July 6, 2026

PreviewJul 6, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

This serverless compute release includes updates from Databricks Runtime 18 . New features Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow streaming query ID : Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow can now set the streaming query ID on demand.

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