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hilaryLooker Staff

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Looker 6.4 Release Notes

Release Rollout Begins: January 13, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: January 24, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Enhanced Rendering no longer in Beta Mixed-type Stacked Charts Improved color selection and color selection options User session configurations Content validator performance improvements Beta embed theme editor Support for Denodo 7 Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below. New Legacy Rendering Legacy Feature Database Driver Upgrades MongoBI users will need to remove the maria15x entry from their custom JDBC YML files in order to complete the update Resolved an issue w

cutlerLooker Staff

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Looker 6.6 Extended Support Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates ESR Staging: March 3, 2019 - March 31, 2019 ESR Production Release: April 1, 2019 - July 1, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Page breaks in PDF downloads Expanded tables on PDF downloads Totals on table calculations Mixed-type stacked charts Trellis charts Improved color palettes and selection options User session configurations Content validator performance improvements Localized LookML Dashboards Added support for OpenJDK Beta embed theme editor Beta System Activity model and dashboards Beta label and description parameter localization Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see Features by Section below. Resolved an

er1kMember

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Looker 7.10 Release Notes

As Looker is not officially posting updates here anymore then I thought to still share it as this is one of the best places for customers to give feedback about new updates. I have listed first the official highlights provided by Looker and then added unofficial highlights by roles, which is something I share usually to our own users. Let me/us know what do you think about those updates? Expected Rollout Start: June 14th, 2020 Expected Final Release and Download Available: June 25th, 2020 Looker Documentation Looker 7 Release Highlights View release highlights for Looker 7.0 and higher. Looker Documentation Looker 7 Changelog View detailed change notes for Looker 7.0 and higher. Highlights provided by Looker: Looker API CORS A new experimental Labs feature that permits browser-based applications to directly call the Looker API without needing a proxy server for the API call

er1kMember

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Looker 7.12 Release Notes

As Looker is not officially posting updates here anymore then I thought to still share it as this is one of the best places for customers to give feedback about new updates. I have listed first the official highlights provided by Looker and then added unofficial highlights by roles, which is something I share usually to our own users. Emoji meanings: 🧪 - This feature is still in the labs/beta phase. 💰 - This feature comes with an extra cost ( E.g. Whitelabel menu page) - This feature only works with Google products ( E.g. Mobility Data Block with BigQuery only) Let us know what do you think about those updates? Expected Rollout Start: July 19th, 2020 Expected Final Release and Download Available: July 30th, 2020 Looker Documentation Looker 7 Release Highlights View release highlights for Looker 7.0 and higher. Looker Documentation Looker 7 Changelog View detailed change notes for L

er1kMember

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Looker 7.8 Release Notes

As Looker is not officially posting updates here anymore then I thought to still share it as this is one of the best places for customers to give feedback about new updates. I have listed first the official highlights provided by Looker and then added unofficial highlights by roles, which is something I share usually to our own users. Let me/us know what do you think about those updates? Expected Rollout Start: May 17th, 2020 Expected Final Release and Download Available: May 28th, 2020 Looker Documentation Looker 7 Release Highlights View release highlights for Looker 7.0 and higher. Looker Documentation Looker 7 Changelog View detailed change notes for Looker 7.0 and higher. Highlights provided by Looker: Aggregate Awareness Looker will detect and run a query against the most efficient aggregate table in your database. Parallel Persistent Derived Table Builds Multiple PDTs can now be b

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 7.4 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: Sunday, March 15th, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: Thursday, March 26th, 2020 All Previous Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Important Notice: Release notes have officially moved to reside within our Looker documentation. This release, Looker 7.4, will be the last release announced via Community. From Looker 7.6 and on all release content will solely be in our documentation. Check out the new content here: Looker 7.4 Release Highlights Looker 7.4 Changelog Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate thread or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation.

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 7.2 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: Sunday, February 9th, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 All Previous Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Important Notice: Release notes have officially moved to reside within our Looker documentation. Looker 7.4 will be the last release announced via Community, in a post similar to this one. From Looker 7.6 and on all release content will solely be in our documentation. Check out the new content here: Looker 7.2 Release Highlights Looker 7.2 Changelog Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate thread or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation.

cutlerLooker Staff

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Looker 6.10 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: April 7, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: April 18, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. New box plot, waterfall, word cloud, and an experimental table visualizations The Content Validator now covers dashboard filters and listeners OAuth support for the Action Hub Localization support for seven new languages Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below. Increased the default password length requirement from 7 to 10 characters Experimental and Beta Features The following new and improved experimental and beta features are marked with a

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 7.0 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: Sunday, January 12th, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 All Previous Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Important Notice: Release notes have officially moved to reside within our Looker documentation. Looker 7.4 will be the last release announced via Community, in a post similar to this one. From Looker 7.6 and on all release content will solely be in our documentation. Check out the new content here: Looker 7.0 Release Highlights Looker 7.0 Changelog Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate thread or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation.

