Looker's Continuous Integration is based on the legacy standalone Spectacles service

UpdateAug 17, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Looker's Continuous Integration is based on the legacy standalone Spectacles service. Looker will continue to integrate and evolve the Spectacles features into Looker's Continuous Integration, and the legacy standalone Spectacles service itself will be discontinued starting November 30, 2026. Existing Spectacles customers will receive an email with details.

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Date	Release	Type
Aug 18	Looker 26.14 begins rolling out to Rapid and No Channel release channels Update	Update
Aug 28	Looker 26.14 features auto-enable on Looker (original), August 24 to 26, 2026 Update	Update
Aug 28	The Advanced Unused Content Cleanup feature is now generally available GA	GA
Aug 28	Looker CI can be triggered from GitLab CI, Bitbucket and GitHub Actions Update	Update
Aug 28	Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview Preview	Preview
Aug 28	Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available GA	GA
Aug 28	Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects Preview	Preview
Aug 28	You can now configure Continuous Integration to automatically run CI suites when a dbt Cloud CI job finishes Update	Update

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Aug 17	Snowflake	AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview) Snowflake Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Preview
Aug 17	Snowflake	New SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view in Account Usage and Organization Usage (General availability) Snowflake SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Aug 17	Databricks	Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column Databricks Unity CatalogDeprecation	Unity Catalog	Deprecation
Aug 17	Databricks	Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column Databricks Unity CatalogDeprecation	Unity Catalog	Deprecation
Aug 17	Databricks	Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta Databricks LakeflowBeta	Lakeflow	Beta
Aug 17	Databricks	Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta) Databricks Unity CatalogBeta	Unity Catalog	Beta