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BigQuery migration assessment now includes support for Amazon Redshift Serverless. This feature is in preview.

You can now generate structured data by using BigQuery ML's AI.GENERATE_TABLE function with Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemini 1.5 Flash, and Gemini 2.0 Flash models. You can use the AI.GENERATE_TABLE function's output_schema argument to more easily format the model's response. The output_schema argument lets you specify a SQL schema for formatting, similar to the schema used in the CREATE TABLE statement. By creating structured output, you can more easily convert the function output into a BigQuery table.

Try this feature with the Generate structured data by using the AI.GENERATE_TABLE function tutorial.

This feature is in preview.

With this release, API Gateway meets the regulatory and compliance requirements for support of data residency for data at rest.

For more information, see Google Cloud Platform Services with Data residency.

VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) integration (Preview)

API hub now integrates with VPC Service Controls, providing enhanced network security for your API hub instance provisioned in Google Cloud. Establish service perimeters to control ingress and egress traffic. For more information, see VPC Service Controls for API hub.

Data Residency Zone (DRZ) compliance

API hub is now compliant with Data Residency Zone (DRZ) C3 requirements. For more information, see API hub locations.

Terraform support for provisioning

You can now provision API hub instances programmatically using Terraform for Google Cloud within Cloud Shell, enabling infrastructure-as-code practices. For more information, see Provision API hub using Terraform.

Plugin Framework

API hub now uses a plugin framework to connect and ingest API metadata from various Google Cloud services and external sources where your APIs are managed or defined. This provides a flexible and extensible way to integrate with your existing API landscape. For more information, see Plugins overview.

API Metadata Curations

API hub introduces a curation process to transform and enrich API metadata ingested by plugins. This ensures consistency across different sources, enabling effective governance, discovery, and management of your APIs. For more information, see Curations overview.

API Supply chain graph view

Visualize and understand the dependencies within your API ecosystem with the new interactive API supply chain graph view. This directed graph allows you to explore the relationships between your APIs and API operations. For more information, see API Supply chain views.

Enhancements to the Operations entity [API only]

You can now add, edit, or delete operations for an API version even if it lacks a specification file or has an unparsable one. For more information, see Manage operations.

Deprovision an API hub instance [API only]

You can now delete an API hub instance from your Google Cloud project using the ApiHubInstance API. For more information, see Deprovision Apigee API hub.

Build Conversational Agents with Dialogflow CX (Preview)

Application Integration now simplifies the creation of conversational experiences with direct integration with Conversational Agents (Dialogflow CX). Using API triggers, you can now build intelligent chatbots and automated tools directly within your integration workflows, enhancing user interactions and automating tasks.

For more information, see Build conversational agents with Application Integration.

You can now create and use Python user-defined functions (UDFs) in BigQuery. Python UDFs support the use of additional libraries and external APIs. This feature is in preview.

You can now generate Dataframes code in BigQuery Notebooks that use BigFrames libraries. In your code generation prompt, include the word BigFrames to generate code that uses BigQuery DataFrames. This feature is in preview.

Deploying multiple containers (sidecars) to a Cloud Run job is now generally available. (GA)

Generally available: You can manage OS policy assignments across projects and zones at scale in large organizations using the OS policy orchestrator feature in VM Manager. OS policy assignment was previously available only for zonal resources in a project. For more information, see About OS Policy Orchestrator.

Salesforce CRMs: attach a CCaaS session object to a CRM record if a matching CRM record is found

For Salesforce CRMs, when you append a call or chat session to the latest open record, you have the option to attach a CCaaS session object to a CRM record if a matching CRM record is found.

New options for CRM comments when saving call recordings and chat transcripts to external storage

When you save call recordings and chat transcripts to external storage, you can control how these are referenced in the CRM record. You now have the following options:

• Add a call recording or chat transcript link as a comment in the CRM record.
• Add the call recording or chat transcript filename as a comment in the CRM record.
• Don't add any reference to the call recording or chat transcript in the CRM record.

Note: to make comments consistent across CRM platforms, we've standardized on the following phrases in CRM comments: Chat Transcripts, Call Recordings, and Voicemails.

New call type in reports: Voice Outbound (UCaaS)

We've added the Voice Outbound (UCaaS) report type to the Create Reports page for calls and chats so you can generate reports that contain this type of call.

Conditional overcapacity deflections

You can now enable conditional overcapacity deflections for calls. You can choose from a number of wait-time conditions or time-of-day conditions, and you can create a distinct deflection message for each each condition that you configure.

New post events for virtual task assistants

The following new virtual task assistant post events are available:

• Virtual task assistant joined
• Virtual task assistant left
• Virtual task assistant session variables received

The agent adapter can use the browser's postMessage() method to send events to the parent iFrame to trigger various actions in your custom CRM application.

Bulk agent status import improvements

When you import agent statuses in bulk, the Import Statuses dialog now indicates when the upload is complete and sends you a confirmation email.

Configure a contact list destination to pass data parameters to a SIP header

You can configure a contact list destination to pass data parameters to a SIP URI when an agent uses the destination to make an outbound call or transfer a call.

View transcripts for completed chats

If you save chat transcripts in external storage, you can view them from the Completed Chats dashboard.

