Our biggest release of the year has arrived, and it moves Incorta forward on every front that matters to your team. Version 8.0.0 (2026.8) pairs a new generation of AI-driven intelligence with meaningful upgrades to visualization, governance, and data management — all on a modernized runtime. Here are the highlights we think you'll want to explore first.
A new generation of Incorta Intelligence
The headline of this release is how much further Incorta can now reason over your data. The Smart Agent goes beyond native insights to generate interactive HTML reports, PowerPoint decks, and Excel workbooks on demand, and it now works with external models such as Gemini so you can bring the reasoning engine that fits your needs.
Alongside it, Data AI Apps (Preview) let you build and run interactive, richly formatted applications as native Incorta content — turning analysis into something your users can actually work inside. To keep that intelligence consistent, AI Containers bundle Business Views, Insights, and Knowledge Store resources into reusable, shareable context. And because good analysis is rarely a single question, resumable chats let you revisit, rename, and pick up previous conversations right where you left off.
Visualization and analytics that put viewers in control
This release hands more power to the people consuming dashboards, not just the people building them. With enhanced dashboard personalization, viewers can transpose rows and columns on Pivot and Aggregated tables and toggle totals and subtotals without ever entering edit mode.
For deeper analysis, Derived Variables (Preview) calculate aggregate values and compare individual records against them — no recalculation required. And gradient conditional formatting makes patterns jump off the page by applying color scales across minimum, mid-point, and maximum values. Rounding things out are table styling refinements, text wrapping in KPI insights, Waterfall chart improvements, and support for the Indian numbering system.
Deeper governance and security
Governance gets a major step forward with the new Policy Center (Preview), a centralized home for defining and managing data policies across your environment. Complementing it, External Assets (Preview) extend lineage both upstream and downstream so you get complete visibility into where your data comes from and where it goes.
Data masking has also grown up in this release: it now operates independently from classification, is enforced directly in SQLi queries, and surfaces new masking KPIs in reports. Data Quality and Metadata Quality scores are now visible across catalog assets, and a single data quality rule can span multiple terms and columns.
Smarter data management
On the data engineering side, Analyzer views can now be promoted to Verified Views, synchronizing them to the Advanced SQL metastore so they're reusable across BI tools and Incorta AI. Load orchestration is more precise, too: granular table-level scheduling lets you schedule individual tables within a load plan instead of entire schemas, and the same schema can now belong to multiple load groups in a single plan. You'll also find a cloud-agnostic Databricks destination using UC Volumes, Spark SQL view caching with automatic invalidation, and Knowledge Store auditing.
A modernized platform underneath it all
All of this runs on a refreshed foundation. Version 8.0.0 brings a mandatory upgrade to OpenJDK 21 for better garbage collection and security, along with Spark 4.0.2, Python 3.12.3, Scala 2.13, and Apache Tomcat 11.0.22. These updates deliver stronger performance, better SQL compatibility, and important security fixes.
Because Java 21 is now required and several runtime components have changed, we strongly recommend reviewing the upgrade considerations before you move to 2026.8 — including the Spark 4 / Python 3.12 compatibility check and connector version recommendations.
Explore the full release
These are just the highlights. For the complete list of features, enhancements, behavioral changes, and upgrade guidance, dive into the full v8.0.0 (2026.8) release notes. We can't wait to see what you build with it — tell us which feature you're most excited about in the comments.
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