Release v1.3.0 (2026-06-10) Notable Changes

• The direct deployment engine is now Generally Available and the default for new deployments. To opt out, set engine: terraform under bundle in your databricks.yml or set DATABRICKS_BUNDLE_ENGINE=terraform. Existing deployments keep their current engine; see https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dev-tools/bundles/direct to migrate. CLI
• Added the databricks quickstart command, a short introduction to the CLI that prints a human-friendly guide interactively and an agent-oriented version when run non-interactively (#5464).
• Add databricks version --check to report whether a newer CLI version is available and print the upgrade command for the detected install method (#5469).
• databricks auth describe now verifies credentials against both the workspace and account endpoints before reporting a failure, fixing false "Unable to authenticate" errors for account console profiles (#5479).
• databricks auth login no longer prompts for workspace selection when logging in to an account console host (https://accounts.*). Pass --workspace-id explicitly to store a workspace ID on such a profile (#5504).
• databricks auth profiles --skip-validate no longer makes any network calls; the host metadata fetch is skipped along with validation (#5530). Bundles
• Set the default data_security_mode to DATA_SECURITY_MODE_AUTO in bundle templates (#5452).
• Mark vector search index index_subtype as backend_default to prevent drift after deployment (#5454).
• bundle deployment migrate: handle resources added to or removed from databricks.yml since the last Terraform deploy (#5463).
• Add the genie_spaces bundle resource for managing Databricks Genie spaces as code, plus bundle generate genie-space to import an existing space. Direct deployment engine only (#5282).
• Fix spurious recreate of schemas and volumes whose names use mixed case (#5531).