# ClickHouse Release 26.7

DevFeed: [ClickHouse Release 26.7](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/clickhouse-release-26-7-5146.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-release-26-07>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2026-08-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributed.md>), [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [vector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector.md>)

## AI overview

ClickHouse Release 26.7 introduces 61 new features, 112 performance optimizations, and 329 bug fixes. Highlighted changes include faster Top-N analytics queries, JOIN improvements, faster vector search with QBit, position-aware phrase search, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and unified URL access.

## Source excerpt

This release brings speedups for GROUP BY ... ORDER BY ... LIMIT, three JOIN improvements, four vector search improvements, position-aware phrase search, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, unified URL access, and more!