Releasesby GlyphCustom SMTs can make external network calls (Limited Availability)
Custom SMTs on fully managed connectors can call endpoints outside Confluent Cloud, such as KMS, secret stores, or data enrichment APIs, as a Limited Availability feature.
IP filtering extends to public Kafka and ksqlDB access
IP filtering now protects public Kafka and ksqlDB access, expanding on support for resource management, schema management, and Flink.
IBM MQ Sink connector input key format configurable
The input key format is now configurable for IBM MQ Sink connectors on Confluent Cloud.
Unified Stream Manager alerting for Confluent Platform clusters
USM monitors conditions such as offline partitions, broker storage exhaustion, and stalled telemetry, delivering alerts to Console, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or a webhook.
Cloud Console idle session timeout raised to two hours
The idle session timeout increases from 30 minutes to two hours, measured by console interaction. The eight-hour maximum session length is unchanged.
AI_FORECAST and AI_DETECT_ANOMALIES support IBM Granite time-series models
The built-in functions now support IBM Granite TTM, FlowState, and PatchTST-FM models as an Early Access Program feature, alongside Google TimesFM 2.5.
Flink FROM_CHANGELOG and TO_CHANGELOG functions generally available
Built-in changelog conversion functions read custom-format change data into queryable tables and turn updating tables back into append-only streams, with user-mapped operation codes and no UDFs required.
Advanced Message Search in Open Preview
Build filters in the message browser to refine results by fields such as a customer ID anywhere in a topic's retained history, without writing a consumer or stream-processing job.