Automatic application monitoring is now generally available in GKE versions 1.28 and later. When configured on GKE clusters, this feature automatically collects key metrics with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus and provides out-of-the-box dashboards for monitoring the supported workloads. Automatic application monitoring supports six new AI model servers (NVIDIA Triton, vLLM, TGI, JetStream, TorchServe and TensorFlow Serving). For more information, see Configure automatic application monitoring.

Medium Priority rule set

Google SecOps has introduced a new rule set, Medium Priority, in Applied Threat Intelligence (ATI). This rule set extends the capabilities of the ATI indicator prioritization model and expands prioritization logic to include commodity malware. For more information, see Applied Threat Intelligence priority overview.

Medium Priority rule set

Google SecOps has introduced a new rule set, Medium Priority, in Applied Threat Intelligence (ATI). This rule set extends the capabilities of the ATI indicator prioritization model and expands prioritization logic to include commodity malware. For more information, see Applied Threat Intelligence priority overview.

Memorystore for Valkey is now Generally Available (GA).

Multi-VPC support for Memorystore for Valkey is now Generally Available (GA). This functionality enables you to create Private Service Connect endpoints in multiple VPCs to connect to the same Memorystore for Valkey instance. This provides you with enhanced flexibility and resilience for your network architecture. For more information, see About multiple VPC networking.

General availability support for the following integration:

• Google Agentspace Enterprise

Pipe syntax supports a linear query structure designed to make your queries easier to read, write, and maintain. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can use a CREATE MODEL statement to create a contribution analysis model in BigQuery ML. The top_k_insights_by_apriori_support and pruning_method model options are now supported. You can use a contribution analysis model with the ML.GET_INSIGHTS function to generate insights about changes to key metrics in your multi-dimensional data. The following metric types are supported:

• Summable metric
• Summable ratio metric
• Summable by category metric

This feature is generally available (GA).

Code customization for chat is now generally available for VS Code and IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist. This feature provides contextually relevant code suggestions and insights in your IDE's Gemini Code Assist chat interface. Code customization for chat is available without any additional configuration required. For more information on how to use code customization for chat effectively, see Use code customization.

The following features have been added to Studio in Looker, which is available in preview:

• You can connect to Google BigQuery and Google Sheets using Owner's Credentials.
• Localized number formatting is supported.

Iceberg external tables now support merge-on-read. You can query Iceberg tables with position deletes and equality deletes. This feature is generally available (GA).

On the Scheduling page, you can now view existing schedules, create new schedules, and perform other actions for data preparations, notebooks, BigQuery pipelines, and scheduled queries. For more information, see Create a pipeline schedule. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can build BigQuery pipelines (formerly workflows), composed of SQL queries or notebooks, in BigQuery Studio. You can then run these pipelines on a schedule. You can also configure notebook runtimes for a pipeline, share a pipeline, or share a pipeline link. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can now define a _CHANGE_SEQUENCE_NUMBER for BigQuery change data capture (CDC) to manage streaming UPSERT ordering for BigQuery. This feature is generally available (GA).

BigQuery now supports subqueries in row level access policies. It also includes support for BigLake managed tables and the BigQuery Storage Read API. This feature is now generally available (GA).

You can now use BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Search Ads to view Performance Max (PMax) campaign data for the following tables:

• CartDataSalesStats
• ProductAdvertised
• ProductAdvertisedDeviceStats
• ProductAdvertisedConversionActionAndDeviceStats

This feature is generally available (GA).

You can now configure the repeat frequency of BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Google Ad Manager. This option has a default of every 8 hours and a minimum of every 4 hours. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can now skip loading match tables for BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Google Ad Manager. If match tables are not needed, you can set parameter load_match_tables to FALSE. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can include data preparation tasks in BigQuery pipelines that execute your code assets in sequence at a scheduled time. This feature is in Preview.

Cloud SQL now supports Managed Connection Pooling (MCP) in Preview, which lets you scale your workloads by optimizing resource utilization for your Cloud SQL instances using pooling. For more information, see Managed Connection Pooling overview.

Cloud SQL now supports Managed Connection Pooling (MCP) in Preview, which lets you scale your workloads by optimizing resource utilization for your Cloud SQL instances using pooling. For more information, see Managed Connection Pooling overview.

Storage batch operations for Cloud Storage is now generally available (GA). Using storage batch operations, you can perform operations on billions of Cloud Storage objects in a serverless manner. To learn more about storage batch operations, see Overview of storage batch operations.

You can now use metrics to monitor Cloud Storage FUSE performance. For more information, see Cloud Storage FUSE metrics.

Flex-start for Cloud TPU, powered by Dynamic Workload Scheduler, is available in Preview. Flex-start is a flexible and cost-effective consumption option for AI workloads. Flex-start enables you to dynamically provision TPUs for up to 7 days using the queued resources API, without long-term reservations. This option is ideal for quick experimentation, small-scale testing, dynamic inference provisioning, and model fine-tuning. For more information about Flex-start for Cloud TPU, see Request Cloud TPUs using Flex-start.

Preview: You can switch to a default runtime with GPUs by using a button in your Colab Enterprise notebook. To enable a default runtime with GPUs for your users, see Enable default runtimes with GPUs.

Support for Confidential Space on Intel CPUs (C3 machine family) with Intel TDX is now generally available.

Confidential Space now allows adding specific Linux capabilities, including CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and provides a namespaced read or write cgroup.

Dataproc Metastore federation now supports multi-regional Dataproc Metastore services.

