ClickHouse release 26.8

UpdateSep 10, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

ClickHouse 26.8 LTS introduces background queries, pipelined SQL, new text tokenizers, expanded data lake integrations, and faster Parquet, aggregation, and join queries.

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