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Tracking 829 GCP releases · Updated
- Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineergcp-vertex-ai ·
Cloud Billing: Early AI workload cost anomaly detection
Cloud Billing now offers early anomaly detection for AI workloads like Gemini API and Vertex AI, providing near real-time, service-level cost insights before final billing. This feature appears on the 'By service (Early signals)' tab of the Anomalies dashboard. It aims to give users proactive visibility into potential cost overruns for AI services, though user-configured thresholds are not applicable to these early signals.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineergovernment ·
Google Cloud Fraud Defense: reCAPTCHA Preview
Google Cloud Fraud Defense is now in preview with Policy Engine, Universal keys, and challenge policies. Policy Engine enables custom rules for triggering CAPTCHA challenges based on various risk factors, and a new AI-resistant QR code challenge is included. This preview aims to enhance bot detection and fraud prevention for developers integrating reCAPTCHA.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineer ·
Cloud Location Finder integrates with Model Context Protocol in GCP Preview
Google Cloud's Cloud Location Finder now offers a built-in integration with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), currently available in Preview. This integration allows LLM-powered agents to securely access data through standard MCP tools like search and list cloud locations. This feature enables more robust and secure data retrieval for AI agents operating within the Google Cloud environment.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineer ·
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Image Models Retired
The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform has retired the gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview models. Users must update their code to reference alternative image models to avoid disruption. This change affects users of these specific preview models.
breaking - Google Cloud release notes gcppreviewengineer ·
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Transparent Query Forwarding in Preview
Transparent query forwarding is now available in Preview for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters compatible with PostgreSQL 17 and 18. This feature allows the primary node to intercept read-only queries and forward them to read pool instances, ensuring read-your-writes consistency. This enhancement helps optimize resource utilization and isolate read queries for users running compatible PostgreSQL versions.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aipreview ·
Gemini Enterprise: Unauthenticated Custom MCP Server Data Stores (Preview)
Gemini Enterprise now supports unauthenticated Custom MCP Server data stores, allowing connections to MCP servers that do not require authentication. This feature is currently in Public Preview and is useful for engineers setting up custom MCP server data stores without authentication requirements.
feature - Google Cloud release notes gcpgapreviewengineergcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-storagegcp-dataprocgcp-compute-engine ·
Managed Service for Apache Spark GA with Version 3.0
Google Cloud announces the General Availability of Managed Service for Apache Spark cluster image version 3.0, offering optimized images for various operating systems and a machine learning variant. These new images include updated core components like Apache Hadoop 3.5.0 and Java 21, designed to enhance security by reducing CVE exposure. The release also includes subminor updates for version 2.3, providing more options for users seeking to meet security compliance requirements.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes infraawsgcpgapreviewdeprecationengineergcp-bigquerygcp-gkegcp-compute-enginegcp-firestore ·
Cloud SDK Update: Agent Identity GA, BigQuery S3 Service Directory, Firestore DML
The Cloud SDK has been updated, promoting agent identity authentication and access summaries to general availability. New features include S3 Service Directory support for BigQuery AWS connections via private networks and DML support for the Firestore Pipelines API. These changes impact developers and architects working with BigQuery, Firestore, and agent identity management on GCP.
patch - Google Cloud release notes networkinggcppreviewengineer ·
Cloud Service Mesh: Envoy Lua Filter in Preview
The Envoy Lua Filter is now available as a preview feature within the stable release channel for Cloud Service Mesh. This enhancement allows for greater customization and programmability of service mesh traffic management. It is available for users who want to extend Envoy's capabilities with custom Lua scripts.
feature - Google Cloud release notes gcppreviewengineer ·
Cloud Tasks adds task-level retry parameters and batch operations in preview
Cloud Tasks is now available in Preview with support for setting task-level retry parameters, allowing overrides to queue-level configurations. Users can also create and delete batches of tasks, offering more granular control and efficiency. This feature is aimed at developers and architects managing asynchronous workloads within Google Cloud.
