Boomi Product Updates 2026: Every Major Feature in One Place

For most of the last decade, a Boomi release meant a predictable set of things: a few new connectors, some runtime hardening, incremental API Management features, and quality-of-life fixes for the people building integrations day to day. Useful, but rarely the kind of update that changed how teams thought about the platform.

2026 was different. Over four releases, Boomi assembled the pieces of an agentic AI platform in the open, one layer at a time. March laid the groundwork with configurable reasoning models in Agent Designer and Global Variables reaching general availability. May brought Boomi Connect and a registry of more than a thousand governed tools that AI agents could actually use. July added Knowledge Hub for trusted context and opened Agent Garden to full API control. By September, Boomi Orchestrate was generally available, turning a described business outcome into a generated, editable integration solution.

The reason this matters is practical. Enterprises are no longer asking whether to use AI agents; they are asking how to run them without losing control of access, cost, and data. An agent is only as safe as the tools it can call and only as accurate as the context it can retrieve, and both of those are integration problems before they are AI problems. Boomi spent 2026 making that argument in product form, which is why the year reads as one story rather than four changelogs. What follows is that story, grouped by capability, with the official release posts linked so you can go deeper on any item.

Key Takeaways: Boomi’s 2026 Updates

• Boomi Orchestrate became generally available on September 12, 2026, generating complete solution graphs from business intent using Marketplace recipes and bundles.
• Boomi Connect launched in May 2026 with managed MCP connectors for governed AI-agent and employee access to enterprise apps, then added 13 connectors and an MCP proxy family in September.
• Boomi Knowledge Hub entered Early Access (July) as a managed RAG service that grounds AI agents in trusted enterprise data.
• Agentstudio matured significantly: Agent Designer gained Standard and Fast model tiers plus Extended Thinking, Agent Garden exposed full REST APIs for agents-as-code, and Agent Control Tower added anomaly detection and native cataloging of Anthropic Claude agents.
• The NetSuite REST connector reached general availability (July), and Microsoft SharePoint went GA in September.
• Cloud API Management Local Edition 6.3 reached general availability with Docker Swarm support and a circuit-breaker policy.
• Connector housekeeping was significant, with the AtomSphere API renamed to Boomi Platform API, several connectors losing the “V2” suffix, and retirements including Amazon S3 and the 2022 AWS Lambda version.

Boomi in 2026: The Four Releases at a Glance

This guide draws on the four official 2026 platform releases. Each links to Boomi’s own detailed release post.

Agentic AI in Boomi Agentstudio

Agentstudio is where Boomi designs, deploys, and governs its AI agents, and it saw the most sustained investment of any area in 2026.

Agent Designer

Agent Designer became more controllable. March introduced a Model Configuration section with two tiers: a Standard model for multi-step reasoning and a Fast model for low-latency tasks like extraction and summarization, so teams can match model cost to task complexity. An optional Extended Thinking toggle adds step-by-step reasoning for complex logic, and by July that reasoning could be streamed live in the chat interface during both testing and production. Agents also gained session memory, retaining data from earlier tool responses even after it leaves the active context window, and the ability to accept file inputs at runtime

Agent Garden

Agent Garden turned agents into code. July delivered REST APIs to create, configure, package, deploy, and run agents programmatically. Because agent configurations are JSON, they can be versioned in Git and promoted through CI/CD like any other artifact, with September adding export and import endpoints for migration.

Agent Control Tower

It is the governance layer. Through the year, it gained separate monitoring tiles for agent and model invocations, anomaly detection covering Amazon Bedrock and custom-provider agents, and per-source usage metrics for knowledge bases and glossaries. Notably, September added native cataloging of Anthropic Claude Managed Agents directly in Control Tower, letting administrators access any user’s session logs for oversight.

Where agents run became far more flexible. May added Agent Runtime Clouds in the UK, ANZ, and Japan with locally hosted LLMs behind the firewall, and a Bring Your Own Model capability (Early Access) later let teams run Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini models on self-hosted runtimes.

Boomi Orchestrate: From Business Intent to Generated Solutions

If one launch defined the year, it was Boomi Orchestrate reaching general availability on September 12, 2026. Orchestrate takes a described business outcome and generates a working solution, not a blank canvas.

