Databricks Releases

Databricks blog and Terraform provider releases. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.

Tracking 180 Databricks releases · Updated

  • Databricks Blog blogaidatabricksengineer ·

    Acxiom Modernizes Marketing Stack with Databricks for Agentic AI

    Acxiom has migrated its data foundation from on-premises Hadoop to Databricks, enabling significant performance gains and accelerating the development of agentic AI workflows for marketing. This modernization shifts the company's competitive position from a data supplier to an intelligence layer, allowing for automated marketing processes from audience planning to campaign activation. The move is critical for organizations seeking to leverage AI without being constrained by legacy infrastructure, with Acxiom seeing run times improve by 80-90%.

    feature announcement
  • endoflife.date eoldatabricks-runtime ·

    Databricks Runtime 13.3 reaches end of life in 41 days

    Databricks Runtime 13.3 reaches end of life on 2026-08-22 (41 days from now).

    deprecation

About Databricks release tracking on ReleaseBytes

Databricks platform releases, runtime versions and Terraform provider updates each have their own changelog. ReleaseBytes merges them into one feed with plain-English summaries, and its EOL tracker follows Databricks runtime support windows — including the Python and Spark versions each runtime pins.

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