General availability: Full-text search and the Documents API

GASep 2, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Full-text search is now generally available on API version 2026-07, built on the new Documents API. Create schema-based document indexes that combine full-text (BM25), dense-vector, and sparse-vector ranking fields in a single index. Query them with BM25 token matching, Lucene query syntax, or vector similarity, narrowed by metadata and text-match filters.

Vector search SQL Developer tools

Read Pinecone's release notes

https://docs.pinecone.io/release-notes/2026#general-availability-full-text-search-and-the-documents-api

Summaries of vendors' own notes. Product names and logos belong to their owners; logos via logo.dev.

More Pinecone Database releases

Pinecone DatabaseSep 1, 2026

Egress metering and monthly egress allowances

Pinecone now meters egress, the data returned to you on reads. Each plan includes a monthly egress allowance: 1 GB on Starter, 10 GB on Builder, and 100 GB on Standard and Enterprise. Egress is metered on reads that return record data, such as query, fetch, list, and search. Writes, index statistics, and index management requests aren't metered.

UpdateSQLPricingSource

Pinecone DatabaseSep 1, 2026

BYOC stores cluster metadata in FoundationDB

BYOC deployments run FoundationDB inside your Kubernetes cluster to store cluster metadata, with no managed database to operate.

UpdateDeveloper toolsSource

Pinecone DatabaseAug 25, 2026

General availability: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)

BYOC is now generally available and recommended for production usage on the Enterprise plan, across AWS, GCP, and Azure. BYOC runs the Pinecone data plane inside your own cloud account, so your vectors, metadata, and queries stay in your environment.

GAAI agentsVector searchPricingSource

Pinecone DatabaseSep 13, 2026

Higher namespace limit on the Enterprise plan

The Enterprise limit for namespaces per serverless index is now 1,000,000. Pinecone can accommodate more for specific use cases. Contact Support to request a higher limit.

UpdatePricingSource

Pinecone DatabaseAug 21, 2026

Index fullness metrics for dedicated read nodes

Indexes that use dedicated read nodes now emit index fullness as time-series metrics. Monitor fullness over time via the Prometheus or Datadog integration.

UpdateObservabilitySource

Pinecone DatabaseSep 15, 2026

Pod-to-serverless migration supports up to 500 million records

Migrating a pod-based index to serverless now supports indexes with up to 500 million records, up from 50 million. If you need to migrate a larger index, contact Support before you start.

UpdateSource

Pinecone DatabaseAug 19, 2026

Pod-to-serverless migration supports up to 50 million records

Migrating a pod-based index to serverless now supports indexes with up to 50 million records, up from 25 million. If you need to migrate a larger index, contact Support before you start, as the limit can often be raised for your project.

UpdateSource

Pinecone DatabaseAug 1, 2026

Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0

Released v4.0.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version adds resources for managing service accounts, role bindings, organization invites, and removing organization members.

UpdateDeveloper toolsSource

Also shipped on Sep 2, 2026

Snowflake Snowflake OpenflowSep 2, 2026

Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)

The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Core) flow is now generally available. The flow ingests Jira Cloud issues, projects, users, and related data into dedicated Snowflake tables with explicit schemas. It supports optional deletion tracking and parallel ingestion across projects. The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Agile) flow remains in Public Preview .

GAData integrationSource

Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSep 2, 2026

Git Folder Serverless is in Beta

You can now use Git Folder Serverless to share serverless compute and a pyproject.toml -managed environment across notebooks and files in a Git folder. See Git Folder Serverless .

BetaNotebooksSource

Google Cloud AlloyDBSep 2, 2026

AlloyDB real-time BigQuery access adds limit pushdown and runtime projects

The preview feature pushes some LIMIT and OFFSET clauses down to BigQuery to cut network transfer, and optional runtime projects let queries run and bill compute separately from the owning project.

PreviewSQLStreamingSecuritySource

Google Cloud LookerSep 2, 2026

OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027

OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027 . Customer-hosted instances must upgrade to OpenJDK 21 .

DeprecationSource

Google Cloud Gemini EnterpriseSep 2, 2026

Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash available in Global, US, and EU regions

Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available (GA) in the global , us , and eu regions. For more information, see: Manage features on the web app Data residency for Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus Editions and Gemini Notebook Enterprise

GALLMsNotebooksRegionsSource

Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformSep 2, 2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available

Gemini 3.8 Flash is now generally available (GA) and available for production use. For more information on 3.8 Flash, see the model page .

GALLMsSource