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Confluent releases

September 2026 digest
DateRelease
Sep 21Delete empty consumer groups from Confluent Cloud Console
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 18Audit logs record SCIM provisioning events
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 15Advanced Security add-on in Limited Availability
Confluent CloudPreview
Sep 15Flink materialized tables can adopt an existing Kafka topic
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 15SCIM user provisioning generally available
Confluent CloudGA
Sep 11Flink Table API 2.3-6 adds AI functions, changelog functions, artifact creation
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 9Oracle XStream CDC Source no longer requires SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 9Oracle XStream CDC Source supports Active Data Guard standby as source
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 9ksqlDB v8.1.0-41 bounds pull-query concurrency per cluster
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 9ksqlDB validates property overrides against an allowlist
Confluent CloudUpdate
Sep 8Logical cluster ID OAuth extension no longer required for Kafka clients
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 31Unified Stream Manager supports Azure Private Link
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 31Custom SMTs can make external network calls (Limited Availability)
Confluent CloudPreview
Aug 27IP filtering extends to public Kafka and ksqlDB access
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 26IBM MQ Sink connector input key format configurable
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 26IBM MQ Source connector adds STRING and BYTES output formats
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 26IBM MQ Source connector output key format configurable
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 25Unified Stream Manager alerting for Confluent Platform clusters
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 19Cloud Console idle session timeout raised to two hours
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 19Secret manager integration adds HTTP V2 and Oracle XStream connectors
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 18AI_FORECAST and AI_DETECT_ANOMALIES support IBM Granite time-series models
Confluent CloudPreview
Aug 18Lightning queries for Real-Time Context Engine data (Early Access)
Confluent CloudPreview
Aug 18Baseline CFU for Flink statements (Limited Availability)
Confluent CloudPreview
Aug 18Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 18New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 18New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Confluent Assistant
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 17Flink FROM_CHANGELOG and TO_CHANGELOG functions generally available
Confluent CloudGA
Aug 12Advanced Message Search in Open Preview
Confluent CloudPreview
Aug 12Connector secret managers support VPC and VNet Peering
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 12Metrics API export adds group_protocol label for consumer lag
Confluent CloudUpdate
Aug 12Secret manager integration adds DynamoDB, Lambda, Azure Blob, BigQuery, Redis connectors
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 31Flink Autopilot no longer pauses statements with Java UDFs while scaling
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 31Tableflow emits structured log events
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 30SSO configuration moves to a dedicated Console page
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 29Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink® SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 28S3 Sink and Snowflake Sink connectors support cross-region and cross-cloud
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 28Tableflow integrates with Confluent Cloud notifications
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 27AWS Lambda Sink connector adds STRING input and input.key.format
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 27Notifications dashboard in Cloud Console
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 20Flink REST APIs support auto pool mapping for OAuth identity pools
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 17Flink snapshot queries generally available
Confluent CloudGA
Jul 16Flink Table API for Java generally available
Confluent CloudGA
Jul 14Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink adds four Azure and Google Cloud regions
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 13Oracle XStream CDC Source supports downstream capture topologies
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 10Confluent Gateway 1.3.0 adds centralized governance enforcement (Early Access)
Confluent CloudPreview
Jul 10Confluent Gateway processes fencing filter before auth swap
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 10Confluent Gateway supports CyberArk Conjur secret store
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 10Confluent Gateway supports OAuth-to-OAuth authentication swapping
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 9Kafka cluster deletion protection
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 8Google Cloud Spanner CDC Source (Debezium) connector available
Confluent CloudGA
Jul 8Snowflake Sink connector version 3.4.0
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 8Auto pool mapping for OAuth identity pools across Kafka, REST, Schema Registry, ksqlDB
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 8mTLS CRL size limit cut to 1.5 MB; public CAs no longer issue client certs
Confluent CloudDeprecation
Jul 6consumer_lag_offsets metric reports lag for recently empty groups
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jul 2Release priority for Dedicated clusters
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jun 30AWS IAM authentication plugins for Python and .NET clients
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jun 30Custom SMTs on Basic, Standard, and public Dedicated clusters
Confluent CloudGA
Jun 30Kafka clients on librdkafka v2.15.0
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jun 30PostgreSQL and MySQL connectors support mTLS authentication
Confluent CloudUpdate
Jun 29Connector secret manager integration supports Google Cloud Secret Manager
Confluent CloudUpdate

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