What's New in this Release

Release Date for the Commercial Environment: April 12, 2026

Release Date for the U.S Government Environment: April 19, 2026

General Updates
- Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS now supports protecting Azure Cosmos DB and Azure PostgreSQL:
  - Protect Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL) data with automated backups and flexible restore options. Go beyond native limits with long term retention and granular recovery for databases or containers, managed alongside your other IaaS and PaaS workloads.
  - Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS now supports protecting Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server data with automated backups and long-term retention beyond native limits. You can restore individual databases or tables without full server recovery, helping meet compliance requirements and reduce operational risk.
- The 21 Vianet environment for Azure Storage and SQL Server is now supported.
What's New in Google Cloud Storage
- The dynamic rules method can now be used to define backup scopes for the Google Cloud Storage service in SaaS infrastructure mode.
- Out-of-place restore for Google Cloud Storage is now supported in both SaaS infrastructure and CAP Gateway mode.
- You can now export Google Cloud Storage backup data.
What's New in SQL Server
- Out-of-place restore for SQL Server is now supported in CAP Gateway mode.

Updates to the User Guide

The following sections are updated with the improvements in this release:

For additional technical information on the new functionality and known issues in this release, see Release Notes.

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