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Confluent, July 2026 new features

24 releases · 1 product · 3 GA · 1 Preview · 1 Deprecation

DateRelease
Jul 31Flink Autopilot no longer pauses statements with Java UDFs while scaling
Jul 31Tableflow emits structured log events
Jul 30SSO configuration moves to a dedicated Console page
Jul 29Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink® SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more
Jul 28S3 Sink and Snowflake Sink connectors support cross-region and cross-cloud
Jul 28Tableflow integrates with Confluent Cloud notifications
Jul 27AWS Lambda Sink connector adds STRING input and input.key.format
Jul 27Notifications dashboard in Cloud Console
Jul 20Flink REST APIs support auto pool mapping for OAuth identity pools
Jul 17Flink snapshot queries generally available
Jul 16Flink Table API for Java generally available
Jul 14Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink adds four Azure and Google Cloud regions
Jul 13Oracle XStream CDC Source supports downstream capture topologies
Jul 10Confluent Gateway 1.3.0 adds centralized governance enforcement (Early Access)
Jul 10Confluent Gateway processes fencing filter before auth swap
Jul 10Confluent Gateway supports CyberArk Conjur secret store
Jul 10Confluent Gateway supports OAuth-to-OAuth authentication swapping
Jul 9Kafka cluster deletion protection
Jul 8Auto pool mapping for OAuth identity pools across Kafka, REST, Schema Registry, ksqlDB
Jul 8Google Cloud Spanner CDC Source (Debezium) connector available
Jul 8Snowflake Sink connector version 3.4.0
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
Jul 2Release priority for Dedicated clusters

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