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These features and Azure Databricks platform improvements were released in June 2025.
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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.
New consumer entitlement is generally available
June 5, 2025
Workspace admins can now grant consumer access as an entitlement to users, service principals, and groups. This allows for more fine-grained control over what users can do in an Azure Databricks workspace. Key details:
Consumer access enables limited workspace UI access, querying SQL warehouses using BI tools, and viewing dashboards with embedded or viewer credentials.
Useful for business users who need access to shared content and dashboards but not to author or manage workspace objects.
This entitlement is more restrictive than workspace access or Databricks SQL access. To assign it independently, remove broader entitlements from the
usersgroup and configure them per user or group.
See Manage entitlements.
Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector (Public Preview)
June 4, 2025
The Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing connector offers an alternative zero-copy solution for querying Salesforce Data Cloud. When you use file federation instead of query federation, Databricks calls Salesforce Delivery-as-a-Service (DaaS) APIs to read data in the underlying cloud object storage location directly. Queries are run on Databricks compute without using JDBC.
Compared to query federation, file federation is ideal for federating a large amount of data. It offers improved performance for reading files from multiple data sources and better pushdown capabilities.
Azure Private Link from serverless compute to resources in your virtual network (VNet) via a standard load balancer (SLB) Public Preview
June 4, 2025
You can now enable Azure Private Link to resources in your virtual network (VNet) via a standard load balancer (SLB) from serverless compute.
Corrected job_name values in system.billing.usage
June 3, 2025
The usage_metadata.job_name value in the system.billing.usage table now correctly contains job names. Previously, this value was populated with task keys instead of the user-provided job names. This change does not apply to one-time job runs, which continue to be logged with the task key.
Mosaic AI Vector Search storage-optimized endpoints are Public Preview
June 3, 2025
Mosaic AI Vector Search now offers the option of storage-optimized endpoints. Storage-optimized endpoints have a larger capacity (over one billion vectors at dimension 768) and provide 10-20x faster indexing. Pricing is optimized for the larger number of vectors.
History sharing now enabled by default to improve table read performance for Azure Databricks-to-Azure Databricks Delta Sharing (GA)
June 3, 2025
History sharing is enabled by default (for Databricks Runtime 16.2 and above) to improve table read performance for Azure Databricks-to-Azure Databricks Delta Sharing. See Improve table read performance with history sharing.
Unity Catalog HTTP connections support OAuth User-to-Machine Per User credentials (Public Preview)
June 2, 2025
Individual users can now use their own OAuth credentials to sign into external services when using a Unity Catalog HTTP connection. Previously, the only OAuth option was to share a single OAuth credential for the connection regardless of the user.