Deprecated Starting April 26, 2027, core graph processing for BigQuery Graph will be restricted to the BigQuery Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions . Consequently, we are deprecating support for Standard edition and on-demand billing for core graph processing. Graph measures…
Feature You can use the allow_incomplete_view query hint in SQL queries to read data from a continuous materialized view before its initial population finishes. This feature is generally available (GA) . For more information, see Read data during initial population .
Feature Preview : Image Builder is available in allowlist-only Preview. Image Builder is a declarative operating system (OS) image customization tool that automates the process of building, customizing, and validating custom OS images within Google Cloud by using Cloud Build.…
Announcement Credits for the first month of Gemini Code Assist usage are discontinued. Customers currently receiving these credits are unaffected by this change. Previously , these credits had been available to new customers with billing accounts if they had never had a Gemini…
Feature Global Front End is a unified offering that simplifies billing by consolidating pricing across networking products. Cloud Armor is included in the Global Front End Enterprise billing tier. Enabling Global Front End Enterprise in a project enables specific Cloud Armor…
Deprecated The Batch Debian 11 operating system (OS) image family has reached end of development due to the end of support (EOS) for Compute Engine Debian 11 images on August 31, 2026 . The last Batch Debian 11 images—any image versions with the batch-debian-11-official…
Feature Support for the Go 1.27 runtime is in Preview . Feature Starting from Go runtime version 1.26 and later, the lifecycle support dates align more closely with the Go community release cycle . For more information, see Runtime support schedule .
Feature Support for the Go 1.27 runtime is in Preview . Feature Starting from Go runtime version 1.26 and later, the lifecycle support dates align more closely with the Go community release cycle . For more information, see Runtime support schedule .
Feature General Availability : You can use Private Service Connect endpoints and backends to access multi-regional service endpoints such as storage.us.rep.googleapis.com .
Feature The default per-project limit of user-specific reservation assignments has been increased from 10 to 100.
Change For node pools running on GKE versions 1.36.3-gke.1480000 and later, the minimum supported boot disk size is 15 GB. For earlier versions, the minimum supported boot disk size is 12 GB.
Looker (Google Cloud core) only changes Announcement The latest versions in the Looker (Google Cloud core) release channels are beginning deployment as follows: Latest version in the Rapid channel: Looker 26.14 Latest version in the Regular channel: Looker 26.12 Latest version…
Feature You can now use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolbox for Databases to access AlloyDB observability features and advanced query insights directly in your IDE.
Feature You can now use the Dataform remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to manage data transformation workflows through AI agents. This feature is generally available (GA).
Deployment dates Announcement Looker's Continuous Integration is based on the legacy standalone Spectacles service. Looker will continue to integrate and evolve the Spectacles features into Looker's Continuous Integration, and the legacy standalone Spectacles service itself will…
Cloud Trace v2 Feature The following limits associated with the Cloud Trace API, cloudtrace.googleapis.com , have increased: Maximum attributes per span: 1,024 Maximum attribute value size: 65,532 bytes Maximum attribute key size: 512 bytes Maximum span name length: 1,024 bytes…
Feature If you delete your project, buckets that have soft delete enabled are now retained for a limited amount of time before being permanently deleted. If you restore a deleted project during this time period, these buckets are restored to the state that they were in when the…
Feature The following limits associated with the Cloud Trace API, cloudtrace.googleapis.com , have increased: Maximum attributes per span: 1,024 Maximum attribute value size: 65,532 bytes Maximum attribute key size: 512 bytes Maximum span name length: 1,024 bytes Maximum events…
Feature The Secure Source Manager Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is available in Preview . You can use the Secure Source Manager MCP server to connect AI tools and coding assistants directly to your repositories, branch rules, pull requests, and issues. For more…
VERSION_UNSPECIFIED Announcement As detailed in our 2026 Environmental Report (p. 22) , Google is now using Granular Certificates purchased from the marketplace to strategically match more of our load on an hourly basis. To accurately incorporate these certificates into the…
Feature Generally available : You can use zonal and global extension policies in VM Extension Manager to automatically install and manage extensions, such as the Ops Agent, on a fleet of VMs and to ensure consistent extension states across your project. To improve observability…
5.x Announcement Release 7.0.3 Fixed Resolved an issue where SapBdcProductBuilder incorrectly enforced SAP-versioned sections (ecc, s4, common) in table_settings .
Feature You can use custom constraints with Organization Policy to provide more granular control over specific fields for Agent Identity resources, such as agentidentity.googleapis.com/AuthProvider . For more information, see Use custom organization policies for Agent Identity .…
Change (2026-R34) Version updates GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more…
Announcement The Telemetry API for logs ingestion is generally available (GA) . You can ingest OTLP logs into Cloud Logging by using an OpenTelemetry Collector, an OTLP exporter, and the Telemetry API. For more information, see OTLP ingestion overview .
Cloud Logging Announcement The Telemetry API for logs ingestion is generally available (GA) . You can ingest OTLP logs into Cloud Logging by using an OpenTelemetry Collector, an OTLP exporter, and the Telemetry API. For more information, see OTLP ingestion overview .
Feature Generally available (GA) support for the following integrations: Agent Identity API Agent Identity Credentials API
Apigee X Announcement On August 13th, 2026, we began maintenance updates of Apigee instances configured for maintenance windows . If you set a preferred window for maintenance for your instance, and your instance version is below 1-18-0-apigee-2 , your instance will be updated…
Feature BigQuery pipelines now support automated metadata enrichment, allowing you to define semantic metadata directly in SQLX configurations for synchronization with Knowledge Catalog. In addition, the Data Engineering Agent proactively generates this metadata based on your…
Feature Dataform workflows and BigQuery pipelines now support automated metadata enrichment for BigQuery tables and views, allowing you to define semantic metadata directly in SQLX configurations for synchronization with the Knowledge Catalog. For more information, see Add…
Announcement Error Reporting can report stack traces collected from Rust applications using std::backtrace . To enable, set the RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable and make sure debug symbols are enabled. For more information, see ReportedErrorEvent .
Error Reporting Announcement Error Reporting can report stack traces collected from Rust applications using std::backtrace . To enable, set the RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable and make sure debug symbols are enabled. For more information, see ReportedErrorEvent .
Feature VPC Service Controls feature (Status: Preview ): Support for optimizing service perimeters using the VPC Service Controls recommender is available. The recommender detects architectural risks and perimeter misconfigurations, including the following: Critical resources at…
Apigee API hub VERSION_UNSPECIFIED Feature Configure and deploy MCP servers with gcloud CLI You can use the gcloud apihub locations configure-and-deploy-server command to configure and deploy API hub Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to an attached Apigee runtime. Define MCP…
Announcement Table Explorer behavior has moved to the Reference panel. Table Explorer has been deprecated. For more information, see "Use the Reference panel" in Run a query .
Feature You can use parameterized views in Bigtable to dynamically filter data ranges for logical views based on application context and mitigate SQL injection risks. This feature is generally available (GA) . For more information, see Parameterized views overview . Feature You…
Feature [Spotlight Feature] Analyze feed activity with Cloud Logging This feature is in public preview. To use this feature, your Google SecOps instance must be configured with a Bring Your Own Project (BYOP) Google Cloud project. You can now monitor, debug, and troubleshoot…
Change The workflow for creating workforce identity pool providers in the Google Cloud console changed. After submitting the initial provider configuration, the console directs you to a centralized page to configure provider attributes, including attribute mappings, attribute…
Change (2026-R33) Version updates GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more…
Feature Connectivity Tests supports using a Cloud Run job as a source endpoint for connectivity testing. For more information, see Test from a Cloud Run job to a destination .
