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Release Notes

May 2026​

  • Supports AI assistant - Agent Fawkes

    Agent Fawkes is specifically engineered to help you understand and manage your data with ease. It can help you with SQL generation and optimization, answer questions concerning the database use, read database schema and task status, and auto-suggest charts based on your query results, all while respecting the user's data locality and consent.

    iPublic Preview

    This feature must be enabled by CelerData Support, please open a support case if you would like to use it.

    Advice on use of Public Preview features

  • Allows users to select between the latest stable and the latest preview versions of the database kernel during cluster creation.

April 2026​

  • Renamed the cluster operation page to CelerData Studio.
  • Coordinator node count can be scaled to 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11.
  • Users can manually upgrade their clusters to the latest patch version.
  • Supports creating clusters with End-to-End Private Link on Azure.
  • Users can issue support tickets to the CelerData support team to get technical support, and track and manage the tickets within the CelerData Cloud BYOC console.

March 2026​

  • Role Mapping is now available in SSO configuration.
  • Supports interacting with your CelerData Cluster via Arrow Flight.
  • Supports scaling Elastic clusters between instance types with local storage and with cloud storage.
  • Supports two more GCP regions: Europe West (St. Ghislain) (europe-west1) and US West (The Dalles) (us-west1).
  • Supports renaming clusters and accounts, and viewing clusters from different accounts in the organization.
  • Enhancements to the SQL Editor results viewer. Users can resize, wrap, and hide columns, sort results by column, and search specific results.

February 2026​

  • Supports specifying custom IOPS and throughput values during cluster creation, allowing finer control over storage performance from the start.
  • Storage autoscaling is now enabled by default during cluster creation, including full Terraform support. Users no longer need to manually enable this post-creation.
  • Supports setting a default timezone during cluster creation, improving time-based query and scheduling accuracy across regions.
  • Improved BE FE parameter configuration experience for better usability and clarity.
  • Automated streaming of query audit logs can now be enabled or disabled from the cluster operation page.
  • Redesigned the Query History tab in the cluster operation page:
    • Query History is renamed to Query insights.
    • Users are now able to terminate running queries.
    • A new Active queries section is added, covering metrics of running queries (such as resource consumption of queries, runtime metrics, and real-time query concurrency and queues).
    • Query Logs has been moved to Query Insights for better organization.
    • Resolved a display bug in the SQL editor where certain characters appeared garbled or corrupted.
    • Timezone selection is available while filtering query history and system monitoring metrics.
    • Further UI enhancements for improved performance and readability.

January 2026​

  • N2 machines are now available for deployments on GCP.
  • ARM Storage optimized (gd) instances are now available for deployments on AWS.
  • Warehouses can now be configured to automatically resume when the cluster is resumed.
  • Warehouses can now have custom tags separate from those of clusters.

December 2025​

  • Supports Compute Scheduled Scaling for warehouses.
  • Supports simultaneous disk and compute scaling.
  • Supports modifying the number of disks, allowing addition or removal of multiple disks.
  • Improved Elastic Cluster deployments.
  • Supports banners on Console to broadcast notifications.
  • Includes materialized view refresh metrics in query history.

November 2025​

Supports case-sensitive mode (available only in clusters with database kernel v4.0 or later).

October 2025​

  • Terraform improvements involving variables and scripts.

  • Supports Termination Protection.

  • Supports Apache Ranger Integration.

  • [Private Preview] Supports ArrowFlight.

  • [Private Preview] StarRocks v4.0 is now available.

  • [Private Preview] Group-based deployment.

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September 2025​

August 2025​

July 2025​

  • Deployments on AWS support deploying a cluster with a separate security group for NLB to achieve fine-granular secure control.
  • CCU price is updated to $0.65/CCU from $0.50/CCU.
  • Database names in external catalogs can now have nested namespaces.

June 2025​

May 2025​

  • New clusters support graceful shutdown to reduce the impact on small queries.
  • Supports customizing some configurations with Terraform.
  • Supports deploying Elastic clusters on Azure with Terraform.

April 2025​

  • Supports deploying Elastic clusters on Azure.
  • Provides a tutorial to guide beginners to quickly understand key concepts and workflows within CelerData, which makes it easier than ever to get started and learn essential operations.
  • Modified the aliveness connection timeout from 350 seconds to 8 hours for the MySQL protocol clients.