Public preview: Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka now supports Kafka Connect. Kafka Connect provides a curated set of built-in connector plugins hosted in Connect clusters. Configure these connector plugins to create connectors that let you stream data at scale between Managed Service for Apache Kafka clusters and other systems, such as external Kafka deployments, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, or Pub/Sub. For more information, see Kafka Connect overview.

Modern charts general availability

Modern charts offers new chart styling, new default theme colors, new chart configuration options, new axis customization options, and new chart settings that give report creators greater control over how data is curated and presented to users.

This feature is now generally available and is the default for all new Looker Studio reports. Existing reports must be upgraded to use modern charts. Classic report themes are still available in the Themes panel.

Learn more about modern charts.

Looker connector enhancements

The following enhancements to the Looker connector are now generally available:

• The Looker connector can now connect to a private IP (private services access) only Looker (Google Cloud core) instance or to a private IP (Private Service Connect) Looker (Google Cloud core) instance using the Looker instance ID.

Query results variables

Query result variables let you insert data directly into text elements.You can choose a cell from a table as a "query result" to insert into a text element, and Looker Studio will keep the result up to date.

• Configuration Packages: Introduces a file-based configuration package system for atomic deployments and GitOps integration. For more information, see Upload configuration package and File content.
• Development Mode: Adds a "Development Mode" to allow deletion of MDE entities and configuration packages, use with caution. For more information, see Development mode.

Spanner now supports the following GoogleSQL JSON mutator functions:

• JSON_ARRAY_APPEND()
• JSON_ARRAY_INSERT()
• JSON_REMOVE()
• JSON_SET()
• JSON_STRIP_NULLS()

Spanner now supports the following PostgreSQL JSONB mutator functions:

• jsonb_insert()
• jsonb_set()
• jsonb_set_lax()
• jsonb_strip_nulls()

Spanner also supports the following PostgreSQL JSONB operators:

• concat: jsonb || jsonb -> jsonb
• delete: jsonb - text -> jsonb

For more information, see JSON functions in GoogleSQL and Supported PostgreSQL functions.

The GoogleSQL JSON_KEYS and PostgreSQL json_object_keys functions, which extract unique JSON keys from a JSON expression, are generally available.

JSON search indexes are generally available in Spanner. This extension of Spanner's full-text index capabilities accelerates many JSON document queries, even without prior knowledge of the documents' structure. You can create search indexes over any JSON document stored in a JSON column. The JSON_CONTAINS function in GoogleSQL and the @> and <@ operators in PostgreSQL can use search indexes to determine if one document structure is contained in another. Search indexing supports JSON types in GoogleSQL-dialect databases and JSONB in PostgreSQL-dialect databases. For more information, see JSON search indexes.

You can access global Google APIs by using Private Service Connect backends that are based on cross-region internal Application Load Balancers. This feature is available in General Availability. For more information, see Access global Google APIs through backends.

Configure user preferences

The ability to manage platform time zones, date/time settings, and notifications have moved to the new User Preferences dialog, accessible from your avatar.

In addition, a new accessibility option in the User Preferences dialog lets you customize how long feedback messages remain on the screen.

For more information, see Configure user preferences.

Access Approval supports Org Lifecycle API in the GA stage.

Access Approval supports Integration Connectors in the GA stage.

Access Transparency supports Integration Connectors in the GA stage.

Access Transparency supports Org Lifecycle API in the GA stage.

The ability to disable the Invoker IAM check for Cloud Run services is now at general availability (GA).

AWS token support for Confidential Space is now generally available.

You can now integrate Confidential Space with AWS resources. For more information, see Integrate AWS resources.

Instance replication is now generally available (GA).

Local codebase awareness is now available for IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist. You can now include files from your local IDE project in the prompt context by typing @ in the chat prompt box.

You can now see what files are used by IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist chat and can customize the context as needed.

In version 1.32.1-gke.1729000 and later, you can customize specific kubelet and Linux kernel parameters like sysctls and huge pages by using the nodeSystemConfig field in your GKE compute classes. Additionally, you can now specify default values for fields that are omitted in individual rules in a compute class by using the priorityDefaults field. For details, see About custom compute classes.

Finding and setting maintenance windows are now Generally Available (GA) on Memorystore for Redis Cluster.

You can now perform maintenance on a Memorystore for Valkey instance. This feature is Public Preview.

The auto-tiering feature which is previously available to allow-listed users, is now generally available. For more information, see Auto-tiering.

You can now create and manage quota rules on a NetApp Volumes volume using the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Manage quota rules.

Spanner vector index and approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) distance functions in the GoogleSQL-dialect are Generally Available. If you have a table with a large amount of vector data, you can use a vector index to accelerate similarity searches and nearest neighbor queries. Spanner now also supports the following:

• ALTER VECTOR INDEX DDL syntax
• Import and export databases that use ANN
• Use the STORING clause to store a copy of a column in the vector index to accelerate queries that filter by those columns
• Use ANN in instances smaller than one node or 1000 processing units

For more information, see Find approximate nearest neighbors, create vector indexes, and query vector embeddings.

Spanner ANN indexes are now supported in Langchain. For more information, see LangChain Quickstart for Spanner.

VPC Service Controls feature (Status: Preview): VPC Service Controls adds support for using IAM roles in ingress and egress rules to allow access to resources protected by service perimeters. This feature is available in Preview.