Fixed Parameter Manager enforces the location organization policy ( constraints/gcp.resourceLocations ) on resources in the global location. If your organization policy restricts allowed resource locations, you must explicitly allow the global location in the policy. Otherwise,…
Cloud Trace v2 Feature The following remote MCP servers automatically generate a trace span for tools/call operations. These spans can help you understand the behavior of your agentic applications. For more information, see Investigate MCP calls using Trace . Cloud Billing…
Feature The following remote MCP servers automatically generate a trace span for tools/call operations. These spans can help you understand the behavior of your agentic applications. For more information, see Investigate MCP calls using Trace . Cloud Billing Personalized Service…
Feature Cloud Workstations supports Compute Engine suspend and resume in Preview. You can configure workstation VMs to suspend when they reach their idle timeouts, referred to as auto-sleep in the Google Cloud Console, rather than shutting down and deleting the VM, by using the…
Apigee hybrid v1.16.9 Announcement v1.16.9 On August 11, 2026 we released an updated version of the Apigee hybrid software, v1.16.9. For information on upgrading, see Upgrading Apigee hybrid to version v1.16.9 . For information on new installations, see The big picture . Note:…
Feature Query templates for data clean rooms are generally available (GA). Query templates allow data clean room owners and publishers to share predefined queries without exposing the underlying tables and views. Additionally, table parameters in table-valued functions (TVFs)…
Feature Generally available : Compute flexible committed use discounts (CUDs) are available for G2 and G4 GPU accelerator-optimized machine series. The supported resources include vCPUs, memory, Local SSD disks, and GPUs. Compute flexible CUDs are spend-based CUDs that apply to…
Security A vulnerability affecting Intel TDX firmware was discovered and is being addressed. For more information, see the GCP-2026-053 security bulletin .
5.x Announcement Release 7.0.2 Fixed Resolved security vulnerabilities in transitive dependencies by updating the following corresponding direct dependencies: google-auth , google-cloud-bigquery , google-cloud-dataform , google-cloud-resource-manager , google-cloud-service-usage…
Feature Firestore in Datastore mode (Datastore) now supports the asia-southeast3 Bangkok region. For a full list of supported locations, see Locations .
Feature Cloud Run NVIDIA L4 GPU driver version 580.x.x is available for services , jobs , and worker pools .
Feature For DML statements, Spanner now enforces the 80,000 mutation limit (including indexes) per statement rather than cumulatively across the transaction. This allows a transaction to execute multiple DML statements that collectively exceed the limit, as long as each…
Feature BigQuery now supports the gemini-3.1-flash-lite and gemini-3.5-flash GA models, which are available for the us , eu , and global multi-regional endpoints. You can use these models in all generative AI functions. For information about how to specify a multi-regional…
Libraries Go 1.52.0 (2026-08-03) Features bigtable: Add AFE picker (Simple / LeastInFlight / LeastLatency) ( #20204 ) ( bcbf714 ) bigtable: Add ClientConfig.DisableSession to opt out of session backend ( #20297 ) ( 7ee5e44 ) bigtable: Add getClientConfigDirectAccessChecker for…
Announcement A new Managed Service for Apache Airflow release has started on August 10, 2026 . Get ready for upcoming changes and features as we roll out the new release to all regions. This release is in progress at the moment. Listed changes and features might not be available…
Change When configuring Eventarc triggers for Cloud Run destinations (including Cloud Run functions), you can specify a single delivery attempt with no retries. For more information, see Retries for Cloud Run destinations .
Feature The Cloud Run functions upgrade tool is in General Availability . Use this tool to upgrade 1st gen functions to Cloud Run functions.
Other Bug fixes in VS Code Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Feature Dynamic channel pooling (DCP) for gRPC channels in the Spanner Go and Java client libraries is generally available ( GA ). DCP prevents performance issues from under-provisioned or over-provisioned channels and reduces configuration overhead. DCP is disabled by default.…
Feature You can now sync tables from BigQuery into your AlloyDB instance, either as a one-time operation or on a periodic schedule. This feature (in Preview ) lets you enable operational analytics that benefit from low-latency, transactional access to your data lake. For more…
Feature New filter and group-by option available in Cloud Billing Reports In Billing Reports , Cloud Billing has added the Originating products filter and Group by to provide additional options that let you analyze and understand your costs. Originating products are Google Cloud…
Feature The accelerator-optimized g4-standard-48 machine type for securely running AI and ML workloads is generally available (GA) , with the following specifications: 5th Generation AMD EPYC Turin processor AMD SEV 1 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPU
5.x Announcement Release 7.0.1 Fixed Resolved an issue where running the uv run cortex-build command in Windows PowerShell or Windows Command Prompt resulted in a Could not auto-import local builder warning and an Invalid builder type NoneType for category ... error. Improved…
Feature Preview: Cloud KMS supports quantum-safe key import. You can use the following quantum-safe import methods: HPKE_KEM_XWING_HKDF_SHA256_AES_256_GCM HPKE_KEM_ML_KEM_768_HKDF_SHA256_AES_256_GCM HPKE_KEM_ML_KEM_1024_HKDF_SHA256_AES_256_GCM For more information about…
Deployment dates Announcement Looker 26.14 will roll out to Looker (original) instances on the following schedule: Expected deployment start: Monday, August 10, 2026 Expected final deployment and download available: Sunday, August 23, 2026 Looker 26.14 is expected to include the…
Feature VPC Service Controls feature: The VPC Service Controls service patterns feature is generally available . You can use service patterns to explicitly configure which Google APIs (both supported and unsupported) can be accessed from VPC networks within a service perimeter…
Change (Airflow 3.2.2, 3.1.8, and 2.11.1) The apache-airflow-providers-google package was upgraded to version 22.2.2. For more information about changes, see the apache-airflow-providers-google changelog . Change New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3):…
Deployment dates Announcement From August 3 through August 5, 2026, the following features will be automatically enabled for Looker (Google Cloud core) instances running Looker 26.12. Feature Looker Continuous Integration (CI) now supports email alerts. When you create or edit a…
Announcement The Telemetry API for metric ingestion is generally available (GA) . You can ingest OTLP metrics into Cloud Monitoring by using an OpenTelemetry Collector, an OTLP exporter, and the Telemetry API. For more information, see OTLP metric ingestion overview .
Feature Cloud Run supports sandboxes for all resources, including jobs and worker pools ( Preview ).
