# ClickHouse Release 26.2

DevFeed: [ClickHouse Release 26.2](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/clickhouse-release-26-2-5139.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-release-26-02>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2026-03-16T10:47:57Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [cURL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/curl.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terminal.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/servers.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [streams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streams.md>)

## AI overview

ClickHouse 26.2 is a winter release with 25 new features, 43 performance optimizations, and 183 bug fixes. It makes the text index and QBit data type production-ready, adds time-based batching for infinite inserts, and improves joins, JSON parsing, and inserts using min-max indices. The article also demonstrates loading a real-time Wikimedia changes feed into ClickHouse.

## Source excerpt

ClickHouse 26.2 is here! In this post, text-index and QBit data type become production-ready.