v1.8.0

Release v1.8.0 (2026-07-15)

Notable Changes

• Auto-migrate a bundle from terraform to the direct engine when bundle.engine is "direct" (or DATABRICKS_BUNDLE_ENGINE=direct) and the post-deploy dry-run migration is clean; a warning is emitted if the dry-run surfaces errors or warnings so the automatic migration is skipped.

CLI

• experimental ssh connect: bare python/pip in an interactive session now resolve to the environment interpreter ($DATABRICKS_VIRTUAL_ENV) instead of the system or cluster-libraries interpreter, so packages installed in the environment are importable without extra setup. The interactive shell is now non-login (bash -i) and the server seeds a ~/.bashrc snippet that re-prepends the environment's bin directory to PATH (#5888).
• When Claude Code runs the CLI without the Databricks AI tooling installed, the CLI now prints a one-line recommendation on stderr to run databricks aitools install. The recommendation is shown at most once per hour per Claude session, and never for human callers or aitools commands.
• Fixed databricks auth describe misattributing a profile selected via DATABRICKS_CONFIG_PROFILE as (from bundle) when run inside a bundle root (#5904).

Bundles

• bundle generate now warns when the generated configuration file is not matched by any pattern in the include section of databricks.yml (#5868).
• direct: Match UC Auto Upgrade managed property defaults with a wildcard pattern instead of enumerating each key (#5877).
• Recognize ssh:// template URLs in databricks bundle init (#5891).
• databricks bundle init now reports an actionable error when given a template URL with an unsupported protocol (http://, git://, ftp://, ftps://) instead of failing with a confusing "not a bundle template" message (#5902).
• Added an env: section to scripts.<name> for declaring environment variables that may reference ${bundle.*}, ${workspace.*}, and ${var.*} (#4179, #5299).