Cloud Monitoring Announcement The Telemetry API for metric ingestion is generally available (GA) . You can ingest OTLP metrics into Cloud Monitoring by using an OpenTelemetry Collector, an OTLP exporter, and the Telemetry API. For more information, see OTLP metric ingestion…
Feature AlloyDB now supports Best Matching 25 (BM25) indexes for full-text search in Preview . You can use the pg_textsearch extension to create BM25 indexes and optimize probabilistic ranking of full-text search. This feature is supported on AlloyDB instances running PostgreSQL…
Deployment dates Feature Now available in preview, enhanced observability metrics — including engagement and estimated token usage data — are available for Conversational Analytics on the Conversational Analytics System Activity dashboard . To enable this feature, a Looker…
Feature Preview : Semantic tags are available in Preview . Semantic tags provide standardized key-value metadata backed by OpenTelemetry (OTel) conventions. Tags automatically replicates Environment and Criticality attributes set on App Hub services and workloads as read-only…
Feature General availability support for the following integration: Gemini Cloud Assist
Feature The Assured Open Source Software Premium tier supports JavaScript (NPM) packages for Node.js environments. For more information, see Download NPM packages using direct repository access and List of supported NPM packages for the Assured Open Source Software premium tier .
Feature You can now use cross-cloud connections to query data in AWS, Azure, and Salesforce Data 360 from all BigQuery regions. These connections let you use more BigQuery features and are more cost efficient than standard connections that use BigQuery Omni. This feature is in…
Feature Changed : The minimum provisioned throughput for a Hyperdisk ML volume attached to more than 20 instances is 20 MiB/s per instance, reduced from 100 MiB/s. For more information, see Share a Hyperdisk ML volume between instances .
Feature Organization Policy Service custom constraints are available for Privileged Access Manager (PAM). You can use custom constraints to restrict how users create and modify entitlements and grants. This feature is in Preview . For more information, see Use custom…
Looker (Google Cloud core) and Looker (original) changes Feature A localized processing option for Conversational Analytics is now available for European Union (EU) based customers, enabling data processing within the EU jurisdiction by routing traffic through an EU…
Feature Connectivity Tests supports testing connectivity from a Database Migration Service private connection to a Cloud SQL instance. For more information, see Test from a Database Migration Service private connection to a Cloud SQL instance .
Feature Preview : You can create v2 IPv4 public advertised prefixes for bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) that use Standard Tier IP addresses. For more information, see Network Service Tiers .
Feature Preview stage support for the following integration: Google Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise
Change Updated the following JetBrains preconfigured base images to version 2026.x: CLion 2026.1 GoLand 2026.2 IntelliJ Ultimate 2026.1 PhpStorm 2026.2 WebStorm 2026.1 RubyMine 2026.1 PyCharm 2026.1 Rider 2026.1
Feature Preview : Google Cloud VMware Engine capacity allocations are available in preview. A capacity allocation is a global reservation of physical nodes for your Cloud Billing account. Your reserved nodes are organized into placement groups (PGs), which represent the specific…
Apigee hybrid v1.15.7 Announcement v1.15.7 On July 31, 2026 we released an updated version of the Apigee hybrid software, v1.15.7. For information on upgrading, see Upgrading Apigee hybrid to version v1.15.7 . For information on new installations, see The big picture . Note:…
Security Support for Intel TDX on c4-standard-* machine types is available in Preview .
Feature You can now pause a Dataflow batch job using the pause_on_failure service option. This feature lets you preserve the state of your batch pipeline job, address external issues, and resume processing without losing completed work. You can use this option to automatically…
Feature You can now replicate change data from Workday with Datastream. For more information, see Stream data from Workday . This feature is in Preview .
Feature You can add tables, views, data sources, and data quality tests as tasks to BigQuery pipelines. For more information, see Add a pipeline task . This feature is generally available . Feature You can audit when users download query results by using the BigQuery console.…
Feature You can use Bigtable as a remote storage backend for LMCache . By storing the large language model (LLM) key-value (KV) cache externally in Bigtable, multiple AI serving instances can share and reuse precomputed attention tensors. This reduces compute overhead and…
Announcement Config Connector version 1.154.1 is now available. Feature New Alpha Resources (Direct Reconciler): ApigeeApiProduct Manage Apigee API products to bundle APIs and make them available to developers. ApigeeRegistryApi Manage Apigee Registry APIs to catalog and manage…
5.x Announcement Release 7.0.0-GA (General Availability) Note: Important upgrade considerations for Version 7 Upgrading from v6: Because v7 is a new major version it implies breaking changes with no automatic migration path. For v6 customers looking to adopt v7, we provide v6…
Change (2026-R32) Version updates GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more…
Deployment dates Announcement From July 27 through July 30, 2026, the following features will be automatically enabled for Looker (original) instances running Looker 26.12. Feature Looker admins now have the ability to configure a Looker instance to require multi-factor…
Deprecated Support for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint enablement using the Service Usage v2beta API is shut down. For more information, see Feature deprecations .
Feature General Availability : You can use the Resolve subnet mask setting on a subnet to configure all attached Compute Engine instances with the same netmask as the subnet (instead of /32 ). Configuring larger instance netmasks lets compute instances discover the MAC addresses…
Feature The BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports incremental data transfers when transferring data from Klaviyo to BigQuery. This feature is supported in Preview .
Feature You can use the Google Cloud console to manage row key schemas for your Bigtable tables. This feature is in Preview .
Change Google SecOps has updated the list of supported default parsers . Parsers are updated gradually, so it might take one to four days before you see the changes reflected in your region. The following supported default parsers have been updated. Each parser is listed by…
Feature Airflow 3.2.2 is available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3). Change (Airflow 3.2.2) The Multi-Team Airflow feature isn't available. The [core]multi_team Airflow configuration option is set to False and it isn't possible to override it. Fixed (Airflow 3.2.2) Backported #69877…
Feature Public preview : you can create a machine image that includes or excludes specific non-boot disks attached to a source Compute Engine instance. For more information, see Create a machine image from specific disks . You can also create a new disk by restoring a specific…
Feature Confidential VM instances with AMD SEV on C3D and C4D machine types now support configurations with more than 255 vCPUs.
Feature You can now create a Datastream stream directly from the instance or database overview page in Spanner using the automated flow. For more information, see Create a Spanner stream using the automated flow .
Feature Cloud KMS Autokey with same-project key storage (formerly known as Autokey for delegated key management) is generally available. Autokey with same-project key storage can be used on its own or alongside Autokey with dedicated-project key storage (formerly known as…
Managed Cloud Service Mesh Feature For the clusters using TRAFFIC_DIRECTOR implementation, IP auto-allocation with DNS Proxy is now supported in Rapid release channel.
Feature Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters. To enable this feature on an existing cluster, contact your Google Cloud account team. IAM group authentication for AlloyDB is available in Preview for new clusters running PostgreSQL 15 and…
Feature Hyperdisk Balanced volumes on C4D instances have increased maximum throughput limits for these machine types: c4d-*-96 : 3,125 MiB/s (up from 2,800 MiB/s). c4d-*-192 : 6,250 MiB/s (up from 4,800 MiB/s). c4d-*-384 : 12,500 MiB/s (up from 10,000 MiB/s). For detailed…
Issue Starting August 2026, Confidential VM instances using AMD SEV-SNP might have longer boot times and performance changes due to a guest kernel migration and security updates. This issue is expected to be resolved by November 2026. Confidential VM instances using AMD SEV or…
Feature Spanner supports creating tables without defining primary keys. When you create a table without a primary key, Spanner creates a hidden rowid column that serves as the primary key. For more information, see Create a table without defining a primary key .
