Releasesby GlyphFlink UDF external connectivity generally available
UDFs can call external systems such as REST APIs through Connection objects bound with USING CONNECTIONS. Public endpoints on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud; private endpoints on AWS only.
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Genie One enhancements
- Share chats with account users : You can now share Genie One chats with all users in your account as read-only. See Share a chat . New external source connections (Beta) : Chat in Genie One now supports connecting to Gmail and additional Microsoft 365 apps (Teams, Outlook, and Calendar). See Connect to external tools and sources .
Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 deprecated, removal on July 24, 2026
After July 24, 2026, requests to claude-opus-4-7 with speed fast will return an error. Anthropic recommends migrating to fast mode on Claude Opus 4.8.
Copilot code review: Analysis depth and efficiency updates
Copilot code review now uses the built-in file exploration tools available in the Copilot CLI and SDK, significantly improving review cost efficiency with no change to your existing workflow. If you’re in the Medium analysis depth public preview, you’ll also see some new updates centered around configurability and visibility of review depth.
Enterprise-managed settings now support strictKnownMarketplaces in VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI
Enterprises can now control which plugins their users can install in GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code. This setting is now available in public preview. Add strictKnownMarketplaces to your enterprise-managed settings.json , and Copilot will only allow plugins to be installed from the marketplaces you’ve explicitly defined.
Saved views for repository issues – Public Preview and adjustable row heights in projects
Saved views for repository issues Repository Issues pages now support saved views, making it easier for teams to create and share filtered views of their issues. With saved views, anyone with triage access or above can create shared views like “Unassigned bugs”, “Needs triage”, or “Customer-reported issues”.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux runner images are now in public preview
GitHub-hosted larger runners now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and RHEL 10 images in public preview, introduced in partnership with Red Hat. Organizations can use these RHEL images as the foundation for custom images that include required tools, dependencies, and configurations.
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Flink Python UDFs generally available on AWS
Python UDFs are GA on AWS, including vectorized scalar functions that process rows in batches as pandas.Series.
Flink Process Table Functions generally available
PTFs provide managed state, state TTL, event-time timers, and multi-table inputs. This release adds changelog mode via the SUPPORT_UPDATES trait.
USM monitors Confluent Platform Kafka Streams applications
Monitor Kafka Streams throughput, consumer lag, end-to-end latency, and thread state in USM. Requires Confluent Platform 8.2.2+ or 8.3.0+ in KRaft mode.
HTTP Source V2 connector supports schema evolution
The HTTP Source V2 connector supports the EVOLVE schema enforcement mode, requiring AVRO or JSON_SR output and TopicNameStrategy.
Tableflow client-side field level encryption (Limited Availability)
Materialize topics with encrypted fields into Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, storing tagged fields as plaintext if you share the key or as ciphertext if you keep it private.
OpenSearch Sink connector adds configurable input key format
The OpenSearch Sink connector adds input.key.format, and for INSERT you can use the Kafka record key as the document _id.
Connector secret manager integration supports Google Cloud Secret Manager
Confluent Cloud can fetch connector secrets at runtime from Google Cloud Secret Manager, removing the need to persist secrets within Confluent's boundary.
Schema Registry reachable over Private Network Interface on AWS
If you use PNI for Enterprise or Freight clusters, you can reach Schema Registry over the same PNI connection without a separate PrivateLink.