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 330 GCP releases · Updated
- Google Cloud release notes datagcpengineer ·
Bigtable Studio Explorer Enhanced Search
Bigtable Studio's explorer now supports searching for all resources except authorized views and column families. This enhancement allows users to more efficiently locate and manage their Bigtable data. It is available for all Bigtable users.
feature - Google Cloud release notes infragcpgaengineer ·
Cluster Toolkit v1.93.0: GKE H4D blueprints, ML Diagnostics, Slurm HA
Cluster Toolkit v1.93.0 is now available, featuring new example blueprints for GKE H4D deployments with flex-start provisioning and ML Diagnostics. This release also includes a Slurm High Availability controller script and upgrades Slurm images to Rocky Linux 9. The update targets users deploying on Google Kubernetes Engine and managing HPC workloads.
feature - Google Cloud release notes networkinggcpgaengineer ·
Service Extensions GA for Envoy ext_authz gRPC on GCP Load Balancers
Service Extensions now support the ext_authz Envoy gRPC API protocol, reaching general availability for regional external and internal Application Load Balancers. This enhancement enables more flexible and programmable traffic management for applications. The feature is now production-ready for users of these specific GCP load balancer types.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygovernanceawsgcpgaengineer ·
Cloud SQL backup vaults support CMEK for immutable storage
Cloud SQL instances encrypted with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) now have backup vault support, enabling immutable and indelible storage with enforced retention. This GA feature enhances data protection and compliance for sensitive workloads. It applies to users managing Cloud SQL instances with CMEK.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcp ·
Oracle Database@Google Cloud Expands to Osaka Region
Oracle Database@Google Cloud has added support for the asia-northeast2 (Osaka, Japan) region. This expansion is available for Exadata Database Service on Exascale infrastructure and Base Database Service. This feature enhances Oracle's hybrid cloud offerings by bringing database services closer to users in Japan.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Security Command Center External Exposure now in Preview
Security Command Center External Exposure is now available in Preview for the Premium tier. This feature helps manage and reduce external attack surfaces by automating asset discovery, validating network exposure paths, and performing exploitability testing. It is targeted at users of Security Command Center Premium who need to secure their cloud environments.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgaengineer ·
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform GA: Agent Gateway and Observability
Google Cloud has announced the General Availability of Agent Gateway, the networking component for the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, which secures and governs agent connectivity. Additionally, Agent Observability is now GA, providing visibility into agent performance and health with default-on tracing and GCS as the preferred storage for payloads. These features benefit engineers and architects managing agentic interactions and monitoring deployed agents.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgaengineer ·
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: AI Studio integration, minor version upgrades
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now integrates with Google AI Studio, enabling developers to build applications using natural language prompts for features like authentication and persistent data storage. This integration is generally available. Additionally, minor version and extension upgrades for PostgreSQL 14 through 18 are now complete, bringing new maintenance versions to production instances.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aiga ·
Gemini Enterprise adds workflow agents
Gemini Enterprise now supports workflow agents, allowing users to create and use sequences of AI and human-driven actions based on triggers. This feature is designed for complex task automation and is currently in General Availability with an allowlist. Access requires contacting a Google account manager and enabling the feature in the web app settings.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgaengineer ·
Cloud Trace GA for Generative AI Applications
Google Cloud Trace is now generally available for collecting, viewing, and analyzing multimodal prompts and responses from agentic applications using LangGraph or ADK. This enhancement allows developers to better understand and debug their generative AI applications by providing visibility into prompt and response interactions. The feature is available for all users building applications with these frameworks.
feature - Google Cloud release notes awsengineer ·
Cloud SQL for MySQL adds support for minor version 8.0.46
Cloud SQL for MySQL has added support for minor version 8.0.46. This update allows users to upgrade their existing instances to this new minor version. The upgrade process is documented for users who wish to apply this change.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcpgaengineer ·
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL integrates with Knowledge Catalog
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL's integration with Knowledge Catalog is now generally available, offering a unified metadata view for data governance and analysis. This feature provides near real-time synchronization and enriched metadata, such as key constraints. The integration simplifies managing and understanding AlloyDB data within the Knowledge Catalog environment.
feature - Google Cloud release notes observabilitygcpgaengineer ·
Memorystore for Redis GA: Health issue detection
Memorystore for Redis now generally available supports detection for three new health issues: expensive commands, high resource utilization, and unset maintenance policies. This allows users to proactively resolve performance and operational issues. These health checks are now GA for all Memorystore for Redis users.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcpengineer ·
Cloud Storage: Delete temporary source objects during composite object creation
Cloud Storage now allows deletion of temporary source objects after they are composed into a new object. This feature streamlines workflows by automating the cleanup of intermediate data, benefiting users who frequently create composite objects.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Google SecOps Marketplace Integrations Updated
The Google SecOps Marketplace has released version 1.0 of a new Secret Manager integration. Additionally, source code for numerous existing integrations is now publicly available on GitHub, and several connectors have received updates including bug fixes for idle issues and enhanced hostname extraction. These changes primarily benefit security operations teams and engineers managing security tool integrations.
feature patch - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgaengineer ·
Gemini Enterprise adds custom skills and Slack integration
Gemini Enterprise is now generally available with custom skills, allowing users to create and manage reusable instructions for specific tasks. Additionally, administrators can integrate Gemini Enterprise with Slack, bringing AI-powered answers directly into user workflows. Both features aim to enhance productivity and data access through AI assistance. Custom skills require allowlist access and administrator configuration, while the Slack integration is GA for Gemini Enterprise administrators.
feature - Google Cloud release notes gcppreviewarchitectfinance ·
Cloud Billing CUD dashboard redesigned in preview
Google Cloud has released a preview of a redesigned CUD dashboard within the Cloud Billing console. This update consolidates resource-based and spend-based commitments, offering improved usability and scalability for faster information retrieval. The preview is now available to users.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgaengineer ·
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Memory Bank and Sessions GA
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform's Memory Bank and Sessions now support global and multi-regional endpoints in General Availability (GA). This expansion enhances data accessibility and scalability for agent development. This feature is now available for all users, with a note that Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) are incompatible with the global endpoint.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgaengineer ·
BigQuery Autonomous Embedding Generation GA
BigQuery now offers autonomous embedding generation, automatically creating and updating an embedding column based on a source column in your tables. This feature, now generally available, simplifies AI/ML workflows by ensuring embeddings are consistently maintained as data changes. It is relevant for engineers and architects working with AI-powered data analytics.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcp ·
Dataflow adds NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPU support
Google Cloud Dataflow now supports NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs, enhancing its capabilities for Apache Beam pipelines. This addition is particularly beneficial for large, medium, and small model inference workloads, enabling users to leverage powerful new hardware. Users can configure these GPUs by setting the accelerator type to nvidia-rtx-pro-6000, with detailed documentation available for setup.
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