End of Year Documentation Update - Part 2

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GOVERNANCE

• Manage your Databricks account (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Disable access to legacy features in new workspaces (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
• Disaster recovery (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
• End of life for Standard tier workspaces on Databricks on Google Cloud (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
• Create a serverless workspace (Updated on Dec 5th 2025)
• Create a classic workspace (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
• Default storage in Databricks (Updated on Dec 5th 2025)
• Restrict workspace admins (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
• Identity best practices (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Manage users (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Manage service principals (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Roles for managing service principals (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Groups (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Manage workspace-local groups (legacy) (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Sync users and groups from your identity provider using SCIM (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Default policies and policy families (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
• Audit log reference (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Monitor account activity with system tables (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• MLflow system tables reference (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
• Zerobus Ingest system table reference (Updated on Dec 19th 2025)
• Cost management tools on Databricks (Updated on Dec 5th 2025)
• Monitor the cost of serverless compute (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
• Monitor default storage costs (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
• Security and compliance (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
• Monitor and revoke personal access tokens (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Manage entitlements (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Change default workspace access to Consumer access (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Access control lists (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Networking (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
• Users to Databricks networking (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Configure Front-end Private Service Connect (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Serverless compute plane networking (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Update workspace network configuration (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
• Context-based ingress control (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Manage context-based ingress policies (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• What is serverless egress control? (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Manage network policies for serverless egress control (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Compliance (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Compliance security profile (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Configure enhanced security and compliance settings (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Export workspace data (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Data governance with Databricks (Updated on Dec 15th 2025)
• What is Unity Catalog? (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
• Get started with Unity Catalog (Updated on Dec 3rd 2025)
• Disable access to the Hive metastore used by your Databricks workspace (Updated on Dec 23rd 2025)
• Access control in Unity Catalog (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Manage Unity Catalog object ownership (Updated on Dec 12th 2025)
• Unity Catalog attribute-based access control (ABAC) (Updated on Dec 4th 2025)
• Tutorial: Configure ABAC (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Create and manage attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies (Updated on Dec 2nd 2025)
• Create and manage governed tags (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Manage permissions on governed tags (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Bring your own data lineage (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• Data Classification (Updated on Dec 26th 2025)
• Work with the legacy Hive metastore alongside Unity Catalog (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Unity Catalog best practices  (Updated on Dec 12th 2025)

REFERENCE & RESOURCES

• AutoML Python API reference (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
• PySpark functions (Updated on Dec 1st 2025)
• SQL language reference (Updated on Dec 23rd 2025)
• IDENTIFIER clause (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
• SQL expression (Updated on Dec 7th 2025)
• Parameter markers (Updated on Dec 7th 2025)
• GEOGRAPHY type (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• GEOMETRY type (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• STRING type (Updated on Dec 7th 2025)
• TIMESTAMP_NTZ type (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
• VARIANT type (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
• Built-in functions (Updated on Dec 9th 2025)
• ST geospatial functions (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Alphabetical list of ST geospatial functions (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• VACUUM (Updated on Dec 10th 2025)
• ANALYZE TABLE (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• AutoML Python API reference (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
• SQL language reference (Updated on Dec 23rd 2025)
• Error conditions in Databricks (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
• Databricks release notes (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Resource limits (Updated on Dec 17th 2025)
• Features with limited regional availability (Updated on Dec 18th 2025)
• IP addresses and domains for Databricks services and assets (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Databricks Geos: Data residency (Updated on Dec 23rd 2025)
• Databricks Designated Services (Updated on Jan 11th 2026)
• Supported browsers (Updated on Dec 11th 2025)
• AI/BI release notes (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Serverless compute release notes (Updated on Dec 30th 2025)
• Databricks developer tools and SDKs release notes (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Databricks Asset Bundles feature release notes (Updated on Dec 8th 2025)
• Databricks Connect release notes (Updated on Jan 12th 2026)
• Best practice articles (Updated on Dec 16th 2025)
• Databricks documentation archive (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)

AWS Documentation - Here’s a roundup of the most important AWS updates from the past month to help you quickly catch up on what’s new and relevant for your workloads.

