Databricks: What’s new in September 2025? #databricks
Summary
Databricks now supports geospatial data types (geography and geometry) with new functions for visualization and spatial operations, and introduces serverless GPU clusters for distributed GPU code execution. The platform also offers enhanced notebook features like side-by-side editing and a notebook-specific search, along with new options for managing serverless environments, SQL warehouses, and access requests in Unity Catalog.
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