Looker instances created after August 1, 2026 lose free Data Studio Pro

PricingAug 5, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Complimentary Data Studio Pro licenses are not available for Looker (Google Cloud core) instances created after August 1, 2026.

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LookerAug 5, 2026

Looker 26.12 features auto-enable on Google Cloud core, August 3 to 5, 2026

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LookerAug 5, 2026

Looker Continuous Integration (CI) now supports email alerts

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LookerAug 5, 2026

The custom calendar feature is now generally available

The custom calendar feature is now generally available.

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LookerAug 5, 2026

The Expression Assistant is now generally available

The Expression Assistant is now generally available.

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LookerAug 5, 2026

Localization is now supported for the dimension_group parameter

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LookerAug 5, 2026

Looker LookML Projects page gets a tabbed layout

The LookML Projects page now uses a more performant layout with Models and Projects, Pending Projects and Marketplace Projects tabs.

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LookerAug 5, 2026

Looker admins can require MFA for email and password logins

Admins can configure a Looker instance to require multi-factor authentication for every email and password login. The setting is enabled by default.

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LookerAug 5, 2026

The Table Visualization Improvements feature is now generally available

The Table Visualization Improvements feature is now generally available. You can now use the following features for table visualizations : Pagination Show/Hide Table Headers Table Borders Cell Highlighting Conditional formatting for string fields

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Snowflake Snowflake OpenflowAug 5, 2026

Openflow Connector for SQL Server (CDC) (General availability)

The Openflow Connector for SQL Server (CDC) is now generally available. The connector captures every row-level change from Microsoft SQL Server using Change Data Capture (CDC) and replicates selected tables into Snowflake in near real-time or on a schedule. It supports initial snapshot load, incremental sync, and schema evolution.

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Databricks LakeflowAug 5, 2026

REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta)

REPLACE USING flows are now available in Lakeflow pipelines in Beta . Use a REPLACE USING flow when your source is a series of partial snapshots keyed by column. On each update, the flow replaces all rows that match the specified key columns and leaves all other rows unchanged.

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AWS Amazon Aurora and DynamoDBAug 5, 2026

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of vector search in Amazon DynamoDB . You can now store vector embeddings alongside your operational data in DynamoDB and run similarity searches directly against that data, without replicating it to a separate vector store.

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Microsoft Azure databases and analyticsAug 5, 2026

[Launched] Generally Available: SharePoint Connector for Azure Databricks

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Microsoft Azure databases and analyticsAug 5, 2026

[Launched] Generally Available: Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks

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Anthropic Claude PlatformAug 5, 2026

Inference hooks

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