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Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available

Tue, July 28, 2026

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Registering Python user-defined table functions (UDTFs) in Unity Catalog is now generally available in Databricks Runtime 18. A Unity Catalog Python UDTF is a governed function that returns a table, invoked in the FROM clause of a SQL state.

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Jul 31Packaged clean rooms are now generally availabledatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 3Secrets in Unity Catalog is GAdatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 4Schema-level HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally availabledatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 4Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 4Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 10READ METADATA privilege is GAdatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 13Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 13Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accountsdatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 14Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 19Role-based access control (RBAC) is generally availabledatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 24The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in BetadatabricksAn event.3 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 27Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)databricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 28Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)databricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Aug 31ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and servicesdatabricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Sep 8ABAC DENY policies are in BetadatabricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Sep 9External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta)databricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Sep 11Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Sep 11Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Sep 15Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Sep 15Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta)databricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →Sep 17Metastore-level ABAC policies are in BetadatabricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedSep 22Invite OpenSharing recipients by email (Beta)databricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedSep 23Scalar and Batch Unity Catalog Python UDFs are now generally availabledatabricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedSep 23Time travel queries now enforce ABAC policies (Beta)databricksAn event.2 mo agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 1Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (ABAC) is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.39 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 2JDBC Unity Catalog connections are now generally availabledatabricksAn event.38 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 8The Discover page and domains are now GAdatabricksAn event.32 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 13Create clean rooms with identity resolution providers in one step (GA)databricksAn event.27 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 13External writes to managed Delta tables are now generally availabledatabricksAn event.27 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 13JAR workloads in clean rooms are now generally availabledatabricksAn event.27 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 13Shared output in clean rooms is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.27 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 13External access to views through the Unity REST API is generally availabledatabricksAn event.27 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 14Data Classification API is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.26 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 14Transactions support both managed Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg tablesdatabricksAn event.26 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 27Editing files in Unity Catalog volumes is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.13 days agodatabricksDetails →UnverifiedOct 28Serverless GPU for clean room notebooks is now generally availabledatabricksAn event.12 days agodatabricksDetails →

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