Releasesby GlyphS3 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.
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AI code suggestions in Workspaces (General availability)
AI code suggestions in Cortex Code are now generally available. This release also includes updated keybindings and bug fixes. Notebook Python cells , no changes to keybindings.
Snowflake Native Apps support for Virtual Private Snowflake on AWS for apps with containers (General availability)
Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services now support Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) on Amazon Web Services. Apps with containers can be distributed to Snowflake customers in VPS deployments. Apps running in VPS can use the functionality of Snowpark Container Services, including compute pools, services, jobs, and external access integrations.
Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available
Registering Python user-defined table functions (UDTFs) in Unity Catalog is now generally available in Databricks Runtime 18. A Unity Catalog Python UDTF is a governed function that returns a table, invoked in the FROM clause of a SQL statement to return multiple rows and columns.
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters. To enable this feature on an existing cluster, contact your Google Cloud account team. IAM group authentication for AlloyDB is available in Preview for new clusters running PostgreSQL 15 and later.
Vercel Connect now supports Custom Environments
Vercel Connect now lets you link a connector to a Custom Environment so deployments there can request provider tokens and receive forwarded webhooks. Custom Environments appear alongside Production, Preview, and Development when you add or edit a project on a connector in the dashboard.
AIP Document Intelligence: deploy extraction strategies as Python functions (GA)
Deploying extraction strategies to Python functions is generally available in AIP Document Intelligence, as an alternative to running a strategy in a batch pipeline.
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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.
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.
AWS 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.
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.