Homepage

Cloudera on Cloud: January 2026 Release Summary

The Release Summary of Cloudera on cloud summarizes major features introduced in Management Console, Data Hub, and data services.

Cloudera AI

Cloudera AI Studios

Agent Studio 2.1.1 is a hotfix release that does not include new features, but a list of fixes. For more information, see the Cloudera AI Studios Release Notes.

ML Runtimes

ML Runtime 2026.01.1 introduces the following changes:

New Features/Improvements

  • CVE fixes: This major release includes numerous improvements related to Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE).
  • This release includes the latest Agent Studio Runtime within the ML Runtimes bundle. Future Agent Studio Runtimes will be published separately from ML Runtimes.
  • The Freshline ML Runtime base image has been upgraded from Ubuntu 25.04 to Ubuntu 25.10.
  • Existing Python maintenance versions have been upgraded to:
    • Python 3.10.19 (from 3.10.17)
    • Python 3.11.14 (from 3.11.12)
    • Python 3.12.12 (from 3.12.10)
    • Python 3.13.9 (from 3.13.3)
  • Existing R maintenance version has been upgraded from 4.5.0 to 4.5.2 for both Standard and Freshline.
  • Cloudera Copilot has been updated to use JupyterAI version 2.31.6.
  • The tzdata OS package is now installed by default on Runtimes. This enables support for localized time calculations within user sessions.

For more information about the Known issues, Fixed issues and Behavioral changes, see the ML Runtime Release Notes.

Cloudera Management Console

This release of the Cloudera Management Console service introduces the following changes:

Refreshing DNS entries manually
You can refresh the DNS entries for Data Lake and Cloudera Data Hub clusters manually to avoid errors when accessing the Cloudera services externally. For more information, see the Manually refreshing DNS entries documentation.

Compute Cluster enabled environments - Container Service
The following changes have been introduced for the Compute Cluster enabled environments:

  • Renaming to Container Service: Compute Cluster enabled environments have been renamed to Container Service. There is no change to the functionality of Compute Clusters, but Compute Clusters can be directly accessed from the left navigation pane in Cloudera Management Console using the Container Service.
  • Upgrading the Kubernetes versions for Compute Clusters: You can upgrade the Kubernetes versions of existing Compute Clusters when there is a new version available. For more information, see the following documentations:

Cloudera Observability

This release of the Cloudera Observability service introduces the following changes:

Spark resource recommendations
This feature offers prescriptive configuration values for optimizing Spark application resource allocation, thereby improving efficiency with actionable suggestions for optimal Spark settings. For more information, see the Spark resource recommendations documentation.

Hive statement types
Cloudera Observability now supports a list of SQL statement types for workloads that use Apache Hive. For more information, see the Hive statement types documentation.

Financial Governance Budgeting feature
Financial Governance Budgeting allows organizations to control spending by allocating and managing budgets for workload and infrastructure expenses. For more information, see the Financial Governance Budgeting feature documentation