Releasesby GlyphConsole Support for Network Firewall Enhancements
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Console now supports several Network Firewall enhancements for creating and managing firewalls and firewall policies. With these enhancements, you can: Select the firewall shape when creating a firewall. The 4 Gbps shape is selected by default, and the 25 Gbps shape is available if your tenancy is enabled for it.
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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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HeatWave: Blue/Green Deployment
You can now use blue/green deployments to perform low-downtime upgrades and infrastructure changes for standalone DB systems. A blue/green deployment prepares and validates a green (target) DB system before switching client connections from the blue (source) DB system to the target DB system. For more information, see Blue/Green Deployment .
Console AI Experience Preview: Expanded OC1 Availability and Support Integration
Console AI is a new conversational experience in the OCI Console that helps you work faster using natural language. It supports a wide range of use cases, including exploring resources, creating and managing supported OCI resources, troubleshooting issues, understanding billing and usage, learning how to complete common OCI tasks, creating Service Requests...
Maintenance Schedule Selection in OCI
You can change the maintenance window of an existing Autonomous AI Database instance using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. This capability helps pick a maintenance window for your Autonomous AI Database instance that is most convenient for your business needs. See Change the Maintenance Schedule for an Autonomous AI Database for more information.
Model Selection, Scheduled Enrichment, and Background SQL Generation Available for Enterprise AI NL2SQL
Enterprise AI NL2SQL now supports model selection, scheduled enrichment, and background processing for SQL-generation requests. Model selection Select the Generative AI model that NL2SQL uses to enrich a semantic store. By using the API, you can also select a model for an individual SQL-generation request.
Network Firewall as a VTAP Source
Network Firewall can now be selected as a Virtual Test Access Point (VTAP) source. This lets you capture traffic packets from the VNICs attached to a network firewall for monitoring, troubleshooting, and compliance. Captured encrypted traffic remains encrypted.
Add ZPR security attributes for Recovery Service subnets
You can now add Zero Trust Packet Routing (ZPR) security attributes to a Recovery Service subnet to enforce a strict least-privilege model where network-traffic is restricted unless explicitly permitted.
OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) support for virtual nodes using persistent volumes backed by File Storage service
You can now use OKE to set up persistent volumes backed by the File Storage service for virtual nodes (in addition to existing support for File Storage service-backed persistent volumes for managed nodes and self-managed nodes). For more information, see Provisioning PVCs on the File Storage Service .