Here's what we're working on for the release of LabKey Server version 26.3 (March 2026).
LabKey Server SDMS
Premium Edition Feature Updates
- Audit Log Maintenance feature has been moved from the Professional to the Starter edition. (docs)
- Support for non-default S3 endpoints, such as required for GovCloud. (docs)
- Improved Lineage Querying: search the lineage object for all ancestors and descendants. (docs)
Community Edition Updates
- Ability to add indexes to columns in the field editor to improve filtering and query performance.
- Audit coverage for Grid Views.
- The role "Impersonating Troubleshooter" can now impersonate Users and Groups.
- To provide more targeted troubleshooting access, the role "See Audit Log Events" is now assignable for individual projects and folders.
- To make for easier configuration, the list of Allowed External Redirect Hosts now supports wildcards.
- Database materialized views are now supported in external data sources.
- HTML comments in Markdown are no longer displayed as visible text.
- Tables with very long names in MS SQL Server may be shortened in some cases. SQL Server allows 128 character names; PostgreSQL allows 63 bytes (typically 63 characters). Clients who query the MS SQL Server tables directly may need to update their scripts.
- The Flag data type has been removed as an option in user-defined tables. Existing Flag data type fields are migrated to Text at upgrade time.
- Site Administrators can now see all views, both shared and private, using the page query-manageViews.view. (Available in 25.11 as well)
- The core.Modules query now shows all folders where a module is active.
- The "Delete All Rows" button has been removed from List grids.
- New option to open grid links in a new tab
- "Attachments" query actions report attachment counts by parent type with ability to drill into details: name, folder, size, parent info, etc.
Distribution Changes and Upgrade Notes
- Java Upgrade: An upgrade from Java 17 to Java 25 is required.
- Support for PostgreSQL 13.x has been removed. (docs)
Deprecated Features
- Support for a legacy query that unions all the event tables together into a single query has been removed.
- Support for unescaping backslash characters when importing text files has been removed.
- Dataset import files are no longer saved in the file root of the study's folder. The dataset import history page has also been adjusted to no longer offer the ability to download these data files. Administrators should delete existing import files if there are any concerns that they may contain sensitive data. (Changed in 25.11 as well.)
- LabKey now always generates container-first URLs. The related deprecated feature flag has been removed.
- Custom R report sharing has been deprecated.
Client APIs and Development Notes
- ${containerFilterName} has been added as a substitution marker in URL properties. (docs)
- URL parameter to bypass CSP log deduplication (bypassCspDedupe=true)
- API calls default to detailed audit behavior
- Client APIs can query and update samples using the RowId value; using the LSID value is no longer required.
- Workflow related tables have been moved from the sampleManagement schema to the workflow schema. (introduced in version 26.1)
- Using the CAS Identity Provider (IdP) now requires every service's host to be added to the Allowed External Redirect Hosts page.
Sample Manager
The
Sample Manager Release Notes list features by monthly version and product edition.
LabKey LIMS
The
LabKey LIMS Release Notes list features in addition to those in the Professional Edition of LabKey Sample Manager.
Biologics LIMS
The
Biologics LIMS Release Notes list features in addition to those in LabKey LIMS.
Panorama
- QC folder annotations can be shared across folders when they're tracking the same instrument
- Option to use "delta from mean" as the y-axis in QC folder metric plots
