GCP releases
Google Cloud releases and Terraform Google provider. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
Tracking 331 GCP releases · Updated
- Google Cloud release notes securitygcpengineer ·
Google SecOps SOAR Unifies and Upgrades Chronicle API
Google SecOps SOAR has unified its API resources from legacy SOAR APIs into a single Chronicle API. This upgrade offers a more robust, secure, and extensible experience, signaling functional completeness for production adoption by customers and partners. Users are encouraged to adopt the Chronicle API for enhanced capabilities.
feature - Google Cloud release notes governancegcpengineer ·
Error Reporting API Regional Endpoints Announced
Google Cloud's Error Reporting API now has publicly documented regional endpoints. This announcement provides engineers and architects with the necessary information to optimize API calls for specific regions. Developers using the Error Reporting API should consult the REST reference for available regional endpoint details.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes observabilitygcpengineer ·
Cloud Logging API Regional Endpoints Now Documented
Cloud Logging has announced that the available regional endpoints for its API are now documented on the REST reference pages. This change clarifies how developers can interact with the service regionally. This information is relevant for engineers and architects building applications that utilize Cloud Logging. The documentation is available now, with an example provided for the projects.locations.buckets.list method.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpgapreviewengineer ·
Google SecOps SIEM upgrades Chronicle API to v1 GA
Google SecOps SIEM has upgraded its Chronicle API resources from v1 beta to v1. This upgrade signifies API stability and functional completeness, encouraging production usage for new integrations. Customers and partners should adopt the v1 API for a more robust and secure experience. The upgrade includes numerous features across alerts, dashboards, data tables, ingestion, normalization, detections, search, exports, and enrichment controls.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgapreviewdeprecationengineer ·
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Image Models GA, Video Input Preview
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform's Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image models are now Generally Available, offering 4K output in preview. This update also introduces video input support for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image in preview, enabling thumbnail generation. Existing preview versions of these image models are deprecated and will be removed by July 17, 2026, requiring users to migrate endpoints.
deprecation feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpengineer ·
Security Command Center adds Feature Risk Engine for Spark
Security Command Center's Feature Risk Engine now detects toxic combinations within Managed Service for Apache Spark, including Lightning Engine. This enhancement aims to improve security posture by identifying risky configurations and attack exposures. The feature is available for users of Security Command Center and Managed Service for Apache Spark, with risk reports offering updated content on system attack exposure.
feature - Google Cloud release notes infragcpgaengineer ·
GKE Adds Bare Metal, Confidential Nodes, and L4 Load Balancer Logging
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) announces general availability for bare metal instances on C4A Arm processors, alongside enhanced Confidential GKE Nodes supporting AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX on Autopilot. Additionally, GKE versions 1.36.0-gke.2459000+ allow direct Cloud Logging configuration for L4 load balancer backend services. These updates benefit users deploying Arm workloads, requiring enhanced security for sensitive data, and needing finer-grained visibility into L4 load balancer traffic.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpengineer ·
Secure Source Manager removes legacy SSH algorithms for enhanced security
Secure Source Manager has removed support for several legacy and insecure SSH algorithms to enhance security and address vulnerabilities. Clients must now support modern algorithms like curve25519-sha256 for key exchange and chacha20-poly1305 for ciphers to connect via SSH. Users with outdated SSH clients may be unable to connect and are advised to update.
breaking - Google Cloud release notes observabilitygcpengineer ·
Cloud Trace Regional Endpoints for Observability and Telemetry APIs
Cloud Trace has announced the availability of regional endpoints for its Observability API and Telemetry API. This update allows users to access these APIs within specific geographic regions, which can improve latency and data residency compliance. Engineers and architects using Cloud Trace for distributed tracing should consult the REST reference pages for details on these endpoints.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes governanceinfragcpengineer ·
Google Cloud Backup and DR: Organization-level Protection Summary
Google Cloud Backup and DR now offers protection summary views at the organization and folder levels. This enhancement helps administrators identify unprotected resources across their entire Google Cloud environment. The feature is available now and provides improved visibility for managing backup and disaster recovery.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgapreviewengineer ·
Gemini Enterprise adds GA Core Assistant, Trace/Metrics Preview
Gemini Enterprise has released its Core Assistant agent, now Generally Available, simplifying user interactions with the Gemini Enterprise app. Additionally, new Traces and Metrics features for observing agent behavior are available in Public Preview. These enhancements provide detailed execution flow visualization and default monitoring dashboards without extra costs. The updates are relevant for engineers and architects managing or developing AI agent interactions within Gemini Enterprise.
