Weekly Release Notes Recap
Here’s a quick recap of the latest release notes updates from the past one week.
Databricks platform release notes
January 13 - 19, 2023
Cluster policies now support limiting the max number of clusters per user
You can now use cluster policies to restrict the number of clusters a user can create. For more information, see restrict the number of clusters per user.
Partner Connect supports connecting to Privacera
You can now easily create a connection between Privacera and your Databricks workspace using Partner Connect. For more information, see Connect to Privacera using Partner Connect.
Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.8.0
Version 1.8.0 includes new resources such as databricks_instance_pool, databricks_provider for Delta Sharing, and databricks_permission_assignment. Several existing resources are improved. For more details, see the changelog for version 1.8.0.
Databricks Runtime 12.1 (Beta)
Databricks Runtime 12.1 is now available as a Beta release. See Databricks Runtime 12.1 (Beta) and Databricks Runtime 12.1 for Machine Learning (Beta).
Partner Connect supports Sigma
You can now easily create a connection between Sigma and your Databricks workspace using Partner Connect. For more information, see Connect to Sigma using Partner Connect.
New left and right sidebars in Databricks notebooks
We have added left and right sidebars to the Databricks notebook. You can now find the notebook’s table of contents in the left-hand sidebar, and you can find comments, MLflow experiments, and the notebook revision history in the right-hand sidebar.
Databricks SQL release notes
January 13 - 19, 2023
Web application user interface updates
The features listed in this section are independent of the SQL Warehouse compute versions described in the Channels section of the release notes.
Improvements:
- Visualization widget titles on dashboards are now formatted as Visualization name - Query name by default.
- Added H3 Geospatial functions to the inline panel reference.
- Added inline references for SQL syntax like CREATE TABLE and OVER.
Fixes:
- Sorting and reverse toggles are now available when the X-axis scale is set to automatic.
- Heat maps and pivot tables are now responsive for certain edge cases.
- The Categorical Y-axis tick marks are now sorted by default.
- Query drafts are no longer lost after doing a browser refresh.
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