Releasesby GlyphAWS Lambda Sink connector adds STRING input and input.key.format
The AWS Lambda Sink connector supports STRING as an input.data.format value and a new input.key.format setting, defaulting to BYTES.
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You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter
You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter. For more information, see Subscribe to a Cloud Marketplace-integrated listing . This feature is generally available (GA).
BigQuery APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions are GA
The APPENDS and CHANGES functions return the rows appended to or changed in a table over a time range, useful for incremental processing and auditing.
Google-developed ODBC driver for BigQuery is generally available
Applications can connect to BigQuery using the Google-developed Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver, now generally available.
BigQuery dataset insights is generally available (GA)
BigQuery dataset insights is generally available (GA). BigQuery dataset insights helps you discover and visualize relationships between tables and automatically generate cross-table queries.
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (Preview)
With this preview release, AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support documents stored on stages that use client-side or server-side encryption, including in accounts that use PrivateLink or other network policies that restrict public network access to stages. For more information, see the following topics:
Custom incremental dynamic tables (General availability)
Custom incremental dynamic tables are now generally available. For more information, see Custom incrementalization .
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Notifications dashboard in Cloud Console
A bell icon shows recent notifications, and a dashboard lets you view and sort notification history from the past 30 days.
S3 Sink and Snowflake Sink connectors support cross-region and cross-cloud
The fully managed Amazon S3 Sink and Snowflake Sink connectors now connect to destinations in a different region or cloud without contacting Confluent Support.
Tableflow integrates with Confluent Cloud notifications
Subscribe to lifecycle and runtime events for Tableflow-enabled topics, such as sync failures, a degraded topic, or an external catalog sync failure.
SSO configuration moves to a dedicated Console page
Single sign-on configuration now has its own page in Cloud Console, separate from Accounts & access, where group mapping configuration remains.
Tableflow emits structured log events
Tableflow emits structured log events, such as sync failures and topic health changes, exportable to tools like Splunk and Datadog through Observability Integrations.
Flink Autopilot no longer pauses statements with Java UDFs while scaling
Autopilot keeps statements that use Java UDFs processing data while it scales them. Existing statements get the behavior after their next restart; Python UDFs are unaffected.
Flink REST APIs support auto pool mapping for OAuth identity pools
The Flink sqlv1 Statement and Materialized Table REST APIs make the Confluent-Identity-Pool-Id header optional, automatically mapping the OAuth token to matching identity pools.