Platform 

• Databricks Runtime 11.3 and 11.3 ML are in GA
• User settings, Admin Console, Manage Account, Help, Workspace Switcher and search have been moved from the sidebar to the top bar in the UI
• Improved inference of Data columns in CSV Files
• Enable admin protection for no isolation Shared clusters. It  helps protect admin accounts from sharing internal credentials in any environment 
• Personal compute policy allows users to easily create a single machine compute resources for their individual so they can start running workloads immediately. See more information : Link
• Add Data portal provides access to common data sources configurations and file upload  UIs .
• Format Python Cells in Notebooks
• Admins can enable Enforce User Isolation to prevent creating or starting a cluster with “ No Isolation Shared”

• Databricks kinesis connector now supports reading from Kinesis Data Streams in EFO mode
• Connect to Fivetran from the Add data Portal
• Partner connect supports connecting to erwin Data modeler

Governance

• Unity Catalog now supports privilege inheritance. It means that granting a privilege on a catalog or schema automatically grants all the privileges to all current and future objects.

Delta Lake

• Clone support for Parquet and Iceberg ( Shallow and Deep Clone)

• Delta lake stats collection schema now matches column order in table schema definition

Databricks SQL

• Serverless SQL Warehouses are now available in regions eu-central-1 and us-east-2
• Global search is now available in the SQL persona. You can now search for queries, dashboards and alerts with global search  in any persona by name.
• You can now find the query progress bar in the footer and the editing visualization action in the kebab menu
• Autocomplete now supports Delta time Travel and provides column autocomplete when defining a foreign key
• The row limit downloading query results to Excel has been increased from 64k to 100k rows.
• A new Warehouse type, Databricks SQL Pro is introduced to Databricks SQL. It enables the use of Workflows integration, query federation, geospatial features and predictive IO.
• A New Serverless region is available eu-west-1

Security 

• Databricks is a FedRamp authorized cloud service offering at the moderate impact level.
• You have the ability to make some AWS privateLink workspace updates by using the admin console 
• AWS PrivateLink support is now generally available.
• IP Access Lists features apply only to requests over the public addresses.

Machine Learning

• AutoML supports the use of existing Feature Store feature tables in AutoML experiments.
• AutoML supports DecimalType