Previews

Fraud checks, in-session recommendations, and AI agents all need fresh data to make good decisions. Batch pipelines were built for yesterday's questions, computed on a schedule and handed over once a day.That gap matters more than ever: 88% of IT leaders now rank data streaming as a high investment priority, and Gartner lists agentic data streaming among its six top data and analytics trends for 2026, projecting adoption above 60% by 2028. 

When you need streaming at scale, with complex joins and calculations across fast-moving events, that's where Spark's distributed processing earns its place over simpler ingestion tools. Support for Spark Structured Streaming, now in public preview inside Qlik Talend Studio, closes that gap: it computes on events as they arrive, using the same Spark skills and the same Spark clusters your team already runs. 

Watch a short end-to-end walkthrough of a Structured Streaming job running in Talend Studio. 

What's new 

• Near real-time processing in Talend Studio with your Spark clusters: Spark pipelines compute as events arrive instead of waiting for the next scheduled run. 

• Stronger reliability than the legacy Spark Streaming framework, with Catalyst optimizer support for better performance. 

• Joins across data speeds: enrich fast-moving events with slower-changing reference data, at scale. 

• Automatic time windows: events are grouped and aggregated over a moving period instead of being recomputed over fixed batch files. 

• Stateful joins across streams and clean recovery after a restart, handled for you. No streaming expertise required. 

• Runs on the Spark clusters: Databricks and AWS EMR. 

• More details in documentation 

Deprecation  

At the same time that we are introducing Spark Structured Streaming, we are deprecating: 

• The legacy Spark Streaming framework, deprecated in Talend Studio from 8.0.1 R2026-09 onwards, with removal planned for R2027-09. 

• The following Built-In distributions on Spark Batch, deprecated in Talend Studio as of 8.0.1 R2026-09 with removal planned for R2027-09: Amazon EMR, Azure Synapse, Cloudera, Databricks, Hortonworks, Microsoft HD Insight 4.0, and Custom. The corresponding vendor platforms remain supported, but you'll need to use the Universal distribution instead of the Built-In one. 

• Support for HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise through Kubernetes mode on Spark Batch, deprecated in Talend Studio from 8.0.1 R2026-09 onwards and scheduled for removal in R2027-09. 

How to activate it 

Spark Structured Streaming is available starting with Talend Studio 8.0.1 R2026-09 and later. 
It requires a Qlik Talend Cloud, Data Fabric, or Big Data license. 
 
 

What to focus on when experimenting public preview 

• How your streaming sources behave (Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub) with Spark structured streaming jobs 

• Whether event-time windows and watermarking produce the metrics you'd expect when events arrive late or out of order. 

• How the pipeline recovers after a restart, and whether stateful joins across streams hold up under your workload. 
   
   

How to share feedback 

Try it, tell us how it feels, and help us shape the GA release. The fastest way to reach us is through your Qlik account team, or by replying to this thread directly. We're reading every comment.
You can also submit a case through your usual support channel, with "Public preview" included in the subject. 

This month marks the public preview of the feature we've been building behind the scenes for many months, the most requested capability from our customers, and the one designed to fully unlock developer productivity: the Studio AI Assistant for Qlik Talend Cloud.

What's new

Built on Qlik Answers, the AI driven assistant in Studio turns your intent directly into Talend jobs, speeding up development across Jobs, Routes, and Data Services. Features include automated description generation, AI powered automap and mapping expression builder assistance, Java and SQL generation from prompts, and debug and troubleshooting support. As we move through preview, we'll iteratively expand these capabilities based on your feedback, including opening the scope to end-to-end pipeline building.

The contextual assistant window lives right beside your workflow, a native tool built directly into Studio. Here's what you can do in this preview launch:

• Document your work in one click. Ask your AI Assistant to generate a description and add it straight to your job.
• Shorten the time spent mapping complex schemas with AI powered automap and expression builder assistance.
• Generate SQL and Java from prompts wherever you need them, including components, routines, and beans in routes or jobs.
• Debug and remediate job failures. The assistant advises on critical runtime issues and provides solutions to fix and configure your jobs correctly.
• As the preview progresses, build increasingly complex jobs and routes directly from a prompt, using the catalog of assets already in Studio.

How to activate it

To activate this feature, work with your platform administrator. It's a three-step process:

• In Qlik Cloud, open Administration > Settings > AI features, and enable cross-region inference.

  For more information, see Enabling cross-region inference.

• In Qlik Cloud, open Administration > Settings > Tenant > Feature preview, and enable feature preview.

  For more information, see Enable feature preview for the tenant.

• Assign a new role to the user with the permission Features and actions > AI platform > Generative AI access set to Allowed.

  For more information, see Roles and permissions for users and administrators.

Documentation

AI assistant (Qlik Answers) in Talend Studio

How to share feedback

Your feedback is critical to this preview, and given the scale of this feature, we're running an extended preview period to give customers room to explore and report back. Once you've activated the preview, here's where to send your feedback. Our team is looking forward to hearing from you.

• Questions: post to the community forum.
• Bugs and issues: submit a case through our usual support channel, including your prompt, logs, and optionally your jobs or route. Please include "Feature preview" in the subject line so we can route your case to the preview team.

