Releasesby GlyphOpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027
OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027 . Customer-hosted instances must upgrade to OpenJDK 21 .
Also shipped Sep 2, 2026Google Cloud in September 2026 →
Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)
The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Core) flow is now generally available. The flow ingests Jira Cloud issues, projects, users, and related data into dedicated Snowflake tables with explicit schemas. It supports optional deletion tracking and parallel ingestion across projects. The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Agile) flow remains in Public Preview .
Git Folder Serverless is in Beta
You can now use Git Folder Serverless to share serverless compute and a pyproject.toml -managed environment across notebooks and files in a Git folder. See Git Folder Serverless .
[In development] Private Preview: Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL
We’re happy to announce the public preview of reader endpoint support to simplify connection management when using multiple replicas in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. A reader endpoint enables automatic load balancing of read-only connection
Fabric Data Agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio (Generally Available)
Organizations can now bring governed business data from Microsoft Fabric into Copilot Studio agents, enabling agents to answer questions, generate insights, and support business processes using trusted enterprise data. Fabric data agents make it easier to ground experiences in the data your organization already relies on.
General availability: Full-text search and the Documents API
Full-text search is now generally available on API version 2026-07, built on the new Documents API. Create schema-based document indexes that combine full-text (BM25), dense-vector, and sparse-vector ranking fields in a single index. Query them with BM25 token matching, Lucene query syntax, or vector similarity, narrowed by metadata and text-match filters.
Enterprise-managed settings support any default model
You can now set your preferred GitHub Copilot model as the default for new conversations through enterprise-managed settings. This lets you choose the default model that best fits your workflows. You can also customize the default by enterprise team, assigning a different default model based on team membership.
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Looker 26.16
will roll out to Looker (original) instances on the following schedule: Expected deployment start: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Expected final deployment and download available: Sunday, September 20, 2026 Looker 26.16 is expected to include the following changes, features, and fixes.
The Semantic Search feature is now generally available
The Semantic Search feature is now generally available. Looker (original) only changes
Looker EU localized processing extends to all Conversational Analytics agents
Localized data processing for EU-based customers now covers all Conversational Analytics data agents, including those tied to Explores, user-defined dashboards and LookML dashboards.
Looker Mobile (Legacy) app is discontinued
The legacy app is no longer downloadable and support has ended, though installed copies still work; the deprecation was postponed to January 31, 2027. Google recommends the non-legacy Looker mobile app.
Looker 26.14 features auto-enable on Looker (original), August 24 to 26, 2026
A set of features will be automatically enabled for Looker (original) instances running Looker 26.14 between August 24 and August 26, 2026.
Looker CI can be triggered from GitLab CI, Bitbucket and GitHub Actions
Looker Continuous Integration can now run from GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows through the Looker API and the looker-sdk Python SDK, with sample scripts in the docs.