Releasesby GlyphWhat’s New in Q4’26 Confluent Data Streaming Platform: The Most Complete, Performant, and Open Foundation for Streamhouse
Confluent released updates including Lightning Tables, Managed Model Inference, and multi-tenancy for CPC. The release also adds Tableflow support for Google Cloud to improve streamhouse architectures.
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[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL stable REST API version 2026-10-01
The Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server REST API version 2026-10-01 is now generally available, introducing new capabilities for maintenance, immutable backups, and encryption.
Analytics API (Public preview): report on the health of the data behind your agents, from your AI tool
The Monte Carlo Analytics API is now in public preview, allowing users to query data health, alert status, and cost metrics directly from AI tools via the Monte Carlo MCP server.
Twice the included embedding tokens through December 31
Pinecone is doubling the included monthly embedding tokens for Starter and Builder organizations through December 31, 2026.
Gemini Enterprise: Switch between teams in the mobile app
The Gemini Enterprise mobile app now supports switching between multiple teams without re-authentication, and allows renaming or removing teams from the list.
Compare AI agent changes with Online Experiments in Agent Observability
Datadog Online Experiments allows engineers to test AI agent changes against production traffic. It enables comparison of response quality, cost, latency, and error rates.
Postmortems End of Life Completed
The Postmortems feature has been retired in favor of the upgraded Post-Incident Reviews in the PagerDuty web UI.
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Introducing Apache Kafka 4.4.0
The Apache Software Foundation released Apache Kafka 4.4.0, which includes new features and performance improvements.
Apache Kafka 4.4.0 release
Apache Kafka 4.4.0 introduces new features and improvements across broker, controller, producer, consumer, admin client, and Kafka Streams components. This release includes updates to cluster metadata bootstrapping, share group dead-letter queues, and transactional state stores.
Confluent Strengthens Trust for Singapore's Markets with OSPAR Attestation
Confluent Cloud has secured OSPAR attestation, providing financial institutions in Singapore with verified assurance for outsourced data streaming.
Oracle XStream CDC Source connector updates for LOB and XMLType
The Oracle XStream CDC Source connector now captures Oracle RAW and XMLType columns. XMLType columns must be explicitly serialized to CLOB for snapshot operations.
Delete empty consumer groups from Confluent Cloud Console
You can now delete consumer groups in the empty state through Confluent Cloud Console.
Consumer group deletion in Confluent Cloud Console
Users can now delete consumer groups that are in an empty state directly through the Confluent Cloud Console.
Audit logs record SCIM provisioning events
Confluent Cloud audit logs now record auditable events for SCIM provisioning operations, including enabling SCIM, managing SCIM tokens, and creating, updating, or deleting users through a SCIM client.
Audit logs for SCIM provisioning operations
Confluent Cloud audit logs now record events for SCIM provisioning operations. This includes enabling SCIM, managing tokens, and user lifecycle management.