It does this by consuming Marketplace bundles and recipes, matching intent to the right recipes, and producing a ranked set of solution-graph previews. Installed recipes receive account-scoped IDs, and the solution graph stays in real-time sync between its services and assets. Once generated, a solution is not locked: users can add, delete, and connect nodes directly on the canvas, and those changes feed back to the underlying model. The GA release also introduced a layer-based Solution View as the default landing page after generation, with an Asset View available for a component-level look. Asset build is backed by Companion Skills for Integration, Data Hub, and Agentstudio, which lets Orchestrate assemble across those domains rather than only within integration.

Boomi Companion: Natural-Language Platform Work from Your IDE

Boomi Companion is an open-source suite of Agent Skills that lets developers work on the Boomi platform in natural language, from their IDE or a connected LLM. It is agent-agnostic, working with Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and others rather than locking teams into one assistant.

The skill set grew through the year, from bc-integration and bc-marketplace to bc-datahub, bc-agentstudio, and bc-bdi for Data Integration. The practical effect is that routine platform work, such as querying an environment or managing a deployment, can be driven by a sentence rather than a sequence of clicks, lowering the barrier for developers who live in their editor.

Governed Tool Access: Boomi Connect and the MCP Registry

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the common language for giving AI agents access to tools, and Boomi’s answer is Boomi Connect, which officially launched in May 2026. Connect provides managed MCP connectors so that both employees and AI agents can reach enterprise applications through governed, centrally managed connections rather than ad hoc credentials scattered across projects.

The scale matters here. Through its integration with the MCP Registry in Agentstudio, Connect gives agents access to more than 1,000 governed tools. September expanded the catalog with 13 new connectors, including SQL Server, Databricks, Snowflake, Ping Identity, and Zoom, plus a family of MCP proxy connectors for NetSuite, Gong, and generic basic-auth services.

The MCP Registry, which lives in the API Control Plane, is what makes this governable. Administrators can catalog and manage AI tools the same way they manage APIs: refreshing servers for the latest tools, setting server lifecycle status, controlling which organizations can see each server, and syncing status to the official Anthropic registry. In short, the tools an agent can call are treated as governed API assets, not an open door.

Context for AI: Knowledge Hub and Meta Hub

An agent is only as good as the context it can retrieve, which is the gap Boomi Knowledge Hub fills. Launched in Early Access in July 2026, Knowledge Hub is a managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service that handles the entire pipeline: ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector storage, and retrieval. It pulls from sources including Snowflake, NetSuite, Salesforce, SAP, SharePoint, Confluence, and Amazon S3, and it ships with built-in access controls, policies, and monitoring. Because it integrates natively with Agentstudio, agents can ground their responses in trusted enterprise data without a team having to build and maintain its own RAG infrastructure.

Boomi Meta Hub supplies the governed meaning behind that data. It lets teams build business glossaries, now with AI Suggest and an expert-review workflow so definitions carry visible endorsement, and those endorsed definitions can feed Agentstudio agents directly. Meta Hub also introduced Universal Lineage (Early Access), shown in the product as Data Lineage, which maps end-to-end data flows for impact analysis. Glossaries can be linked to both Data Hub models and AI agents, tying business terminology to the systems that use it.

Integration, Runtime and Observability

The core integration experience was not left behind. Global Variables reached general availability in March, giving teams account-wide management of overrides such as connection strings and encrypted passwords, with a “Where Deployed” view to find every package that references a variable and a change-history log.

On the runtime side, observability was the theme. Boomi expanded OpenTelemetry support with infrastructure metrics (CPU, memory, file descriptor counts) and distributed tracing that accepts inbound trace headers from upstream systems, including Boomi’s own API Gateway. July introduced dedicated listener worker JVMs for running event listeners in isolation without a redeploy. One operational change to note: in September the OpenTelemetry service name changed from runtime ID to runtime name, so saved searches, alerts, and dashboards may need a quick update. Sign-ups also opened for Boomi Workspaces, an upcoming multi-workspace model with role-based access control.

Boomi API Management

API Management had a busy year, with progress on discovery, security, and governance.

On discovery and productization, the API Control Plane can now find Cloud API Management APIs without a discovery agent, import API Services from Boomi Integration in one click, and discover APIs from Kong Konnect. API Products can span multiple environment types, and flexible versioning captures every API version so administrators can choose which to publish.

