Releasesby GlyphUnified Stream Manager alerting for Confluent Platform clusters
USM monitors conditions such as offline partitions, broker storage exhaustion, and stalled telemetry, delivering alerts to Console, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or a webhook.
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BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform
BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform. This feature is in Preview .
Multi-value tags (General availability)
With this release, multi-value tags are generally available. You can assign more than one string value to the same tag.
Remote app operations for Snowflake Native Apps (Preview)
Remote app operations are now available in public preview for Snowflake Native Apps. Providers can perform on-demand operations on consumer apps, including running SQL statements ( run_sql ), retrying a failed upgrade ( retry_upgrade ), and disabling/enabling the app ( disable / enable ), all through a new system function SYSTEM$REMOTE_APP_OPERATION .
Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (Preview)
Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available in public preview.
Stable egress IP addresses on Azure (Preview)
Stable egress IP addresses are now available in preview on Azure. You can generate Snowflake egress IP address ranges (as CIDR addresses) and add them to an external server's allowlist so that Snowflake can make requests to that server.
LTAP Direct Writes accelerates synced table loads (Beta)
LTAP Direct Writes speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase. When you create a synced table, Lakebase loads a full copy of your Unity Catalog data into your Postgres branch.
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IBM MQ Source connector adds STRING and BYTES output formats
The IBM MQ Source connector now supports STRING and BYTES output data formats on Confluent Cloud.
IBM MQ Source connector output key format configurable
The output key format is now configurable for IBM MQ Source connectors on Confluent Cloud.
IBM MQ Sink connector input key format configurable
The input key format is now configurable for IBM MQ Sink connectors on Confluent Cloud.
IP filtering extends to public Kafka and ksqlDB access
IP filtering now protects public Kafka and ksqlDB access, expanding on support for resource management, schema management, and Flink.
Custom SMTs can make external network calls (Limited Availability)
Custom SMTs on fully managed connectors can call endpoints outside Confluent Cloud, such as KMS, secret stores, or data enrichment APIs, as a Limited Availability feature.
Unified Stream Manager supports Azure Private Link
Unified Stream Manager now supports Azure Private Link for connecting self-managed Confluent Platform clusters, in addition to AWS PrivateLink.
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.