For more information, see Configure IAM roles in ingress and egress rules.

Support for a Kubernetes API connector is generally available (GA). The connector allows you to interact with Kubernetes objects in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. For more information, see Access Kubernetes API objects using a connector.

Availability of client IP resolution functionality with Apigee hybrid.

Client IP resolution functonality is now available with Apigee hybrid versions 1.14.0 and later.

See Client IP resolution for information.

Availability of client IP resolution functionality with Apigee hybrid.

Client IP resolution functonality is now available with Apigee hybrid versions 1.14.0 and later.

See Client IP resolution for information.

You can now enable metadata caching for SQL translation, which can significantly reduce latency for subsequent translation requests. This feature is in preview.

Cloud Workstations is available in the me-central2 region (Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Middle East). For more information, see Locations.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents) data stores: Dialogflow now supports additional native and third-party data store sources as a private GA feature. For a list of data store sources, integration instructions, and the request form to be added to the allowlist, see the data stores documentation.

Parameter Manager, an extension to the Secret Manager service, is now Generally available (GA). Parameter Manager lets you store, access, and manage the lifecycle of workload parameters. You can interact with Parameter Manager using the console, gcloud CLI, REST API, and client libraries.

For information, see the Parameter Manager documentation.

You can save and manage your SQL scripts in Spanner Studio. This feature is in preview. For more information, see Saved queries overview.

General availability support for the following integration:

• Service Networking

With this release, customer data in API Gateway is now CMEK-compliant at rest. No configuration is required.

For more information, see CMEK compliance in API Gateway.

To learn more about CMEK, see Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

You can now set the column granularity when you create a search index, which stores additional column information in your search index to further optimize your search query performance. This feature is in preview.

Data lineage in Cloud Composer now uses OpenLineage.

Data lineage support for a specific Airflow operator is now provided by the provider package where the operator is located. See Supported classes in the apache-airflow-providers-openlineage documentation for a list of latest supported operators.

For more information about data lineage in Cloud Composer, see Data lineage with Dataplex.

This feature is gradually rolled out. It will be available in us-west1, us-south1, europe-north1, me-west1, asia-northeast2, asia-southeast2, and africa-south1 regions. We plan to provide this feature in other regions in future releases.

Generally available: You can use instant snapshots to take in-place backups of the following types of disks:

• Hyperdisk Balanced
• Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability
• Hyperdisk Extreme

Instant snapshots are ideal for rapid data restoration only within the same location as the source disk. You can use an instant snapshot to create a new disk in under a minute. For more information, see About instant snapshots.

Generally available: You can specify a custom ephemeral internal IPv6 address when creating an instance. For more information, see Create instances that use IPv6 addresses.

Generally available: Asynchronous Replication is now generally available for Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability, and Hyperdisk Extreme disks. Asynchronous Replication provides low-RPO and low-RTO block storage replication for cross-region disaster recovery. For more information, see About Asynchronous Replication.

Custom organization policies are now available in Preview for Cloud Resource Manager. For more information, see Manage resources with custom constraints.

Generally available: You can consume reservations of VMs that have GPUs attached with your custom training jobs or prediction jobs. Reservations of Compute Engine zonal resources help you gain a high level of assurance that your jobs have the necessary resources to run. For more information, see the following:

• Use reservations with training

• Use reservations with prediction

The ability to back up and restore data on a Vertex AI Workbench instance is now generally available. For more information, see Back up and restore data on an instance.

Support for the following is available in General availability for dual-stack configurations:

• IPv6 static routes with a next hop internal passthrough Network Load Balancer (next-hop-ilb)
• IPv6 static routes with a next hop instance identified by address (next-hop-address)

For more information, see Next hops and features in the static routes overview.

API Gateway now supports Workforce Identity Federation.

Workforce Identity Federation lets you use an external identity provider (IdP) to authenticate and authorize a workforce — a group of users, such as employees, partners, and contractors — using Identity and Access Management (IAM) to access API Gateway services.

See Identity federation: products and limitations for more information.

New features added to public preview of Risk Assessment v2

This release introduces new features to the Risk Assessment v2 preview:

• Security monitoring conditions. Security monitoring conditions allow you to map resources (proxies or environments) to security profiles. Cloud Monitoring can then use this mapping to alert or create dedicated dashboards so that you can track security scores over time.
• Alerts on security monitoring conditions. Once you've created a monitoring condition, you can set up alerts using Alerting in Cloud Monitoring so that you're notified when the security scores change.

For information on monitoring conditions features and usage see monitoring conditions and alerts. For usage information and a list of all features in Risk Assessment v2, see the Risk Assessment v2 customer documentation.

Note: Rollouts of this functionality to production instances will begin within two business days and may take four or more business days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Your instances may not have the feature available until the rollout is complete.

BigQuery ML now supports visualization of model monitoring metrics. This feature lets you use charts and graphs to analyze model monitoring function output. The following functions support metric visualization:

• ML.VALIDATE_DATA_SKEW: compute the statistics for a set of serving data, and then compare them to the statistics for the data used to train a BigQuery ML model in order to identify anomalous differences between the two data sets.
• ML.VALIDATE_DATA_DRIFT: compute and compare the statistics for two sets of serving data in order to identify anomalous differences between the two data sets.

This feature is in preview.

