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 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 release notes aigcppreviewengineermedia ·
Agent Registry: Standalone Skill Governance in Preview
Google Cloud's Agent Registry now offers standalone skill governance in preview, enabling secure, enterprise-grade management of AI agent skills. This feature allows for skill registration, versioning, publisher verification, and access policy enforcement. It's beneficial for organizations building complex AI agents that require robust control over their constituent skills and is available to engineers and architects working with AI agent development on Google Cloud.
feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaiawsazuregcpgapreviewengineerfinanceretailmediagovernmentgcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-rungcp-gkegcp-cloud-storagegcp-vertex-ai ·
Google Cloud AI and AI Agent Updates: June Recap
Google Cloud has released several updates focusing on building, scaling, and securing AI, including a new Open Knowledge Format for LLMs and expanded agentic development capabilities. These advancements aim to help organizations run smarter, more secure applications and improve product discovery. The updates are now available, with new models and tools accessible to various customer segments.
feature announcement - 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 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 blogaigcpengineermediaenergy ·
Google's approach to shipping AI apps safely in production
Google is addressing the high failure rate of AI prototypes in enterprise environments by introducing a new AI prototyping stack. This stack decouples experimentation from production systems, allowing rapid iteration and validation without risking stability. Engineers are shifting focus from code quality to architecting safe testing environments, enabling faster delivery of AI features.
announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogsecuritygcpengineerfinanceretailmediagovernmentgcp-cloud-rungcp-cloud-storagegcp-compute-enginegcp-cloud-functions ·
Securing Serverless Applications Against Common Attacks on GCP
Mandiant highlights risks of publicly exposed serverless applications on Google Cloud, such as Cloud Run, lacking authentication. Exploiting vulnerabilities like LFI and command injection can lead to full cloud environment compromise, a growing concern with increased AI usage. This post details attack scenarios and provides hardening guidance, applicable to any public serverless deployment, emphasizing secure secrets management and least privilege principles for service accounts.
announcement security - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineerhealthcarefinancemediagovernmentgcp-cloud-rungcp-gkegcp-vertex-ai ·
Claude on Google Cloud for Enterprise Production AI
Google Cloud now offers Claude, a frontier AI model, for enterprise production, providing managed infrastructure, global reach, and compliance features. This integration aims to simplify AI deployment by allowing teams to use Claude like any other Google Cloud service, leveraging existing IAM and observability tools. The offering includes managed infrastructure, global and regional endpoints for low latency and data sovereignty, and optimizations for cost and performance.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog bloggcpgapreviewengineermediagcp-gkegcp-cloud-storagegcp-dataflowgcp-compute-engine ·
Google Cloud C4N instances achieve GA for optimized network and storage I/O
Google Cloud's C4N Compute Engine instances are now generally available, offering enhanced network and block storage performance for demanding enterprise workloads. These instances are purpose-built to eliminate I/O bottlenecks, providing up to 400 Gbps of network bandwidth and 25 GiB/s of storage throughput. This makes them ideal for network-intensive applications, large-scale databases, and AI/ML inference, delivering significant total cost of ownership (TCO) benefits.
feature patch - Google Cloud Blog blogaisecurityawsazurepreviewengineermediagovernment ·
Google's Gemini Startup Forum Selects 33 Cybersecurity Startups
Google has launched its Gemini Startup Forum, selecting 33 cybersecurity startups focused on AI integration. This program aims to foster innovation by providing these companies with access to Google's AI and cybersecurity experts. The selected startups will work on solutions across six specialized areas, including AI agent security, application security, cloud security, endpoint security, and SOC automation. The initiative highlights Google's commitment to advancing AI-native cybersecurity solutions.
announcement feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineermediagcp-cloud-storagegcp-pubsubgcp-firestore ·
Guide to publishing AI agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace
Google Cloud is providing a guide for developers to publish AI agents through Google Cloud Marketplace and deploy them to the Gemini Enterprise app. This process involves designing agent architecture for integration, meeting organizational and agent-specific mandates, and adhering to technical requirements like the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Developers will need to create an Agent Card, a JSON file detailing agent capabilities and authentication methods, to enable interoperability and commercialization of their AI services.
announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineermedia ·
Google Agent Platform: Build, Scale, and Govern Enterprise AI Agents
Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a unified solution for building, scaling, and governing AI agents within an organization. The platform aims to simplify the complex engineering reality of agent deployment by handling underlying complexities, allowing technical teams to focus on business value. It supports various user personas from no-code business experts to high-code engineers and offers specific tools for different development needs, addressing questions about agent development, data connectivity, and interoperability.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaiinfraawsazuregcpgapreviewengineerretailmediagovernmentgcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-rungcp-gkegcp-cloud-storagegcp-pubsubgcp-vertex-aigcp-compute-enginegcp-firestore ·
Google Cloud: New AI, Serverless, and Infrastructure Updates
Google Cloud has released several updates including new AI agent capabilities, enhanced serverless options, and infrastructure improvements. These changes aim to help organizations build, govern, and scale AI applications more effectively and efficiently. Key updates include sandboxed code execution in Cloud Run, advanced AI governance tools, and performance optimizations for AI workloads on GKE. These features are largely available now or in public preview, impacting developers, architects, and ML engineers working with Google Cloud services.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpmediagovernmentautomotivegcp-bigquerygcp-gke ·
Google Cloud enables AI-defined vehicles with Android and Bigtable
Google Cloud is partnering with the automotive industry to build Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) and AI-defined vehicles (AIDVs). The solution integrates Android Automotive OS (AAOS) SDV with Google Cloud services like Bigtable and Gemini to create intelligent, connected vehicle architectures. This enables OEMs to move beyond hardware-centric designs and develop dynamic, AI-native mobility solutions that offer personalized experiences and proactive automation. The platform is designed to manage high-volume telemetry data and provides a foundation for developing advanced AI agents within vehicles.
feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpengineermedia ·
Google SecOps Publisher Agent v2.7.0 Enhances HA and File Transfer
Google SecOps Publisher Agent has been updated to version 2.7.0, now available in all regions. This release introduces High Availability support for the publisher and enables file upload/download capabilities via playbooks and the SDK for agents on GCOM infrastructure. These enhancements aim to improve operational resilience and workflow flexibility for SecOps users.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcpengineermedia ·
Google SecOps SOAR Feature Publisher Agent v2.7.0 Released
Google SecOps SOAR Feature Publisher Agent version 2.7.0 is now available across all regions. This update provides the latest features for the Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response platform. All users of Google SecOps SOAR can access this new version.
feature - Google Cloud release notes compliancegcpgapreviewengineermediagcp-looker ·
Looker 26.12 Rolls Out with New Features and Bug Fixes
Looker 26.12 is rolling out with significant updates, including new features like FIPS 140-3 compliance support and a preview of Table Row Grouping. Several bug fixes address issues ranging from TypeError crashes and access control problems to visualization rendering and API call errors. The release also makes the KPI Visualization preview enabled by default and the Increased Row Limit feature generally available, impacting users of Looker (original) instances.
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