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Confluent, August 2026 new features

20 releases · 1 product · 1 GA · 5 Preview

Jul 2026Sep 2026
DateRelease
Aug 31Custom SMTs can make external network calls (Limited Availability)
Confluent CloudPreview
Aug 31Unified Stream Manager supports Azure Private Link
Confluent CloudUpdate
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 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 18Lightning queries for Real-Time Context Engine data (Early Access)
Confluent CloudPreview
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

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