Feature AlloyDB write endpoints are now available in Preview . Write endpoints simplify database connection management by providing a stable domain name service (DNS) name for your applications, decoupling them from instance IP addresses. During disaster recovery switchovers or…
Apigee X Announcement On July 27th, 2026, we released an updated version of Apigee (1-18-0-apigee-2). Note: Rollouts of this release began today and may take four or more business days to be completed across all Google Cloud zones. Your instances may not have the features and…
Feature You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter. For more information, see Subscribe to a Cloud Marketplace-integrated listing . This feature is generally available (GA). Feature You can use the APPENDS and…
Feature The Bigtable remote MCP server supports the Bigtable Data API, which provides the execute_sql tool that you can use to query Bigtable data using natural language prompts. This feature is generally available (GA) . For more information, see Use the Bigtable remote MCP…
Feature Spend cap budgets are now available for a limited set of services (Preview) Available in Preview for eligible services , you can now configure a spend cap budget to automatically pause usage when your spend exceeds the budget amount you set. Spend caps are a cost control…
Feature The maximum IOPS per GiB for Hyperdisk Balanced Storage Pools have increased from 4 IOPS per GiB. The new limits depend on the provisioning type: Standard performance : 30 IOPS per GiB Advanced performance : 6 IOPS per GiB For more information, see Limits for Hyperdisk…
Feature Dataform deployments provide a centralized experience for creating and managing pipeline deployments connected to remote Git repositories. This feature is available in Preview .
Feature Support for the Node.js 26 runtime is in Preview .
Feature Managed workload identities for Compute Engine are generally available . For more information, see Configure managed workload identity authentication for Compute Engine .
Security The general availability (GA) stage of mixed-protocol Services of type LoadBalancer fixes errors in traffic routing from stages prior to GA. This feature is in the GA stage in GKE version 1.36.2-gke.1498000 and later.
Feature Support for the Node.js 26 runtime is in Preview . Feature Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in Preview .
Feature Automatic rotation of regional Cloud SQL database credentials in Secret Manager is available in Preview . This feature lets you automatically generate secure passwords, update target Cloud SQL database instances (PostgreSQL or SQL Server), and rotate secret versions on a…
Apigee API hub VERSION_UNSPECIFIED Feature General availability (GA) launch of Model Context Protocol (MCP) in API hub The API hub MCP server is Generally Available (GA) . This release enables seamless integration between your AI agents and API hub, allowing your applications to…
Feature Early signals for AI workloads For AI workloads (such as Gemini API and Vertex AI), you can now view early anomalies. Early anomalies use near real-time cost estimates to provide daily, service-level insights before finalized billing occurs. You can view these alerts on…
Announcement Starting in September, 2026, Airflow 2.10.5 will no longer be included in new Managed Airflow images and builds. This change will not affect existing images and builds. Announcement Starting in September 2026, we are changing the version support policy for Managed…
Feature You can observe real-time virtual machine (VM) distribution across zones, machine types, and instance states in your managed instance groups (MIGs) by using the GCE MIG Instance Distribution Monitoring dashboard in Cloud Monitoring. When your group uses location…
Feature Governance workflows let you set up automated controls for data product access management by providing a request-review mechanism. This feature is available in preview . For more information, see About governance workflows .
Change (2026-R31) Version updates GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more…
Managed Cloud Service Mesh Feature The Envoy Compressor Filter is now GA in the stable release channel.
Deprecated As of July 30, 2026, support for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enablement and consumer policies using the Service Usage v2beta API will be shut down. For more information, see Feature deprecations .
Feature Transparent query forwarding is now available in Preview for clusters compatible with PostgreSQL 17 and 18. With this feature, the primary node in a cluster intercepts read-only queries and selectively forwards them to read pool instances while maintaining…
Apigee hybrid v1.14.7 Announcement v1.14.7 On July 23, 2026 we released an updated version of the Apigee hybrid software, v1.14.7. For information on upgrading, see Upgrading Apigee hybrid to version 1.14 . For information on new installations, see The big picture . Note: This…
Other Bug fixes in VS Code Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Deployment dates Security A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Looker. An attacker could craft a malicious URL that, when opened by a Looker administrator, would allow the attacker to execute arbitrary scripts on their behalf and potentially compromise…
Feature To provide long-term security and address threats from future quantum computers, Binary Authorization supports keys that use post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. These algorithms, such as ML-DSA-65 (Dilithium3), are standardized to be resistant to attacks from…
Feature Generally available : You can configure a regional managed instance group (MIG) to allow a VM repair in an alternate zone when the MIG can't repair the VM in its original zone. Repairing a VM in an alternate zone can help to improve your application's resiliency and…
Other Bug fixes in IntelliJ Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Looker (Google Cloud core) and Looker (original) changes Deprecated As of July 13, 2026, Looker reports have been deprecated. If you had previously enabled the preview for Looker reports, be aware of the following: You will no longer have the option to create new reports. You…
Managed Cloud Service Mesh Feature The Envoy Lua Filter is now available as a preview feature in the stable release channel.
Feature For Google Cloud resources that are registered as App Hub workloads or services, VPC Flow Logs records contain application-specific labels. For more information, see App Hub labels .
Breaking Starting on the following dates, you can no longer create a job that locates its Compute Engine resources outside of the job's location. For projects that have successfully submitted before July 31, 2026 at least one job that uses the allowedLocations[] field with any…
Deprecated [Spotlight Feature] Deprecation of Google Security Operations legacy SIEM APIs Google Security Operations is deprecating its legacy SIEM APIs— Backstory API (including Customer Management API ) and Ingestion API —in favor of the modern Chronicle API . Key dates…
Deprecated Encrypting disks, snapshots, images, and machine images with customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEKs) is deprecated and will be disabled on July 20, 2027. For more information and alternatives to CSEKs for your Compute Engine resources, see Deprecation of…
Other Bug fixes in VS Code Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Deprecated To improve security, Ubuntu node images in GKE version 1.37 and later don't pre-install the vulkan-tools package. If you run Vulkan diagnostic tools (such as vulkaninfo ) directly on GKE Ubuntu hosts, then you must manually install the vulkan-tools package. This…
Feature Object Lifecycle Management conditions for sizeAboveBytes and sizeBelowBytes let you define a minimum and maximum size threshold for lifecycle actions.
