Latest releases from the Databricks ecosystem.

Assessment export now uses zip compression to handle large files and prevent failures. Workflow assessment is now a standalone task, offering more control and manual triggering options.

You can now skip workflow assessments during installation and export assessment results to Excel. Federated catalog creation and group fetching have improved reliability with better error handling and retries.

You can now force a rerun of an assessment to get new results, even if it was previously run. Dashboard management is more robust, automatically creating a new dashboard if a PermissionDenied exception occurs or if the existing one is trashed.

The workflow assessment functionality now includes an experimental task to analyze recently executed workflows for migration problems, providing recommendations and documentation links. UCX documentation has been significantly enhanced with a simplified Unity Catalog migration process, a new Getting Started section, and updated contributor guidance.

UCX now requires matching account groups to be created before assessment and clarifies Service Principal setup for account-level installations. Table migration when a default catalog is set is fixed, and the migration progress workflow is paused by default.

You can now create account-level groups from nested workspace-local groups and install UCX in offline environments. The UI for tables and compute summaries now includes clickable hyperlinks for easier navigation.

UCX assessment reports now exclude UCX jobs and dashboard names can again include special characters like spaces. The job crawling logic was also improved to ensure job IDs are correctly handled as integers.

This release introduces a new CLI command and documentation for migrating Delta Live Tables pipelines to Unity Catalog, including options to include or exclude specific pipeline IDs. It also adds support for MSSQL and PostgreSQL databases in Hive Metastore Federation, allowing these external metastores to be federated to Unity Catalog.

This release introduces new documentation for UCX, accessible at databrickslabs.github.io/ucx/. Internal security and control for the release process were improved by moving the release job to a protected hosted runner group.

UCX now supports Databricks Runtime 16 and later, and introduces a new configuration option for SQL backend to handle large workspaces during assessment export. Pipeline and dashboard migration workflows have been enhanced with more granular control over included/excluded items and improved progress tracking.