Releasesby GlyphThe deprecation of the Looker Mobile (Legacy) application has been postponed to January 31, 2027
The deprecation of the Looker Mobile (Legacy) application has been postponed to January 31, 2027. Starting on January 31, 2027, support for the Looker Mobile (Legacy) app will be discontinued and the app will be unavailable for download from the App Store or Play Store.
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Configurable retention for system tables is in Beta
Account admins can now set an account-wide retention period from 30 to 3,650 days for supported system tables. See Configure system table data retention .
External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta)
External secrets connect a Unity Catalog schema to AWS Secrets Manager. The secrets appear in Unity Catalog as read-only securable objects that you govern with Unity Catalog privileges. Databricks reads their values from AWS Secrets Manager on demand. See External secrets in Unity Catalog .
Celigo connector (Beta)
The Celigo connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit log events, such as create, update, and delete operations on resources, from Celigo (integrator.io) into Databricks. Authentication uses a Celigo integrator.io API token.
Anysphere Organization connector (Beta)
The Anysphere Organization connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the Anysphere (Cursor) Organization Admin API to ingest organization members, groups, and group members into Databricks as daily snapshots.
Anaplan connector (Beta)
The Anaplan connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit trail events and user account records from your Anaplan tenant into Databricks. Authentication uses an Anaplan CA certificate and its paired private key. See Anaplan connector .
Openflow gen 1 deployment creation retired
You can no longer create new first generation (gen 1) Openflow deployments (BYOC or Snowflake). All new deployments are second generation (gen 2), created with CREATE OPENFLOW DEPLOYMENT or the Openflow UI. Existing gen 1 deployments continue to work unchanged, and you can still create new gen 1 runtimes on an existing gen 1 deployment.
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Looker extension for VS Code is generally available with MCP support
The extension enables local LookML development and AI-assisted coding via MCP, and adds an onboarding walkthrough, workspaces from bare repositories, better Git and Development Mode sync, OAuth for the Kiro IDE and more secure secret storage.
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
OpenJDK 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 .
Looker 26.18
will roll out to Looker (original) instances on the following schedule: Expected deployment start: Monday, September 21, 2026 Expected final deployment and download available: Sunday, October 4, 2026 Looker 26.18 is expected to include the following changes, features, and fixes.
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.