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 6.22 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: Sunday, October 13th, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate conversation or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation. 🇯🇵Release Notes in Japanese🇯🇵 Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. IP whitelisting SQL Runner visualization New SDKs Localization updates Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information, see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below. Download, send and schedule mo

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 6.20 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: September 8, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: September 19, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate conversation or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation. Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Data testing in LookML Single Value visualization improvements Content curation (boards) Labs feature is no longer in Beta Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information, see the Features by Section below. Renamed Spaces to folders Updates to Apache Druid dialect View-level drill fields now a

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 6.18 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: August 11, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: August 22, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate conversation or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation. 🇯🇵Release Notes in Japanese 🇯🇵 Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Help page for internal resources Table-Next now has inline visualizations and global text formatting Alerts support custom titles, subscriptions, and table calculations New embed events Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information se

cutlerLooker Staff

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Looker 6.18 Extended Support Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates ESR Staging: September 4, 2019 ESR Production Release: October 2, 2019 - December 1, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate conversation or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation. Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. IDE Folders available for content organization in a project Help page for internal resources New user email configuration option Session settings now offer an inactivity logout capability Localization of number formatting Improved the rendering of inline visualizations in schedules New embed events Table-Next now has inline visualizations and global text formatting Alerts support custom titles, subscriptions, and table calculations

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 6.16 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: July 7, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: July 19, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate conversation or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation. 🇯🇵Release Notes in Japanese 🇯🇵 Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Session settings now offer an inactivity logout capability Qubole dialect available for selection on a database connection IDE Folders available for content organization in a project Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Le

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 6.14 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: June 9, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: June 24, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Please note that comments on this thread are not formally tracked. For help requests and issue reports please open a separate conversation or reach out via the Looker Help Center to start a specific conversation. 🇯🇵Release Notes in Japanese 🇯🇵 Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. New user email configuration option Localization of number formatting Run Schedule as Recipient is out of Labs Beta Easy to Read Email Images is out of Labs Beta Improved the rendering of inline visualizations in schedules Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your at

mariko.nishimiLooker Staff

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Looker 6.16 リリース

リリース予定スケジュールリリース開始日: July 7, 2019 リリース完了およびダウンロード可能: July 18, 2019 すべてのリリースノートレガシー機能の終了スケジュール 🇯🇵Release Notes in English 🇯🇵 📚 日本語のLookerドキュメントリスト📚 リリースハイライト一般的な改修と機能強化に加えて、このリリースには次のカテゴリの新機能と機能改良が含まれます。詳細については以下を参照ください。セッション設定で非アクティブ時のログアウト機能を提供データベース接続の種類でQuboleが選択可能にプロジェクト内のコンテンツ構成に利用可能なIDEフォルダリリース準備 ⚡ が付いている項目は、既存の機能への変更を示しているので注意が必要です。詳細については、以下の「従来の機能の更新と機能別のセクション」を参照してください。 Snowflake driverのアップグレード (v3.8.4) タイムアウトセッションベータ及び実験的機能以下の ⚗ マークが付与されたベータ及び実験的機能は、新規及び改良されています。 Labs Betaのコンテンツキュレーション Labs Betaのアラート Labs BetaのTable-Nextの追加機能注目機能 IDE フォルダー LookMLプロジェクト内で非常に優れた構成を実現します。この機能はGitにとって意味があるため、変更にはコミット/マージが必要です。さらに、Includeステートメントにはファイルのパスを取得する必要があります。既存プロジェクトではプロジェクト設定からオプトインします。 ⚗ コンテンツキュレーションベータ (ボード) LookerのLabsセクションで利用可能なこのソリューションは、チームまたは戦略のためにダッシュボードとルックを簡単に整理し、マークダウンリンクを使用してガイダンスを提供することを可能にします。このソリューションはフォルダ（スペース）と連携して機能します。フォルダに格納されている根本となるコンテンツを移動することなく、一時的、恒久的な

