https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/databricks-news-week-50-8-december-2025-to-14-december-2025/m-p/141817#M895 <H1 class="text-24 leading-7 mt-large mb-x6"><SPAN>Excel</SPAN></H1> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>The big news this week is the possibility of native importing Excel files. Write operations are also possible. There is a possibility of choosing a data range. It also works with the streaming autoloader, currently in beta.</SPAN></P> <H1 class="text-24 leading-7 mt-large mb-x6"><SPAN>GPT 5.2</SPAN></H1> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>The same day that OpenAI released Chat GPT 5.2, it was available in databricks. Check your system-ai schema in Unity Catalog and find it there (depending on the region).</SPAN></P> <H1 class="text-24 leading-7 mt-large mb-x6"><SPAN>Runtime 18</SPAN></H1> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>Runtime 18 brings performance improvements to stateless streaming queries (Adaptive Query Execution (AQE) and auto-optimized shuffle (AOS) are also available now for streaming). Improvements related to UDF performance (shared environments). Window functions are now available in the metrics view.</SPAN></P> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>Read all the news on </SPAN><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-50-8-december-2025-to-14-december-2025-72f5e5f8b437" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><SPAN>https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-50-8-december-2025-to-14-december-2025-72f5e5f8b437</SPAN></A></P> Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:19:27 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2025-12-14T16:19:27Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/databricks-news-week-50-8-december-2025-to-14-december-2025/m-p/141817#M895 <H1 class="text-24 leading-7 mt-large mb-x6"><SPAN>Excel</SPAN></H1> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>The big news this week is the possibility of native importing Excel files. Write operations are also possible. There is a possibility of choosing a data range. It also works with the streaming autoloader, currently in beta.</SPAN></P> <H1 class="text-24 leading-7 mt-large mb-x6"><SPAN>GPT 5.2</SPAN></H1> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>The same day that OpenAI released Chat GPT 5.2, it was available in databricks. Check your system-ai schema in Unity Catalog and find it there (depending on the region).</SPAN></P> <H1 class="text-24 leading-7 mt-large mb-x6"><SPAN>Runtime 18</SPAN></H1> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>Runtime 18 brings performance improvements to stateless streaming queries (Adaptive Query Execution (AQE) and auto-optimized shuffle (AOS) are also available now for streaming). Improvements related to UDF performance (shared environments). Window functions are now available in the metrics view.</SPAN></P> <P class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><SPAN>Read all the news on </SPAN><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-50-8-december-2025-to-14-december-2025-72f5e5f8b437" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><SPAN>https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-50-8-december-2025-to-14-december-2025-72f5e5f8b437</SPAN></A></P> Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:19:27 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/databricks-news-week-50-8-december-2025-to-14-december-2025/m-p/141817#M895 Hubert-Dudek 2025-12-14T16:19:27Z