Releasesby GlyphFast mode for Claude Opus 4.8 deprecated
Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.8 is deprecated and will be removed on November 30, 2026. Users should migrate to Claude Opus 5.5 to continue using fast mode.
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Microsoft Graph Logs connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Graph Logs connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of security alerts from Microsoft security products.
Hybrid table support for Google Cloud (Preview)
Snowflake hybrid tables are now supported in all Google Cloud commercial regions in preview.
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available, allowing authentication via external identity providers.
Spanner supports equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values
Spanner now allows equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values directly in GROUP_BY and ORDER BY clauses. It also supports implicit type coercion and search indexes for JSON equality operations.
[In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL
Users can now assign a user-assigned managed identity to individual databases in Azure SQL Database. This enables secure access to files in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.
Inference request metadata logging (GA)
Inference request metadata logging is now generally available for Gemini and Claude models. It records model usage, latency, and error codes without capturing prompt or response content.
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Anthropic launches Usage and Cost Analytics API in beta
Anthropic has launched the Usage and Cost Analytics API in beta, providing endpoints to report token usage and costs for Claude Console and Enterprise organizations, with filtering by model, workspace, and API key.
The Usage and Cost API is now a legacy API, and so are the usage_report, cost_report, user_usage_report, and
The Usage and Cost API is now a legacy API, and so are the usage_report, cost_report, user_usage_report, and user_cost_report endpoints of the Claude Enterprise Analytics API. All of them remain supported. To move an existing integration, see Migrate from the Usage and Cost API or Migrate from the Claude Enterprise usage and cost reports.
We’ve raised the maximum request size for the Messages API and the Token Counting API from 32 MB to 128 MB on
We’ve raised the maximum request size for the Messages API and the Token Counting API from 32 MB to 128 MB on the first-party Claude API.
Claude Tag API is available in beta
The Claude Tag API is now in beta for Claude Enterprise organizations. It allows programmatic management of Claude Tag settings on Slack channels and workspaces using Admin API keys.
Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) are available
Anthropic has launched Claude Models on Google Cloud, allowing users to access the Claude API through their Google Cloud project with IAM-based access control and marketplace billing.
Fast mode is available for Claude Opus 5.5 on Google Cloud
Fast mode is now available for Claude Opus 5.5 when using Anthropic-managed Claude Models on Google Cloud.
We've released API version 2026-10-21
We've released API version 2026-10-21. Migrating to API version 2026-10-21 shows how to upgrade.
We've released new versions of the client SDKs and the ant CLI that send API version 2026-10-21 by default
We've released new versions of the client SDKs and the ant CLI that send API version 2026-10-21 by default: Python SDK 2.0.0, TypeScript SDK 1.0.0, C# SDK 13.0.0, Go SDK 2.0.0, Java SDK 3.0.0, PHP SDK 1.0.0, Ruby SDK 2.0.0, and ant CLI 2.0.0. See Switch to 2026-10-21.