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 819 GCP releases · Updated
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Google Cloud AI Infrastructure and Orchestration Updates - July 2026
Google Cloud is enhancing its AI infrastructure and orchestration capabilities with several new product updates and features, including GA availability for Managed Lustre, C4N VMs, and GKE Dataplane V2 scaling. These updates aim to support the growing demands of AI and agentic workloads, offering improved performance, scalability, and security for developers and enterprises. The announcements include new security tools, practitioner guides, and research reports, all designed to help users leverage Google Cloud's AI capabilities more effectively and efficiently. This monthly update covers a range of AI-related services and tools designed for rapid innovation and cost optimization.
feature patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpengineer ·
Confidential VMs Expand vCPU Support on C3D/C4D
Confidential VM instances utilizing AMD SEV on C3D and C4D machine types now support configurations exceeding 255 vCPUs. This enhancement allows for larger, more demanding workloads to benefit from confidential computing capabilities. This update is particularly relevant for engineers and architects running high-performance, security-sensitive applications.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcppreviewengineer ·
Datastream adds preview support for Workday replication
Google Cloud Datastream now supports replicating change data from Workday. This feature, currently in preview, allows users to stream data from Workday into Google Cloud. It is intended for users who need to integrate Workday data with their cloud-based analytics or operational systems.
feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaisecuritygovernancepreviewarchitectgovernmentgcp-cloud-rungcp-cloud-functions ·
Google Cloud CISO Perspectives: AI Threat Defense for Boards
This article discusses the evolving role of AI threat defense, emphasizing its importance for boardroom security governance and business agility. It highlights how organizations can transition from manual, reactive security to an automated, AI-native capability. The piece is targeted at board members, CISOs, and business leaders needing to understand AI security strategies and governance frameworks. It introduces Google's AI Threat Defense (AITD) concept and outlines five key areas for inquiry regarding AI security.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes datagcpgaengineergcp-bigquery ·
Data Studio Conversational Analytics GA, adds BigQuery integration
Conversational Analytics in Data Studio is now generally available, enabling users to filter data agents by Google Cloud project and see agents with insufficient permissions. Email notifications for shared BigQuery data agents are also introduced. These updates are relevant for users of Data Studio and BigQuery, particularly those managing shared data agents and requiring fine-grained access control.
feature - Google Cloud release notes gcpgapreviewengineergcp-looker ·
Looker Updates: MFA, CI Alerts, UI Enhancements, and AI Features
Looker is rolling out several new features and enhancements, including mandatory MFA for enhanced security and general availability for custom calendars, expression assistant, enhanced search, and CI email alerts. The UI and AI capabilities are also being improved with a new LookML Projects page, a preview of a modern UI with updated visualization and dashboard designs, and a preview of verified queries to improve data agent accuracy. Some changes affect existing contract terms regarding Data Studio Pro licenses.
feature patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes aigcpgapreviewengineergcp-bigquerygcp-looker ·
Cortex Framework v7 GA with modular architecture, Dataform, and AI features
Google Cloud Cortex Framework version 7 is now generally available, introducing a modular deployment, simplified data orchestration with Dataform, and AI-ready data products. This release enhances capabilities for building and deploying data assets and pipelines for advanced analytics and agentic use cases. Key improvements include agentic data product builder skills, Knowledge Catalog integration, expanded SAP data product support, and new solution samples. The update also brings enhanced observability and telemetry, with an opt-out option for the latter.
feature patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpga ·
Oracle Database@Google Cloud adds CMEK for Exascale VM Clusters
Oracle Database@Google Cloud now supports customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for Exascale VM Clusters. This enhancement improves data security for sensitive workloads running on Google Cloud. The feature is generally available to all users managing Exascale VM Clusters.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineer ·
Bigtable integrates with LMCache for LLM KV caching
Google Cloud Bigtable can now serve as a remote storage backend for LMCache. This allows multiple AI serving instances to share and reuse precomputed attention tensors for LLM key-value caches, reducing compute overhead and improving time-to-first-token for repeated prompts. The feature is currently in Preview and intended for users running AI serving workloads.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcpgaengineergcp-bigquery ·
BigQuery: Audit UI query result downloads
BigQuery now audits when users download query results via the console. Data Access audit logs will include a `uiDownloadRequest` field for requests triggered by a UI download. This enhancement is useful for security and governance, impacting users who access or manage data in BigQuery.
