Releasesby GlyphGet notified in Slack or email when a workflow needs approval
You can now get notified by Slack or email when a workflow is paused on an approval job. Each notification includes a link that takes you straight to the approval job in CircleCI, where you can approve or cancel it.
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BigQuery Apache Iceberg managed tables get partitioning and transactions GA
Table partitioning, multi-statement transactions and advanced runtime are now generally available for Apache Iceberg managed tables in BigQuery.
Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports Snowflake as a remote catalog provider (Preview)
Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports Snowflake as a remote catalog provider (Preview). You can configure federated catalogs to query data stored in Snowflake directly from Google Cloud using BigQuery or Apache Spark without migrating data or building complex ETL pipelines. For more information, see Set up cross-cloud Lakehouse for Snowflake .
BigQuery project caps limit slots and concurrency per project in preview
Project caps, also called scheduling policies, limit maximum slots and concurrency for each project within a BigQuery reservation, helping control shared capacity.
BigQuery Overview page is generally available
The BigQuery Overview page is a hub for tutorials, features and resources, with guided paths for users of all skill levels.
BigQuery Migration Service MCP server for SQL translation is GA
The MCP server translates SQL queries into GoogleSQL, generates DDL from input queries and explains SQL translations, letting AI tools drive warehouse migrations.
BigQuery Data Transfer Service incremental Salesforce transfers are GA
Incremental data transfers from Salesforce in the BigQuery Data Transfer Service are now generally available.
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Project Usage Dashboard - now in preview
Understand how your team is using CircleCI with the new Project Usage dashboard . Get a per-project view of pipeline activity and usage over time, so you can see what’s running, how often, and where your capacity is going. To access it : open any project and click Usage in the navigation.
UPDATE: EOL notice for some pipeline values starting with pipeline.trigger_parameters.*
UPDATE: Effective September 21, 2026 , support for all pipeline values starting with pipeline.trigger_parameters.circleci.* and pipeline.trigger_parameters.github_app.* will be discontinued. These values will no longer be guaranteed to be present in pipelines after this date. The previously communicated date for end of life was August 1, 2026.
Get tagged in Slack notifications
Link your CircleCI identity to your Slack identity, and CircleCI will @-mention you directly in Slack notifications for workflows you triggered , so you can immediately spot which commit or PR is yours. To use this feature, you must be using the CircleCI Slack integration . It is not supported for notifications configured through the legacy Slack orb.
Xcode 27.0 Beta 4 Available
The Xcode 27.0 Beta 4 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines. The full manifest of installed software can be found here .
Runner Provisioner Release 0.1.2
This release lets a single provisioner deployment run many resource classes and ships a ready-to-use VM image so you can stand up a pool without building your own. New: Multiple resource classes per deployment. One deployment now scales many resource classes at once, instead of needing a separate deployment per class.
Workflow cancellation display status reliability improvements
What changed We overhauled how CircleCI handles workflow cancellation to eliminate two long-standing issues: jobs that flip from canceled to success , and jobs that keep showing a spinner after they’ve actually finished.
New CLI in Beta
A new version of the CircleCI CLI is in Beta. The new CLI has several enhancements including a built in MCP server, the ability to trigger and watch pipeline runs, and access build output for jobs. The new CLI is also optimized for agents like Claude Code and Codex to use. Visit https://cli.circleci.com for installation instructions and full release notes.
Code signing for iOS and macOS managed by API
You can now manage code signing for iOS and macOS builds through the CircleCI API. Upload your Apple signing certificate ( .p12 ) and provisioning profiles, create a signing bundle, then reference it by name in your macos executor using the new code_signing key and the install_signing_bundle step.