API server autoscaling is generally available
API server autoscaling for Airflow 3 deployments is now generally available. It automatically adjusts replicas based on CPU utilization.
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available, offering omni-modal processing for text, image, and video. New features include standalone video upscaling, extended generation durations, and reference-guided video editing.
Use GPT-6-Cyber to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in an authorized test environment, and verify
OpenAI has released GPT-6-Cyber, a model designed to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in authorized environments, and verify fixes.
Gemini Enterprise: Prepaid credits for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions and usage above quota
Prepaid credits are now generally available for self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, allowing users to pay for Gemini Enterprise usage without an invoiced billing account.
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been removed
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been deprecated. Users should now use Knowledge Catalog for data discovery, profiling, and governance tasks.
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now supported in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) region.
Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It provides a managed tool that returns synthesized, cited answers grounded in web sources in a single call.
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Run GPU workloads with the KubernetesPodOperator
Astronomer Astro now supports executing GPU workloads on AWS by requesting NVIDIA GPU node pool resources within KubernetesPodOperator tasks.
Roll back one bundle to an earlier version
Each bundle on a Deployment now records a version history, and you can roll one bundle back to a version in that history. Your project image, your Astro Runtime version, and every other bundle stay as they are. Previously, the only way to undo a change to one bundle was to roll back the whole Deployment.
View Astro Runtime upgrade progress in the Astro UI
The Astro UI now provides a progress card and dedicated logs for Airflow database migrations during runtime upgrades.
The Astro v1 Labs API includes every Astro API v1 endpoint
The Astro v1 Labs API now serves all standard v1 endpoints under a unified base URL. This allows integrations to use a single base URL for both Labs and production endpoints.
Additional improvements
Users can now create AWS dedicated clusters in the eu-west-3 (Paris) region.
Deployment hibernation is generally available
Deployment hibernation is now generally available on Astro, allowing users to scale development deployment resources to zero on a schedule or on demand.
Astro-managed object storage for XCom and state values
Astro now stores XCom and task state values larger than 64 KB in an Astro-managed object storage bucket instead of the Airflow metadata database for improved performance.
Subscribe to upcoming changes for your Astro plan
Astronomer now publishes notices about planned changes to Astro, such as maintenance windows and control plane changes, on a separate Upcoming changes page for each Astro plan. Each plan also has its own RSS feed, so you receive only the notices that affect your Organization.