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This page contains production updates and feature announcements for the
Pub/Sub Lite service. For language-specific
updates about Pub/Sub Lite
Client Library releases,
use the following links:
Go,
Java,
and
Python.
You can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the
Google Cloud page, browse and filter all release notes in the
Google Cloud console,
or programmatically access release notes in
BigQuery.
To get the latest product updates delivered to you, add the URL of this page to your
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June 17, 2024
Pub/Sub Lite is deprecated. Effective March 18, 2026, Pub/Sub Lite will be turned down.
Current customers: Pub/Sub Lite remains functional until March 18, 2026. If you have not used Pub/Sub Lite within the 90-day period preceding September 24, 2024 (June 26, 2024 - September 24, 2024), you won't be able to access Pub/Sub Lite starting on September 24, 2024.
New customers: Pub/Sub Lite is no longer available for new customers after September 24th, 2024
You can now migrate your producers from Apache Kafka to Pub/Sub Lite with only configuration changes. To check the feasibility of the migration and to perform the migration workflow, refer to the Kafka to Pub/Sub Lite migration guide. This feature is in public preview.
December 19, 2022
Pub/Sub Lite now supports export subscriptions. You can use an export subscription to export Pub/Sub Lite messages to a destination Pub/Sub topic. This feature is generally available (GA).
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For language-specific updates about Pub/Sub Lite [Client Library](/pubsub/lite/docs/reference/libraries) releases, use the following links: [Go](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/releases), [Java](https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite/releases), and [Python](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsublite/releases).\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n\nYou can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the\n[Google Cloud](/release-notes) page, browse and filter all release notes in the\n[Google Cloud console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes),\nor programmatically access release notes in\n[BigQuery](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=google_cloud_release_notes&t=release_notes&page=table).\n\nTo get the latest product updates delivered to you, add the URL of this page to your\n[feed\nreader](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators), or add the\n[feed URL](https://cloud.google.com/feeds/pubsublite-release-notes.xml) directly.\n\nJune 17, 2024\n-------------\n\nPub/Sub Lite is deprecated. Effective March 18, 2026, Pub/Sub Lite will be turned down.\n\n- Current customers: Pub/Sub Lite remains functional until March 18, 2026. If you have not used Pub/Sub Lite within the 90-day period preceding September 24, 2024 (June 26, 2024 - September 24, 2024), you won't be able to access Pub/Sub Lite starting on September 24, 2024.\n\n- New customers: Pub/Sub Lite is no longer available for new customers after September 24th, 2024\n\nYou can migrate your Pub/Sub Lite service to [Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/migrate-pubsub-lite-to-apache-kaftka-for-bigquery) or [Pub/Sub](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/migrate-pubsub-lite-to-pubsub).\n\nJanuary 23, 2023\n----------------\n\nYou can now migrate your producers from Apache Kafka to Pub/Sub Lite with only configuration changes. To check the feasibility of the migration and to perform the migration workflow, refer to the [Kafka to Pub/Sub Lite migration guide](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/kafka-migration). This feature is in public preview.\n\nDecember 19, 2022\n-----------------\n\nPub/Sub Lite now supports [export subscriptions](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/export-pubsub). You can use an export subscription to export Pub/Sub Lite messages to a destination Pub/Sub topic. This feature is [generally available](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages) (GA).\n\nNovember 18, 2022\n-----------------\n\nThe [Kafka Connector library](https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsub-group-kafka-connector) for Pub/Sub and Pub/Sub Lite is now generally available.\n\nSeptember 29, 2022\n------------------\n\nThe [Kafka Connector library](https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsub-group-kafka-connector) for Pub/Sub and Pub/Sub Lite is now in preview.\n\nSeptember 13, 2022\n------------------\n\nPub/Sub Lite is now available in Tel Aviv (`me-west1`).\n\nMay 25, 2022\n------------\n\nThe [Kafka Shim Java client library](https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-kafka) for Pub/Sub Lite is now GA.\n\nFebruary 03, 2022\n-----------------\n\nPub/Sub Lite now supports regional Lite topics that [replicate data to a secondary zone](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/topics#data_replication_in_a_lite_topic).\n\nSeptember 24, 2021\n------------------\n\nPub/Sub Lite reservations allow you to reserve and share throughput capacity among multiple topics in a region.\n\n- For more information, see [Creating and managing Lite reservations](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/reservations).\n\nJuly 19, 2021\n-------------\n\nThe [Pub/Sub Lite Python client library](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsublite) is now GA.\n\nJuly 08, 2021\n-------------\n\nThe [Pub/Sub Lite Go client library](https://pkg.go.dev/cloud.google.com/go/pubsublite) is now GA.\n\nMay 04, 2021\n------------\n\nPub/Sub Lite is now available in the following regions:\n\n- Hong Kong (`asia-east2`)\n- Tokyo (`asia-northeast1`)\n- Osaka (`asia-northeast2`)\n- Seoul (`asia-northeast3`)\n- Mumbai (`asia-south1`)\n- Jakarta (`asia-southeast2`)\n- Warsaw (`europe-central2`)\n- Montreal (`northamerica-northeast1`)\n- Sao Paulo (`southamerica-east1`)\n- Northern Virginia (`us-east4`)\n- Salt Lake City (`us-west3`)\n- Las Vegas (`us-west4`)\n\nFor the full list of available regions, see [Pub/Sub Lite locations](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/locations).\n\nMarch 22, 2021\n--------------\n\nPub/Sub Lite now supports [increasing the number of partitions in a topic](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/topics#scaling_throughput_capacity).\n\nFebruary 24, 2021\n-----------------\n\nAn [Apache Spark connector](https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-spark) is now available for Pub/Sub Lite, allowing you to read messages from Pub/Sub Lite in your Spark clusters.\n\nNovember 19, 2020\n-----------------\n\nThe Pub/Sub Lite [Python client library](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsublite) is now in Beta.\n\nOctober 30, 2020\n----------------\n\nA [Kafka Shim Java client library](https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-kafka) is now available for Pub/Sub Lite, allowing you to use the Kafka API with Pub/Sub Lite as a backend.\n\nOctober 09, 2020\n----------------\n\n[Pub/Sub Lite](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/choosing-pubsub-or-lite) is now available in GA.\n\nMay 26, 2020\n------------\n\n[Pub/Sub Lite](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/choosing-pubsub-or-lite) is now available at the [beta launch stage](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages).\n\nMay 18, 2020\n------------\n\nThe Pub/Sub Lite [Java client library](https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite) is now in Beta."]]
