Releasesby GlyphAs of July 13, 2026, Looker reports have been deprecated
As of July 13, 2026, Looker reports have been deprecated. If you had previously enabled the preview for Looker reports, be aware of the following: You will no longer have the option to create new reports. You will lose the ability to view or edit reports that were created during the preview period.
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CoCo Desktop - General availability
CoCo Desktop is now generally available. CoCo Desktop is a native Mac and Windows desktop application that brings CoCo’s full agentic capabilities into an IDE-like surface, with a file editor, integrated terminal, agentic AI loop, agentic browser, agentic notebook, and deep Snowflake awareness.
Consuming Delta Shares in Horizon Catalog (General availability)
Snowflake builds for interoperability. Horizon Catalog is the metadata hub for your entire data estate, giving every team a single, unified window into every data asset regardless of where it lives or what format it uses. Today we expand that commitment. Consuming Delta Shares as a Catalog Linked Database in Horizon Catalog is now generally available.
Tag-based data protection policies (Public Preview)
Tag-based policy support is now available in public preview for aggregation policies, row access policies, projection policies, and join policies. This feature allows you to assign data protection policies to tags, automatically protecting any objects that have the tag assigned to them.
Warehouse-level statement timeouts (Beta)
You can now set a statement timeout on a single SQL warehouse so that different warehouses can apply different timeouts to their queries. Set the timeout with the statement_timeout field in the Create or Update warehouse APIs. This feature is in Beta and is API-only. See Warehouse-level timeout .
Reddit Ads connector is now available in Beta
The managed Reddit Ads connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. You can use the connector to ingest advertising campaign data and performance metrics from Reddit Ads into Databricks. See Reddit Ads connector .
Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available
Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available. Control who can reach your workspace endpoints using allow and deny rules that allow you to combine identities, network sources, and request types. See Context-based ingress control .
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Looker admins can stop running queries in bulk
Appending ?cleanup=true to the Queries admin page URL terminates all running queries across the instance or for one database connection, without restarting the instance.
Starting in Looker 26.8, Looker supports Java OpenJDK version 21
Starting in Looker 26.8, Looker supports Java OpenJDK version 21. Looker-hosted instances have been upgraded to OpenJDK 21. Customer-hosted instances should upgrade to OpenJDK 21 .
Looker 26.12 begins rolling out to Rapid and No Channel release channels
Looker (Google Cloud core) is deploying Looker 26.12 to the Rapid and No Channel channels and Looker 26.10 to the Regular channel.
Looker 26.12 features auto-enable on Looker (original), July 27 to 30, 2026
A set of features will be automatically enabled for Looker (original) instances running Looker 26.12 between July 27 and July 30, 2026.
Looker adds option to require MFA for password logins
Looker admins can require multi-factor authentication whenever a user logs in with email and password. The feature is enabled by default.
Localization is now supported for the dimension_group parameter
Localization is now supported for the dimension_group parameter. You can localize the timeframes, intervals, or custom timeframes generated by a dimension group by providing translations in your locale strings files. For more details, see Localizing dimension groups . Note: This item was added on August 5, 2026.