Release Notes

Breaking Changes

PLACEHOLDER

New Features

Add support for flink default compute pool

Bug Fixes

PLACEHOLDER

Checklist

[x] I have successfully built and used a custom CLI binary, without linter issues from this PR.
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[x] I have added appropriate CLI integration or unit tests for any new or updated commands and functionality.
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What

This will allow user to submit statement without an explicitly specified compute pool (CP). Instead, backend will provision a “default” compute pool (DCP) that is created and managed on the user’s behalf.

Blast Radius

Flink statement create and flink compute pool commands could be affected for existing as well as new behaviour.

References

https://confluentinc.atlassian.net/browse/APIE-571

Test & Review

Added extensive integration tests

Manual Testing:

Statement create without compute pool:

Starting flink shell without compute pool:

Without this change:

CLI Flag --default-pool

Default Compute Pool and Default Max CFU:

Oct 07 '25 17:10 tmalikconfluent

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