New services using GPUs by default will have zonal redundancy turned on. However, you can now specify GPUs with zonal redundancy or without zonal redundancy, and request quota for either of these configurations. (In Preview)

Cloud SQL read pools provide operational simplicity and scaling for your large read workloads.

Read pools provide a single endpoint in front of up to 20 read pool nodes and automatically load balance traffic.

You can scale your read pool in several ways:

• Scale in or out: scale load balancing capacity horizontally by modifying the number of read pool nodes in the read pool. Each read pool supports up to 20 read pool nodes.
• Scale up or down: scale load balancing capacity vertically by modifying the machine type associated with a read pool node. Once defined, configuration is uniformly applied across each read pool node in the read pool.

For more information, see About read pools.

Cloud SQL read pools provide operational simplicity and scaling for your large read workloads.

Read pools provide a single endpoint in front of up to 20 read pool nodes and automatically load balance traffic.

You can scale your read pool in several ways:

• Scale in or out: scale load balancing capacity horizontally by modifying the number of read pool nodes in the read pool. Each read pool supports up to 20 read pool nodes.
• Scale up or down: scale load balancing capacity vertically by modifying the machine type associated with a read pool node. Once defined, configuration is uniformly applied across each read pool node in the read pool.

For more information, see About read pools.

To send trace data to your Google Cloud project, we recommend that you use the new Telemetry API, which implements the OpenTelemetry OTLP API and provides compatibility and support for the open source ecosystem. The limits for the Telemetry API are often more generous than those for the proprietary Cloud Trace API, which you can continue to use. The Telemetry API supports VPC Service Controls. For more information about the Telemetry API, see the following documents:

• Telemetry API overview
• Migrate from the Trace exporter to the OTLP endpoint
• Quotas and limits

• DeepSeek-V3-0324, TxGemma and Sesame CSM are now available in Model Garden.
• DeepSeek-R1, V3 and V3-0324 can be deployed with H200 GPUs and improved vLLM support.
• You can deploy a model in Model Garden by using the Python SDK, gcloud CLI, or API, which are available in Preview. You can get started with the "Equivalent code" in the deploy panel in the Model Garden console.

The backups feature for the Flex service level is now generally available. For more information, see About NetApp Volumes.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports cross-region backup vaults in Preview. For more information, see Backup vaults.

The Flex service level of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports custom performance in Preview, enabling independent provisioning of capacity and performance with zonal pools in selected regions. For more information, see NetApp Volumes key features.

Preview stage support for the following integration:

• Telemetry (OTLP) API

Apigee Spaces is now generally available (GA) for use in Apigee organizations.

Apigee Spaces enables identity-based isolation and grouping of API resources within an Apigee organization. With Apigee Spaces, you can have granular IAM control over access to your API proxies, shared flows, and API products.

Spaces also provide the option of resource isolation at a team level, providing a clear separation of resources associated with different teams operating within the same Apigee organization. IAM policies can be applied at the Space level, eliminating the need to manage permissions individually for every API proxy, shared flow, and API product.

Spaces are a brand new resource type with resource-level permissions. This means that Space permissions are not subject to the 64k limitation for project-level IAM conditions. Each space has its own 64k limit.

To learn more, see Apigee Spaces overview.

You can now use KLL quantile functions to efficiently compute approximate quantiles. This feature is in preview.

You can now set labels on reservations. These labels can be used to organize your reservations and for billing analysis. This feature is in preview.

The BigQuery Data Transfer Service can now transfer reporting and configuration data from Google Analytics 4 into BigQuery. This feature is in preview.

We have redesigned the Add Data dialog to guide you through loading data into BigQuery with a source-first experience and enhanced search and filtering capabilities. This feature is generally available (GA).

Cloud SQL now lets you retain existing backups after an instance is deleted. These consist of on-demand and automatic backups created when the instance was live. For more information, see Retained backups.

Cloud SQL now lets you retain existing backups after an instance is deleted. These consist of on-demand and automatic backups created when the instance was live. For more information, see Retained backups.

You can export the transaction logs for all Cloud SQL for SQL Server instances that have point-in-time recovery (PITR) enabled and their logs stored in Cloud Storage.

Cloud SQL now lets you retain existing backups after an instance is deleted. These consist of on-demand and automatic backups created when the instance was live. For more information, see Retained backups.

Generally available: Multi-writer support for Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disks. You can give up to 8 VMs, across two zones, simultaneous read-write access to the same disk. For more information, see Share disks between instances.

Added support for NVIDIA GB200 GPU with 570.124.06 GPU driver. This driver version has been assigned the latest, default, and R570 tags for this GPU type.

Added support for the Lustre 2.14.0 client drivers.

Added support for NVIDIA 570.124.06 GPU driver. Updated the LATEST GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for all GPU devices. Updated the DEFAULT GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for NVIDIA_B200 and NVIDIA_H200 GPU devices.

Add support for iRDMA devices.

Updated cos-gpu-installer to v2.4.8: Add the -skip-nvidia-smi flag to disable the execution of nvidia-smi verification during gpu driver installation.

Applied Intel patches to add iRDMA support in the Linux kernel.

Support for NVIDIA B200 GPU – Added support for the R570 driver series, including version 570.86.15. This version has been assigned the latest, default, and R570 tags.

Updated cos-gpu-installer to v2.4.7: 1.Added Support for NVIDIA B200 GPU. 2.Enabled --prepare-build-tools flag to preload GPU driver metadata for ARM64

Added support for NVIDIA GB200 GPU with 570.124.06 GPU driver. This driver version has been assigned the latest, default, and R570 tags for this GPU type.

