October 2024
These features and Azure Databricks platform improvements were released in October 2024.
Note
Releases are staged. Your Azure Databricks account might not be updated until a week or more after the initial release date.
Improvements to comments in notebooks
October 8, 2024
Improvements to the UI for commenting in notebooks make comments easier to add and find.
Databricks Runtime 16.0 (Beta)
October 8, 2024
Databricks Runtime 16.0 and Databricks Runtime 16.0 ML are now available as Beta releases.
See Databricks Runtime 16.0 (Beta) and Databricks Runtime 16.0 for Machine Learning (Beta).
Create secure data and AI apps for your users with Databricks Apps (Public Preview)
October 8, 2024
With Databricks Apps, you can use popular Python frameworks to create applications that run in the Databricks platform and use the resources and features of the Databricks platform, including Unity Catalog for governance, Databricks SQL to query data, AI features such as model serving, and the already configured security rules in your workspaces.
Improvements to %autoreload keep Python modules synced with source code
October 8, 2024
Starting with DBR version 16.0, when you import a Python module from the Workspace File Store, Databricks automatically suggests using %autoreload if the module has changed since its last import. See Autoreload for Python modules.