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Data & Analytics Engineering weekly digests
- Week of October 5, 2026Redshift data sharing lands in dbt as state-aware orchestration goes GA
dbt Labs shipped two of the week's biggest changes for warehouse teams: native Amazon Redshift data sharing read and write support, and the general availability of dbt State with node-level reuse. Meanwhile ClickHouse Cloud rolled its executable UDFs to GA and added JWT authentication.
- Week of September 28, 2026ClickHouse's busy week: cloud identity, OneLake, and Postgres memory safety
ClickHouse shipped a torrent of stable and LTS patches while rolling out SCIM provisioning for Cloud, deeper Microsoft Fabric and OneLake integration, and a hardened memory-safety story for its Postgres extensions. Dagster gave partitioned automation a performance boost and introduced a mobile UI, and pg_clickhouse and chdb tightened type and encoding handling.
- Week of September 21, 2026ClickHouse's 26.9 feature drop anchors a week of query-engine refinements
ClickHouse shipped the 26.9 stable line with conditional LIMIT boundaries, disk spilling for DISTINCT, and time-limited tokens, while dbt-core brought Unity Catalog reads to Lake Compute and Dagster tightened project-loading diagnostics.
- Week of September 14, 2026dbt v2 goes GA as analytics engineering turns its engine over to Rust
dbt Labs shipped dbt v2 and dbt State as generally available, a Rust rewrite that parses large projects up to 10x faster plus a run planner that builds only what changed, and paired it with a first look at dbt Charts, Lake Compute, and an open lakehouse. ClickHouse landed on the dbt platform and shipped a Prometheus-compatible TimeSeries engine in the same week.
- Week of September 7, 2026ClickHouse pushes into Postgres replication and AI SQL as dbt wires up its adapter
ClickHouse had a defining week: it shipped its 26.8 LTS with background queries and pipelined SQL, launched sub-second Postgres replication via physical WAL, and put AI functions directly into SQL. Meanwhile dbt-core rolled out a new ClickHouse ADBC driver across its 2.0 dev line and shipped fixes to its 1.11 and 1.12 branches.
- Week of August 31, 2026dbt opens the door to Exasol as ClickHouse turns SQL into an API layer
dbt-core's 2.0 release candidates landed the Exasol adapter alongside Databricks query tags and parse-safe views, while ClickHouse published blueprints for streaming HTTP APIs and pipelined SQL built directly on its 26.8 release.
- Week of August 24, 2026ClickHouse's long-term support line settles down as dbt-core opens the door to Exasol
ClickHouse shipped a dense run of LTS maintenance releases and a managed Postgres onboarding overhaul, while dbt-core's 2.0 preview added a full Exasol adapter and hardened its exported index against compile-only columns.
- Week of August 17, 2026ClickHouse Releases Stack Up as dbt Core Hits New Milestones
ClickHouse dominates the week with a flurry of patch releases and a security-focused dbt Core update, while dbt Core v1.12 goes GA and beta features push toward 2.0.
- Week of August 10, 2026dbt's end-of-support warning sweep lands across every release line
dbt Core shipped a coordinated deprecation warning across every supported release line this week while the 2.0.0 beta added selector-based linting and state-aware runs. ClickHouse expanded ClickStack's observability reach with mobile telemetry and Grafana upgrades.
- Week of August 3, 2026ClickHouse flood and a Dagster retry-status signal
ClickHouse shipped its 26.7 release with major query and JOIN speedups, plus four stable-branch patches and deep dives into autoscaling and Managed Postgres resilience. Dagster clarified retry semantics with a new asset health status and a quarantine-preservation improvement from Tinybird.
- Week of July 27, 2026Automation takes the lead — jobs, ingestion, and scale
Dagster brings declarative automation to entire jobs, Tinybird finalizes its v1 local file ingestion, and ClickHouse publishes a trio of benchmarks and guides covering observability, Postgres memory management, and an espresso machine instrumented with OpenTelemetry.
- Week of July 20, 2026dbt Core v2.0 rewrites the rules under Apache 2.0
dbt Labs announced dbt Core v2.0 under an Apache 2.0 license with a Rust-based Fusion engine, while retiring the Snowflake Native App for November 2026. Dagster added native dbt project orchestration on Snowflake, and ClickHouse published a series of practical tooling guides for observability migrations.
- Week of July 13, 2026Apache Ossie enters incubation, dbt reaches 1.12
The Open Semantic Interchange project is accepted into the Apache Incubator as Apache Ossie, while dbt-core ships version 1.12.0 with breaking changes and ClickHouse publishes a new Node.js RowBinary library.
- Week of July 6, 2026dbt-core 1.12 cleans house while ClickHouse builds bridges
dbt-core 1.12 release candidates removed the experimental login command and bundled state plugin while defaulting a batch of older flags to true, and ClickHouse expanded its integration story with a new ADBC driver and a fast regex extension for Postgres.
- Week of June 29, 2026ClickStack builds dashboards from prompts, ClickHouse 26.6 ships, and Dagster tunes the runs feed
ClickStack now generates AI dashboards and investigative workflows from natural language, ClickHouse 26.6 introduces hypothetical skip indexes and cascading materialized views, and Dagster improves the runs feed performance for large asset graphs.
- Week of June 22, 2026ClickHouse own the week with Silk, WAL-RUS, and a new stable release
A huge week of infrastructure innovation from ClickHouse, headlined by the announcement of Silk, a new fiber runtime, and WAL-RUS, a Rust rewrite of WAL-G for Postgres backups. Dagster also shipped a critical UI fix for large workspaces and a new guide for data platform engineers.
- Week of June 15, 2026ClickHouse at 10, dbt's AI push, and new cloud connectors
ClickHouse marked its ten-year open source anniversary with ecosystem and product expansions, including a GCP Pub/Sub connector preview and major Postgres managed service updates, while dbt Labs published a suite of guides on agentic data pipelines and dbt Fusion reached alpha 2 with Homebrew support.
- Week of June 8, 2026AI agents, postgres migrations, and asset-aware orchestration
ClickHouse launched an agentic analytics service, a Stripe CLI integration, and a new Postgres-to-Postgres migration tool, while Dagster added hierarchical asset groups and type-based asset filters.
- Week of June 1, 2026Executable UDFs and a new dbt core beta lead the week
Executable user-defined functions enter public beta on ClickHouse Cloud, while dbt-core releases its first v2.0.0 alpha alongside a stable v1.12.0 beta. ClickHouse also ships its 26.5 release with record performance optimizations and open-sources a Kubernetes network monitor.
- Week of May 25, 2026ClickHouse’s conference week reshapes query execution and managed services
ClickHouse Open House 2026 delivered multi-stage distributed query execution, a managed Postgres beta, and serverless observability through ClickStack Cloud, while Dagster shipped its 1.13.7 release with improved schedule ownership and deeper Snowflake integration.
- Week of May 18, 2026ClickHouse 26.5 arrives alongside Delta Lake integration and dbt's AI agent push
ClickHouse released its 26.5 major version with backward-incompatible datetime parsing changes, while the ClickHouse blog detailed a new Rust Delta Kernel integration for native Delta Lake support. Dagster published performance findings from migrating to the ty type checker, and dbt Labs made a significant push around AI-ready data with new Developer Agent and Agent Skills features.
- Week of May 11, 2026ClickHouse leads the narrative with five real-world case studies, while Dagster and dbt clean up DX
ClickHouse published five customer stories this week spanning threat detection, quick commerce, observability, and billing, and Dagster shipped two releases with significant quality-of-life improvements for asset definitions and SQLite backends.