Databricks Runtime 19 (Beta): June 26, 2026

BetaJun 26, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Behavioral changes Environment variable availability restricted in standard access mode : In standard access mode , only a predefined set of environment variables is available to the Spark engine and init scripts.

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