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Managed MySQL 8.0 database clusters are scheduled for forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 beginning 30 October 2026...

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Managed MySQL 8.0 database clusters are scheduled for forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 beginning 30 October 2026 during each cluster’s maintenance window.

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What's new in Sigma

AI Create AI columns (Beta) You can now create AI columns to enrich your data using natural language prompts. AI columns allow you to construct dynamic prompts that reference specific table columns, and can be helpful for tasks like enriching, summarizing, and classifying data. See Create AI columns (Beta) for more information.

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Sandboxes, Infrastructure as Code

This week, Sandboxes are available in Priority Boarding from the dashboard and CLI, and Infrastructure as Code is available experimentally in CLI 5.2.0. Both features use the [Railway TypeScript SDK](https://github.com/railwayapp/railway-ts-sdk) (yes, we released a TypeScript SDK too).

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Taxonomy MCP: Branch management and Create tools

Description: You can now build, iterate on, and ship tracking plan changes entirely through AI-assisted workflows. The Amplitude MCP server now includes create and branch management tools for taxonomy, bringing a workflow that was previously only available in the Amplitude UI to any AI assistant.

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Per-Condition Retry Configuration

The new X-Fal-Retry-Config request header replaces all-or-nothing retry behavior with a separate retry budget per failure condition, allowing retry policy to be tuned independently for each failure mode.

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