Releasesby GlyphWebhook events for backup success and failure
We've added backup.succeeded and backup.failed webhook events. You'll get notified when a backup finishes, whether it worked or not. These work for both Vitess and Postgres databases. View all webhook events
Also shipped Aug 27, 2026PlanetScale in August 2026 →
You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option
You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option. BigQuery uses the XGBoost 3.1.0 library to load and make predictions on XGBoost models. This feature is generally available .
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (General availability)
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. CoCo runs in a side panel next to the extension's existing SQL and Snowpark Python workflows, so you can work locally while you stay connected to your Snowflake account.
Lakeflow Designer August Release
The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version-history experience.
Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)
You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job. Genie Code runs your prompt autonomously. It can read upstream task outputs and call tools as needed. The task returns a link to the resulting Genie Code conversation with its response. See Genie Code task for jobs .
Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime. Now in Public Preview , it generates distributed training code, resolves environment and dependency issues, and debugs GPU and distributed workload failures. See Use Genie Code with AI Runtime .
Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta-format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue. Providers add foreign Delta tables to a share, and recipients access the shared data in read-only format.
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Postgres metrics page redesign
Postgres instance, storage, and PgBouncer graphs now live on their own tabs with shareable URLs. Expand all graphs to view your infrastructure at a glance. Selecting a replica or PgBouncer in the topology diagram jumps to the matching tab and highlights that node in all graphs. Read more
Manage organization SSO from the CLI
Organization administrators can now enable and manage SSO from the CLI with pscale org sso . Read more
Create a Postgres branch from a restore point
You can now create a PostgreSQL branch restored to a point-in-time timestamp with --restore-point . Pass --restore for a specific backup, or --from so the CLI can look up a backup that covers that time. pscale branch create --from --restore-point 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z --restore-point is PostgreSQL only and cannot be combined with --seed-data .
List and show Postgres switchovers from the CLI
After starting a switchover , you can now list switchovers for a branch and show one by ID. pscale branch switchover list pscale branch switchover show Read the CLI branch docs
Show a service token from the CLI
You can now show a single service token by ID. pscale service-token show Read the CLI service-token docs
List database regions from the CLI
You can now list the regions available to a database, and list configured Vitess read-only regions for the database's default branch. pscale database regions list pscale database read-only-regions list database read-only-regions list is Vitess only. Read the CLI database docs
Protect backups from deletion in the CLI
You can now update a backup's protected status from the CLI. Protected backups cannot be deleted until protection is turned off. pscale backup update --protected pscale backup update --protected=false Read the CLI backup docs
Query, tablet, and tag metrics from the CLI
pscale metrics now has dedicated commands for query-pattern series, table storage, tablet series, and tag sets. On Postgres and Vitess: pscale metrics queries --metric latency_p99 --fingerprint --keyspace --period 1h pscale metrics tables pscale metrics tags --metric queries --tag-set Busername=alice --period 1h On Vitess, for per-tablet series and table...