GET STARTED

• Customize and improve Databricks Assistant responses (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Customize and improve Databricks Assistant responses (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Extend the Assistant with agent skills (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Data guides (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects (Updated on Jan 12th 2026)
• Connect to managed ingestion sources (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)

DATA MANAGEMENT 

• Pipeline SQL language reference (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• What is a database instance? (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Register your database in Unity Catalog (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Get started with Lakebase Postgres (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Branches (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Manage projects (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Manage branches (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Tutorial: Branch-based development workflow (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Share data and AI assets securely (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• What is Delta Sharing? (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Create and manage data recipients for Delta Sharing (Databricks-to-Databricks sharing) (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Create and manage shares for Delta Sharing (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)

AI & ANALYTICS

• Monitor served models using AI Gateway-enabled inference tables (Updated on Jan 14th 2026)
• Supported foundation models on Mosaic AI Model Serving (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Provisioned throughput Foundation Model APIs (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Deploy legacy provisioned throughput models (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Foundation model REST API reference (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Foundation Model APIs limits and quotas (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Query serving endpoints for custom models (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Inference tables for monitoring and debugging models (Updated on Jan 14th 2026)
• Distributed LLM batch inference (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Databricks Online Feature Stores (Updated on Jan 12th 2026)
• Model Serving with automatic feature lookup (Updated on Jan 12th 2026)
• Use a custom embedding model (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Concepts: Generative AI on Databricks (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Mosaic AI capabilities for GenAI (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Agent Bricks (Updated on Jan 14th 2026)
• Use Agent Bricks: Knowledge Assistant to create a high-quality chatbot over your documents (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Meta parameters for Databricks Vector Search MCP servers (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Connect non-Databricks clients to Databricks MCP servers (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Organize training runs with MLflow experiments (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Share a dashboard (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Dashboard visualizations (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Table and pivot table visualizations (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Build a knowledge store for more reliable Genie spaces (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Research Agent in Genie spaces (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• AI/BI administration guide (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)

PLATFORM

• View compute metrics (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Connect to a SQL warehouse (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Develop code in Databricks notebooks (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Use the Data Science Agent (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Orchestrate notebooks and modularize code in notebooks (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Databricks Unity Catalog table types (Updated on Jan 14th 2026) 
• Convert an external table to a managed Unity Catalog table (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Use liquid clustering for tables (Updated on Jan 14th 2026) 
• Delta Lake feature compatibility and protocols (Updated on Jan 6th 2026) 
• Manually apply row filters and column masks (Updated on Jan 12th 2026) 

INTEGRATION

• SQL language reference (Updated on Jan 11th 2026) 
• Get started with Databricks Serverless Private Git (Updated on Jan 2nd 2026) 
• Connect your Git provider to Databricks (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 
• Run Git operations on Databricks Git folders (Updated on Jan 14th 2026) 
• Databricks Asset Bundles resources (Updated on Jan 6th 2026) 
• Databricks Asset Bundle deployment modes (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 
• Add tasks to jobs in Databricks Asset Bundles (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 
• GitHub Actions (Updated on Jan 6th 2026) 
• Authenticate with an identity provider token (Updated on Jan 2nd 2026) 
• Compute configuration for Databricks Connect (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 
• Databricks SDK for Python (Updated on Jan 9th 2026) 
• SQL connectors, libraries, drivers, APIs, and tools (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 
• Databricks JDBC Driver (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 
• Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 
• Download and reference the Databricks JDBC Driver (Simba) (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 
• Databricks Apps (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Power BI with Databricks (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Configure service principals on Databricks for Power BI (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Connect Power BI Desktop to Databricks (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Publish to the Power BI service from Databricks (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver for Power BI (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Connect to Databricks from Microsoft Power Platform (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 

GOVERNANCE

• Manage your Databricks account (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 
• Identity best practices (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 
• Manage users (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 
• Groups (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Audit log reference (Updated on Jan 6th 2026) 
• Manage entitlements (Updated on Jan 7th 2026) 
• Monitor and revoke personal access tokens (Updated on Jan 6th 2026) 
• Access control lists (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 
• Serverless compute plane networking (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Compliance security profile (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Configure enhanced security and compliance settings (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 
• Databricks on AWS GovCloud (FedRAMP High) (Updated on Jan 12th 2026) 
• Upgrade to privilege inheritance (Updated on Jan 13th 2026) 
• Work with the legacy Hive metastore alongside Unity Catalog (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 

REFERENCE & RESOURCES

• Databricks release notes (Updated on Jan 9th 2026) 
• Databricks Runtime release notes versions and compatibility (Updated on Jan 17th 2026) 
• AI/BI release notes (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Databricks developer tools and SDKs release notes (Updated on Jan 6th 2026) 
• Databricks Connect release notes (Updated on Jan 12th 2026) 
• Databricks on AWS GovCloud release notes (Updated on Jan 12th 2026) 
• Databricks documentation archive (Updated on Jan 8th 2026) 

AZURE Documentation - Here’s a roundup of the most important Azure updates from the past month to help you quickly catch up on what’s new and relevant for your workloads.

