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Platform Release Notes

This article describes the release notes for the management and control platform of VeloDB Cloud.


July 2026​

New Features

  • Added support for custom infrastructure resource tags in the BYOC model, helping organizations classify resources and manage operations by their own tagging standards.
  • Enhanced metrics monitoring and alerting for PostgreSQL/MySQL import tasks, helping users identify import exceptions in time.
  • Added snapshot-based backup and restore capabilities, available by allowlist.

Improvements

  • Refactored and optimized SQL Editor to improve the editing and user experience.

Billing

  • Added data transfer billing, with charges starting in September 2026.
  • Added support for sending monthly bills on a regular schedule.

Security

  • Added controls for log collection and the AI assistant, allowing users to enable related diagnostic and assistant capabilities as needed.
  • Added support for AWS EBS encryption keys in the BYOC model.

June 2026​

New Features

  • Added onboarding flows for real-time analytics and observability scenarios, helping new users get started with workload-specific guidance.
  • Added support for auto scaling, allowing clusters to scale automatically based on workload demand.
  • Added support for multi-AZ deployment in the BYOC model on AWS and GCP to improve availability.
  • Added support for SAML SSO integrations, including Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, and Cisco Duo.

Improvements

  • Enhanced metrics monitoring for tasks such as Async MV, Routine Load, and Warmup Jobs.
  • Launched a redesigned console UX for a more modern and consistent user experience.

New Regions

  • The BYOC model was launched in the GCP Hong Kong (asia-east2) and Las Vegas (us-west4) regions.

May 2026​

New Features

  • Alert notifications now support Webhook and PagerDuty, enabling teams to route warehouse alerts to their existing on-call and incident tools.
  • Added an AI assistant, providing slow query analysis and interactive Q&A for faster diagnosis.
  • Added the Management API, allowing organizations to manage VeloDB Cloud resources programmatically.
  • Added a Terraform provider for VeloDB, allowing users to manage warehouses and clusters as code.

Improvements

  • Optimized the first-time warehouse creation flow for a smoother onboarding experience.
  • Adjusted the free trial policy to a 30-day trial with US$300 in credits.

April 2026​

New Features

  • The SaaS model now offers a Premium plan, providing enhanced service tiers for organizations with higher security and support requirements.
  • Added visual management of Management API Keys, allowing organization administrators to create, view, enable/disable, and delete API keys directly from the console.
  • Alert notifications now support Slack, enabling teams to receive warehouse alerts directly in their Slack channels.

Improvements

  • Optimized the console navigation menu structure and overall UI layout for clearer organization and a more consistent user experience.

New Regions

  • The BYOC model was launched in the Central India region of Azure.
  • The BYOC model was launched in the Mumbai region of AWS.

March 2026​

New Features

  • Support one-click data import from MySQL and PostgreSQL, significantly simplifying the data migration process.
  • Added support for Frontend Group expansion, allowing warehouses with high shard counts or high query concurrency to scale up the FE resource specification beyond the free baseline. Each warehouse includes a free Small (4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM) FE group by default; paid expansion to Medium, Large, or XLarge is available on demand.

Improvements

  • Intelligent time zone adaptation automatically switches the time display based on the user's location.

New Regions

  • The SaaS model was launched in the England region of AWS.

February 2026​

New Features

  • Added a tutorial to help users get started with easy-to-follow product guidance.

New Regions

  • The BYOC model was launched in the Tokyo region of AWS.

January 2026​

New Features

  • Added support for seamless, one-time full migration of data from Apache Doris and StarRocks into the VeloDB data warehouse.

New Regions

  • The BYOC model was launched in the Frankfurt region of GCP.

Earlier releases​

For platform updates released before 2026, see Platform Release Notes (Archive).