Feature Preview : You can reserve static external IPv6 addresses from bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) sub-prefixes that are in EXTERNAL_IPV6_FORWARDING_RULE_CREATION mode. You can assign these addresses to forwarding rules for external passthrough Network Load Balancers and…
Feature Instance flexibility is available in Preview . Instance flexibility lets you allow a job to run on multiple machine types that you specify and can optionally rank. Use instance flexibility to improve obtainability —the probability that resources are available to run…
Feature Data lineage control at the organization, folder, or project level is generally available for BigQuery, Managed Service for Apache Spark, and Managed Service for Apache Airflow. For more information, see About data lineage ingestion control and Configure data lineage…
Looker (Google Cloud core) and Looker (original) changes Feature Starting in Looker 26.8, Looker supports Java OpenJDK version 21. Looker-hosted instances have been upgraded to OpenJDK 21. Customer-hosted instances should upgrade to OpenJDK 21 . If you run Looker directly using…
Apigee UI Announcement On July 16, 2026, we released an updated version of the Apigee UI. Fixed Updated PDU and basepath limits display in the Apigee UI Removed the ambiguous org-wide PDU limit visualization from the Apigee proxy usage card. Added display of Deployments per…
Feature Airflow 3.1.8 is available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3). Change Airflow 3.1.7 is no longer included in Managed Airflow images and builds. Fixed (Airflow 3.1.8) Backported #64031 to fix an issue in the Airflow UI when viewing tasks in non-terminal states (scheduled,…
Feature Cloud KMS supports the following post-quantum computing (PQC) signing algorithms in General Availability: PQ_SIGN_HASH_SLH_DSA_SHA2_128S_SHA256 PQ_SIGN_ML_DSA_44 PQ_SIGN_ML_DSA_44_EXTERNAL_MU PQ_SIGN_ML_DSA_65 PQ_SIGN_ML_DSA_65_EXTERNAL_MU PQ_SIGN_ML_DSA_87…
Change (2026-R30) Version updates GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more…
Apigee UI Fixed Apigee UI Fixed an issue where editing a legacy API Product with a selected API Proxy could cause the Apigee UI to become unresponsive. Apigee X Announcement On July 15th, 2026, we released an updated version of Apigee (1-18-0-apigee-1). Note: Rollouts of this…
Feature Advanced Filtering in Dashboards This feature is in public preview. Advanced Filtering in dashboards is now available in Google SecOps. This feature enhances dashboard capabilities by enabling security analysts to use query variables, also known as tokens, to inject…
Feature You can now replicate change data from the following application sources with Datastream: ServiceNow Salesforce Marketing Cloud Microsoft Dataverse This feature is in Preview .
1.27.x Announcement 1.29.5-asm.12 is now available for in-cluster Cloud Service Mesh. For details on upgrading Cloud Service Mesh, see Upgrade Cloud Service Mesh . Cloud Service Mesh 1.29.5-asm.12 uses Envoy v1.35.13. Fixed Patch 1.29.5-asm.12 contains fixes for the following…
Feature AI agents can use the list_hot_tablets Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool to programmatically query Bigtable cluster health to isolate resource-intensive tablets (hot tablets) and detect overutilized node CPUs. This feature is generally available (GA) .
Change GKE Dataplane V2 clusters running version 1.35.1-gke.1516000 or later now use CNI version 1.1.0 in the CNI configuration files. This change requires downstream CNI plugins to be compatible with CNI version 1.1.0. Customers using self-managed open-source Istio or…
Feature Cloud Run support for importing public container images from GitHub Container Registry is in General Availability .
Issue In Managed Airflow (Gen 3) builds with Airflow 2.11.1 starting from composer-3-airflow-2.11.1-build.7 , the Airflow web server requires at least 3 GB of memory (the default amount of memory for a Small environment preset is 4 GB). If the Airflow web server has less than 3…
Security A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in repositories in BigQuery, Dataform, and Colab Enterprise. An authenticated attacker could potentially escalate permissions and perform cross-tenant repository takeover. For more information, see the GCP-2026-047…
Security For GitLab Enterprise and Bitbucket Data Center connections, Developer Connect now checks permissions on the calling principal. When you create or update repository connections, Developer Connect uses Secret Manager secrets to authenticate to third-party Git providers.…
Feature Parameter templates are available in Preview . This feature lets you define standardized configuration blueprints and securely substitute environment-specific variables from parameter versions during deployment. For more information, see Parameter templates overview .
Apigee Advanced API Security Deprecated Deprecation and shutdown of GenAI Incident Summary (generative AI Insights) The standalone GenAI Incident Summary (generative AI Insights) feature in Apigee Advanced API Security Abuse Detection, currently in Preview, is deprecated and…
Feature Payments documents for invoiced billing accounts available on Payment status page For Cloud Billing accounts that are paid by invoice , access to your payments documents, such as invoices and credit memos, is now available in the Cloud Billing console in the Payment…
Change (2026-R29) Version updates GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more…
Feature You can use the Bigtable client library for Go to execute read jobs and queries using Data Boost .
Feature Knowledge Catalog connectors for importing metadata from SQL Server and PostgreSQL data sources are available in Preview . Knowledge Catalog connectors automatically extract metadata (technical, operational, and business) from external data sources and import it into…
Feature External search with AlloyDB now supports Apache Solr in Preview . You can use the external_search_fdw extension to connect to a Solr cluster and query its data directly from your database.
Feature Cloud Armor preconfigured rules support ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) 4.22 as a rule source. For more information, see Tuning Google Cloud Armor WAF rules . This feature is Generally Available.
Feature Connectivity Tests analyzes Proxy Network Load Balancers that are configured with Server Name Indication (SNI) routing for TLS traffic.
Feature Cloud Run sandboxes provide a fast and secure isolated environment to execute untrusted code, such as code generated by AI agents. For more information, see Configure sandboxes for services and Code execution in Cloud Run ( Preview ).
Feature Preview : You can configure disaster recovery for Google Cloud VMware Engine by using JetStream. Disaster recovery options include the following: Set up a Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud as a recovery site for your on-premises VMware applications. Protect…
Announcement The base VM for your workstation includes the Content-Addressable Storage File System (CASFS) kernel module, which lets you run the Android Build File System (ABFS). For more information about the introduction of this module, see the Container-Optimized OS Milestone…
Feature You can bind existing tags to Bigtable instances when you create an instance and use policies to enforce mandatory tag assignments. This feature is generally available (GA) . For more information, see Create an instance . Feature The Bigtable agent skill (…
Change New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3): composer-3-airflow-3.1.7-build.13 composer-3-airflow-2.11.1-build.9 (default) composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.42 Change New images are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 2): composer-2.17.6-airflow-2.11.1…
Feature The Cloud KMS overview dashboard Asymmetric PQC insights chart is generally available. You can use the Asymmetric PQC insights chart and details view to identify how many and which of your asymmetric keys are susceptible to attacks from future quantum computers. This…
Feature Custom organization policy constraints are generally available (GA) for Google Cloud VMware Engine. You can use custom constraints to enforce security policies and restrict configuration of your VMware Engine resources. For more information, see Use custom organization…
Feature Bigtable supports direct connectivity, which bypasses the Google frontend and optimizes performance for application traffic that meets certain criteria. For more information, see Direct connectivity .
Managed Cloud Service Mesh Feature The Envoy Compressor Filter is now GA in the regular release channel. Feature The Envoy Lua Filter is now available as a preview feature in the regular release channel.
Feature You can use Gemini in Spanner Studio to fix errors in your SQL queries. When you run a query that contains an error, you can click Fix to view a line-by-line comparison of your query and a recommended correction, along with an explanation of the change. This feature is…
Feature Secure Source Manager is now compliant with EU VPAT / WCAG 2.2.
