Schema Registry reachable over Private Network Interface on AWS

UpdateJun 29, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

If you use PNI for Enterprise or Freight clusters, you can reach Schema Registry over the same PNI connection without a separate PrivateLink.

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Confluent CloudJun 29, 2026

Connector secret manager integration supports Google Cloud Secret Manager

Confluent Cloud can fetch connector secrets at runtime from Google Cloud Secret Manager, removing the need to persist secrets within Confluent's boundary.

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Custom SMTs on Basic, Standard, and public Dedicated clusters

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Confluent CloudJun 30, 2026

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Kafka clients on librdkafka v2.15.0

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Confluent CloudJun 30, 2026

AWS IAM authentication plugins for Python and .NET clients

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Confluent CloudJul 2, 2026

Release priority for Dedicated clusters

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Confluent CloudJun 26, 2026

HTTP Source V2 connector supports schema evolution

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Confluent CloudJun 26, 2026

Tableflow client-side field level encryption (Limited Availability)

Materialize topics with encrypted fields into Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, storing tagged fields as plaintext if you share the key or as ciphertext if you keep it private.

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Snowflake SnowflakeJun 29, 2026

Dynamic Iceberg table replication (General availability)

Snowflake now supports replication of dynamic Iceberg tables as part of replication and failover groups. Previously, dynamic Iceberg tables were skipped during replication refresh operations. For more information, see Configure replication for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables .

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Databricks Databricks SQLJun 29, 2026

Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in Preview

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Databricks LakeflowJun 29, 2026

SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available

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Databricks Unity CatalogJun 29, 2026

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You can now govern Databricks-hosted LLMs in Unity Catalog using model services , currently in Beta. A model service is a Unity Catalog securable that represents a governed LLM endpoint, so you can define an endpoint once and share it across workspaces using Unity Catalog privileges, instead of duplicating endpoints per workspace.

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Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformJun 29, 2026

Custom Docker images for AI Runtime CLI workloads (Beta)

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Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformJun 29, 2026

Parquet v2 for Delta Lake tables is generally available

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