March 2025​

  • [Private Preview] Supports deploying clusters on GCP.
  • Supports graceful upgrades for newly created clusters. Queries with an execution time of less than 20 seconds can finish without being affected by the upgrade.
  • Supports cluster-level access control on the cloud console.
  • Supports account-level discounts to allow specific accounts to be labeled as test for lower SLA and costs.
  • Optimized the SSO behavior for new users: a new user needs to log in manually with SSO after successfully registering when SSO is enabled.
  • Supports subscribing to CelerData Cloud BYOC on Azure Marketplace.

February 2025​

  • Supports creating a cluster with End-to-End Private Link to secure the traffic, including submitted queries and returned data.
  • Supports deploying Multi-AZ clusters with Terraform.
  • Optimized idle checks for clusters and warehouses to allow more accurate automatic suspension. (These checks are supported in v3.3.8 or later.)

January 2025​

  • Internal IP addresses and CIDR are forbidden in the IP access list, including 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16.
  • Supports creating an elastic cluster with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled.
  • Supports creating a warehouse within a single Availability Zone (AZ) in a multi-AZ cluster.

December 2024​

Improvements​

  • Supports adding and removing tags for CelerData clusters. Tags can be used to manage cloud resources in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Supports access control to query history by adding a role cloud_query_history. Cluster administrators can manually create this role using CREATE ROLE and grant it to other database users using GRANT.

Behavior changes​

  • Members that are not the account creator can no longer log in with username and password when SSO is enabled.

November 2024​

Improvements​

  • Supports deploying an elastic cluster with multiple availability zones, see Multi-AZ Deployment.
  • Supports updating outdated data credentials and deployment credentials to ensure that all the features related to access permissions (policies) are fully functional.
  • Supports Cluster-level Access Control by configuring an IP access list to allow or deny access to the cluster operation page.
  • Supports automated Storage scaling (Storage Autoscaling). If a storage scaling policy is defined, CelerData will monitor the storage usage of nodes and automatically scale up the storage if needed.

Behavior changes​

  • Changed AuditLog timezone to UTC.

October 2024​

September 2024​

August 2024​

  • Supports creating new elastic clusters on instances with EBS cache storage to address insufficient resource issues of instance types with local disks.
  • Supports scaling up and down the Compute Nodes of a warehouse in an elastic cluster.
  • Supports setting a user-defined time window for cluster maintenance and upgrading operations without notifying users for permission.
  • Supports customizing FE and BE static configurations with Terraform.
  • Supports updating LDAP SSL certificates with Terraform.
  • Supports user login to a cluster with LDAP from the console.
  • Supports querying CCU usage of a cluster.

July 2024​

  • Supports creating new clusters on Graviton EC2 instances in AWS. In standardized benchmark tests with data sizes of 100GB and 1TB, Graviton instances demonstrate a performance improvement of 20% to 30% over x86 instances. Since Graviton instances cost 20% less, clusters on Graviton instances can achieve an overall cost reduction of 30% to 40%.
  • Supports a new Azure region, Central US (Des Moines, Iowa). See Supported cloud platforms and regions.
  • Supports configuring Ranger plugin in Terraform.
  • Supports modifying the IOPS and bandwidth settings for EBS volumes.
  • Supports rolling upgrade of AMI.

June 2024​

  • Supports configuring the static parameters of the BE nodes in a classic cluster or Compute Nodes in an elastic cluster.
  • Supports uploading and managing Apache Ranger configuration files.
  • Supports adjusting disks' IOPS and throughput.
  • Supports Unity Catalog for directly analyzing data in Databricks.

May 2024​

  • Upgraded the framework of elastic cluster deployment on AWS. Supports creating multiple warehouses in an elastic cluster to isolate workload.
  • Added a Cluster Access switch to control whether the CelerData Cloud support team can access your cluster for support purposes.
  • Supports creating service accounts as the identities of authentication in OpenAPI and Terraform. For more information, see Service accounts.
  • Supports deploying a classic CelerData cluster on Azure by using Terraform. For more information, see Deployment on Azure

April 2024​

  • The CelerData Cloud BYOC provider on Terraform supports the idle_suspend_interval argument with which users can enable the Auto Suspend feature.

March 2024​

  • Supports deploying elastic clusters on AWS.
  • Supports resource isolation by using multiple warehouses which are supported only on elastic clusters deployed on AWS.

January 2024​

  • Supports deploying classic clusters on Azure.

