewers to ask questions using the Ask Genie button.
• Tag search: Tag search is now supported for dashboards, allowing users to find dashboards by their assigned tags.
• Assistant for dashboard authoring (Beta): Authors can now automate multi-step dashboard workflows using natural language prompts to create datasets, visualizations, layouts, and filters. The legacy inline-visualization prompting experience now redirects to the Assistant side panel.

Genie One app thumbnail support

February 5, 2026

• App thumbnail uploads: Customers can now upload thumbnails as the preview image for Databricks apps.

Partner-powered AI features are now supported in the Canada, Brazil, and United Kingdom Azure Geographies

February 4, 2026

Partner-powered AI features in Canada, Brazil, and the United Kingdom that run with cross-Geo processing disabled now use models hosted in the same Azure Geography as the workspace. This aligns model hosting with Azure Geographies and ensures consistent regional availability.

Impact on user experience:

• Most AI features continue to work as expected with no action required.
• Some AI capabilities that depend on models not currently hosted in your Azure Geography might no longer be available with cross-geo processing disabled. See Availability of Designated Services in each Geo for more information on which features require cross-geo processing.
• If you rely on a feature that is no longer available in your Azure Geography, enable cross-geo processing to allow that feature to continue using models hosted outside your Azure Geography.
• For workspaces in these Azure Geographies, AI features will only use Databricks-hosted models if both partner-powered AI features and Enforce data processing within workspace Geography for Designated Services settings are disabled. If partner-powered AI features is disabled and Enforce data processing within workspace Geography for Designated Services is enabled, then AI assistive features are not be available in the workspace.

January 2026

Dashboard visualization and data improvements

January 29, 2026

• Fixed access request availability: Resolved an issue where the option to request access was not available and a "Resource not found" error was incorrectly shown.
• Full-width pivot tables: Widgets now render pivot tables at full width for better readability.
• Tooltip fields on charts: Combo and dual-axis charts now support tooltip fields.
• Image rendering in pivot tables: Cells can now display images directly in pivot tables.
• Dark mode scrollbar visibility: Scrollbars are now easier to see when using dark mode.
• Increased pivot data download limits: Download limits now support up to 10,000 rows by 1,000 columns for pivoted data.
• Fixed filter paste behavior: Resolved an issue where pasting a comma-separated list into a single-select filter only parsed the first element instead of keeping all values.
• Fixed stacked chart label rendering: Labels on stacked charts with a quantitative x-axis now render correctly in notebooks and in the SQL Editor.

Genie One search and discovery improvements

January 22, 2026

• Databricks Apps filtering: Genie One consumers can now filter to include or exclude inactive Databricks apps when browsing. Inactive apps are those with a status other than Running, such as Stopped, Deploying, or Crashed.

• Dashboard widget title search: Search now supports dashboard widget titles.
• Enhanced search rankings: Certified and favorite content is now boosted in search rankings in Genie One.
• Recents and favorites in discovery: Recents and favorites are now surfaced in the For you page.

Dashboard subscriptions, custom calculations, and visualization improvements

January 22, 2026

• Account-level user subscriptions: Dashboard authors can now subscribe account-level users to scheduled dashboard updates. See Manage scheduled dashboard updates and subscriptions.
• Microsoft Entra ID user subscriptions: Dashboard authors can now subscribe users in Microsoft Entra ID to scheduled dashboard updates when automatic identity management is enabled.
• Custom calculation references: Custom calculations can now reference custom calculations on dashboard datasets. See Referencing other calculations.
• Cumulative totals on stacked bar charts: Stacked bar charts can now display the cumulative total of values.
• Improved tooltips on combo and dual axis charts: Tooltips are now easier to access when hovering over combo and dual axis charts.
• Fixed static widget filter drop-down menu values: Resolved an issue where values in static widget filter drop-down menus were not available when applied on a metric view.
• Fixed text widget character limit error message: Resolved an issue where trying to save a dashboard with text widgets exceeding 50,000 characters would fail without an error message. An error message now appears informing the author.

Genie One is generally available

January 20, 2026

Genie One is now generally available. Genie One is a simplified user interface designed for business users, providing a single, intuitive entry point to interact with data and AI in Azure Databricks without requiring technical knowledge of compute resources, queries, models, or notebooks. Using Genie One, business users can view and interact with dashboards, ask data questions in natural language using Genie, and use custom-built Databricks Apps that combine analytics, AI, and workflows. See Use Genie One.

Level of detail expressions for custom calculations

January 19, 2026

Level of detail expressions let you control aggregation granularity independently of the dimensions in your visualizations. Use fixed level of detail expressions to aggregate over specific dimensions regardless of visualization groupings, or use coarser level of detail expressions to aggregate at a higher level by excluding dimensions. Common use cases include calculating percentages of total, comparing values to dataset-wide aggregates, and creating cohort-level metrics. See Level of detail (LOD) expressions.

Value sampling features renamed

January 16, 2026

The value sampling features in Genie have been renamed to better describe their function:

• Prompt matching (previously value sampling)
• Format assistance (previously example values)
• Entity matching (previously value dictionaries)

Dashboard navigation, pivot tables, and text widget improvements

January 15, 2026

• Dashboard page navigation scroll bar: The horizontal scroll bar to navigate between dashboard pages is now thicker.
• Dashboard title character limit: Dashboard titles now have more horizontal space before truncating.
• Pivot table header height: Pivot table header height can be configured to enable wrapping for multi-row heights.
• Text widget markdown tables: Text widgets now support markdown table syntax.

Genie One favorite and filtering improvements

January 15, 2026

• Mark assets as favorites: Click the star icon next to asset names in Genie One to mark them as favorites.
• Favorite and certified content filtering: Filter content by favorite and certified status in Genie One. See Listing pages.

Dashboard pivot tables, filters, and data export improvements

January 8, 2026

• JSON cell copy-paste improvement: JSON objects in table cells now remain expanded when you drag to copy-paste.
• Parameterized default catalog and schemas: Parameterize the default catalog and schemas when deploying dashboards using Declarative Automation Bundles. See dashboard.
• Multi-select filter paste enhancement: Paste comma-separated and newline-separated values into multi-select filters.
• Pivot table total rows: Pivot tables can now display total rows at the top.
• Dashboard widget drag handles: Dashboard widgets now have drag handles for resizing and repositioning.
• Pivoted table Excel downloads: Download dashboard data to Excel in pivoted format rather than flattened. See Download pivot tables to Excel.
• Timezone display fixes: Fixed a number of timezone-related issues, ensuring that displayed timezones match underlying data timezones instead of displaying UTC.
• Selective data point labels: Labels can now be shown only for first/last or min/max data points.

Change default workspace access to Consumer access (Public Preview)

January 6, 2026

Workspace admins can configure new users to receive Consumer access by default using group cloning. Consumer access provides access to Genie One, a view-only experience for business users who must view and interact with dashboards, Genie Spaces, and apps without creating workspace objects. The process creates a new group for existing users and updates the users group to grant only Consumer entitlement to new users by default. This preserves existing users' authoring permissions while streamlining consumer onboarding at scale. See Migrate workspace entitlement control.