Announcement [Spotlight Feature] Security Tokens Security Tokens are now available for metering agentic consumption within Google SecOps. Tokens are consumed by generally available security agents only. These agents are invoked automatically or manually using the web interface,…
Announcement Config Connector version 1.153.0 is now available. Feature New Beta Resources (Direct Reconciler): OrgPolicyPolicy Manage Organization Policies to configure constraints across your Google Cloud resources. New Alpha Resources (Direct Reconciler): AIStreamsCluster…
Announcement Increased multiple event limits Multiple event rule limits have been increased to 200 for Enterprise customers and 400 for Enterprise+ customers. For more information, see Package comparison Announcement Unified rules interface The new rules interface is now…
Feature The broker mode for out-of-band Network Security Integration (also known as packet broker) is now available in General Availability (GA) with allowlist . Broker mode lets you mirror GENEVE-encapsulated network packets from a consumer network to multiple producer networks…
Feature General Availability : If a consumer VPC network uses an RDMA network profile for Falcon VPC networks , a single Compute Engine instance can connect to it by using multiple virtual Private Service Connect interfaces. For more information, see Create VMs with Private…
Change New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3): composer-3-airflow-3.1.7-build.12 composer-3-airflow-2.11.1-build.8 (default) composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.41 Change New images are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 2): composer-2.17.5-airflow-2.11.1…
Feature You can grant workflows access to Bigtable, Google Drive, and Knowledge Catalog when running or scheduling them with your Google Account user credentials. Extended access options are available in Preview .
Feature Alerting policies based on PromQL queries can now operate over more than 25 hours of data. For more information, see Query over 2 years of metric data and Limits for alerting .
Feature Vertex AI Search for commerce, which has been previously known under the mame Retail Search, has been rebranded to AI Commerce Search in Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. An intelligent AI search platform customized for ecommerce use cases, AI Commerce Search…
Feature Deploy a highly available, multi-region Cloud Run service with automated failover and failback for internal and external traffic using Cloud Run service health in General Availability (GA) . Feature Configure HTTP and gRPC readiness probes for your Cloud Run services is…
1.27.x Security 1.29.5-asm.5 is now available for in-cluster Cloud Service Mesh. This patch release contains the fix for the security vulnerability listed in GCP-2026-045 . For details on upgrading Cloud Service Mesh, see Upgrade Cloud Service Mesh . Cloud Service Mesh…
Cloud Monitoring Feature Alerting policies based on PromQL queries can now operate over more than 25 hours of data. For more information, see Query over 2 years of metric data and Limits for alerting . Cloud Trace v2 Feature Google Cloud Observability has expanded the supported…
Feature Google Cloud Observability has expanded the supported locations for observability buckets, which store your trace data, to include the following: europe-west9 For a list of supported locations, see Locations for observability buckets .
Feature VPC Service Controls feature: Support for using the following identities in ingress and egress rules to allow access to resources protected by a service perimeter is generally available : Agent identities SPIFFE formats for third-party workforce and workload identities…
Change Google SecOps has updated the list of supported default parsers . Parsers are updated gradually, so it might take one to four days before you see the changes reflected in your region. The following supported default parsers have been updated. Each parser is listed by…
Announcement Improved documentation portal navigation Finding help is now easier! We've updated the navigation of our documentation portal to be primarily user-centric. Sections have been reorganized and renamed to align with your workflows, providing a logical path through the…
Change The apache-airflow-providers-google package was upgraded to version 22.1.0. For more information about changes, see the apache-airflow-providers-google changelog . Change New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3): composer-3-airflow-3.1.7-build.11…
Feature Support for Intel TDX on c3-standard-*-lssd machine type is available in Preview .
Security Security bulletins page See the new security bulletins page for Application Integration. Use it to stay informed about related security updates, vulnerabilities, and remediations. For more information, see Security bulletins .
Change The Assured Open Source Software free tier includes an updated list of curated binaries for the Go, Java, and Python languages. For more information, see List of supported Java and Python packages for the Assured OSS free tier and List of supported Go packages for the…
5.x Announcement Release 7.0.0-preview.2.1 (Public Preview) Note: Due configuration structure change, upgrade to v7.0.0 GA and later require recreation of configuration files. Fixed Resolved a path resolution issue affecting table_settings.yaml in the configuration.
Feature Support for applying role-based access controls (RBAC) to Cloud Monitoring dashboards and alerting policies using Tags is generally available . You can use Tags to protect Terraform-managed Cloud Monitoring resources and configure team-scoped access. For more…
Cloud Monitoring Feature Support for applying role-based access controls (RBAC) to Cloud Monitoring dashboards and alerting policies using Tags is generally available . You can use Tags to protect Terraform-managed Cloud Monitoring resources and configure team-scoped access. For…
5.x Announcement Release 7.0.0-preview.2 (Public Preview) Note: Due configuration structure change, upgrade to v7.0.0 GA and later require recreation of configuration files. Feature Data products for SAP ERP : Additional data product accelerators including: accounting documents,…
Feature Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) supports securing agent-to-anywhere egress for Agent Gateway. The feature generally available GA . To learn more about IAP support for Agent Gateway, see IAP for agents overview .
Announcement HCX upgrade to 4.11.4: The VMware Engine operations team is initiating updates of the HCX Manager Appliance to version 4.11.4. This upgrade resolves an issue with MON-enabled segments. You are responsible for upgrading the HCX On-Prem/Connectors and Service Mesh…
Feature General Availability : You can cancel pending deletion requests for VPC Network Peering connections that are in consensus mode. For more information, see Cancel a deletion request .
Feature General availability support for the following integration: Conversational Analytics API
Feature Preview : You can use Gemini in the Google Cloud console as an AI-powered interface to evaluate hardware options, estimate deployment costs, and view recommended configurations for your clusters. Prompting Gemini helps you reach an optimal configuration for your cluster…
Feature Ask Gemini Cloud Assist in Feed Management Google SecOps now provides Gemini Cloud Assist (GCA) directly within the Feed Management interface to help you with feed creation, setup, and general troubleshooting questions. A new Ask Gemini Cloud Assist button is now…
Announcement Config Connector version 1.152.0 is now available. Feature New Fields: ComputeReservation Added spec.shareSettings field. ComputeForwardingRule Added status.target field. Change Reconciliation Improvements: Added support for direct reconciliation to more resources,…
Feature You can control data lineage ingestion for BigQuery and Managed Service for Apache Airflow at the organization, folder, or project level. This feature is available in preview . For more information, see Control data ingestion .
1.27.x Security 1.29.5-asm.3 is now available for in-cluster Cloud Service Mesh. This patch release contains the fix for the security vulnerability listed in GCP-2026-040 . For details on upgrading Cloud Service Mesh, see Upgrade Cloud Service Mesh . Cloud Service Mesh…
Feature Spanner supports direct connectivity . When enabled, your application traffic is routed directly to Spanner servers, bypassing the Google Front End (GFE) servers. This can reduce your overall latency. Direct connectivity is generally available (GA) .
Feature General Availability : Service consumers can authorize Private Service Connect interfaces to connect to network attachments by adding service class IDs to a network attachment's accept list. For more information, see Authorization policies .
Feature Preview : RoCE VPC networks for VM instances support assigning alias IP ranges to MRDMA vNICs. For more information about these features, see the following: RDMA network profiles Alias IP ranges
Feature Resource-based CUD recommendations available for Compute Engine GPUs, Local SSD disks, and OS licenses Resource-based committed use discount (CUD) recommendations are generally available (GA) for GPUs, Local SSD disks, and premium operating system (OS) licenses. CUD…
Feature You can now use Hyperdisk Balanced disks for Dataflow worker VMs. With Hyperdisk Balanced disks, you can provision IOPS and throughput independently of disk size by using the diskProvisionedIOPS and diskProvisionedThroughput pipeline options (Java SDK) or…
Feature Knowledge Catalog connectors for importing metadata from Oracle and MySQL data sources are available in Preview . Knowledge Catalog connectors automatically extract metadata (technical, operational, and business) from external data sources and import it into Knowledge…
Security If the parent project for a Cloud Storage bucket changes, a log sink stops routing log entries to that bucket. For more information about error messages and recovery options, see Errors routing to Cloud Storage .