• Databricks Free Edition limitations (Updated on Jan 13th 2026) 
• What is Databricks One? (Updated on Jan 16th 2026) 
• What is Databricks Assistant? (Updated on Jan 14th 2026) 
• Customize and improve Databricks Assistant responses (Updated on Jan 5th 2026) 
• Extend the Assistant with agent skills (Updated on Jan 14th 2026) 
• Data guides (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Work with files in Unity Catalog volumes (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects (Updated on Jan 14th 2026) 
• Use Azure managed identities in Unity Catalog to access storage (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Manage external locations (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Connect to managed ingestion sources (Updated on Jan 16th 2026) 
• Access storage using a service principal & Microsoft Entra ID(Azure Active Directory) (Updated on Jan 6th 2026)
• Anomaly detection (Updated on Jan 17th 2026)
• Create a data profile using the API (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Create a data profile using the quality_monitors API (deprecated) (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Enable external data access to Unity Catalog (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Access Azure Databricks tables from Apache Iceberg clients (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Create external Delta tables from external clients (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Managed connectors in Lakeflow Connect (Updated on Jan 17th 2026)
• Common patterns for managed ingestion pipelines (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Select rows to ingest (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)
• Set up Google Analytics 4 and Google BigQuery for Azure Databricks ingestion (Updated on Jan 17th 2026)
• Create a Google Analytics Raw Data ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Google Analytics Raw Data connector limitations (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Configure OAuth U2M for Confluence ingestion (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Create a Confluence ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Confluence connector FAQs (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Troubleshoot Confluence ingestion (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Configure Jira for ingestion (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Create a Jira ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Jira connector FAQs (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Jira connector limitations (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Jira connector reference (Updated on Jan 8th 2026)
• Troubleshoot Jira ingestion (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Salesforce ingestion connector (Updated on Jan 14th 2026)
• Ingest data from Salesforce (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)
• Ingest Salesforce formula fields incrementally (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)
• Salesforce ingestion connector FAQs (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Salesforce ingestion connector limitations (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)
• Salesforce ingestion connector reference (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)
• Troubleshoot Salesforce ingestion (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)
• Configure ServiceNow for Azure Databricks ingestion (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Create a ServiceNow ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• ServiceNow connector limitations (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Create a Meta Ads ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Meta Ads ingestion connector FAQs  (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Meta Ads ingestion connector limitations (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Meta Ads ingestion connector reference (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Troubleshoot Meta Ads ingestion (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Create a MySQL ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Troubleshoot MySQL ingestion issues (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Configure NetSuite for ingestion into Azure Databricks (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Create a NetSuite ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• NetSuite connector limitations (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• NetSuite connector reference (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Create a Microsoft SharePoint ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Downstream RAG use case (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Microsoft SharePoint connector FAQs (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Microsoft SharePoint connector limitations (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Microsoft SharePoint connector reference (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Troubleshoot Microsoft SharePoint ingestion (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Configure data source for Microsoft Dynamics 365 ingestion (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Create a Microsoft Dynamics 365 ingestion pipeline (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector FAQs (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 ingestion connector limitations (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector reference (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Troubleshoot Microsoft Dynamics 365 ingestion (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Ingest data from PostgreSQL (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Ingest data from SQL Server (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Workday Reports connector limitations (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Load data using a Unity Catalog external location (Updated on Jan 13th 2026)
• Stream processing with Apache Kafka and Azure Databricks (Updated on Jan 7th 2026)
• Lakebase Provisioned (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• What is a database instance? (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Create and manage a database instance (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Manage instance capacity (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Configure for high availability (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Restore data and time travel (Updated on Jan 14th 2026)
• Monitor a database instance (Updated on Jan 16th 2026)
• Share data and AI assets securely (Updated on Jan 9th 2026)
• Databricks Apps (Updated on Jan 5th 2026)
• Azure Databricks release notes (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)
• Databricks Designated Services (Updated on Jan 15th 2026)

Thanks.