November 2023​

  • Supports a new AWS region, Europe (Frankfurt) (region code: eu-central-1). See Supported cloud platforms and regions.
  • Enhanced user awareness of attribute changes in Free Developer Tier clusters.
  • Optimized users' experience with the SQL Editor.
  • Other improvements and optimizations.

October 2023​

  • Supports continuing to use or create a Free Developer Tier cluster after the free trial period ends.
  • Supports using one email address to create multiple accounts. To use this feature, contact us at cloud-support@celerdata.com.
  • Supports running scripts via Terraform.
  • Improved the alert system to reduce redundant warnings pushed to users, and optimized alert messages.
  • Other improvements and optimizations.

August 2023​

  • Supports querying the CCU usage and billing information for clusters by using OpenAPI.
  • Supports viewing and downloading CCU usage and billing information for all billing periods in the billing dashboard of the CelerData Cloud BYOC console.
  • Supports downloading invoices and receipts for all billing periods in the billing dashboard of the CelerData Cloud BYOC console.
  • Brings the Terraform provider for cloud API. Users now can create clusters by using Terraform.
  • Supports creating a Tabular catalog by using the SQL editor of the CelerData Cloud BYOC console.
  • Supports subscribing to CelerData Cloud BYOC on AWS Marketplace.

June 2023​

  • Supports two more AWS regions: Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) and US West (Oregon) (us-west-2). See Supported cloud platforms and regions.
  • Improved the notification system to reduce redundant warnings pushed to users.
  • Optimize users' experience with the SQL Editor.
  • Other improvements and optimizations.

May 2023​

  • Added a notification center where you can view four types of notifications:
    • Warning: cluster exceptions, security violations, and overdue payments
    • Error: system faults and operation failures
    • Info: default messages such as new releases, logins and logouts, role and privilege changes, training courses, and feedback to issues of your concern, as well as other custom messages
    • Success: operations that are successfully completed
  • Supports SSO login. For more information, see Use SAML SSO.
  • Supports scheduled suspend and auto suspend on idle. For more information, see Suspend and resume a CelerData cluster.
  • Supports audit logs. For more information, see View audit logs.
  • Added an alarm system. For more information, see Alarm.
  • Supports displaying cluster history, including operations performed to create, suspend, resume, and scale clusters.
  • Offers guidance on the CelerData Cloud BYOC UI to help you choose your suitable instance type and node count according to your specific use case.
  • Offers a free developer tier. For more information, see Use Free Developer Tier.
  • Offers a free trial for learning and POC. For more information, see Use Free Trial.
  • Supports scaling FEs.
  • Supports displaying the reasons for query failures.
  • Added new features in the SQL Editor:
    • Displaying materialized views
    • Providing sample data to help you with a quick start
    • Providing a guided method to load data from cloud storage
  • Supports full backups for clusters.
  • Updated Terms of Service, Privacy Statement, and Cookie Policy.
  • Other improvements and optimizations.

January 2023​

  • Supports creating and managing Hive, Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake catalogs in CelerData.
  • Supports selecting an existing VPC and subnet when you choose Quick deployment.
  • Supports suspending and resuming a cluster. You are not charged for your suspended clusters. Charges are resumed after you resume the clusters.
  • Optimized the CelerData Cloud BYOC UI to power optimal Bring Your Own Cloud experience, and allowed enabling the query history and query profile features by default.

December 2022​

  • Optimized the SQL Editor to support selecting catalogs.
  • Improved the experience of changing cluster configurations.
  • Supports load balancer and SSL connection for CelerData clusters.
  • Supports resetting passwords and displaying the public IP endpoints and private endpoints of VPCs, and reusing the names of clusters whose deployments failed.

November 2022​

  • Added role-based access control (RBAC) to the CelerData platform.
  • Provided audit logs to track operations on the CelerData platform.
  • Supports deploying clusters in public subnets.
  • Supports deploying clusters by using AWS CloudFormation, which is fast and easy to use.
  • Provided instance profiles and empowered LakeHouse, Broker Load, and backup and restore to implement RBAC on different data sources.

September 2022​

  • Supports reusing deployment credentials, data credentials, and network configurations.
  • Supports releasing clusters if you do not need them.
  • Supports reviewing cluster cost details before deployment.
  • Supports creating, scaling in/out, and scaling up/down a cluster.
  • Supports managing multiple users within a single cluster.
  • Provided an overview, monitoring information, and query profiles of each cluster and supports the SQL Editor feature.
  • Provided usage and billing details on the CelerData Cloud BYOC UI.