Feature Metrics Explorer can automatically break down a chart into a series of tiles, with each displaying time-series data for a specific label key. This view helps you identify spikes, dips, or trends that the aggregation settings might otherwise hide. To learn more, see Break…
Managed Cloud Service Mesh Feature The Envoy Lua Filter is now available as a preview feature in the rapid release channel.
Cloud Logging Security If the parent project for a Cloud Storage bucket changes, a log sink stops routing log entries to that bucket. For more information about error messages and recovery options, see Errors routing to Cloud Storage . Cloud Monitoring Feature Metrics Explorer…
Feature Preview : RoCE VPC networks for VM instances support assigning alias IP ranges to MRDMA vNICs. For more information about these features, see the following: RDMA network profiles Alias IP ranges
Change Cloud Shell no longer includes the Terraform CLI by default. Users can customize their environment to install the CLI on environment startup, or install the binary to their home directory to persist the install between sessions.
Feature Bare Metal Solution supports using Privileged Access Manager to provide temporary elevated access to a user to perform the critical evict operation that permanently deletes a storage resource. For more information, see Evict a LUN or storage volume .
Other Bug fixes in VS Code Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Feature Secret Manager supports multi-region storage. You can choose between a single region or a multi-region location when you create a regional secret in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Create a regional secret .
Other Bug fixes in IntelliJ Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Feature The Agent Identity API ( agentidentity.googleapis.com ) is available in Preview . This new API replaces the legacy IAM Connectors API ( iamconnectors.googleapis.com ) for managing auth providers and agent identities. During the preview migration period, both APIs operate…
Change The Cloud Logging API adds support for the ca regional endpoint. For a complete list of regional endpoints, see the REST reference pages .
Feature Secret Manager is available in the following multi-regions: United States ( us ) European Union ( eu ) Canada ( ca ) India ( in ) For more information, see Secret Manager locations .
Cloud Logging Change The Cloud Logging API adds support for the ca regional endpoint. For a complete list of regional endpoints, see the REST reference pages . Cloud Trace v2 Feature You can collect, view, and analyze multimodal prompts and responses from your agentic…
Feature You can collect, view, and analyze multimodal prompts and responses from your agentic applications that use the LangGraph or Agent Development Kit (ADK) frameworks. This feature is generally available (GA) . Instrument generative AI applications Collect and view…
Feature The Common Expression Language (CEL) function, originatesFromProjects() , can be used in custom access levels . The feature is generally available ( GA ).
Feature Agent Assist offers the following UI module integrations with Agent Assist for Salesforce : Chat Voice with Twilio Flex Voice with Nice CXone Voice with Genesys CX Cloud
Feature CUD dashboard redesign available (preview) The redesigned CUD dashboard is available in the Billing section of the Google Cloud console. It provides a consolidated view of all your resource-based and spend-based CUDs in a single place. The new design improves usability…
Change Auto-collapse setting for the query editor You can now configure the query editor to automatically collapse after you run a search, maximizing the screen space available for viewing your search results. By default, the query editor remains expanded. For more information,…
Feature Memorystore for Redis supports the General Availability of the following health issues: Expensive commands : resolve performance issues that are associated with using Redis commands that are resource-intensive (expensive). High resource utilization : resolve issues that…
Feature Support for the ext_authz Envoy gRPC API protocol is now generally available (GA) for regional external Application Load Balancers and regional internal Application Load Balancers.
Feature When you create composite objects , you can delete the temporary source objects as part of the composition process.
Feature AlloyDB integration with Knowledge Catalog is now generally available ( GA ). This integration provides a unified metadata view to simplify data governance and analysis. It includes near real-time synchronization and expanded metadata details, like primary and foreign…
Feature Support for the accelerator-optimized g4-standard-48 machine type for securely running AI and ML workloads is available in Preview , with the following specifications: 5th Generation AMD EPYC Turin processor AMD SEV 1 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPU
Feature Dataflow now supports NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs. You can use this GPU model to run your Apache Beam pipelines on Dataflow. RTX Pro 6000 GPUs are recommended for large, medium, and small model inference workloads. To configure your workers with this GPU model, set the…
Feature You can now use authorization policies to perform identity-based and content-based access control checks when processing outbound traffic requests through Secure Web Proxy. By configuring authorization policies , you can set rules for your workloads to access external…
Feature Preview : Before you create Spot VMs, you can view the real-time availability, estimated uptime, historical preemption rate, and pricing for a specific machine type and location. This information helps you maximize the chances of successfully creating Spot VMs and choose…
Feature The Database Insights remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server now supports the following advanced query insights tools for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: get_advanced_aggregated_query_stats get_advanced_aggregated_wait_event_stats get_advanced_time_series_query_stats…
Feature New filters and group-by options available in Cloud Billing Reports Cloud Billing has added two filters to the Billing Reports page to help you analyze and understand your costs: Products : Google Cloud Products consist of a group of SKUs (potentially from more than one…
Announcement Limited support for Blockchain Node Engine Starting June 15, 2026, Blockchain Node Engine will enter a period of limited support. New node creation in Blockchain Node Engine and provisioning of new Blockchain RPC endpoints will be disabled. Existing nodes and…
Feature Dataflow has updated and expanded its pipeline update features for streaming jobs: Automated stop-and-replace updates : You can perform automated, declarative stop-and-replace updates to streaming jobs. Parallel updates with the same job name : When you perform automated…
Feature You can use the error ID provided in permission error messages to help troubleshoot access. Error IDs provide context for the error, including the principal, resource, permission, and supported IAM conditions. This feature is available in Preview . For more information,…
Managed Cloud Service Mesh Feature The Envoy Compressor Filter is now GA in the rapid release channel. To ensure your EnvoyFilter compressor configuration is fully supported, see Modernize EnvoyFilter compressor configurations .
Feature You can publish a Spanner conversational analytics agent in Gemini Enterprise . This feature is in Preview .
Feature Knowledge Catalog automatic discovery of Cloud Storage data is available in GA . Automatic discovery lets you scan data in Cloud Storage buckets to extract and catalog metadata in Knowledge Catalog. As part of a discovery scan, automatic discovery creates BigLake…
Feature New Managed Airflow (Gen 2) environments created while the Restrict Endpoint Usage organization policy is active now use regional endpoints for services like Cloud Storage, Cloud Logging, Pub/Sub, and Data Lineage. For more information, see Configure environments with…
Change All agent.googleapis.com/processes metrics are retained for 24 months. For more information, see Data retention .
Managed Cloud Service Mesh Security The following images are now rolling out for managed Cloud Service Mesh: Sidecar version 1.21.6-asm.36, is rolling out to the rapid release channel. Sidecar version 1.20.8-asm.86 is rolling out to the regular release channel. Sidecar version…
Cloud Monitoring Change All agent.googleapis.com/processes metrics are retained for 24 months. For more information, see Data retention .
