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UpdateyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 10, 2026
Buildkite shipped 40 releases. Three themes. Diagnosis. Agents put blocking failures first and retry infrastructure failures. Desktop alerts and log summaries are more reliable. Compatibility. GitHub Actions workflows get hashFiles() in composite actions, Windows checkout fixes, and retries for temporary token failures. Control.
Topics: AI agents, MCP, Pricing, Observability, Developer tools
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Every Buildkite releaseBuildkite MCP Server updates
Your agent can now do more of the work between a failed build and a green one. Here are the latest tool updates for the Buildkite MCP Server . See what changed since the last green build When a build fails, one of the first questions is what's different from the last one that passed. compare_builds answers it in a single call.
Monitor billable active-user usage with the Buildkite API
You can now monitor your organization's billable active-user usage programmatically and compare it with your contracted allowance. Send the count to observability tools such as Datadog to track usage over time, or include it in internal license, billing, and compliance reporting.
Weekly wrap: September 27 – October 3, 2026
What shipped this week Between September 27 and October 3, 2026, we published 4 changelog entries and 35 releases across 13 public repos. Three things run through them: more control and predictability for platform teams, fewer gaps for teams moving off GitHub Actions, and more of the platform agents can drive directly. Tightened how secrets are handled.
Get notified about new macOS base image releases
You can now subscribe to RSS feeds for macOS base image releases on Buildkite hosted agents, making it easier to keep up with changes to your build environments. For updates to stable base images used in production, add the stable RSS feed to your preferred RSS reader.
Choose the organization for each Remote MCP Server connection
If you belong to more than one Buildkite organization, you can now choose which one each Remote MCP Server connection uses. Add the organization's slug to the server URL: https://mcp.buildkite.com/mcp?organization=your-organization When your MCP client asks you to authorize, that organization is already selected.
Buildkite agent version support policy
From 1 January 2027 , each minor release line of the Buildkite agent will be supported for one year from its first stable release . The final three months are a deprecation period: agents remain supported, with warnings encouraging you to upgrade. Installing an agent or updating to a newer patch doesn't restart that window.
Manage secrets from pipeline settings
If you can edit a pipeline and manage its associated cluster, you can now create and manage secrets directly from Pipeline settings → Secrets . Pipeline secrets are cluster secrets with access restricted to the current pipeline.
See the important parts of job logs first
Job logs on the new build page are easier to scan now that Buildkite folds de-emphasized system groups into compact rows by default. Command output and the groups you usually need remain visible, while setup and other supporting output take up less space. Select a folded row to reveal just that section in place.
Also shipped on Oct 9, 2026
Buildkite in October 2026Google Workspace connector is available in Beta
The managed Google Workspace connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use the connector to ingest audit activity from Google Workspace applications and services into Databricks. The connector uses OAuth user authorization and supports incremental ingestion.
Agentic Marketplace Discovery (Public preview)
Agentic Marketplace Discovery is now available in public preview. On the public Snowflake Marketplace Discover page in Snowsight, you can switch between Agentic discovery and Marketplace search . Describe what you need to CoCo to find and compare matching listings, or search for providers and listings directly.
All AI Gateway models with prepaid credits, backend features with your coding agent, and new ways to send feedback release - Oct 09, 2026
All AI Gateway models now available with prepaid credits. You don't need to request access to frontier models in the Neon AI Gateway anymore. If you're on a pai...
Use request tags in Unity Gateway service policies (Beta)
Custom service policies in Unity Gateway can now check caller-supplied request tags, such as requiring a tag before a model request or MCP tool call proceeds. See Request tags .
Use OpenJev as the evaluator for LLM-as-a-judge service policies (Beta)
You can now select OpenJev (Qwen3.5 4B) as the evaluator model service of a custom LLM-as-a-judge service policy. OpenJev classifies content without generating output tokens, so it typically responds faster than a chat evaluator. See Use OpenJev as the evaluator .
Code execution in Genie One (Public Preview)
Genie One can now run code in a secure, isolated sandbox to take on work that goes beyond SQL, such as more advanced analyses. Code runs on your behalf using your existing permissions, so Unity Catalog governance and data access controls continue to apply. See Code execution in Genie One .