Looker is a data exploration and business intelligence platform that offers a wide variety of tools for relational database work, business intelligence, and other related services. It operates as a part of Google Cloud Platform. It is available as both a managed service (Looker-hosted), and a self-hosted installation.
![Release Schedule Image Gantt Chart for Looker](https://cloud.google.com/static/looker/docs/images/2022-std-supp-releases.png)
Release | Released | Support Status |
---|---|---|
22.18 (ESR) |
2 months and 1 week ago (17 Oct 2022)
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Ends
in 2 months (28 Feb 2023)
|
22.16 |
3 months and 1 week ago (19 Sep 2022)
|
Ended
1 week and 1 day ago (19 Dec 2022)
|
22.14 |
4 months and 2 weeks ago (15 Aug 2022)
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Ended
1 month and 1 week ago (14 Nov 2022)
|
22.12 (ESR) |
5 months ago (18 Jul 2022)
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Ended
3 weeks and 6 days ago (30 Nov 2022)
|
22.10 |
6 months ago (13 Jun 2022)
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Ended
3 months and 1 week ago (19 Sep 2022)
|
22.8 |
7 months ago (16 May 2022)
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Ended
4 months and 2 weeks ago (15 Aug 2022)
|
22.6 (ESR) |
8 months ago (18 Apr 2022)
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Ended
3 months and 4 weeks ago (31 Aug 2022)
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22.4 |
9 months ago (14 Mar 2022)
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Ended
6 months ago (13 Jun 2022)
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22.2 |
10 months ago (15 Feb 2022)
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Ended
7 months ago (16 May 2022)
|
22.0 (ESR) |
11 months ago (18 Jan 2022)
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Ended
7 months ago (31 May 2022)
|
21.20 |
1 year and 1 month ago (16 Nov 2021)
|
Ended
9 months ago (15 Mar 2022)
|
21.18 (ESR) |
1 year and 2 months ago (19 Oct 2021)
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Ended
10 months ago (28 Feb 2022)
|
21.16 |
1 year and 3 months ago (14 Sep 2021)
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Ended
1 year ago (15 Dec 2021)
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21.14 |
1 year and 4 months ago (16 Aug 2021)
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Ended
1 year and 1 month ago (16 Nov 2021)
|
21.12 (ESR) |
1 year and 5 months ago (15 Jul 2021)
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Ended
1 year ago (30 Nov 2021)
|
21.10 |
1 year and 6 months ago (10 Jun 2021)
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Ended
1 year and 3 months ago (14 Sep 2021)
|
21.8 |
1 year and 7 months ago (13 May 2021)
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Ended
1 year and 2 months ago (16 Oct 2021)
|
21.6 (ESR) |
1 year and 8 months ago (15 Apr 2021)
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Ended
1 year and 3 months ago (31 Aug 2021)
|
21.4 |
1 year and 9 months ago (11 Mar 2021)
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Ended
1 year and 6 months ago (10 Jun 2021)
|
21.0 (ESR) |
1 year and 11 months ago (20 Jan 2021)
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Ended
1 year and 7 months ago (31 May 2021)
|
7.20 |
2 years ago (15 Nov 2020)
|
No |
7.18 |
2 years ago (15 Oct 2020)
|
No |
7.16 |
2 years and 3 months ago (17 Sep 2020)
|
No |
Looker-hosted services
Looker publishes a planned maintenance schedule - during which your instance may be temporarily unavailable for updates, server upgrades, or other system work. Upgrades are still triggered by reaching out to customer support. A new minor version is slowly rolled out over 2-3 weeks, and every release includes an “Expected rollout start” and an “Expected final deployment and download available” date in the Release Highlights page. No new releases nor deployments happen in the month of December, which equates to 11 releases in a year.
Customer-hosted Looker instances
When a new release is ready for installation, any Looker user listed as a Technical Contact gets an email with a link to the latest update file (JAR format), release notes, and instructions on how to install the update.
Extended support release program
ESR releases are quarterly instead of monthly, and get 3 months of support. Issues deemed S1 and S2 will be patched back to the currently supported ESR releases. Participants in the ESR program are required to pair production instances with staging instances. A ESR release is kept in “ESR-staging” for a month, where it is considered “pre-stable”.
Notifications
All users are able to opt in to release notes from the Account Settings section of Looker. Additionally, anyone listed as a Technical Contact within a Looker instance (Admin -> General Settings) will receive release notifications.
A list of officially supported releases is published as well, along with a “Legacy feature schedule” which provides a timeline that shows when current legacy features have been or will be formally removed.
More information is available on the Looker website.
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A JSON version of this page is available at /api/looker.json. See the API Documentation for more.
This page was last updated on 12 November 2022.