Changelog
Product Update: February 2026
February 28, 2026
Recent releases bring new tools for role management and materialized views, along with significant performance gains across the stack. Here are some of the highlights; for the full list of changes, see the release notes.
- Roles and Users page. A new Roles and Users page in the Materialize Console lets organization administrators create roles, grant privileges, assign users, and visualize role hierarchies with a graph view.
- Replacement Materialized Views (public preview). You can now update a materialized view in place while preserving its downstream dependencies.
- Performance improvements. SELECT statements are now processed outside the main thread, delivering up to 2.5x higher QPS and up to 50% lower p99 latency for some workloads. PostgreSQL sources now support parallel snapshots, improving initial hydration times for large tables, and Console query history is faster, with RBAC queries running 2–3x faster.
- Additional improvements. Support for Avro schema references with Confluent Schema Registry, improved EXPLAIN support for SUBSCRIBE statements, dynamic system parameter configuration via ConfigMap on Self-Managed, and better compatibility with PostgreSQL tools and Aurora.