New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control

UpdateAug 18, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and Warpstream.

Topics: Streaming, Security, Data integration

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Date	Release	Type
Aug 18	New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Confluent Assistant Update	Update
Aug 18	Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI Update	Update
Aug 18	Baseline CFU for Flink statements (Limited Availability) Preview	Preview
Aug 18	Lightning queries for Real-Time Context Engine data (Early Access) Preview	Preview
Aug 18	AI_FORECAST and AI_DETECT_ANOMALIES support IBM Granite time-series models Preview	Preview
Aug 19	Secret manager integration adds HTTP V2 and Oracle XStream connectors Update	Update
Aug 19	Cloud Console idle session timeout raised to two hours Update	Update
Aug 17	Flink FROM_CHANGELOG and TO_CHANGELOG functions generally available GA	GA

Also shipped on Aug 18, 2026

Confluent in August 2026

Date	Company	Release	Product	Type
Aug 18	Snowflake	Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview) Snowflake Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Preview
Aug 18	Snowflake	Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability) Snowflake Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Aug 18	Snowflake	User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview) Snowflake SnowflakePreview	Snowflake	Preview
Aug 18	Google Cloud	CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformPreview	Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform	Preview
Aug 18	Google Cloud	Gemini Enterprise: Google Sites federated connector (GA) Google Cloud Gemini EnterpriseGA	Gemini Enterprise	GA
Aug 18	Google Cloud	Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions Google Cloud Gemini EnterpriseGA	Gemini Enterprise	GA