Upcoming conclusion of public beta for Assist
On September 30, 2026, Retool will conclude the public beta period for Assist and remove Assist from the classic app builder. All cloud and self-hosted instances will no longer be able to use Assist in the product. The drag-and-drop experience for building and maintaining classic apps is still available.
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Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)
You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...
User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.
CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support
This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .
Gemini Enterprise: Google Sites federated connector (GA)
The Google Sites federated connector is generally available (GA) on Gemini Enterprise. You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across internal company websites, team sites, intranets, project hubs, and informational pages hosted on Google Sites, and get answers grounded in that content without needing to ingest the data.
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions
Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available in the us and eu multi-regions, and an allowlist is no longer required to use Gemini 3.6 Flash in the us multi-region. To make Gemini 3.6 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.6 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console.
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Multi-instance releases for apps
Live on cloud • Enterprise 4.34.4 Stable • Enterprise Multi-instance releases are now supported for apps built in the new app builder , in addition to classic apps and workflows. To enable multi-instance releases, navigate to Settings > Source control > Edit settings and turn on Enable multi-instance releases .
Access policies for PostgreSQL resources in public beta
Live on cloud • Enterprise Beta 4.44.0 Edge • Enterprise Beta Enterprise organizations can use access policies to define which data each group of users can read or write on a resource. Retool enforces access policies on every query that runs against the resource. A policy can grant access to whole tables, specific columns, or specific rows.
Plan mode for app building
Live on cloud You can now use Plan mode for further control over the actions that the app building agent takes. Click to switch from Build mode to Plan mode and tell the agent what changes you want it to make. The agent creates a comprehensive plan, which is written as a Markdown file in the .plan folder. Click Review to view the file.
Self-hosted Retool 4.0 stable update
The following patch is now available on the Stable release channel: Retool 4.0.12 Update your Retool instance to apply the latest bug fixes and security patches.
Debug console for the app builder
Live on cloud • All plans Public beta The app builder now includes a debug console to help you inspect your app, surface issues, and resolve them with the agent. Open it from the status bar at the bottom of the app builder. The console has three tabs: Errors : Function, build, and frontend errors.
Deprecation of the Vertica resource type
Retool is deprecating the dedicated Vertica resource type. Retool will remove the resource type in Q1 2027, after two quarterly Stable releases. After removal, Vertica resources will stop working. Queries in apps and workflows that still point at those resources will fail. Retool will no longer ship the Vertica JDBC driver.
Self-hosted Retool 4.0 and 3.334 stable updates
The following patches are now available on the Stable release channel: Retool 4.0.10 Retool 3.334.28 Update your Retool instance to apply the latest bug fixes and security patches.
Deprecation of the BigID resource type
Retool is deprecating the dedicated BigID resource type. Retool will remove the resource type in Q1 2027, after two quarterly Stable releases. After removal, BigID resources will stop working. Queries in apps and workflows that still point at those resources will fail.