Manage roles from your identity provider with SAML and SCIM
Organizations on the Enterprise plan with SSO can now manage Pinecone roles directly from their identity provider (IdP), instead of assigning them manually in Pinecone. Two modes are available: SAML role management sets each user's organization and project roles from a SAML attribute on every SSO login.
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Lakehouse : Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in Preview
Lakehouse : Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in Preview. This update includes the following features: Federation from SAP BDC: Create Delta Sharing catalogs in Lakehouse to automatically synchronize shares, schemas, and tables from SAP BDC.
OIDC federated authentication (Public Preview)
OpenID Connect (OIDC) security integrations for federated single sign-on (SSO) are available in Public Preview. Multiple OIDC integrations, or OIDC alongside an existing SAML2 integration, require identifier-first login . Without identifier-first login, only one SSO integration (SAML2 or OIDC) can be ENABLED=TRUE at a time.
DML into frozen regions of dynamic tables (General availability)
You can now use DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE, DELETE) to modify rows directly in the frozen region of a dynamic table. This enables use cases such as GDPR-required row deletions or correcting specific records without triggering a full refresh of the active region. For more information, see DML into a frozen region .
Pass-through policies for dynamic tables with incremental refresh (General availability)
Dynamic tables that have base tables with arbitrary masking or row access policies can now maintain incremental refresh when the policy is pass-through for the role used during refresh (that is, when the refresh role has unrestricted access to all rows and columns regardless of the policy condition).
[In preview] Public Preview: Protect sensitive generative AI telemetry in Application Insights and Microsoft Foundry
Azure Monitor Application Insights now stores generative AI content in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics), making it possible to apply newly available access controls to sensitive AI telemetry. Because Application Insights p
AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI
You can now manage a cost center’s AI credit pool directly in the billing UI where you create and edit cost centers. Previously, you could only manage this through the GitHub REST API. This feature is available for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Toggle the AI credit pool on when you create or edit a cost center.
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Expanded role-based access controls (RBAC)
Pinecone now offers an expanded set of roles for managing access to organizations and projects. New Organization member and Project member roles grant more restricted access than the owner and manager roles, and projects now support granular editor and viewer roles (project, control plane, and data plane) that you can assign to users, service accounts, and...
General availability: Pinecone Nexus
Pinecone Nexus, the knowledge engine for agents, is now generally available. Point Nexus at your sources, curate them into a context, and query that context to get grounded, cited answers. Get started in the Nexus quickstart.
Cohere Rerank 4.0 Fast is generally available, and cohere-rerank-3.5 is deprecated
cohere-rerank-4-fast (Cohere Rerank 4.0 Fast) is now generally available as a reranking model on Pinecone. It succeeds cohere-rerank-3.5, improves relevance quality, and supports multiple rerank fields. Cohere Rerank 4.0 is hosted on Azure AI under the Global Standard deployment type, and requests may be processed in regions outside the United States.
End of life: Pinecone Marketplace
Pinecone Marketplace has reached end of life and is no longer available. Marketplace ran on Pinecone Assistant. To keep querying your data, see Pinecone Assistant, and contact Support if you need help.
Bulk import credit is no longer offered
New Standard and Enterprise subscriptions no longer receive the one-time \$250 bulk import credit (1 TB). Imports from object storage are billed at the standard \$0.25/GB rate. Credits already granted stay usable until they expire, 60 days after they were granted. The last balances expire by November 1, 2026. For details, see Understanding cost.
Released Go SDK v7.0.0
Released v7.0.0 of the Pinecone Go SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2026-07, and adds support for schema-based document indexes and the Documents API, which brings full-text search to the Go SDK. The v6 release line continues to target 2026-04.
Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v5.0.0
Released v5.0.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version uses API version 2026-07 and adds the schema style for describing indexes, with the schema and deployment attributes. Use it to manage document indexes with dense vector, sparse vector, and full-text-search fields.
Export usage and cost data with the Admin API
Enterprise organizations can now export usage and cost data through the Admin API as an alternative to downloading a CSV from the console. Create an export covering any period in the last 365 days, poll it until it finishes, then download the zip archive of FOCUS v1.4 CSV files. For the steps, see Download a usage report.