Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

[NSRBX]

Hello Databricks Team,

Databricks-connect doesn't work on databricks runtime 11.3.

Databricks recommends that we use dbx for Databricks Lab instead of databricks-connect.

Databricks plans no new feature development for Databricks Connect at this time.

Dbx doesn't provided interactive debugging capabilities.

Could you continue to maintain this package databricks-connect on databricks runtime > 10.4 ?

Thanks

[LandanG]

Hi @SERET Nathalie​ ,

Update: Databricks Connect for DBR 11.3 should hopefully be out by the end of November. For the time being Databricks-Connect will be available for each LTS DBR but that might change when other Dev Tools are released.

Also, we are currently in private preview for the DB-connect replacement, Spark Connect and there's also an official Databricks VS Code extension in preview so we have more developer tools coming soon

[xiangzhu]

hi @Landan George​ 

regarding VSCode extesion, are you talk about: paiqo/Databricks-VSCode: VSCode extension to work with Databricks (github.com) ?

[LandanG]

Hi @Xiang ZHU​ , That extension is created by an external company who I don't believe Databricks has any affiliation with. Databricks is building an official extension which is in private preview so it's not available to the general public just yet

[640913]

Is it possible to sign up for the private preview? Should I reach out to my contact point at Databricks for that in that case?

[LandanG]

@gagneri​ I'm not sure about the preview process but yeah I'd reach out to your Databricks rep

[xiangzhu]

thx @Landan George​ do you have any ETA about the public preview ?

[LandanG]

@Xiang ZHU​ I believe the private preview has opened quite recently so I don't know if we have an ETA for the public preview yet

[xiangzhu]

thx for the confirmation