# ClickHouse release 26.8

DevFeed: [ClickHouse release 26.8](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/clickhouse-release-26-8-5148.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-release-26-08>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parquet.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parquet.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [tokenizers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokenizers.md>)

## AI overview

ClickHouse 26.8 is an LTS release that adds background queries, pipelined SQL, text tokenizers, and expanded data lake integrations, alongside performance improvements for Parquet, aggregations, and joins.

## Source excerpt

ClickHouse 26.8 LTS introduces background queries, pipelined SQL, new text tokenizers, expanded data lake integrations, and faster Parquet, aggregation, and join queries.