Cloud changelog

- Kafka Connector: Added support for Avro Date and Time types
- JavaScript client: Released a stable version for web-based environment
- Grafana: Improved filter logic, database name handling, and added support for TimeInteval with sub-second precision
- Golang Client: Fixed several batch and async data loading issues
- Metabase: Support v0.47, added connection impersonation, fixed data types mappings

## July 27, 2023[​](#july-27-2023 "Direct link to July 27, 2023")

This release brings the private preview of ClickPipes for Kafka, a new data loading experience, and the ability to load a file from a URL using the cloud console.

### Integrations changes[​](#integrations-changes-14 "Direct link to Integrations changes")

- Introduced the private preview of [ClickPipes](https://clickhouse.com/cloud/clickpipes) for Kafka, a cloud-native integration engine that makes ingesting massive volumes of data from Kafka and Confluent Cloud as simple as clicking a few buttons. Please sign up for the waitlist [here](https://clickhouse.com/cloud/clickpipes#joinwaitlist).
- JavaScript client: released support for web-based environment (browser, Cloudflare workers). The code is refactored to allow community creating connectors for custom environments.
- Kafka Connector: Added support for inline schema with Timestamp and Time Kafka types
- Python client: Fixed insert compression and LowCardinality reading issues

### Console changes[​](#console-changes-14 "Direct link to Console changes")

- Added a new data loading experience with more table creation configuration options
- Introduced ability to load a file from a URL using the cloud console
- Improved invitation flow with additional options to join a different organization and see all your outstanding invitations

## July 14, 2023[​](#july-14-2023 "Direct link to July 14, 2023")

This release brings the ability to spin up Dedicated Services, a new AWS region in Australia, and the ability to bring your own key for encrypting data on disk.

### General updates[​](#general-updates-3 "Direct link to General updates")

- New AWS Australia region: Sydney (ap-southeast-2)
- Dedicated tier services for demanding latency-sensitive workloads (please contact [support](https://console.clickhouse.cloud/support) to set it up)
- Bring your own key (BYOK) for encrypting data on disk (please contact [support](https://console.clickhouse.cloud/support) to set it up)

### Console changes[​](#console-changes-15 "Direct link to Console changes")

- Improvements to observability metrics dashboard for asynchronous inserts
- Improved chatbot behavior for integration with support

### Integrations changes[​](#integrations-changes-15 "Direct link to Integrations changes")

- NodeJS client: fixed a bug with a connection failure due to socket timeout
- Python client: added QuerySummary to insert queries, support special characters in the database name
- Metabase: updated JDBC driver version, added DateTime64 support, performance improvements.

### Core database changes[​](#core-database-changes "Direct link to Core database changes")

- [Query cache](/docs/operations/query-cache) can be enabled in ClickHouse Cloud. When it is enabled, successful queries are cached for a minute by default and subsequent queries will use the cached result.

## June 20, 2023[​](#june-20-2023 "Direct link to June 20, 2023")

This release makes ClickHouse Cloud on GCP generally available, brings a Terraform provider for the Cloud API, and updates the ClickHouse version to 23.4.

### General updates[​](#general-updates-4 "Direct link to General updates")

- ClickHouse Cloud on GCP is now GA, bringing GCP Marketplace integration, support for Private Service Connect, and automatic backups (see [blog](https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-cloud-on-google-cloud-platform-gcp-is-generally-available) and [press release](https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-cloud-expands-choice-with-launch-on-google-cloud-platform) for details)
- [Terraform provider](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/ClickHouse/clickhouse/latest/docs) for Cloud API is now available

### Console changes[​](#console-changes-16 "Direct link to Console changes")

- Added a new consolidated settings page for services
- Adjusted metering accuracy for storage and compute

### Integrations changes[​](#integrations-changes-16 "Direct link to Integrations changes")

- Python client: improved insert performance, refactored internal dependencies to support multiprocessing
- Kafka Connector: It can be uploaded and installed on Confluent Cloud, added retry for interim connection problems, reset the incorrect connector state automatically

### ClickHouse 23.4 version upgrade[​](#clickhouse-234-version-upgrade "Direct link to ClickHouse 23.4 version upgrade")

- Added JOIN support for parallel replicas (please contact [support](https://console.clickhouse.cloud/support) to set it up)
- Improved performance of lightweight deletes
- Improved caching while processing large inserts

### Administration changes[​](#administration-changes-1 "Direct link to Administration changes")

- Expanded local dictionary creation for non "default" users

## May 30, 2023[​](#may-30-2023 "Direct link to May 30, 2023")

This release brings the public release of the ClickHouse Cloud Programmatic API for Control Plane operations (see [blog](https://clickhouse.com/blog/using-the-new-clickhouse-cloud-api-to-automate-deployments) for details), S3 access using IAM roles, and additional scaling options.

### General changes[​](#general-changes-2 "Direct link to General changes")

- API Support for ClickHouse Cloud. With the new Cloud API, you can seamlessly integrate managing services in your existing CI/CD pipeline and manage your services programmatically
- S3 access using IAM roles. You can now leverage IAM roles to securely access your private Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets (please contact support to set it up)

### Scaling changes[​](#scaling-changes "Direct link to Scaling changes")

- [Horizontal scaling](/docs/cloud/features/autoscaling/horizontal#manual-horizontal-scaling). Workloads that require more parallelization can now be configured with up to 10 replicas (please contact support to set it up)
- [CPU based autoscaling](/docs/manage/scaling). CPU-bound workloads can now benefit from additional triggers for autoscaling policies

### Console changes[​](#console-changes-17 "Direct link to Console changes")

- Migrate Dev service to Production service (please contact support to enable)
- Added scaling configuration controls during instance creation flows
- Fix connection string when default password is not present in memory

### Integrations changes[​](#integrations-changes-17 "Direct link to Integrations changes")

- Golang client: fixed a problem leading to unbalanced connections in native protocol, added support for the custom settings in the native protocol
- Nodejs client: dropped support for nodejs v14, added support for v20
- Kafka Connector: added support for LowCardinality type
- Metabase: fixed grouping by a time range, fixed support for integers in built-in Metabase questions

### Performance and reliability[​](#performance-and-reliability "Direct link to Performance and reliability")

- Improved efficiency and performance of write heavy workloads
- Deployed incremental backup strategy to increase speed and efficiency of backups

## May 11, 2023[​](#may-11-2023 "Direct link to May 11, 2023")

This release brings the public beta of ClickHouse Cloud on GCP
(see [blog](https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-cloud-on-gcp-available-in-public-beta)
for details), extends administrators' rights to grant terminate query permissions,
and adds more visibility into the status of MFA users in the Cloud console.

Update

ClickHouse Cloud on GCP is now GA, see the entry for June twenty above.

### ClickHouse Cloud on GCP is now available in public beta[​](#clickhouse-cloud-on-gcp-is-now-available-in-public-beta-now-ga-see-june-20th-entry-above "Direct link to ClickHouse Cloud on GCP is now available in public beta")

Note

ClickHouse Cloud on GCP is now GA, see the [June 20th](#june-20-2023) entry above.