feature - Google Cloud release notes gcppreviewdeprecationengineergcp-looker ·
Looker Reports Deprecated July 2026
Looker reports are being deprecated as of July 13, 2026. Users who enabled the preview will lose the ability to create, view, or edit existing Looker reports. Access to other Looker content and its use as a data source for Data Studio will remain unaffected.
deprecation - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcppreviewengineer ·
AlloyDB boosts pgvector HNSW vector search speed by 4x
AlloyDB introduces columnar engine accelerated HNSW for pgvector, achieving up to 4x higher queries per second (QPS) for vector search compared to standard PostgreSQL. This enhancement is crucial for enterprise AI applications that require maximizing QPS without sacrificing search accuracy. The feature is now available in preview for demanding workloads and requires no application code changes.
feature patch - Google Cloud Blog blogsecuritygcpgapreviewengineergovernment ·
CodeMender preview: AI-powered code vulnerability scanning and remediation
Google Cloud is releasing CodeMender, a managed code security agent, in preview. This tool uses AI to scan for and automatically remediate software vulnerabilities, aiming to reduce security risks and speed up remediation. It is designed for security teams and developers working with various programming languages and integrates with CI/CD workflows. Availability is currently in preview, with wider access planned.
feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Binary Authorization adds post-quantum cryptography support
Binary Authorization now supports keys using post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms like ML-DSA-65. This enhancement provides long-term security against future quantum computer threats. Users can now generate PQC key pairs and create attestors, with detailed instructions available.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcppreviewengineergcp-bigquery ·
BigQuery Lakehouse adds SAP BDC integration
BigQuery's Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in preview, enabling cross-cloud data sharing and querying. This allows users to synchronize data, query SAP tables directly from BigQuery, and publish BigQuery data products to SAP Datasphere. The integration impacts engineers and architects working with SAP and Google Cloud data platforms, with a known issue affecting Data Products containing special characters.
feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Cloud NGFW integrates WildFire for advanced malware protection
Google Cloud NGFW now integrates with the WildFire service to provide advanced protection against unknown malware and file-based threats using sandboxing and machine learning. This feature is intended for network security engineers managing workloads on GCP. It is available in the Cloud Firewall Enterprise tier and is currently in Preview.
feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpgapreviewengineerhealthcaregcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-storagegcp-vertex-ai ·
BigQuery Enhances Unstructured Data Analysis with New Search Capabilities
BigQuery has launched new features to simplify the process of extracting insights from unstructured data like PDFs, audio, and images. This aims to reduce the complexity of building AI-powered search and RAG pipelines by managing embedding generation and offering enhanced search functions. These updates are particularly beneficial for enterprises managing large volumes of diverse data, such as in the healthcare sector, and are now generally available or in public preview.
feature patch - Google Cloud release notes networkinggcppreviewengineer ·
Cloud Load Balancing: Reserve BYOIP IPv6 Addresses
Cloud Load Balancing now allows reserving specific or auto-allocated bring-your-own-IP (BYOIP) IPv6 addresses for regional external passthrough Network Load Balancers. This feature ensures IPv6 addresses persist independently of the load balancer's lifecycle and allows promoting ephemeral BYOIP addresses to reserved static ones. The capability is currently in Preview, impacting engineers and architects managing network infrastructure.
feature - Google Cloud release notes networkinggcppreview ·
GCP VPC: Preview for reserved static IPv6 addresses from BYOIP
Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is now in preview for reserving static external IPv6 addresses sourced from Bring Your Own IP addresses (BYOIP) sub-prefixes. This allows assignment to forwarding rules for external passthrough Network Load Balancers and external protocol forwarding, and enables promoting ephemeral BYOIP addresses to static. The feature is available for users with BYOIP configurations.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineer ·
Document AI: Custom Extractor with Gemini 3.5 Flash LLM in Preview
Google Cloud's Document AI now offers a custom extractor model, 'pretrained-foundation-model-v3.5-2026-05-26', powered by the Gemini 3.5 Flash LLM, available in Preview. This enhancement brings advanced ML processing capabilities to the US and EU regions. It is particularly relevant for engineers and architects working with document processing and AI workloads on Google Cloud.
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