anakarina.lanceLooker Staff

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Looker 6.12 Extended Support Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates ESR Staging: June 2, 2019 - July 2, 2019 ESR Production Release: July 3, 2019 - October 2, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Import for private LookML repositories New box plot, waterfall, word cloud, and an experimental table visualizations The Content Validator now covers dashboard filters and listeners Localization support for seven new languages OAuth support for the Action Hub Visualization improvements Introduced support for Actian Avalanche and BlinkDB New LookML Constants parameter Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see Features by Section below. Field references to list measures are no longer supported API

cutlerLooker Staff

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Looker 6.12 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: May 12, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: May 23, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Visualization improvements Introduced support for Actian Avalanche and BlinkDB New LookML Constants parameter Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below. Completely removed the “Show Full Field Name” Legacy Feature MSSQL 2005 is no longer an option for new connections Self-managed instances need to install their own Google Cloud Spanner driver Upgraded Snowflake driver (v3.7.2) Refactored the pie visualization Features by Section Dashboards, V

hilaryLooker Staff

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Looker 6.6 Release Notes

Release Rollout Begins: February 9, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: February 21, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Trellis charts Expand tables on PDF Downloads Redesigned User Activation Email Added support for OpenJDK Localized LookML Dashboards Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below. Changed interactive API doc URLs Completely removed the “Native Derived Tables Convert Dates and Yesnos to Strings” Legacy Feature Completely removed the “Legacy Visualizations” Legacy Feature Disabled the “Legacy Rendering” Legacy Feature Notable Features Trellis Charts Trellis charts allow

cutlerLooker Staff

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Looker 6.8 Release Notes

Release Rollout Begins: March 10, 2019 Release Final & Download Available: March 20, 2019 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Dashboards and visualizations in French, German, and Japanese. Import for private LookML repositories Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below. Field references to list measures are no longer supported API 3.1 no longer includes soft-deleted Looks in all_looks() calls. Experimental and Beta Features The following new and improved experimental and beta features are marked with a ⚗: Experimental project import now supports references to private repositories API 3

cutlerLooker Staff

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Looker 6.2 Release Notes

Release Rollout Begins: November 25, 2018 Release Final & Download Available: December 6, 2018 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Page breaks in PDF downloads Improved continuous color palettes Beta System Activity model and dashboards Beta label and description parameter localization Totals on table calculations Notable Features Totals on Table Calculations In one of our most frequently requested features, Looker end-users can now calculate totals on results sets including table calculations. Beta System Activity Model Three pre-built System Activity dashboards are now available in the Admin Panel. Visit User Activity for usage behavior insights, Content Activity for query behavior insights, and Performance Audit to ensure your Looker instance is running smoothly. Page breaks in PDFs

hilaryLooker Staff

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Looker 6.0 Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates Release Rollout Begins: October 21, 2018 Release Final & Download Available: November 5, 2018 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Refactored Cartesian Charts New LookML Parameters Improved Color Picker New Markdown Toolbar MongoBI Support Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see the Legacy Feature Updates and Features by Section below. Completely removed the “Allow the access_filter_fields parameter” Legacy Feature New legacy feature: “Legacy Visualizations” Disabled the “Native Derivied Tables Convert Dates and Yesnos to Strings” Legacy Feature Tweaked how reference lines calculate standard deviations System Configura

hilaryLooker Staff

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Looker 6.0 Extended Support Release Notes

Anticipated Deployment Dates ESR Staging: November 12, 2018 - December 10, 2018 ESR Production Release: December 10, 2018 - March 4, 2018 All Release Notes Legacy Features End-of-life Schedule Release Highlights In addition to general tweaks and enhancements, this release comes with new and improved features in the following categories. Read on for more detail. Refactored Cartesian Charts New LookML Parameters Improved Color Picker New Markdown Toolbar MongoBI Support New API endpoints for git management Improvements to Merged Results Code Quality Options Increased Athena Support Preparing for Release Please take notice of items marked with a ⚡ as they indicate changes to existing functionality and may require your attention. For more information see Features by Section below. Completely removed the “Allow the access_filter_fields parameter” Legacy Feature New legacy feature: “Legacy Visualizations” Disabled the “Native Derivied Tables Convert Dates and Yesnos to String