Feature Knowledge Catalog now supports data profile scans for unstructured data (such as PDFs in Cloud Storage) on existing BigQuery object tables. This feature uses Vertex AI Gemini models to extract semantic insights, including entities and relationships, from unstructured…
Other Bug fixes in VS Code Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Announcement The VMware Engine ve2 node type is now available in the following additional region: Mexico City ( northamerica-south1 )
Change Agent Assist offers Proactive generative knowledge assist V2 in GA. This version supports rich search context, multiple suggested queries, and granular control over triggering events.
Feature Multi-project access to Cloud Billing cost views available in Preview In Cloud Billing accounts, multi-project access to usage costs lets project owners, solution owners, developers, and other non-billing admins see cost data for all of their authorized projects in a…
Feature Organization Policy Service custom constraints are generally available for Cloud Domains. For more information, see Use custom organization policies .
Feature FOCUS billing data export to BigQuery available in Preview Cloud Billing data export to BigQuery now offers a FOCUS billing data export available in Preview . The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) is an open specification that defines clear requirements…
Announcement Gemini 3.5 Flash is generally available Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available to Gemini Code Assist users in VS Code and IntelliJ. You can use this model for agent mode , chat , and code generation . Announcement Gemini 3.5 Flash is generally available Gemini…
Feature Cloud Network Insights is in General Availability . Cloud Network Insights monitors your network and web application performance across multicloud and hybrid networks and provides visualization tools to help identify and diagnose network issues. The following additional…
Feature The Trace API supports regional endpoints. For a list of supported endpoints, see the REST API reference pages: v1 REST reference v2 REST reference
Feature The workstation configuration creation page in the Google Cloud console has been optimized to make configuration creation faster and easier. Common machine settings are grouped into selectable machine presets, frequently used settings are consolidated on the…
Feature General availability support for the following integration: Firebase Phone Number Verification
Deprecated Starting June 1, 2026, the Data Catalog service begins a phased shutdown. From this date onward, you might experience disruptions or a complete lack of access to Data Catalog APIs. Knowledge Catalog (formerly known as Dataplex Catalog) operates without impact. For…
Feature Custom dashboards can display trace data. You can view individual spans or aggregated data. This feature is public preview . For more information, see the following: Display trace data (Google Cloud console) Dashboard with trace data (API)
Feature Custom dashboards can display trace data. You can view individual spans or aggregated data. This feature is public preview . For more information, see Display traces on a custom dashboard .
Feature You can use the lookupContext method to retrieve a pre-formatted bundle of data asset context optimized for interactive agentic workflows. This LLM-ready context helps to ground your agents in assessing and using data assets. This feature is available in preview . For…
Other Bug fixes in VS Code Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Feature To view the instrumentation scope or the schema associated with a span, open the Details view for the span and select the Metadata & Links tab. For more information, see View attributes, log entries, and events .
Deprecated Support for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enablement and consumer policies using the Service Usage v2beta API is deprecated. MCP server enablement is no longer required. Enabling the underlying service is sufficient. For more information, see Feature…
Feature Preview stage support for the following integration: Workload Identity API
Feature You can now configure a cooldown period to determine when autoscaling occurs for your read pool instances. For more information, see Scale an instance .
Feature Datastream now offers a free tier for change data capture (CDC) data processed from Google Cloud sources, such as AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Spanner. You get the first 100 GiB of CDC data for free per billing account, per month. For more information, see the Pricing page.
Feature You can configure your Filestore instances to use Private Service Connect with NFSv3 or NFSv4.1 file system protocols and IPv4 or IPv6 address families to allow consumers access managed services privately from inside their VPC network. This feature is generally available…
Feature Support for Histogram widgets on custom dashboards is generally available . These widgets extract the most recent value from each time series, group those values into ranges, and then provide a graphical representation of the result. Unlike tables or other widgets that…
Feature The create-observability bucket flow enforces organization policies with constraints on resource locations. This flow also enforces policies that require customer-managed encryption keys (CMEKs) and that restrict the projects that store those keys. Your trace data is…
Feature Agent Assist offers summarization with custom sections 6.0 in GA. The 6.0 version is powered by gemini-3.5-flash and available in all Agent Assist regions . Change Agent Assist offers summarization autoevaluation with more rubrics for evaluating completeness. This update…
Feature CUD Analysis is Generally Available CUD Analysis has reached general availability (GA). This tool supports the new spend-based CUD model and provides a unified interface for customers to examine both spend-based and resource-based CUDs. It offers a consolidated view of…
Feature The Filestore remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is generally available (GA) . The Filestore remote MCP server lets you create and manage Filestore instances from LLMs, AI applications, and AI-enabled development platforms.
Feature The details page for a span can display the call hierarchy of a trace by using a directed acyclic graph (DAG). If you view an Application Monitoring dashboard and explore the trace data that it displays, the flyout supports the DAG option. If you open the Trace Explorer…
Feature Generally available : Compute Engine supports Google's custom-developed accelerator Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), providing a converged experience across AI accelerators on Google Cloud. You can use the Compute Engine instance API and managed instance group (MIG) API to…
Feature The details page for a span can display the call hierarchy of a trace using a directed acyclic graph (DAG). One way to view a span's details is to open the Trace Explorer page and select the span. The DAG view is also available for some integrations. For example, if you…
Announcement All 3-year (36-month) post-paid ve2 committed use discounts (CUDs) for Google Cloud VMware Engine purchased after May 31, 2026, will terminate on October 15, 2028. 3-year CUD pricing will apply, regardless of the actual term of the CUD. Additionally, 3-year pre-paid…
Feature General Availability : Composite Health for Private Service Connect , formerly known as Private Service Connect health, lets service producers define health criteria for published services, enabling automatic cross-region failover for consumers that access the service by…
Feature The Data Lineage API includes the searchLineageStreaming method that performs a breadth-first search (upstream or downstream) to retrieve lineage links for an asset identified by its Fully Qualified Name (FQN). For more information, see the Data Lineage API reference for…
Announcement The preconfigured base images include Antigravity CLI . Feature Cloud Workstations supports configuring custom startup scripts from the Google Cloud Console. When you create or edit a workstation configuration, you can specify the Cloud Storage path to your startup…
Announcement You can view the available regional endpoints for the Error Reporting API on the REST reference pages. For an example, see Method: projects.events.list .
Announcement You can view the available regional endpoints for the Cloud Logging API on the REST reference pages. For an example, see Method: projects.locations.buckets.list .
Breaking To enhance security and address potential vulnerabilities (such as GHSA-3m6q-h5gj-7mrw), the Secure Source Manager Git-over-SSH server configuration has removed support for several legacy and insecure SSH algorithms. SSH clients must support one or more of the following…
Breaking As of August 26, 2026, in buckets with hierarchical namespace enabled, the Object Lifecycle Management Delete action will delete empty folders when the empty folder meets all of the conditions in the lifecycle rule.
Announcement You can view the available regional endpoints for the Observability API and for the Telemetry API on their REST reference pages. For more information, see API overview .
Feature Secure Source Manager enforces a daily rate quota on the size of code scanned for credentials per instance. The default quota limit is 1 GB per day per instance. For more information, see Quotas and limits .
Feature Spanner Graph supports a suite of graph algorithms covering use cases such as fraud detection, entity resolution, and recommendations. You can invoke graph algorithms as built-in function calls in Spanner Graph queries. You can save your output to Cloud Storage or…
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