Releasesby GlyphLightning queries for Real-Time Context Engine data (Early Access)
Query the data the Real-Time Context Engine serves to AI agents directly through an API, without an agent, by reading the materialized table Confluent maintains for a topic.
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Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)
You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...
User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.
CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support
This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .
Gemini Enterprise: Google Sites federated connector (GA)
The Google Sites federated connector is generally available (GA) on Gemini Enterprise. You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across internal company websites, team sites, intranets, project hubs, and informational pages hosted on Google Sites, and get answers grounded in that content without needing to ingest the data.
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions
Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available in the us and eu multi-regions, and an allowlist is no longer required to use Gemini 3.6 Flash in the us multi-region. To make Gemini 3.6 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.6 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console.
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New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Confluent Assistant
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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI
Flink now acts as a robust engine for developers through Table API, UDFs, and PTFs while offering a SQL-native, dbt-integrated platform for data science and AI teams.
Baseline CFU for Flink statements (Limited Availability)
Set a best-effort minimum scaling target for an individual Flink statement; Autopilot keeps the statement at or above it. Configurable in Console or the Flink SQL REST API.
AI_FORECAST and AI_DETECT_ANOMALIES support IBM Granite time-series models
The built-in functions now support IBM Granite TTM, FlowState, and PatchTST-FM models as an Early Access Program feature, alongside Google TimesFM 2.5.
Secret manager integration adds HTTP V2 and Oracle XStream connectors
Secret manager integration now extends to the HTTP Sink V2, HTTP Source V2, and Oracle XStream CDC Source fully managed connectors.
Cloud Console idle session timeout raised to two hours
The idle session timeout increases from 30 minutes to two hours, measured by console interaction. The eight-hour maximum session length is unchanged.
Flink FROM_CHANGELOG and TO_CHANGELOG functions generally available
Built-in changelog conversion functions read custom-format change data into queryable tables and turn updating tables back into append-only streams, with user-mapped operation codes and no UDFs required.