Releasesby GlyphGen2 x86 Docker resource classes now available on Free plans
Gen2 x86 Docker resource classes, benchmarked at ~73% faster than gen1 equivalents, are now available to Free plan users. See the x86 (gen2) Docker documentation and CircleCI price list for details.
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Monitor and cap external provider costs
Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks-provided models. If your organization already has capacity commitments directly with a provider, Unity Gateway becomes the single point to track that usage and enforce spend limits across teams and use cases.
Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.
Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
A drag-and-drop canvas builds and edits LookML models on BigQuery sources: join tables, define dimensions and measures, preview results and publish Explores without writing LookML.
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available. You can also now define verified queries in Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects. By default, Looker uses the locale definitions from the importing project only, if the importing project has locale definitions.
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Xcode 27.0 Beta 6 Available
The Xcode 27.0 Beta 6 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines. The full manifest of installed software can be found here .
Runner Provisioner Beta Release 0.1.3
New: Added support for SSH reruns on KubeVirt VM runners: you can now SSH directly into the exact VM that ran a job, over the public internet, for debugging. Off by default.
Android Gen2 Machine Executor Now Generally Available
Android gen2 resource classes are now generally available on CircleCI. Based on realistic workload benchmarking using the nowinandroid project, we found gen2 to be 47% faster than gen1 equivalents. Android gen2 resource classes are priced the same as other gen2 resource classes and are available for users on paid plans.
Runner Release 3.1.12
Machine Runner: You can now set runner.ssh.advertise_addr_url instead of a fixed runner.ssh.advertise_addr . The runner fetches the SSH rerun address from that URL when a task starts. Use this when something outside the runner assigns the address. The URL must return a host:port .
Smarter Testing CLI: New commands, flags, and plugin registry
We’ve consolidated the Smarter Testing CLI experience under the CircleCI CLI. Please apply these changes by September 14, 2026. Local Installation Note: these steps apply to your local machine only. CI containers already have the CLI installed, so no install step is needed in your config. The testsuite is now managed as a CircleCI CLI extension.
Smart Deployments: continuous release validation with automatic rollback
Smart Deployments is now available. It gates each release on signals from your monitoring tools and rolls back automatically when a release fails validation. No Kubernetes, Argo Rollouts, or CircleCI release agent required.
Deprecation of GraphQL Unstable API - January 1st, 2027
Summary The CircleCI GraphQL Unstable API (https://circleci.com/graphql-unstable) will reach end of life on January 1, 2027 and will no longer be supported or accessible after that date. This change does not impact Server customers.
IP ranges support available for Gen2 Docker (x86)
IP ranges is now supported for x86 Docker Gen2 resources classes. Pricing for IP ranges is unchanged and is the same across all executor generations: 450 credits per 1 GB of data used, for customers on a Performance or Scale plan, billed in addition to standard compute costs. See the x86 (gen2) Docker documentation and IP ranges documentation for details.