On security, the year added JSON, XML, and Regex threat-protection policies, outbound OAuth 2.0 and outbound mTLS on API Proxies, HMAC inbound authentication, and reusable policy templates. Governance gained bulk actions for tagging, activating, and validating API specs across environments, while the developer experience improved with interactive GraphQL browsing, custom developer-portal hostnames, and a multi-language code-snippet generator. Finally, Cloud API Management Local Edition 6.3 reached general availability, bringing Docker Swarm support, a 5.x-to-6.3 migration path, backend OAuth 2.0, and a circuit-breaker policy.

Connectors, SAP and Data Management

Connectivity is Boomi’s foundation, and 2026 brought both new connectors and meaningful upgrades.

Among enterprise application connectors, the NetSuite REST connector reached general availability in July, adding a SuiteQL query operation (up to 100,000 records) and token-based authentication; September extended SuiteQL to multi-table joins and aggregates. Microsoft SharePoint went GA in September on Microsoft Graph, and Salesforce connectors picked up OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials across REST, Apex, and Platform Events. On the AI and data side, the OpenAI connector reached GA with a Converse API action, Amazon Bedrock added separate regions for authentication and model access, and Google BigQuery gained a Storage Write API operation with DML support.

Boomi for SAP reached v2.1 in July, certified as Clean Core for non-disruptive extensibility. It introduced ABAP Report Services (Phase 1), a Function Module test button for live calls, and authorization event logging in the Monitoring Dashboard.

Data management advanced on both fronts. Boomi Data Integration became API-first, with every data flow and source reachable through the API, and added Companion support, a Troubleshooting Agent for pipeline errors, and new connectors for SharePoint as a source and OneLake as a target. Boomi Data Hub gained real-time outbound delivery (Early Access) and the ability to act as a source for extracting golden records to warehouses with full, incremental, and CDC loads.

B2B/EDI, Event Streams and Managed File Transfer

The business-to-business and data-movement surfaces were modernized across the year. On B2B/EDI, May unified SFTP with a new Trading Partner communication method aligned with the SFTP connector, and September added JMS v2 as a Tech Preview, the first JMS support in the Trading Partner framework. March strengthened AS2 security enforcement, letting teams require encryption and digital signatures on inbound messages.

Event Streams added dynamic topic routing, REST endpoints to poll topics, and dead-letter routing so repeated failures do not block other messages, while Platform Event Notifications now stream runtime and process status to Event Streams topics in real time.

Managed File Transfer received one of the year’s more visible overhauls. A rebuilt MFT connector replaced one-file-at-a-time downloads with batch downloads, streaming for large files, OAuth2 client credentials, and Start Shape replay and reprocess support. Security additions included antivirus scanning in the MFT runtime on Windows via Microsoft Defender and multi-factor authentication for SFTP server endpoints.

Renames, Deprecations and Retirements to Plan For

Some of the most important 2026 changes are the quiet ones because they can break saved searches, dashboards, and deployed packages if you aren’t watching for them. The most significant rename is the Boomi AtomSphere API becoming the Boomi Platform API. Several connectors lost their “V2” suffix (Database, Disk, FTP, JMS, Oracle E-Business Suite, and SAP JCo), and the SAP connector was renamed SAP (Legacy). On the retirement side, Amazon S3 moved from deprecated to retired, the 2022 AWS Lambda version was retired, and NetSuite 2018.x versions became unsupported. The table below summarizes the items to plan for.

How NeosAlpha Helps

Reading a year of release notes is one thing; turning it into working, governed capability inside your own estate is another. As a certified Boomi Gold Partner, NeosAlpha works with Boomi’s platform every day, and that partnership means our team is trained and accredited on the capabilities covered in this guide rather than learning them on your project.

In practice, that spans the full arc of the 2026 platform. For teams moving into agentic AI, we design and govern agents in Agentstudio, wire them to the right tools through Boomi Connect and the MCP Registry, and ground them in trusted data with Knowledge Hub and Meta Hub, so that an agent’s access and context are controlled from day one. For teams focused on the core platform, we modernize integrations onto the latest runtime and observability features, stand up API products and security policies in API Management, and plan the connector renames and retirements so nothing breaks in production. And because our strength is integration first, we treat the AI layer as an extension of a well-run integration practice, not a bolt-on.

Our four practices (Agentic AI, Integration and APIs, Data, and Cloud Native) map closely to how Boomi’s platform is now organized, so a single team can take a Boomi initiative from strategy through build to governed operation. Whether you are evaluating Orchestrate, rolling out governed MCP access, or simply keeping a mature Boomi estate current, we help you adopt the right 2026 capabilities in the right order.