Releasesby GlyphCustom SMTs on Basic, Standard, and public Dedicated clusters
Custom Single Message Transformations are now available for fully managed connectors on Basic, Standard, and public Dedicated clusters in all supported regions.
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Analytical search (Public Preview)
Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...
MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta
Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime now support the SQL:2016 MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause for row pattern recognition. Enable the Match Recognize preview in workspace preview settings . See MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause .
Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
Lakehouse Real-Time (Lakehouse//RT) is now in Beta . Lakehouse//RT is a serverless SQL warehouse type built for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, delivering sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables.
Gemini Omni Flash in public preview
Released gemini-omni-flash-preview, a high-performance multimodal model designed for high-speed video generation and conversational video editing. Using the Interactions API, you can generate 3--10 second videos at 720p from text descriptions or animate still images, and then conversationally edit and refine the outputs.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) is generally available
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image is a multimodal model optimized for ultra-low latency, cost-effective image generation and editing, now GA in the Gemini API.
[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar
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PostgreSQL and MySQL connectors support mTLS authentication
The fully managed PostgreSQL Source and Sink and MySQL Source and Sink (JDBC) connectors now support mutual TLS authentication.
Kafka clients on librdkafka v2.15.0
Updated Python, JavaScript, .NET, Go, and C/C++ clients add IBM Z (s390x) support, .NET 10 support, security hardening, and Queues for Kafka for Python in preview.
AWS IAM authentication plugins for Python and .NET clients
Python and .NET clients on AWS can authenticate to Confluent Cloud using an AWS STS WebIdentityToken through new AWS IAM plugins.
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.
Release priority for Dedicated clusters
Dedicated clusters with Premier support or higher can enable release priority to receive updates before non-test clusters.
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.