Added support for the Lustre 2.14.0 client drivers.

Added support for NVIDIA 570.124.06 GPU driver. Updated the LATEST GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for all GPU devices. Updated the DEFAULT GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for NVIDIA_B200 and NVIDIA_H200 GPU devices.

Added support for NVIDIA 570.124.06 GPU driver. Updated the R570, LATEST GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for all GPU devices. Updated the DEFAULT GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for NVIDIA_B200 and NVIDIA_H200 GPU devices.

Added support for NVIDIA GB200 GPU with 570.124.06 GPU driver. This driver version has been assigned the latest, default, and R570 tags for this GPU type.

Added support for the Lustre 2.14.0 client drivers.

Cloud Firestore now supports multi-region nam7 United States (Central and East), which consists of regions us-central1 (Iowa) and us-east4 (Northern Virginia).

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

Firestore in Datastore mode now supports multi-region nam7 United States (Central and East), which consists of regions us-central1 (Iowa) and us-east4 (Northern Virginia).

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

The following features have been added to Studio in Looker, which is available in preview:

• The Looker connector can now connect to a private IP (private services access) only Looker (Google Cloud core) instance or to a private IP (Private Service Connect) Looker (Google Cloud core) instance using the Looker instance ID.
• The Looker connector now supports Looker export, download, and scheduling permissions.
• Looker System Activity now includes usage, historical, and performance information about Looker reports.
• You can now enable Studio in Looker on Looker instances that use Google OAuth authentication.
• The Looker connector now supports some calculated field functions.

Looker connector enhancements

The following enhancements to the Looker connector are available in Preview:

• The Looker connector can now connect to a private IP (private services access) only Looker (Google Cloud core) instance or to a private IP (Private Service Connect) Looker (Google Cloud core) instance using the Looker instance ID.
• The Looker connector now supports some calculated field functions.

Media CDN supports dynamic compression in General Availability.

After you create a Memorystore for Redis Cluster instance, you can now change the node type for the instance. For more information, see Scale an instance.

After you create a Memorystore for Valkey instance, you can now change the node type for the instance. For more information, see Scale an instance.

Preview stage support for the following integration:

• Parameter Manager

Theme enhancement for SOAR platform

The header and left hand navigation menu now fully reflect the selected theme. If you select the light theme, both the header and side menu will also appear in light mode. This might impact customers who are using the rebranding feature.

Access Context Manager now supports custom organization policies. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Create custom constraints for Access Context Manager.

You can now specify, in your build config file, a custom Pub/Sub topic for build notifications. For more information, see Pub/Sub topics for build notifications.

Storage Intelligence for Cloud Storage is now generally available (GA). Storage Intelligence simplifies data management in Cloud Storage at scale by providing a unified platform for data exploration, cost optimization, security enforcement, and governance implementation. To learn more about Storage Intelligence, see Overview of Storage Intelligence.

Storage Insights datasets is now generally available (GA). Storage Insights datasets helps you get insights for your Cloud Storage resources and export the data to BigQuery. Storage Insights datasets is an exclusive feature only available through the Storage Intelligence subscription. To learn more about Storage Insights, see Overview of Storage Insights datasets.

Cross-bucket replication is now generally available (GA). You can use cross-bucket replication to copy new and updated objects asynchronously from a source bucket to a destination bucket.

Generally available: Resource-based committed use discounts (CUDs) are available for licenses of RHEL operating system images. You can purchase commitments with a 1-year plan for these licenses and receive up to 20% discounts over on-demand prices.

To learn how to purchase these commitments, see Purchase commitments for licenses. For pricing information, reach out to your Technical account manager (TAM).

The Conversational Agents console is now generally available (GA). This console combines the power of Generative AI playbooks and data stores with deterministic flows. Additional features:

• The console is now hosted at https://conversational-agents.cloud.google.com/.
• There is a new menu option for managing languages. Selecting Manage languages from the language drop-down menu at the top of the console now automatically redirects you to the Agent Settings language management section in the Deterministic Flows tab.
• The simulator now has feature parity with the Dialogflow CX console.

Conversational Agents: Conversational Agents now supports multiple tool versions in addition to playbooks and flows. See the versions and environments documentation for details.

Conversational Agents: You can now toggle a Show latency option in the Conversational Agents Console simulator to view latency per conversation turn for simulator conversations. To view latency breakdown, click the total latency value for the conversation turn. Latency values are also shown in the original response, Cloud logging, and BigQuery export.

Be aware that latency values are not recorded directly in the logs, but are represented as startTime and completeTime values in the traceBlocks field.

Conversational Agents playbooks: New model gemini-2.0-flash (Preview) is now available. For more information and supported regions, see Model support.

Conversational Agents: New Chirp 3 HD Cloud Text-to-Speech voices are now available.

Conversational Agents playbooks: Playbooks now support 38 languages. Playbook language support is displayed on the language support page. Supported languages have been tested for quality with the gemini-2.0-flash-001 and gemini-1.5-flash-002 models.

Conversational Agents playbooks: You can now enable DTMF in playbook Settings and as a conditional actions as a Preview feature. See the playbook settings and DTMF for telephony integrations pages for more information.

