generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/release-notes/index.html
docs: https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/release-notes/index.html
scheme: dated
scheme_note: >-
  Confluent Cloud release notes are dated, not versioned — entries are chronological
  sections anchored by date (e.g. #august-31-2026). There is no product version number
  attached to a Cloud entry because each API group versions independently. Confluent
  Platform, by contrast, IS versioned (8.3 shipped 2026-07-29 per the Confluent blog).
current_version: null
current_version_note: >-
  Not applicable to Confluent Cloud. The nearest analogue is the Confluent Platform
  release train, currently 8.3.x (io.confluent Maven artifacts at 8.3.1, published
  2026-08-27).
window: 2026-07-27 .. 2026-08-31
entries:
- date: '2026-08-31'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Custom SMTs on fully managed connectors can now make external network calls
    (egress) to endpoints beyond Confluent Cloud.
- date: '2026-08-27'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: IP filtering extended to protect public Kafka and ksqlDB access.
- date: '2026-08-26'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    IBM MQ Source connector supports configurable output and input key formats with
    STRING/BYTES data types.
- date: '2026-08-25'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Unified Stream Manager adds alerting for registered Confluent Platform clusters.
- date: '2026-08-19'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Secret manager integration extended to HTTP Sink/Source V2 and Oracle XStream CDC
    connectors.
- date: '2026-08-18'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Baseline CFU lets you set minimum scaling targets for Flink SQL statements.
- date: '2026-08-17'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Flink changelog conversion functions FROM_CHANGELOG and TO_CHANGELOG reach general
    availability.
- date: '2026-08-12'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Advanced Message Search enables filtering Kafka topics by specific fields in
    retained history.
- date: '2026-07-31'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: Tableflow emits structured log events across topic lifecycle operations.
- date: '2026-07-30'
  breaking: false
  additions: false
  highlight: >-
    SSO configuration moved to a dedicated console page, separate from account settings.
- date: '2026-07-28'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Amazon S3 and Snowflake Sink connectors gain cross-region and cross-cloud
    connectivity.
- date: '2026-07-27'
  breaking: false
  additions: true
  highlight: >-
    Notifications dashboard shows a centralized view of alerts from the past 30 days.
related:
  platform_release_notes: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/release-notes/index.html
  cli_release_notes: https://docs.confluent.io/confluent-cli/current/release-notes.html
  deprecation_policy: lifecycle/confluent-the-data-streaming-platform-lifecycle.yml