In the last seven days: four shipped, four in preview, five with a date on it and six new concepts on Lakenaut.

13 changes for you: five needs action, six worth evaluating and two nice to know.

New features

• Window measures in metric views reach general availability Metric views can now define window measures, which cover rolling windows, cumulative totals and semiadditive aggregations such as moving averages.

• Lakeflow pipelines can run as an account group A Lakeflow pipeline's run-as identity can now be an account group, in addition to a user or a service principal.

• NEAREST BY: a SQL join for batch vector search in Databricks Runtime NEAREST BY is a SQL join that finds, for each row on the left, the k closest rows on the right by vector similarity or distance, either EXACT or APPROX.

• Claude Haiku 5.5 is available on Unity Gateway through Foundation Model APIs The note reminds customers that they are responsible for complying with the applicable terms.

Previews and beta

• Genie Code CLI, a terminal coding agent for Databricks, is in Beta Genie Code CLI is a coding agent that runs in a terminal and works on local files.

• Iceberg REST catalogs gain UNREGISTER; Unity Catalog support is in private preview Databricks contributed an UNREGISTER endpoint to the Apache Iceberg REST catalog specification.

• Lakeflow Jobs can use up to five triggers per job (Beta) Trigger types can be mixed, several triggers of the same type are allowed, and each trigger can be paused on its own.

• Google Workspace connector for Lakeflow Connect reaches Beta It ingests audit activity from Google Workspace applications and services into Databricks, using OAuth user authorization and incremental ingestion.

Deprecations and end of support

• DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) will be retired on 5 November 2026 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the recommended replacement.

• Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS ends on 2026-11-01 Anything still relying on it needs a plan before then.

• Genie One MCP Beta endpoint (/api/2.0/mcp/genie) ends on 2026-10-31 Anything still relying on it needs a plan before then.

• DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) ends on 2026-10-30 Anything still relying on it needs a plan before then.

• Claude Sonnet 4 on Foundation Model APIs ends on 2026-10-09 Anything still relying on it needs a plan before then.

New and rewritten concepts

• Metric views A metric view is a Unity Catalog object whose body is YAML. It defines measures once, and every query picks its own grouping and reads the measures with MEASURE().

• Cluster policies A cluster policy is an admin-defined JSON rule set that locks down what a user can configure on a cluster, enforcing cost, security, and tagging limits.

• The CLI and the SDKs The Databricks CLI, the language SDKs, and Databricks Connect all share one authentication order and wrap the same REST API for scripting and automation.

• Change Data Feed Change Data Feed records every row-level insert, update, and delete on a Delta table so downstream jobs can propagate just the change, not the whole table.

• Agent memory Long-term memory for an agent, kept in a workspace store Databricks runs on Lakebase and partitioned by actor — where the store, not the actor, is the security boundary.

• Paying for a foundation model: tokens, units and reservations The four capacity modes for a Databricks-hosted foundation model: pay-per-token, priority, on-demand provisioned throughput and reserved provisioned throughput.