StarTree Release Notes

StarTree ships on two tracks. StarTree Cloud platform releases carry the StarTree distribution of Apache Pinot along with StarTree extensions, and they arrive as numbered versions every few months. Data Portal releases update the web console you use to onboard data, run queries, and manage tables, and they ship every few weeks under a release date. This page lists every release on both tracks. Use it to catch up on what changed since your last upgrade, or to find the release that introduced a feature.

Latest releases

StarTree Cloud 0.16.0

July 2026. External Tables scale to large, frequently updated Iceberg datasets with segment groups and deletion vectors. The StarTree Execution Engine gains new join types, spill to disk, and BIG_DECIMAL support.

Data Portal: September 22, 2026

September 2026. Actionable error messages with a public error code reference, Query Insights, and connection editing on by default.

What to read

Upgrading a cluster

Read every platform release between your current version and the target. Behavior changes add up across versions.

Using Data Portal

Data Portal updates roll out automatically. Check the latest dates to see new screens and workflows.

Breaking changes

Recent platform releases list breaking changes in their own section near the end of each page.

StarTree Cloud platform releases

Each version bundles a StarTree Pinot build with the Apache Pinot changes it picks up and the StarTree extensions built on top. Version 0.13 was not released.

2025 to 2026
2023 to 2024
2022

Version	Released	Highlights
0.16.0	July 2026	Segment groups and Iceberg deletion vectors for External Tables, StarTree Execution Engine maturity, Minion Task Orchestration and audit logging on by default
0.15.0	April 2026	StarTree Iceberg Tables GA with Iceberg catalog support, Query Log, replica scale down, Parquet and complex type correctness
0.14.0	March 2026	External Tables for Iceberg (Glue and S3 Tables) and S3 Parquet, Columnar Segment Processing, Minion Task Orchestration Framework
0.12.0	February 2026	Segment backfill and purge, consolidated preload for tiered storage, Table Storage Usage API, embedded schema extraction for Parquet
0.11.1	September 2025	Tenant rebalance, row level RBAC, Pinot audit logs, text index pinning for tiered storage
0.11.0	July 2025	Graviton GA on AWS, AZ aware Kafka consumer, Alter Table Task GA, Calcite 1.39 upgrade
0.10.1	February 2025	Pauseless ingestion (Beta), Alter Table Task (Beta), CTE reuse (Alpha), snapshots for off heap dedup

Version	Released	Highlights
0.10.0	November 2024	Upsert backfill with externally partitioned segments, OOM protection in the multi-stage engine, Delta Lake 3.0 connector, DynamoDB CDC ingestion
0.9.0	June 2024	Faster upserts, re-streaming to recreate tables from streams, cursor pagination for large query results
0.8.1	April to May 2024	Kubernetes 1.29 upgrade for AWS and GCP deployments, platform stability fixes
0.8.0	February 2024	StarTree Upsert on by default, Cluster Health Dashboard, role based access control for tables
0.7.2	December 2023	Kubernetes 1.25 upgrade on AWS, IMDSv2 by default
0.7.1	November 2023	File ingestion task improvements, size based tuning for segment refresh, separate RocksDB logs
0.7.0	August 2023	Segment purge for GDPR deletes, tiered storage with sparse indexes (Beta), faster restarts for large upsert tables
0.6.1	April 2023	Tiered storage performance, EKS 1.23 upgrade, S3 bucket versioning on by default
0.6.0	February 2023	Multi-stage engine joins and clauses, multi volume support, consumer record lag, upsert enhancements

Version	Released	Highlights
0.5.0	June to August 2022	Null value support, real-time deduplication, upsert improvements, query cancellation
0.4.0	April to May 2022	Segment push to real-time tables, server failure detector, timestamp index, Spark 3.x support

Data Portal releases

Data Portal releases are named by date and apply to every environment without an upgrade. Full notes for every release are on the Data Portal release notes page.

2026
2025

Released	Highlights
September 22, 2026	Actionable error messages and error code reference, Query Insights, connection editing on by default
August 27, 2026	Table Health Dashboard Overview tab, ZSTANDARD compression by default in generated table configs
August 11, 2026	Monitoring dashboard for External Tables, Apache Polaris, Snowflake Open Catalog, and Horizon Catalog support
July 20, 2026	Unity Catalog and GCS Parquet External Tables
July 10, 2026	Table Health Dashboard and alerting, query history in Query Console
July 1, 2026	Task status summary in the task manager, trigger Purge and File Ingestion tasks from Data Portal
June 12, 2026	In-product documentation and tooltips, dictionary encoded indexes on External Tables
May 6, 2026	IAM role authentication for External Tables, RBAC aware Data Portal
April 20, 2026	Scheduled External Table ingestion, table storage usage
March 25, 2026	Query Analyzer in the Query Console, shareable saved queries
March 11, 2026	Raw S3 Parquet and Iceberg REST catalog support for AWS Glue and S3 Tables (Beta)
February 18, 2026	Tiered storage configuration, broker and server tenant configuration in the UI
January 15, 2026	Protobuf descriptor files for real-time tables, cancel queries from the editor
January 9, 2026	Query observability, richer Table List view

Released	Highlights
December 17, 2025	Visual query execution stats and EXPLAIN PLAN, dedicated JSON tab for execution details
December 10, 2025	Stage level stats for multi-stage queries, segment builder defaults based on schema width
December 4, 2025	Folder selection for batch sources, partial results in Query Console
November 11, 2025	Tableau as a dedicated client, Clients section moved into Data Portal

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Reference

Latest releases

StarTree Cloud 0.16.0

Data Portal: September 22, 2026

What to read

Upgrading a cluster

Using Data Portal

Breaking changes

StarTree Cloud platform releases

Data Portal releases

​Latest releases

StarTree Cloud 0.16.0

Data Portal: September 22, 2026

​What to read

Upgrading a cluster

Using Data Portal

Breaking changes

​StarTree Cloud platform releases

​Data Portal releases

Latest releases

What to read

StarTree Cloud platform releases

Data Portal releases