Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0
Released v4.0.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version adds resources for managing service accounts, role bindings, organization invites, and removing organization members.
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Fivetran adds in-dashboard annual contract renewal
Eligible accounts can renew their annual contract from the Billing page in the Fivetran dashboard within 90 days of the current contract's end.
Gemini Enterprise: Pay for what you consume with the Pay-as-you-go edition
The Gemini Enterprise Pay-as-you-go edition is generally available. With this edition, you pay for the feature usage your project consumes without pooled user license quotas. To get started, you need an invoiced Cloud Billing account with a one-seat minimum. You can monitor feature usage and set monthly spend limits in the Google Cloud console.
Dreams research preview adds support for Claude Opus 5
Dreams, in research preview, now supports Claude Opus 5.
FOCUS 1.3 Cost and Usage Report for Atlas billing
Adds a FOCUS Cost and Usage Report presenting billing cost and usage data in FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.3 format for FinOps and cross-vendor cost tools.
Foundry Agent Service long-running hosted agents (preview)
The August 2026 What's new in Microsoft Foundry update adds a new article: Long-running agent API reference (preview), with companion articles on resilience, task state, crash recovery, and streaming with reconnect.
Foundry agents human-in-the-loop approval step (preview)
The August 2026 What's new in Microsoft Foundry update adds a new article: Add a human-in-the-loop approval step (preview), under Foundry Agent Service.
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Fuzzy matching and substring search for full-text search
Full-text search now supports two new ways to match text: Fuzzy matching (typo tolerance) , In a query_string search, append ~ to a term to match indexed terms within a small edit distance: body:(compxter~1) matches computer. Use term~ for an automatic distance based on term length, or term~N for a fixed distance (N is 0–2).
Pod-to-serverless migration supports up to 50 million records
Migrating a pod-based index to serverless now supports indexes with up to 50 million records, up from 25 million. If you need to migrate a larger index, contact Support before you start, as the limit can often be raised for your project.
Index fullness metrics for dedicated read nodes
Indexes that use dedicated read nodes now emit index fullness as time-series metrics. Monitor fullness over time via the Prometheus or Datadog integration.
General availability: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
BYOC is now generally available and recommended for production usage on the Enterprise plan, across AWS, GCP, and Azure. BYOC runs the Pinecone data plane inside your own cloud account, so your vectors, metadata, and queries stay in your environment.
Public preview: Restore a backup to a different region
You can now restore a serverless backup into a different region on the same cloud provider. Use the unstable version of the create index endpoint, specifying the backup as source_backup_id within spec.serverless and the target region there.
Egress metering and monthly egress allowances
Pinecone now meters egress, the data returned to you on reads. Each plan includes a monthly egress allowance: 1 GB on Starter, 10 GB on Builder, and 100 GB on Standard and Enterprise. Egress is metered on reads that return record data, such as query, fetch, list, and search. Writes, index statistics, and index management requests aren't metered.
BYOC stores cluster metadata in FoundationDB
BYOC deployments run FoundationDB inside your Kubernetes cluster to store cluster metadata, with no managed database to operate.
General availability: Full-text search and the Documents API
Full-text search is now generally available on API version 2026-07, built on the new Documents API. Create schema-based document indexes that combine full-text (BM25), dense-vector, and sparse-vector ranking fields in a single index. Query them with BM25 token matching, Lucene query syntax, or vector similarity, narrowed by metadata and text-match filters.