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The Looker 26.18 features have begun to be enabled for Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.

Looker (Google Cloud core) now supports Workforce Identity Federation in preview for instances that use Looker 26.18 and later.

Workforce Identity Federation allows users to authenticate by using external identity providers without the need to manage individual Google Accounts.

Amazon Quick now supports brand templates for on-brand presentations and documents

Starting today, you can upload brand templates in Amazon Quick, allowing you to create presentations and documents that match your approved visual identity. Brand managers set up a template once and everyone gets on-brand output, without hunting for the right file in each chat.

The Modern visualization theme now supports map charts (static map points and regions), word cloud charts, and donut multiples.

While support for donut multiples was previously documented, it is now officially available with this release. These additions expand the range of visualization options that are available with the modern theme.

Now available in preview, Conversational Analytics agentic workflows support scheduled agentic workflows in addition to triggered agentic workflows.

You can use scheduled agentic workflows to schedule recurring deliveries of AI-generated insights summaries, data tables, visualizations, and PDF reports to email or Slack by using natural language.

Now available in preview, Looker Data Apps are freeform canvas dashboards that are built by local AI coding agents, such as Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or Cursor,…

Now available in preview, Looker Data Apps are freeform canvas dashboards that are built by local AI coding agents, such as Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or Cursor, from natural-language prompts.

Looker Continuous Integration (CI) now includes the Style Validator, which enforces LookML coding standards, naming conventions, and structural best practices…

Looker Continuous Integration (CI) now includes the Style Validator, which enforces LookML coding standards, naming conventions, and structural best practices across your LookML project.

In Conversational Analytics, the default question mode is now Fast rather than Thinking.

Fast mode is intended for answering quickly, and it directly maps your query to underlying LookML definitions without generating reasoning steps.

The AI-Assisted Quick Starts feature, called Starter questions in the new Explore experience, is now generally available.

Looker now includes built-in support for the Dremio 26.0+ (Arrow Flight SQL) dialect.

The Dremio 26.0+ (Arrow Flight SQL) uses the bundled Apache Arrow Flight SQL JDBC driver, so that you don't have to install unpackaged custom JDBC driver JAR files. See the Dremio documentation page for more information.

Beginning October 5, 2026, the following features will be automatically enabled for Looker (original) instances running Looker 26.18.

Feature enablement for Looker (Google Cloud core) will be announced separately.

Looker now supports connections to the ClickHouse 26+ dialect.

ClickHouse 26+ uses modernized JDBC drivers and introduces support for symmetric aggregates. See the ClickHouse documentation page for more information.

The new Diagnose & Repair tool evaluates your LookML project repository across eight diagnostic test checks in either your personal development environment or…

The new Diagnose & Repair tool evaluates your LookML project repository across eight diagnostic test checks in either your personal development environment or the shared production environment.

The Modern User Interface preview feature toggle now defaults to ON.

You can now apply themes to Looks in addition to internal dashboards.

When you set up a connection, self-service modeling will now be available only if a role that grants create_self_service_from_table also selects it through…

When you set up a connection, self-service modeling will now be available only if a role that grants create_self_service_from_table also selects it through that role's model set.

An issue has been fixed where previews for Looker charts in Slack integrations could fail to be displayed.

This feature now performs as expected.

An issue has been fixed where table cell visualizations that included both positive and negative values could display unwanted scrollbars and hide value labels.

This feature now performs as expected.

Custom TopoJSON URL validation is updated to improve security.

This change is isolated to Google Maps rendering in preview. Existing dashboards and Looks with the Google Maps Enhancements preview feature enabled that use custom TopoJSON files may be impacted.

Looker 26.20 will roll out to Looker (original) and Looker (Google Cloud core) instances on the following schedule:

Expected deployment start: Monday, October 12, 2026