In GKE version 1.32.2-gke.1652000 and later, new external LoadBalancer Services use zonal Network Endpoint Group (NEG) backends by default. This applies only to new backend service-based external LoadBalancer Services. Existing LoadBalancer Services are not affected. To learn more, see Create a backend service-based external load balancer.

All GKE clusters now export four new rollup metrics by default at no additional charge. These new metrics are for monitoring GKE TPU NodePools and JobSets:

• kubernetes.io/node_pool/accelerator/times_to_recover: Distribution of recovery period durations. Each sample indicates a single recovery operation for the NodePool to recover from a downtime period. The data is sampled within 60s after the completion of NodePool recovery, and emitted within 24h. This metric does not include a sample for downtime period longer than 7 days. This metric is only applicable for GKE multi-host TPU node pools.

• kubernetes.io/jobset/times_between_interruptions: Distribution of times between the end of last interruption and beginning of current interruption for a JobSet. Each sample indicates a single duration between last and current interruption. The data is sampled within 60s after the current interruption starts, and emitted within 24h. The metric does not include a sample for duration between interruptions longer than 7 days. This metric is only applicable for JobSets running on nodes with GPU/TPU and having a single replicated job.

• kubernetes.io/jobset/times_to_recover: Distribution of recovery period durations. Each sample indicates a single recovery operation for the JobSet to recover from a downtime period. The data is sampled within 60s after the completion of JobSet recovery, and emitted within 24h. This metric does not include samples for downtime periods longer than 7 days. This metric is only applicable for JobSets running on nodes with GPU/TPU and having a single replicated job.

• kubernetes.io/jobset/uptime: Total time the JobSet has been available. The data is sampled every 60s and emitted within 24h after sampling. This metric is only applicable for JobSets running on nodes with GPU/TPU and having a single replicated job.

Starting in GKE version 1.32.1-gke.1729000, Autopilot clusters will automatically use the new Performance HPA Profile. This new profile enables faster autoscaling on CPU and Memory metrics for up to 1,000 HorizontalPodAutoscaler objects by routing autoscaling metrics through the gke-metrics-agent Daemonset. If desired, users can revert to the old autoscaling profile by disabling the Peformance HPA Profile.

Custom organization policies are now generally available for Access Context Manager and VPC Service Controls. For more information, see Manage Access Context Manager resources with custom constraints and Create custom constraints for VPC Service Controls.

VPC Service Controls now supports custom organization policies. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Create custom constraints for VPC Service Controls.

You can now use repositories and workspaces in BigQuery to perform version control.

Repositories perform version control on files by using Git to record changes and manage file versions. You can use workspaces within repositories to edit the code stored in the repository.

You can have a repository use Git directly on BigQuery, or you can connect a repository to a third-party Git provider.

This feature is in preview.

You can now create remote models in BigQuery ML based on the Anthropic Claude model in Vertex AI.

Use the ML.GENERATE_TEXT function with these remote models to perform generative natural language tasks for text stored in BigQuery tables. Try this feature with the Generate text by using the ML.GENERATE_TEXT function tutorial.

You can also evaluate Claude models by using the ML.EVALUATE function.

This feature is generally available (GA).

The following resource types are now publicly available through the analyze policy APIs (AnalyzeIamPolicy and AnalyzeIamPolicyLongrunning).

• Developer Connect
  • developerconnect.googleapis.com/Connection
  • developerconnect.googleapis.com/GitRepositoryLink

You can now use custom constraints with Organization Policy to provide more granular control over specific fields for some networksecurity and networkservices resources.

Cloud Service Mesh now supports dual-stack, extending IPv6 capability to both proxy-based Envoy and proxyless gRPC. For more information, see Configure IPv6 dual-stack for Cloud Service Mesh.

You can now use Secret Manager to securely store authentication resources with Datastream. For more information, see Use Secret Manager to store sensitive data.

Preview your data

The data source editor displays a preview of the data in your fields. This feature is now generally available.

For Autonomous Databases, you can now set up cross-region disaster recovery with Autonomous Data Guard in Google Cloud. You can create and manage peer databases, and perform switchover operations. This feature is generally available (GA).

The Risk section of the SecOps console has been updated for Security Command Center Enterprise, introducing the following features in Preview:

• Issues are the most important security risks Security Command Center Enterprise has found in your cloud environments. Sourced from Security Command Center's virtual red teaming and security graph, issues give you all the details you need to understand, triage, and remediate a risk. Explore attack path diagrams, attack exposure scores, exposed resources, related findings, and whether multiple issues exist on a primary resource, all from the one place.
• Security graph is a graph database that has cloud resources like assets, identities, apps, and data assigned to its nodes, while the edges of the graph determine the risk relationship between those resources following detection rules. When a relationship risk is discovered, the security graph generates an issue.
• Chokepoints are critical severity issues that focus on common resources or resource groups where multiple attack paths converge. Because of this focus on a common point, resolving a chokepoint can resolve other issues too, like toxic combinations.

The Risk Overview dashboard has also been updated, and a new Issues page added to the Risk section. You can navigate through different security domains in the Risk section using the tabs near the top of the page, such as All risk, Vulnerabilities, and Code.

Encrypt your data-in-use by using Confidential Computing. This feature is now available in Preview. You can enable the Confidential VM service when you create a Vertex AI Workbench instance. To get started, see Create an instance with Confidential Computing.