feature - Google Cloud release notes infragcpgadeprecationengineergcp-composer ·
Managed Service for Apache Airflow: New Release and Deprecations
A new release of Managed Service for Apache Airflow is rolling out, featuring Airflow 3.2.2 and updated build images for both Gen 3 and Gen 2 environments. While some features like Multi-Team Airflow are not yet available, bug fixes for alerts and error messages are included. This release also marks the end of support for several older Airflow versions and builds, requiring users to upgrade to avoid disruption.
deprecation feature patch announcement - Google Cloud release notes infragcpgaengineergcp-compute-engine ·
Google Cloud VPC: General Availability for Resolve subnet mask
Google Cloud's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports the Resolve subnet mask setting for subnets in General Availability. This feature allows Compute Engine instances attached to a subnet to inherit the subnet's netmask, enabling direct communication between instances within the same subnet using MAC addresses. This enhancement is now available to all users operating Compute Engine instances within VPC networks.
feature - Google Cloud release notes infragcpengineergcp-gkegcp-dataproc ·
Managed Service for Apache Spark drops default Conda channels
The latest subminor image version for Managed Service for Apache Spark on Google Kubernetes Engine (3.5-dataproc-28) removes preconfigured Conda channels. This change requires users to manually configure Conda channels during cluster initialization for package installation, impacting existing and new clusters. Workloads must transition to image versions without preconfigured Conda channels by August 25, 2026, after which older versions will be disallowed.
announcement - Google Cloud Blog bloggovernancegcppreviewengineergovernmentgcp-cloud-sql ·
AlloyDB adds IAM group authentication for enterprise-scale access and AI agents
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL now supports IAM group authentication in preview, simplifying enterprise-scale database access control and enhancing security for AI agents. This feature allows administrators to manage database permissions via Google Groups, reducing the complexity of provisioning and auditing individual user accounts, and providing a unified security model with Cloud SQL. The capability is aimed at engineers and architects managing large-scale database deployments and increasingly complex AI agent interactions.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaiinfragcpengineergcp-gkegcp-compute-engine ·
GKE Optimizations Reduce AI Agent Compute Costs Up To 75%
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) offers new optimizations to significantly reduce the cost of running AI agent workloads by improving compute density. By leveraging GKE Agent Sandbox and Pod snapshots, engineers can pack more agents onto existing nodes and release resources from idle agents, enabling up to 3.5x greater density and cost reductions of up to 75% per agent. This is particularly beneficial for platform engineering teams scaling agentic applications, with advanced options for balancing cost savings against performance requirements.
feature patch - Google Cloud release notes datagcpengineergcp-spanner ·
Datastream Spanner integration for stream creation
Datastream now offers an automated flow to create streams directly from Spanner instance or database overview pages. This simplifies the process for Spanner users looking to replicate data. This feature is available now for Spanner users.
feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaisecuritygcpengineerfinanceretaileducationgovernmentenergyautomotive ·
GCP Security Blog: Trends in Open Source Software Supply Chain Compromise
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is tracking an increase in threat actors targeting open source software repositories for supply chain compromises, with significant campaigns observed in 2025 and early 2026. These attacks leverage compromised code repositories, dependencies, and developer tools, offering attackers efficiency and scale. The blog post provides mitigation and hardening recommendations based on GTIG's observations, highlighting the impact across various industries and countries, with a particular focus on how AI is likely to accelerate these threats.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes networkingawsgcpengineer ·
Cloud Interconnect adds new locations for AWS cross-cloud
Cloud Interconnect now supports two new locations for its cross-cloud interconnect feature with AWS: australia-southeast1 and europe-north2. This expansion enhances connectivity options for organizations leveraging hybrid cloud strategies that span both Google Cloud and AWS. The update is available immediately for all users.
feature - Google Cloud release notes aigcppreviewengineergcp-looker ·
Looker previews verified queries for AI data agent
Looker is now available in preview with verified queries, which are predefined pairs of natural language questions and their corresponding Looker Explore queries. This feature teaches your data agent how to handle complex business requests accurately, reducing guesswork. A Looker admin must enable the Verified Queries and Conversational Analytics settings to use this functionality.
feature - Google Cloud release notes networkinggcpengineer ·
Cloud Service Mesh supports IP auto-allocation with DNS Proxy
Cloud Service Mesh now supports IP auto-allocation with DNS Proxy for clusters using the TRAFFIC_DIRECTOR implementation. This enhancement simplifies network configuration for users in the Rapid release channel. The feature is available for those managing service meshes on Google Cloud.
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