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Tinybird is retiring Classic on a clock while stacking capability into Forward

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◆Current state
Releases arrive weekly and the through-line is the migration from Classic to Forward. Classic is now scheduled for sunset on Free and Developer plans by September 15, following the BI Connector's end of life and the earlier migrate-to-forward CLI command. Forward is where capability accumulates: DynamoDB connectivity, PREWHERE, lightweight deletes in beta, arm64-native local runs and a ClickHouse bump from 25.3 to 25.8.
◆Where it's heading
Two things are happening in parallel, retiring the old platform on a published schedule while making the new one worth the move. Ingestion is the current focus and it is moving quickly, with v1 going from experimental in the CLI to the default for local files inside two weeks, and integer preservation and quarantine persistence fixed around it. The updated agent skills mentioned alongside the CLI work suggest the tooling is being shaped for agents as well as people.
◆Prediction
September 15 is the next fixed milestone, and paid tiers are the obvious follow-on though these entries stop short of committing to a date for them. Expect v1 ingestion to keep widening from local files into the remaining paths now that it is the default for one of them.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Persistent quarantine data and workspace usage trends

    Quarantined data now survives across compatible deployments, closing a gap where redeploying discarded the record of what failed to ingest. Seven-day workspace usage trends arrive alongside a batch of ingestion, deployment and UI fixes, continuing the reliability work that has accompanied the Forward push.

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  2. 8d ago

    v1 local file ingestion is now the default

    v1 ingestion becomes the default for local files just one week after appearing as experimental in the CLI, which is an unusually fast promotion and a signal of how central ingestion is right now. Conditional TTLs, live data-movement progress during deployments and a unified backfill job type land with it.

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  3. 15d ago

    JSON ingestion preserves integer values

    JSON ingestion stops mangling integer values, a correctness fix that matters more than its one-line description suggests for anyone whose numbers silently changed type. The release also raises Classic to three mutations per alter and extends real-time Pipe statistics to three months.

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  4. 22d ago

    Tinybird Classic sunset for Free and Developer plans

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    This is the entry that converts the Forward migration from a direction into a deadline, at least for the smallest tiers. It sits in a clear sequence with the BI Connector end of life and the migrate-to-forward CLI, and it explains why so much recent work targets Forward exclusively.

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  5. 29d ago

    Improved branch-based local development

    Branch-based local development improves and sink jobs are placed according to load. Both are workflow gains for teams already on Forward rather than new surface area.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Lightweight deletes, Tinybird Local runs natively in arm64, and more

    Lightweight deletes enter beta and Tinybird Local gains native arm64 execution, with ClickHouse moving from 25.3 to 25.8 underneath. The arm64 work removes an emulation penalty for local development on current hardware, which fits the wider investment in the local and branch workflow.

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