Qlik Release Notes

August 13, 2026

Now in Qlik Cloud Government: Programmatically manage your organization's automations, without transferring ownership

Trusted OAuth machine-to-machine (M2M) bot users can now back up, audit, migrate, and manage automations across a tenant programmatically with the admin.automations scope, including ones owned by other users - without having to temporarily transfer ownership first.

This builds on the admin.apps scope which already provides access to private application content for these administrative and programmatic use cases.

For more information, see the Qlik Developer portal change log.

Now supported in Qlik Cloud Government.

Now supported in Qlik Cloud Government - DoD.

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

August 6, 2026

Run automations from your AI assistant

You can now find and run automations from Qlik Automate directly from your preferred GenAI platform using the Qlik MCP server.

Ask your assistant to list available automations, inspect the inputs an automation expects, and run it by passing values inline. If an automation prompts for input during a run, your assistant can handle the back-and-forth interactively, collecting your responses and submitting them without you leaving the conversation.

You can also check run status, view output, and stop a run when needed.

For more information, see Qlik MCP tools.

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 29, 2026

Flexible scheduling for automations

Automations can now be scheduled using the same recurrence options available for app reload scheduling, making it easier to run automations exactly when you need them.

Previously, automation schedules were limited to a start date, an end date, and a fixed recurrence interval. Anything more specific, such as running only on weekdays, had to be built into the automation logic itself using condition blocks.

With this update, you can now schedule automations to run at frequencies including:

• Weekly, monthly, or yearly, and not just at fixed intervals
• On specific days of the week or month
• On recurring patterns such as the last day of every month
• Multiple times per day within a defined time window
• Between a start time and end time each day until a defined end date

For more information, see Working with automation scheduling

Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government.

Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government - DoD.

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 19, 2026

Introducing change management for lake landing replication tasks

Store changes settings are now available for lake landing replication tasks in a dedicated Store changes tab. With these new capabilities, lake landing replication functionality further bridges the gap with standard replication functionality, enabling consistent change management across replication task types.

Key features include:

• Change Table capture: Automatically store INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations from the source in Change Tables on the target platform for incremental downstream processing.
• DDL handling options: Choose whether to automatically apply schema changes from the source to Change Tables or ignore DDL modifications to maintain fixed table structures.
• Configurable storage: Select whether to capture both before and after image data on updates, and customize Change Table naming conventions with configurable suffixes and header column prefixes.
• Header column management: Exclude specific system metadata columns from Change Tables to reduce storage requirements, or keep all header columns for complete audit information.
• Flexible full load behavior: Determine how existing Change Tables are handled when a full load starts—DROP and CREATE, delete old changes only, or keep all historical changes.
• Reorganized settings: Change Data Partitioning settings have moved from the General tab to the new Store changes tab for better organization and usability.

Store changes settings

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 16, 2026

Qlik Trust Score™ forensic for Data products

Data products Qlik Trust Score™ drill down now gives you a deeper, more actionable view of trust and quality.

What’s new

A new Quality tab inside each data product gives you forensic-level visibility into your composite Qlik Trust Score™, so you can see not just where the score sits today, but what's moving it and which datasets are driving the change.

From the Quality tab you can follow the score from headline number all the way to root cause, layer by layer.

Why this matters

Data product owners can now pinpoint exactly what's impacting their trust score and why, getting to root cause in just a few clicks without leaving the data product. That transparency enables the Qlik Trust Score™ to be a truly explainable signal consumers can rely on, and producers can act on.

Qlik Trust Score™

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 16, 2026

Business glossary context for Qlik Answers application analysis

Qlik Answers now uses linked business glossary definitions and synonyms when indexing application master items, improving semantic matching and consistency across terminology used in user questions.

Glossary definitions are evaluated at indexing time. If glossary definitions are updated after indexing, reindex the application to apply the changes. Only glossary terms in Verified state are considered.

Working with applications in Qlik Answers

Combining master item descriptions and business glossary terms

Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government.
Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government - DoD.

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 16, 2026

Application script lifecycle tools for Qlik MCP server

New Qlik MCP tools support the application and script lifecycle from your LLM client. You can create an application, inspect and update its load script, run a reload, and verify the results from status and logs. These tools support both guided authoring and automated workflows.

The new tools let you:

• Create applications and generate or retrieve script content.
• Retrieve, replace, and patch the application load script.
• Trigger, monitor, and cancel reloads, and retrieve reload logs.
• Inspect the resulting application data model.

