Hybrid Manager 2026.01.0 release notes Innovation Release
This innovation release includes features and enhancements.
Release Date: January 15, 2025
Release cadence update
HM now follows a dual release strategy: LTS and Innovation Releases. For details on this new model, see Hybrid Manager dual release strategy.
Release highlights
Enhanced load balancer configuration: Introduced new global configuration parameters for load balancers, providing more granular control over networking and traffic management.
Expanded support for Microsoft AKS: The Data Migration Service (DMS) now fully supports Microsoft AKS, allowing you to run migration workloads when Hybrid Manager (HM) is deployed on Azure's managed Kubernetes environment.
Streamlined migration diagnostics: The detailed view of a Postgres database registered in the Estate > Migrations tab now provides clearer diagnostics regarding Replica Identity. The Migrations tab also features a high-performance search for migration statuses to help you track progress across large environments.
Upgraded database observability: The Monitoring tab now features improved data visualizations, including stacked charts for database sizes.
Comprehensive event and recommendations visibility: Added deeper visibility into custom and model cluster events within the global Activity Logs section accesible through the user's menu. We also updated Query Advisor to automatically exclude internal system objects for cleaner, more relevant cluster performance recommendations.
Features and enhancements
Hybrid Manager (HM) platform
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Feature | Hybrid Manager (HM) now exposes its API capabilities through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This integration enables developers and AI agents to consume the Hybrid Manager API for agentic use cases. For example, you can use these capabilities alongside Langflow to streamline database agent configuration. |
| Feature | The HM console now includes Langflow in the Launchpad. You can use this integration to build and test AI-powered agents and workflows directly within the HM platform. |
| Enhancement | Added new global configuration parameters for load balancers. |
| Enhancement | HM cluster APIs now provide more visibility when provisioning fails, enabling self-service diagnostics and quicker time to resolution. |
| Enhancement | Improved the handling of fields in the Settings > Identity Providers management page. |
| Deprecation | The global parameter TRANSPORTER_RW_SERVICE_DOMAIN_NAME is renamed to GLOBAL.DMS_DOMAIN_NAME. Ensure that GLOBAL.DMS_DOMAIN_NAME is explicitly set during the upgrade process. Additionally, ensure all Transporter components are updated to the current version of HM. For details, see Upgrading Hybrid Manager. |
Observability and monitoring
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Enhancement | The HM observability functionality has been upgraded with stacked charts for database sizes, historical chart annotations, and the ability to sync query tables with chart selections. |
| Enhancement | Added API capabilities to annotate host metrics charts. You can now display activity logs as vertical dotted lines within the host historical charts in a cluster’s Monitoring tab. This allows you to correlate specific cluster events with host performance fluctuations at exact points in time. |
| Enhancement | The Grand Unified Configuration (GUC) query_advisor.exclude_schema_list now includes predefined default values. These defaults automatically exclude internal database schemas, ensuring that Query Advisor recommendations (index and stats metrics displayed in the Recommendations tab of a cluster) remain focused on user-defined data and are not cluttered by internal system objects. |
| Enhancement | The HM agent uninstalls on Debian are now cleaner and warning free. |
| Enhancement | Added visibility into additional events (custom events and model cluster events) in the global Activity Log section accesible through the user's menu. |
| Enhancement | Added new critical alerts to monitor pods terminated by Out Of Memory (OOM) events, backups exceeding 12 hours, and disk/WAL usage thresholds. Self-managed PGD clusters now have full feature parity for replication matrices and lag monitoring. |
| Enhancement | HM now provides deeper deployment insights via pod-level status conditions in the cluster APIs. |
Migrations
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Feature | The Data Migration Service (DMS) now fully supports deployments on Microsoft AKS. |
| Enhancement | The assessment available in a migration's detailed view (Estate > Migrations) now provides clearer diagnostics regarding Replica Identity for Postgres sources. |
| Enhancement | Improved the search for migration statuses in the Estate > Migrations tab for faster results. |
| Enhancement | Error logs available for a project's ongoing migration in the Migrate > Migrations section now provide minute-level data for easier troubleshooting, enabling faster issue resolution. |
| Enhancement | Added new DMS agent environment variables that provide finer control over the schemas and tables in a source database that are available for data migrations. |