generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/release-notes/index.html
http_status: 200
description: >-
  Confluent Cloud publishes a dated release-notes page, updated multiple times per week. Entries
  are feature announcements per release date; there is no per-API-group version number attached
  to an entry, and no separate breaking-change feed — breaking changes are communicated by email
  under the 180-day deprecation policy rather than in this changelog.
url: https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/release-notes/index.html
scheme: date-based
versioned_entries: false
current_version: null
current_version_note: >-
  Confluent Cloud is continuously delivered and carries no aggregate product version. The
  closest thing to a version is the per-API-group path version (connect/v1, cmk/v2, srcm/v3).
cadence: multiple entries per week
window_start: '2026-08-12'
window_end: '2026-08-26'
entries:
  - date: '2026-08-26'
    breaking: false
    additions: true
    highlights:
      - IBM MQ Source connector now supports STRING and BYTES output data formats.
      - Output key format is now configurable for IBM MQ Source connectors.
      - Input key format is now configurable for IBM MQ Sink connectors.
  - date: '2026-08-25'
    breaking: false
    additions: true
    highlights:
      - >-
        Unified Stream Manager now supports alerting for registered Confluent Platform clusters
        — offline partitions, broker storage exhaustion, stalled telemetry — routed to the
        Console dashboard, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams or a generic webhook.
  - date: '2026-08-19'
    breaking: false
    additions: true
    highlights:
      - >-
        Secret manager integration extended to HTTP Sink V2, HTTP Source V2 and Oracle XStream
        CDC Source connectors.
      - >-
        Console idle session timeout increased from 30 minutes to two hours; inactivity is now
        measured by interaction rather than by an open browser tab. Eight-hour maximum session
        length unchanged.
  - date: '2026-08-18'
    breaking: false
    additions: true
    highlights:
      - Baseline CFU for an individual Flink SQL statement, as a Limited Availability feature.
      - >-
        Lightning Queries — read the Real-Time Context Engine's materialized table for a topic
        directly through an API without an agent (Early Access Program).
      - >-
        AI_FORECAST and AI_DETECT_ANOMALIES now support three IBM Granite time-series models
        (TTM, FlowState, PatchTST-FM) alongside Google TimesFM 2.5 (Early Access).
  - date: '2026-08-17'
    breaking: false
    additions: true
    highlights:
      - >-
        FROM_CHANGELOG and TO_CHANGELOG built-in changelog conversion functions for Confluent
        Cloud for Apache Flink are now generally available.
  - date: '2026-08-12'
    breaking: false
    additions: true
    highlights:
      - Advanced Message Search available for Open Preview in the Console message browser.
      - >-
        Secret manager integration extended to Amazon DynamoDB CDC Source and Amazon DynamoDB
        Sink connectors.
observations:
  - >-
    No entry in the observed two-week window is marked breaking. That is consistent with
    Confluent's stated policy: breaking changes land approximately once a year with 180 days of
    email notice, not in the rolling release notes.
  - >-
    The page is large (348KB as markdown) and is the single source for Confluent Cloud change
    communication; Confluent Platform and the CLI carry their own separate release notes.
related:
  - https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/release-notes/index.html
  - https://github.com/confluentinc/cli/releases