
5/18/2026 · Confluent Staff
What this post added
The Real-Time Context Engine is now generally available with enhanced querying capabilities including filters, ranges, compound queries, projections, and ordering, allowing agents to access rich context without external databases. Streaming Agents and the Agent Management Console are also GA, offering production-ready, event-driven agents with enterprise-grade operations and a centralized UI for creation and management. New ML functions include Multivariate Anomaly Detection (Open Preview), PII Detection (Early Access), and Sentiment Analysis (Early Access). Support for TimesFM (EA) for time-series forecasting and native support for Anthropic and Fireworks AI models have been added.