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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.
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Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)
The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Core) flow is now generally available. The flow ingests Jira Cloud issues, projects, users, and related data into dedicated Snowflake tables with explicit schemas. It supports optional deletion tracking and parallel ingestion across projects. The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Agile) flow remains in Public Preview .
Git Folder Serverless is in Beta
You can now use Git Folder Serverless to share serverless compute and a pyproject.toml -managed environment across notebooks and files in a Git folder. See Git Folder Serverless .
AlloyDB real-time BigQuery access adds limit pushdown and runtime projects
The preview feature pushes some LIMIT and OFFSET clauses down to BigQuery to cut network transfer, and optional runtime projects let queries run and bill compute separately from the owning project.
OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027
OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027 . Customer-hosted instances must upgrade to OpenJDK 21 .
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash available in Global, US, and EU regions
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available (GA) in the global , us , and eu regions. For more information, see: Manage features on the web app Data residency for Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus Editions and Gemini Notebook Enterprise
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available
Gemini 3.8 Flash is now generally available (GA) and available for production use. For more information on 3.8 Flash, see the model page .
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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.
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.
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 .
Gen2 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.
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.
[Updated] JUnit Output Requirements for Smarter Testing
Update September 11, 2026 We are relaxing the requireents around JUnit Output for Smarter Testing. For the best experience when it comes to dynamic test splitting and test skipping we do recommend JUnit output, it is however, not a requirement .
Build tool cache now available in Open Beta
Build tool cache is now available in Open Beta Build tool cache is now available in Open Beta on CircleCI Cloud, offering up to 90% faster clean builds vs. no cache for eligible Gradle, Bazel, and Turborepo workloads (and up to 29% faster for Xcode).
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 .