feature - Terraform Google Provider Releases terraforminfragcpgaengineer ·
Terraform Google Provider v7.34.0: New Resources and Enhancements
Terraform Google Provider v7.34.0 introduces several new resources, including data sources for compute service attachments and Oracle GoldenGate environments, alongside new resources for configuration deployment and Dialogflow. Key enhancements include added fields for Bigtable instances, CES guardrails, Compute subnetworks, and SSL policies, plus improved support for resource identity management in IAM and project resources. These updates benefit users managing Google Cloud infrastructure via Terraform, offering expanded configuration options and bug fixes for existing resources.
feature patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes governancegcppreviewengineer ·
GCP Knowledge Catalog adds data lineage integration
Google Cloud's Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex Universal Catalog) now integrates with a remote MCP server to query data lineage graphs. This allows users to discover data provenance and analyze downstream impact, enhancing data understanding and governance. The feature is currently available in preview for users working with data lineage.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgaengineer ·
Vertex AI Search: Table and image annotation in layout parser GA
The table and image annotation features within Vertex AI Search's layout parser are now generally available. This allows users to generate descriptive text annotations for tables and images, which can then be incorporated into generated answers. This enhancement is relevant for engineers and architects working with document AI and search solutions on Google Cloud.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygovernancegcpengineer ·
Google SecOps SIEM Standard Parser Support Policy
Google SecOps has introduced a new support policy for Standard parsers to enhance platform stability and data quality. This policy defines service level objectives, prioritizes important UDM fields, and shifts low-usage parsers to a community-maintained GitHub repository. The goal is to improve scalability and predictability for security data normalization, with details available in the policy documentation.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datainfragcp ·
Oracle Database@Google Cloud expands to Australia and Italy
Oracle Database@Google Cloud has been expanded to new regions in Australia and Italy, providing customers with enhanced local access to Exadata Database Service, Base Database Service, and Goldengate. This expansion aims to improve performance and compliance for workloads running on Google Cloud infrastructure. The update is relevant to organizations utilizing Oracle databases within Google Cloud, particularly those requiring data residency in these new locations.
feature - Google Cloud release notes infragcpgaengineer ·
Google Distributed Cloud for VMware 1.34.500-gke.108 Released
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.34.500-gke.108 is now available, running on Kubernetes v1.34.7-gke.200. This release includes fixes for several critical issues, including those impacting cluster upgrades, provisioning, and diagnostic commands. Users should verify third-party storage compatibility and note the typical 7-14 day delay for API client availability after release.
patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreview ·
Spanner Graph adds built-in graph algorithms
Spanner Graph now supports a suite of graph algorithms, enabling use cases like fraud detection and recommendations via built-in function calls in queries. This feature allows users to save results to Cloud Storage or Spanner. It is currently available in Preview.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpgaengineer ·
Secure Source Manager adds daily code scan quota
Secure Source Manager now enforces a daily quota on the size of code scanned for credentials per instance, defaulting to 1 GB. This feature aims to improve cost control and resource management for users. It is now generally available and applies to all users of Secure Source Manager.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcpsnowflakegapreviewengineer ·
Looker 26.8 Enhancements: CI GA, Conversational Analytics, In-Database Models
Looker 26.8 introduces several new features and enhancements, including the general availability of Continuous Integration (CI) and expanded support for Conversational Analytics. Notably, it now integrates with in-database analytic models for BigQuery and Snowflake connections, enabling consistent semantic definitions across tools. Many new capabilities, such as granular dashboard sizing, enhanced observability, agentic workflows, and publishable conversational agents, are available in preview.
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