Qlik MCP tools

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 14, 2026

New Direct Access gateway version (1.7.16)

Direct Access gateway 1.7.16 introduces both new and enhanced features, and resolves several issues. For upgrade instructions and a list of resolved issues, see Upgrading the Direct Access gateway installation

Chunks recovery can be disabled per connection

You can now disable chunks recovery for specific connectors, providing more granular control over reload resilience and performance. This setting overrides the global chunks recovery configuration and can be configured directly in the connector settings or via the Public API.

For configuration details, see Disabling chunks recovery per connection.

Canada region support

Direct Access gateway now supports deployment in the Canada region, expanding availability for customers with data residency requirements.

Improved reload stream throughput

Reload stream throughput has been improved through optimization of thread pool management, WebSocket protocol handling, and adaptive pacing. These improvements are automatic and require no configuration.

File Connector custom file extension support

The File Connector now allows you to configure custom file extensions beyond the default supported types. Configure allowed extensions through the gateway settings or by editing the extension configuration file.

For configuration details, see Allowing custom extensions.

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 9, 2026

Advanced expressions and conditional branching in validation rules

You can now define advanced data quality checks with expressions using Qlik script syntax, directly from the rule builder. Rules also now support multiple conditions with else if for branching logic, all without leaving the guided user interface.

What’s available

Arithmetic operands: Use +, -, *, /, and modulo between field references and literals on either side of a validation operator. For example: fieldA + fieldB = fieldC, fieldX - 100 > 0.

Typed function operands (string and number functions): Reference functions including Len, Trim, Left, Right, Mid, IsText, IsNum, Floor as operands in any rule condition.

Parenthesised sub expressions: Control evaluation order with parentheses. For example: (fieldA + fieldB) * 0.8 = fieldC.

Users also benefit from inline expression validation with actionable error feedback before the rule is saved.

Working with validation rules

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 7, 2026

Fast Mode for Qlik Answers

Qlik Answers now includes Fast mode — a new default experience for application analysis that returns answers in seconds.

What changed

When you open an application in Qlik Answers and ask a question, you are now in Fast mode by default. Fast mode is optimized for direct, retrieval-style questions against structured data: pulling a number, slicing by a dimension, generating a quick chart. For these kinds of questions, it is significantly faster than before.

This is the mode you will use most of the time. It handles the everyday questions well, and it handles them fast.

What stays the same

Thinking mode is still there, still works exactly as before, and is still the right choice for complex analysis, multi-step reasoning, or building charts and sheets from scratch. Nothing about Thinking mode has changed — it is just no longer the only option.

Switching modes

If Fast mode is not what you need, switching takes one click. The mode toggle sits in the chat interface once you have selected an application. Your conversation context carries over when you switch — you do not lose what you were working on.

If Fast mode genuinely cannot answer a question, it will tell you so rather than returning a weak response. A Think more button appears below the answer, and clicking it reruns your question in Thinking mode with full context preserved. You do not need to re-ask anything.

When to use each

Use Fast mode for questions like:

• "What were total sales last quarter?"
• "Show me revenue by region for Q1 2026"
• "Which sales rep had the highest bookings in May?"
• "Bar chart of top 10 customers by order value"

Switch to Thinking mode when you want to:

• Create or modify sheets and dashboards
• Ask questions that span both structured data and documents or knowledge bases
• Do multi-step or comparative analysis
• Dig into something where the answer is not straightforward

Availability

Fast mode is on by default for all users with access to application analysis in Qlik Answers. No configuration required.

Application analysis

Answering questions with Qlik Answers

Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government.

Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government - DoD.

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 2, 2026

Request access to data products

Data consumers can now request access to data products directly from the data product marketplace when they lack the necessary permissions to access a dataset.

Previously, users who discovered a data product of interest but did not have the required connections or permissions — such as the ability to read a Snowflake table — had to manually identify the appropriate person in their organization to request access, causing delays and interruptions to their workflows.

With this new feature, users can submit an access request directly through the marketplace by completing a form that captures key details, including their name, job position, reason for the request, and the level of permission required. This enables organizations to streamline and customize their data access workflows, reducing the time data consumers spend waiting for access and improving overall productivity and data utilization.

Requesting access to spaces

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.

July 2, 2026

Enriched and automated classification through semantic types

Qlik Cloud can now automatically detect and flag sensitive data based on semantic types, replacing purely manual sensitivity declaration. Classifications are then constantly applied across datasets, and fields not covered by a semantic type can still be classified manually. Users can also apply regulations directly at the dataset level when it applies. This information will surface automatically when activating a data product, ensuring consumers are aware of compliance requirements before a data product is visible on the marketplace for consumption.

Managing semantic types

Some functionality may be rolled out in phases and not immediately available in all regions.