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 833 GCP releases · Updated
- Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineermedia ·
Google's AI agents collaborate to create short films
Google experimented with teams of AI agents collaborating to produce short films, uncovering insights into inter-agent teamwork in creative domains. Agents with distinct roles like Idea Person, Technical Lead, and Editor worked within Scion, an open-source orchestration testbed. This hackathon demonstrated how AI agents can manage complex, multi-step projects with verification gates, producing over 25 films using models like Gemini and Veo.
announcement feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaisecuritygovernanceeolengineergovernmentenergy ·
Safely Integrate AI for Vulnerability Management
This blog post offers practical guidance from Mandiant Consulting on establishing operational guardrails for AI-assisted vulnerability management. It addresses the risks of deploying AI agents without mature integration processes, suggesting a hybrid approach combining AI with deterministic controls and human oversight. The recommendations are aimed at security teams looking to accelerate vulnerability discovery and remediation workflows while maintaining environmental integrity.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes datagcpengineer ·
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Backup Plan and On-Demand Backup Enhancements
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL now allows users to change the backup plan for existing clusters and take on-demand backups with custom retention. These features offer greater flexibility and control over data protection strategies for AlloyDB users. The changes are available for all AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters, with documentation provided for both functionalities.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcpgaengineer ·
Oracle Database@Google Cloud adds Autonomous AI Database cloning
Oracle Database@Google Cloud now supports cloning for Autonomous AI Databases, allowing users to create full, metadata, and refreshable clones via Google Cloud CLI and API. This enhancement improves database management flexibility for users of this integrated offering. The feature is now Generally Available.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Google SecOps SIEM adds advanced dashboard filtering (public preview)
Google SecOps SIEM is rolling out advanced filtering capabilities for dashboards. This feature allows security analysts to dynamically inject values, regular expressions, or boolean logic into YARA-L queries using query variables, enhancing dashboard flexibility. The capability is currently in public preview and requires understanding of YARA-L query syntax.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcppreviewengineergcp-bigquery ·
BigQuery Adds Support for Data Governance Tags
BigQuery now supports data governance tags for enforcing column-level security and data masking. These tags, a type of Resource Manager tag, can be attached to sensitive columns and used in BigQuery data policies to manage conditional access. This new capability is currently in preview and aims to enhance data security for organizations.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Google SecOps adds advanced dashboard filtering in preview
Google SecOps is introducing advanced filtering capabilities for dashboards, currently in preview. This feature allows security analysts to dynamically inject values and complex logic into YARA-L queries using tokens, improving query flexibility and runtime analysis. It enables multi-select options and customizable wrappers, providing enhanced control over dashboard data exploration for security teams.
feature - Google Cloud release notes infragcppreviewengineergcp-compute-engine ·
Compute Engine C4N machine series preview
Google Cloud is previewing the network-optimized C4N machine series for Compute Engine. This new series features machine types with significant attached Titanium SSD storage, suitable for data-intensive workloads. Requesting preview access is required to use these machine types with Local SSD disks.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpsecurity-advisoryengineer ·
Apigee X 1-18-0-apigee-1 Release
This release of Apigee X includes several security fixes and bug resolutions, enhancing reliability and patching vulnerabilities. It affects users of Apigee X, particularly those using cache policies, API proxy deployments, and SAML assertions. The rollout began today and may take several business days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.
security patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes aigaengineer ·
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Feature Memory Bank GA
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform's Feature Memory Bank now offers generally available memory profiles. These profiles enable agents to access structured, LLM-populated data with static schemas, providing low-latency access to evolving information without costly search operations during a session. This feature is now available for all users.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aipreview ·
Gemini Enterprise adds Jira Data Center action filtering
Gemini Enterprise now supports action-filtering for Jira Data Center federated data stores, allowing specification of accessible Jira projects. This enhancement aims to control data access during search queries and action execution, preventing out-of-scope data operations. The feature is currently in Public Preview and applies to users configuring Jira Data Center data stores.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpengineer ·
Agent Platform Workbench Image Releases
New Agent Platform Workbench image releases are available, including version 20260622-2130-rc0 based on Debian 12 and M143 based on Debian 11. The Debian 12 release fixes an issue where a duplicate Python kernel appeared in the launcher, while both releases incorporate updated upstream dependencies. These updates are for users of the Agent Platform Workbench.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datainfragcpgcp-dataproc ·
Agent Platform Workbench updates package dependencies and fixes kernel issue
Agent Platform Workbench has released an update (20260624-1604-rc0) that includes the latest packages from upstream dependencies. This release fixes an issue where notebook kernels could become unavailable if the Dataproc plugin failed to load. The update is now available for Workbench instances running Debian 12 and is intended for engineers and architects working with Dataproc.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpsecurity-advisoryengineer ·
Cloud Service Mesh updates address multiple critical CVEs
New versions of Cloud Service Mesh (1.29.5-asm.12, 1.28.10-asm.4, and 1.27.9-asm.15) are available, bringing fixes for numerous platform CVEs, including several rated Critical. These updates are crucial for maintaining the security posture of your service mesh deployments. Users are advised to consult the provided upgrade documentation to apply these security patches.
patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineer ·
Agent Platform Workbench image release 20260628-2130-rc0
A new Agent Platform Workbench image release, version 20260628-2130-rc0, is now available. This release updates upstream dependencies and includes TensorFlow and PyTorch packages in the default kernel. The update is relevant for users managing and utilizing the Agent Platform Workbench.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpengineer ·
Agent Platform Workbench Image Releases
Two image releases for Agent Platform Workbench are now available: 20260712-2130-rc0 for Debian 12 and M144 for Debian 11. The Debian 12 release includes updated upstream packages and fixes for cupy installation, while the Debian 11 release also updates packages and resolves a JupyterLab reachability issue on GPU instances.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcpengineermedia ·
Agent Platform Workbench image release 20260701-2130-rc0
A new Agent Platform Workbench image release, 20260701-2130-rc0, is available for Debian 12 instances. This release installs the latest upstream packages and fixes critical issues including a race condition affecting JupyterLab reachability on GPU instances and termination of long-running requests. This update is important for users experiencing these specific problems and ensures greater stability.
feature - Google Cloud Blog blogdatagcpengineermedia ·
AlloyDB AI Functions enhance PostgreSQL multilingual full-text search
AlloyDB now integrates Gemini models directly into its database via AI Functions, enabling intelligent word segmentation for logographical languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This overcomes limitations of traditional tokenization and external preprocessing pipelines, offering more accurate full-text search without complex ETL. The solution is available now for AlloyDB customers and benefits database developers and architects working with multilingual data.
feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcppreviewengineermediagcp-bigquerygcp-looker ·
Analyze and Govern Gemini Enterprise App Usage with BigQuery
Google Cloud now allows administrators to analyze and govern Gemini Enterprise app usage at scale using BigQuery. This integration provides a more nuanced, organization-centric perspective beyond product-level dashboards, enabling teams to profile adoption, quantify value, execute compliance audits, and investigate safety alerts. Telemetry is partitioned into five distinct log tables in BigQuery, accessible via Cloud Logging sinks and an asynchronous batch export API, with Gemini in BigQuery simplifying AI-powered analysis.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogainetworkinggcpengineer ·
IDC Report: Networking Crucial for Agentic AI Production
An IDC report, sponsored by Google Cloud, highlights that infrastructure and networking are the primary bottlenecks preventing enterprises from moving agentic AI from pilot to production. Security, automation, and talent restrictions are key concerns, exacerbated by agentic AI's distributed nature. The report emphasizes that a foundational, infrastructure-level networking approach, balanced between platform and best-of-breed solutions, is essential for operational control, consistent policy enforcement, and end-to-end trust in agentic AI deployments.
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