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 829 GCP releases · Updated
- Google Cloud release notes infragcpengineerfinancegcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-rungcp-gkegcp-cloud-sqlgcp-vertex-ai ·
Config Connector 1.154.1 Adds New Alpha Resources and Field Support
Config Connector version 1.154.1 introduces numerous new alpha resources, expanding management capabilities for services like Apigee, Vertex AI, and various networking and data services. It also adds support for new fields in existing resources, including BigQuery, Cloud Run, and GKE, enhancing configuration options. These updates are available immediately and benefit users managing Google Cloud resources via Kubernetes, particularly those seeking finer-grained control over a wider array of services.
feature patch announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpgaengineerhealthcaremediaenergygcp-bigquerygcp-gkegcp-cloud-sqlgcp-cloud-storagegcp-dataflow ·
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 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 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 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 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 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 securityinfragcpsecurity-advisoryengineer ·
Container Optimized OS Security and Bug Fixes
This release of Container Optimized OS addresses numerous security vulnerabilities across the Linux kernel, systemd, Python, and OpenSSH. It also includes fixes for an xfs file system bug and an update to fluent-bit. These updates are crucial for maintaining system integrity and security for all users running Container Optimized OS.
security patch - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineer ·
Automate agent development lifecycle with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform introduces Agents CLI skills to streamline the development lifecycle of AI agents, moving them from prototype to production. This new toolset allows developers to manage agent creation, deployment, and evaluation within a single coding agent environment, reducing context switching and friction. The platform is demonstrated through the creation of an "Industry Watch" agent designed to analyze semiconductor stock disclosures and news, enabling more robust and reliable AI applications. This approach aims to solve the common problem of AI projects stalling in the prototype phase.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog bloggcppreviewanalystgcp-looker ·
Looker Agentic Workflows Automate Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis
Google Cloud's Looker is introducing Agentic Workflows, a new preview capability that automates data metric monitoring and root-cause analysis using intelligent agents. This feature transforms natural language requests into automated monitoring routines, providing diagnostic summaries via Slack or email to help analysts quickly understand metric changes. Available now in preview for Looker version 26.08 and later, it allows business users to create and manage workflows with administrator oversight.
feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes infragcpgapreviewengineergcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-rungcp-gkegcp-cloud-sqlgcp-compute-enginegcp-composer ·
Cloud SDK 578.0.0: Database Migration default change, AlloyDB backup DR GA, BigQuery improvements
The Cloud SDK 578.0.0 release introduces breaking changes, notably making the `--auto-commit` flag the default for database migration operations and promoting AlloyDB Backup DR restore flags to GA. Key enhancements include BigQuery improvements like force deletion for connections and fixed configuration reading, along with updates to Cloud Run, Compute Engine, and Secret Manager commands. This release affects users of various Google Cloud services, with some changes requiring explicit action to maintain previous behavior.
breaking - Google Cloud release notes infragcppreviewarchitect ·
Confidential VM: August 2026 kernel update may impact AMD SEV-SNP instances
Starting August 2026, Confidential VM instances utilizing AMD SEV-SNP may experience longer boot times and performance changes. This is due to upcoming guest kernel migrations and security updates, with a resolution expected by November 2026. Instances using AMD SEV or Intel TDX are not affected by this specific issue.
announcement - Terraform Google Provider Releases terraforminfragcpdeprecationengineergcp-bigquerygcp-dataproc ·
Terraform Google Provider v7.42.0: New resources, BigQuery, Colab enhancements
HashiCorp's Terraform Google Provider has been updated to version 7.42.0, introducing several new resources including those for quotas, service accounts, and API Hub attachments. Enhancements focus on BigQuery, Cloud Run, Colab schedules, and Compute Engine, along with bug fixes for Bigtable, GKE Hub, and Secret Manager. This release also deprecates a Vertex AI resource, directing users to an alternative. The update is available for all users managing Google Cloud infrastructure via Terraform.
deprecation feature patch announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaiawsgcpgapreviewengineermediagcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-sqlgcp-spannergcp-looker ·
Google Cloud Conversational Analytics expands across data ecosystem
Google Cloud's Conversational Analytics, which leverages generative AI for data interaction, is now generally available for BigQuery and Looker, with preview availability for AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, and Spanner. This expansion allows querying data across multi-cloud and database workloads with enhanced enterprise security, governance, and integration capabilities. It aims to provide proactive insights and flexible developer integration for data practitioners and business teams.
feature patch announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogsecuritygcpgapreviewengineergovernment ·
Cloud KMS adds quantum-safe digital signatures and post-quantum key encapsulation
Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) now offers general availability for quantum-safe digital signatures (ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) and post-quantum key encapsulation (ML-KEM) to protect data integrity against future quantum computers. This update addresses the challenge of signing large data payloads efficiently and supports compliance with evolving regulatory mandates. The new capabilities are available now for all Cloud KMS users.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcppreviewengineergovernmentgcp-cloud-run ·
Google Cloud adds AI cost controls: anomaly detection and spend caps
Google Cloud is introducing two new native features in the Billing console to help manage generative AI costs: early anomaly detection on AI services and spend caps on Budgets. These tools allow users to proactively identify unusual AI spending trends and enforce financial limits, mitigating the risk of unexpected cost spikes. The features are currently in Public Preview, with early anomaly detection supporting services like Gemini API and Cloud Run, and Spend Caps applying to specific projects and services.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineerretailgcp-bigquery ·
Google Cloud Workforce Identity Federation streamlines AI access
Best Buy has adopted Google Cloud's Workforce Identity Federation to allow developers to access cloud resources using their existing Microsoft Entra ID credentials. This move significantly reduces security risks and administrative overhead associated with managing service account keys, enabling more scalable AI and analytics workloads. The solution is now available to all organizations, including those with online billing accounts, and simplifies integration with identity providers like Ping Identity.
feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpengineer ·
Apigee X: Security Fixes and Infrastructure Updates
Google Cloud has released an updated version of Apigee X, incorporating security fixes for the Java Callout policy and infrastructure updates. This release aims to address vulnerabilities and improve the overall stability of the Apigee platform. The rollout began today and may take several business days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.
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