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Neon now has realtime, built by the team behind Electric. Turn any SQL query into a live query, joins and aggregates included. All inside Postgres, and ready for agents.
It’s in public beta and available in all Neon plans. Give it a try and tell us what you think!
Postgres 19 is late. @robertmhaas, one of the Postgres committers on our team, explains why: LLMs are finding bugs faster than they can be fixed, including in older releases, and that extra work eats into v19 review time
neon.com/blog/postgres-19-is…
The Databricks Lakebase team is at PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2026 in Valencia from 20–23 October. Check out our speakers’ session schedules, and stop by booth 7 to meet the team! 🐘
This and more, like every week, in our Friday changelog: neon.com/docs/changelog
New in Neon this week:
- Neon Realtime is in public beta: turn any SQL query into a live query, right inside Postgres
- 11 new models for AI Gateway, including Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and more
- Managed Better Auth now runs Better Auth 1.7
Neon retweeted
Congrats again to all the winners! Build Personal Agents Hack was a blast!
250 hackers · $280k in prizes · dying Wi-Fi · dozens of submissions · 3 winning teams · 2 side quests
Thanks everyone for joining and inspiring us with your amazing agent projects!
Build Personal Agents Hack · Sun, Oct 4 · San Francisco
Total prize pool: $279,500
+ $1,625 in credits for every hacker
RSVP: luma.com/build-agents
Connect Neon from the Stripe Dashboard and pick your tables. Stripe keeps them in sync. Then go build billing features with plain SQL - feature gates, billing pages, upgrade prompts.
Real-time sync to Postgres is in public preview and free to get started: neon.com/blog/stripe-data-pi…
Neon retweeted
As a longtime @neondatabase user, there is one feature that I have always wanted.
Well...
Big news! Responsive is joining Databricks to accelerate development of Lakebase and Neon. More here 👇
I’m excited to announce that Responsive has been acquired by Databricks to accelerate the development of Lakebase and Neon!
We couldn't be more excited to join the Lakebase team. We've long admired their technical vision, and the more we got to know them, the more impressed we became by their ambition, execution, and momentum. It feels like a natural home for us.
I want to thank Responsive’s customers, investors, and especially the team. More than anything, I’m grateful for the trust you’ve placed in us through the good times and the tough times.
Onward and upward!
Neon object storage!
Built temporary file sharing that spins up a backend per basket with Neon: share-files-with-basket.verc… 🎉
• 1st basket provisions a @neondatabase Neon Object Storage bucket
• Each asset gets it's own link
• Browser uploads straight to a presigned URL
• It's claimable! Claim and keep the files
• Unclaimed projects get swept by a @vercel cron after the hour
• Deployed on @vercel
Just Neon doing backend things, one basket at a time 🏀
Lakebase Search brings BM25 to Postgres, but BM25 can only score the terms it knows. Teach Postgres your app's vocabulary (k8s = kubernetes) and search gets better.
Use our new lakebase_tokenizer extension to add custom dictionaries in plain SQL: neon.com/blog/bm25-is-only-a…
Neon backend 🫶 @tan_stack
We built Atlas: a photo library you can search by text, image, or face
The stack:
- Lakebase Postgres for metadata, captions, and embeddings
- Object Storage for the photos
- Managed Better Auth for sign-in
- Lakebase Search to rank embeddings inside Postgres
- TanStack Start for the app and server functions
Every part of Atlas lives on one Neon branch - the photo rows, the images, the users, the search index. Branch it and you get a preview reflecting prod perfectly
Get all the details of we built it + code: neon.com/blog/building-a-pri…
Neon is now available in @bot ⚡️
The Neon plugin gives Grok access to Neon skills + MCP for Lakebase Postgres, Object Storage, Functions, Managed Better Auth, and AI Gateway.
Build your backend directly from Grok Bot.
Install: x.ai/bot/plugin/669
Neon AI Gateway now serves embedding models. Generate vectors, store them in Postgres, search them with Lakebase Search - all on one branch: neon.com/blog/generate-embed…












