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
- 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 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 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 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 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 gcppreviewengineer ·
Google Cloud Console Bigtable Row Key Schema Management in Preview
Google Cloud is introducing a new feature allowing users to manage Bigtable row key schemas via the Cloud console. This capability aims to simplify schema operations for Bigtable users. The feature is currently in Preview, indicating it is available for testing and feedback but not yet generally available.
feature - Google Cloud release notes datagcppreviewengineergcp-bigquery ·
BigQuery Data Transfer Service adds incremental Klaviyo transfers
The BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports incremental data transfers for Klaviyo data. This enhancement reduces data transfer times and resource consumption for users integrating Klaviyo with BigQuery. The feature is available in Preview for all users. Prerequisites include an active Klaviyo account and a BigQuery dataset.
feature - Google Cloud Blog blogaiawsazuregcpdatabrickssnowflakepreviewengineergcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-storagegcp-spanner ·
Google Cloud Announces Borderless Lakehouse for Cross-Cloud Data Access
Google Cloud is enhancing its "borderless Lakehouse" architecture, built on Apache Iceberg, to enable AI agents and Gemini Enterprise to query data across AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake without moving it. This initiative introduces catalog federation and zero-copy integrations, offering zero-copy cross-cloud analytics, bidirectional interoperability, and unified governance to developers and architects. The new capabilities, including Cross-Cloud Interconnects and intelligent caching, aim to reduce data transfer costs and latency for in-place AI and ML workloads, with preview availability for key federation features.
feature - 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 securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Google SecOps: View preview parser content with custom parsers
Google SecOps now allows users to view the content of prebuilt parser preview versions, even when a custom parser is active for the same log type. This enhancement provides visibility into new preview features without disrupting current custom parser configurations. It benefits SecOps users who want to evaluate upcoming parser capabilities.
feature - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
Google SecOps SIEM: View Prebuilt Parser Preview Content
Google SecOps SIEM now allows users to view prebuilt parser preview version content even when using a custom parser for the same log type. This enhancement enables users to inspect new preview versions before activating them. The feature is available for users of Google SecOps SIEM.
feature - 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 infragcppreviewengineergcp-gke ·
GKE: Opt-out of Arm taint, CORS for Gateways
Google Kubernetes Engine now allows opting out of the default `kubernetes.io/arch=arm64:NoSchedule` taint on Arm nodes in Standard node pools and custom ComputeClasses. This simplifies scheduling multi-architecture workloads by allowing pods without explicit tolerations to run on Arm instances. Additionally, GKE Gateway and Inference Gateway now support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configuration directly on HTTPRoute resources, available in Preview for GKE version 1.35 and later.
feature - 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 - Google Cloud release notes securitygcppreviewengineer ·
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: IAM group auth in preview
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL now offers IAM group authentication in preview for new clusters running PostgreSQL 15+. This feature simplifies user management by enabling access control at the group level, allowing group members to inherit database roles. It requires enabling specific database flags and is available for new clusters.
feature - 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.
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