Releasesby GlyphReduced median service build time by 40% (all runtimes)
Render service builds now run on nodes with faster CPU and disk. These improvements have reduced the median build time for a Render service by 40%, with this reduction reflected across all runtimes: Before this rollout (week of July 13), median build time was 38 seconds, consistent with prior weeks.
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DCM Projects (General availability)
DCM Projects are now generally available and are no longer in Preview . DCM Projects enable a declarative approach to managing Snowflake objects as code. You define the desired target state of your databases, tables, tasks, and other Snowflake objects in definition files, and Snowflake determines and applies the necessary changes to reach that state.
Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability)
Cortex Agents and MCP servers in Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Providers can create the following objects in an app’s setup script: Apps can also use inter-app communication so that one app’s agent calls another app’s agent or MCP server.
Tag automations (Beta)
Tag automations are now in Beta . A tag automation assigns or removes governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes that match conditions you define, so tags stay accurate as your data and metadata change.
Change data feed on materialized views (Beta)
You can now read a change data feed from a materialized view created in a Lakeflow pipeline or in Databricks SQL, using Databricks Runtime 18 LTS or above. Use this to replicate materialized view changes to destinations outside Databricks, or to keep a history of materialized view changes for auditing and reporting.
ai_search function (Beta)
The ai_search() SQL function retrieves information from one or more AI Search indexes configured as knowledge sources. Given a natural-language query, the function generates optimized search queries, retrieves and deduplicates results across sources, reranks them by relevance, and returns the most relevant documents.
AlloyDB can sync BigQuery tables in preview
BigQuery tables can be synced into AlloyDB once or on a periodic schedule, giving operational analytics low-latency transactional access to data lake data.
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Managed OIDC now supports Anthropic and OpenAI
Render’s managed OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication now supports Anthropic and OpenAI in addition to AWS. Render services can authenticate to both providers without storing long-lived API keys. Render instead issues short-lived identity tokens for each service and automatically rotates them as needed.
Render MCP now supports OAuth for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor
The Render MCP server now supports OAuth-based authentication for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor: The MCP server continues to support API key authentication for other applications and non-interactive environments, such as CI/CD. See setup instructions for each supported tool in the documentation .
New compute plans, and new IDs for existing plans
We're introducing new compute plans for Render services, including memory-optimized plans with higher ratios of RAM to CPU and a new 12-CPU tier for web services, private services, and background workers. To support the expanded catalog, we're also changing compute plan IDs to a spec-based format that includes the relevant specs.
Trigger service deploys with the Render MCP server
The Render MCP server now includes a trigger_deploy tool that enables you (and your agents) to kick off a new deploy of an existing service. This can be helpful for retrying a deploy after a transient failure or forcing a clean rebuild by clearing the build cache.
Default Bun version updated to 1.3.14
Newly created services now use Bun 1.3.14 by default. You can always specify a different version . Existing services keep their original default Bun version to prevent breaking changes.
Introduced the Flex compute plan for Render Workflows
Render Workflows uses a new default compute plan for task runs: flex . The flex compute plan provides up to 1 CPU and 4 GB of RAM. Task runs on flex are billed only for the CPU and RAM they actually use, resulting in significantly lower costs for computationally inexpensive runs.
Added usage telemetry to the Render CLI
The Render CLI now automatically collects usage telemetry to help us understand common use cases and improve user experience. Telemetry is enabled by default in version 2.26.0 or later.
See your service's deploys on a new page
Services now have a new Deploys page in the Render Dashboard. The Deploys page features: Your service's deploy history, without a date cutoff. A Live badge indicating the current deploy. Status of in-progress deploys. A banner flagging when auto-deploys are disabled.