• AES-256 Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) encryption is now the default for customer-hosted installations. New customer-hosted installations will have to generate an encryption key before installing the Looker application. Looker Legacy Encryption will no longer be supported starting in Looker 22.8. Instances must be migrated to GCM Encryption prior to upgrade.

• A new legacy feature, Legacy LookML Runtime, disables New LookML Runtime by default for all LookML projects. Can be overwritten by adding the new_lookml_runtime LookML parameter to a LookML project’s manifest file. The legacy feature will be removed starting in Looker 22.20.

• A new legacy feature, Legacy Hosted Action Hub, allows all hosted action requests to instead use the Legacy Hosted Action Hub. The legacy feature will be removed starting in Looker 22.12.

• New actions offer integrations for sending data from Looker to Salesforce and Facebook for better targeting. With the Salesforce Campaigns Action, customers can send custom lists of leads or contacts from Looker to populate new or existing campaigns within Salesforce.
• With the Facebook Custom Audiences Action, customers can use their first-party data within Looker to create, update, or replace customer lists in Facebook Custom Audiences.

• Offers faster LookML and content validation, more performant loading of Explores and dashboards, and faster SQL query writing.
• Enabled by default. Can be disabled at the project level with the new_lookml_runtime LookML parameter, or at the instance level with the Legacy LookML Runtime legacy feature.

• Admins logging in to new trial Looker instances for the first time will see guidance in the UI to help set up their instance and to connect to and explore their data.
• These guides will show up only for new instances whose locale/language is set to English, starting with Looker 22.6.

Looker Marketplace now offers improved performance and installation reliability.

Lets users open PDT dependency graphs in a new tab from the PDT details modal.

• Customers on Looker 22.4 need to update their mobile app version to the latest Looker mobile version (v1.2.3) to continue using Looker on iOS mobile devices.
• Filenames in a LookML project can no longer contain a % character. Existing files that contain % characters will display an error and a tooltip explaining why the files need to be renamed to remove the character.

• This generally available Looker API version has multiple breaking and additive changes that promote multiple endpoints from beta to stable. Read more about these changes in this document.
• The Looker API 3.1 and 3.0 versions are unaffected.
• Looker and community-supported SDKs will be updated to support Looker API 4.0 GA endpoints.

• Grants users the specific permission to create and use custom fields in Explores.
• Separates a user’s ability to create custom fields from the user’s ability to create table calculations.

• Errors that occur before any data is streamed will now be injected into XLSX downloads.

• When a table chart column is resized, the content of the header row automatically wraps to multiple lines, if necessary, so the content is clearly readable. This can be configured with the new Truncate Column Names table chart option.

• Lets users move LookML dashboards into folders other than the LookML Dashboards folder.
• Brings parity to how user-defined dashboards can be organized.
• Lets users place better access controls on LookML dashboards.

• PrestoSQL and Trino now default to set SSLVerification=NONE (if Verify SSL is not set) or set SSLVerification=FULL (if Verify SSL is set). If you set your own value for SSLVerification, that value will be used.

• Support access is disabled by default for all instances. Customers must use an allowlist to grant specific people access to their instance.

• The following JDBC drivers have been updated: Firebolt (v.1.21), Microsoft SQL Server (v.9.4), Databricks Spark (v.2.6.21.1039), and Amazon Athena (v.2.0.25.1001).

• Popular fields are no longer displayed in the field picker search bar. Admins can enable a legacy feature, Popular fields in explore search, to restore the Popular Fields drop-down to Explore searches. The legacy feature will be removed starting in Looker 22.20.

• A new legacy feature, Allow double click to select text in textarea in Table Visualizations, allows users to double-click on table cell values to manually select text. The legacy feature will be removed starting in Looker 22.20.

• A new legacy feature, Save as Look keyboard shortcut, allows users to save as Looks by using a keyboard shortcut. The legacy feature will be removed starting in Looker 22.14.

• A new save flow that is available from the Explore page lets users include filters that are on the first query they save to a dashboard as dashboard filters.

• Dashboard creators can now create dashboard filters on fields from Explores that are not present on the dashboard by turning on the Advanced toggle in the filter creation flow.

A new At a glance section on the PDT Admin page provides key PDT monitoring information in a condensed format.

An admin user can enable the Enhanced Action Hub Service Labs feature to improve reliability and performance of the Looker Action Hub.