• New default theme, "Foundation": A cleaner baseline for spacing, borders, and object styling.
• A second theme, "New horizon": Built on Qlik brand colors, for when you want a bolder look.
• Smoother lines: Line and combo charts now use a monotone curve by default instead of straight segments between points.
• Heavier line weight: Default line thickness is now 3 px in line and combo charts, including forecast lines, and in the point and line plugins on bar and scatter charts.
• Larger data points: Default point size is 8 in line and combo charts, and 12 for the point and line plugins.
• Tidier pie charts: The legend and dimension labels are off by default, so the chart itself carries the story.
• Less visual noise: The hover menu is off by default on KPI, filter pane, and gauge objects.
• Predictable text sizing: Text and image objects default to no responsive text behavior, so type stays the size you set it.
• Theming you control from the theme file: Object padding, sheet-level margin between objects, border width, border color, and border radius are now all theme JSON settings, rather than being baked into CSS overrides.

• How the new defaults look on your real dashboards, not just on a fresh sheet
• Whether "Foundation" and "New horizon" work as starting points, or whether you immediately reach for a custom theme
• The new padding, margin, and border settings: do they give you the control you need in your own themes?
• Density: whether thicker lines and larger points read well on charts with many series or dense data
• Anything that feels different from what you're used to, even small things

• Pie chart legends and dimension labels are off by default now. If your sheets rely on them, turn them back on per object.
• If you maintain a custom theme that leaned on the previous card CSS behavior, you may need to move those values into the new theme JSON settings.

• Canvas-based layout: Place and size content freely on an open canvas when curating a page
• Bring in Qlik monitoring charts so that analytics can sit directly on your landing page.
• A flexible set of widgets: Charts, rich text, and lists or collections.
• Multiple pages: Create pages for the entire tenant, a specific group, or your personal use, all based on space permissions.
• Across the activity centers: Available in Insights, Analytics, and Data Integration.

 

• Whether the canvas and widget set let you build the landing experiences you have in mind, particularly for operational, day-to-day monitoring
• How pages hold up with real content on them, especially pages with several embedded charts
• Whether the templates match the users you curate for, and what's missing
• How pages feel on tablet and mobile
• Anything that feels different from the swimlane home you're used to, even small things

• Public-monitored charts: not supported for applications with section access.
• When accessing pages on Mobile, device. pages are for consumption only. Creating and editing happens in Qlik Cloud in the browser
• More widgets are coming, please provide your feedback for what you'd like to see.

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If you write Qlik script, this one's for you. We're introducing a modern editing experience in the Data load editor and Script editor in Qlik Cloud, bringing IDE-grade features to script authoring and making your day-to-day scripting more efficient and intuitive.

This is one of the first features to go through our new Public Preview program. Your feedback will help shape the experience as we move toward general availability. See "How to activate it" below to get started.

What's new

• Dark mode: The most requested editor improvement, now available for the script editor area.
• Improved syntax highlighting: A revised color scheme for better contrast and readability.
• Code folding: Collapse and expand LOAD statements, subroutines, FOR loops, and other blocks.
• Better code navigation: Go to Definition, Go to References, Peek options, and a minimap.
• Syntax hints on hover: Get inline help and doc links, right where you're working.
• Autocomplete: Get suggestions for keywords, functions, variables, and table names, now in a resizable popover.
• Command Palette: Quickly access editing actions like multi-cursor selection, folding, and word wrap.
• Code refactoring: Use Rename Symbol to rename a table, variable, or other recognized construct across your script.

A number of keyboard shortcuts have been added or changed as part of this experience. See Keyboard shortcuts in Data load editor and Script for the full list.

For a full overview of the new experience, see Working with the next-gen script editor.

How to activate it

Feature previews must first be enabled for your tenant, and your tenant admin needs to grant you access via the Feature preview permission. If you don't see Feature previews in your profile, check with your tenant admin, as described in the documentation: Managing feature preview for your tenant.

Once you have access, go to your User profile > Feature previews and activate the "Next-gen script editor" preview feature. See the Feature preview documentation for details on how the program works.

From there, you can switch between the new experience and the classic editor at any time using the "Next-gen editor" menu in the toolbar of the Data load editor and Script editor. 

What to focus on when experimenting

We're especially interested in hearing about:

• How the new code navigation, code folding, and refactoring features hold up on scripts representative of your typical use cases, especially larger or more complex ones
• What you think of the updated color scheme and dark mode
• Anything that feels different from what you're used to, even small things

A couple of things we already know

• Dark mode currently applies to the script editor area. The rest of the Qlik Cloud interface, including the navigation bar and some dialogs, continue to use the standard (light) interface.
• Multi-cursor selection behavior has changed from the classic editor. Check the shortcuts doc for details.

How to share feedback

Use the in-product feedback button, either in the Feature previews dialog or when clicking on the "Preview" badge available in the Data load editor and Script editor.

We built this because Qlik script deserves an editing experience as capable as the language itself. Try it out, tell us how it feels, and help us make it better.