Build your own Gen AI Assist is available in preview. BYOA is available in all customer engagement suite regions and offers the following:

• Foundation models
• Gemini access
• New trigger events based on agent and customer messages

Agent Assist offers Vertex extensions for Build your own assist (BYOA) in preview. Enable BYOA to access remote APIs with Vertex LLM extensions.

Performing an in-place major version upgrade of your AlloyDB cluster is generally available (GA). You can upgrade your AlloyDB cluster to any higher supported PostgreSQL version. For information about supported PostgreSQL versions, see Database version policies.

Preview: You can create regionally scoped snapshots. Setting a regional scope ensures that all snapshot data and the metadata necessary to use the snapshot are co-located within the scoped region. Regionally scoped snapshots also support additional location control by letting you restrict allowed snapshot creation and restore locations.

For more information, see Snapshot scopes.

Custom Extractor model pretrained-foundation-model-v1.4-2025-02-05 is in General Availability (GA), and has fine-tuning available in Preview for the US and EU.

From version v1.4 and later, we will use a new quota for online processing called Number of online process document pages per minute per processor_type_and_model_version. This quota will be enforced at a per-page and per-foundation model level. There will be no change to the batch processing quota.

Generally available: Migrate to Virtual Machines support for the Arm64 migration journey is now generally available. This feature lets you migrate Arm virtual machine (VM) instances from AWS and Azure cloud services to Arm VM instances on Compute Engine, and it is supported for the following operating systems:

• Debian 11 and 12
• RHEL 9
• Rocky Linux 8 and 9
• SLES 15 SP5
• Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

The CZECHIA_PASSPORT infoType detector is available in all regions. For more information about all built-in infoTypes, see InfoType detector reference.

Vertex AI Search: Generate and return charts in answers and with follow-ups (Public preview)

The answer method can include a chart in an answer, as well as text. The chart is generated from the data in the data store. A chart is generated if there is sufficient data, and the query either asks for a chart or the answer is sufficiently complex that the method itself determines that a chart is helpful.

This feature is in public preview and is only available through the API. For more information, see Generate charts for answers.

Vertex AI Search: Return corpus images in answers and with follow-ups (Public preview)

The answer method can return images in answers, along with text.

If appropriate, one image from the data store can be returned with the answer. Citations can also include images from the data store.

This feature is restricted to queries made to unstructured data stores where the layout parser is in effect and is only available through the API. For more information, see Retrieve existing images from the data store.

Generally available: The A4 accelerator-optimized machine type is now generally available. A4 VMs are powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs and provide up to 3x performance of previous GPU machine types for most GPU accelerated workloads. A4 is especially recommended for ML training workloads at large scales. A4 is available in the following region and zone:

• Council Bluffs, Iowa: us-central1-b

When provisioning A4 machine types, you can use Hypercompute Cluster to request capacity and create VMs or clusters. To get started see Overview of creating VMs and clusters.

Software stack updates

The following new Docker images are also released to support workloads running on your A4 GKE clusters that are deployed using Hypercompute Cluster.

• NeMo docker image: nemo25.02-gib1.0.5-A4
• MaxText docker image: jax-maxtext-gpu:jax0.5.1-cuda_dl25.02-rev1-maxtext-20150317

For more information, see AI Hypercomputer images.

You can use a query recall evaluator (Preview) to find the recall for a vector query for a given configuration, and to tune your parameters to achieve the desired vector query recall results. For more information, see Measure vector query recall.

You can now use PITR to restore a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance that isn't available.

Streamed chat responses are now available in public preview for IntelliJ and VS Code Gemini Code Assist. You can disable this feature in settings.

You can now configure and use custom commands in the inline chat menu and lightbulb menu for VS Code Gemini Code Assist. To view custom commands settings, go to Settings > Gemini Code Assist > Custom Commands.

Statistics and aggregations in UDM search using YARA-L 2.0

You can now run statistical queries on UDM events and group the results for analysis using YARA-L 2.0. You can use the statistical queries to track critical metrics, detect anomalous behavior, and analyze trends over time. For more information on how to run statistical queries on UDM events, see Statistics and aggregations in UDM search using YARA-L 2.0.

Statistics and aggregations in UDM search using YARA-L 2.0

You can now run statistical queries on UDM events and group the results for analysis using YARA-L 2.0. You can use the statistical queries to track critical metrics, detect anomalous behavior, and analyze trends over time. For more information on how to run statistical queries on UDM events, see Statistics and aggregations in UDM search using YARA-L 2.0.

Custom organization policies are now generally available for Cloud Service Mesh. For more information, see Set up custom constraints.

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) has launched support for the following:

• Log ingestion from Amazon SQS queues.
• An alternate CIEM only feed to reduce costs.

For more information, see Configure AWS log ingestion for CIEM.

This feature is available in General Availability to the Security Command Center Enterprise tier.

The default time zone of your Spanner databases can now be set. For more information, see Set the default time zone of a database. This feature is generally available (GA).

Outbound connectivity for Private Service Connect-enabled AlloyDB clusters is generally available (GA). Enabling outbound connectivity allows secure connection between your project and an AlloyDB instance during outbound operations such as migrations or foreign data wrappers (FDW).

For Apigee organizations set up without VPC peering, you can now configure Apigee to resolve your private domains by peering your DNS zones with Apigee. See Connecting with private DNS peering zones.

You can now use EXPORT DATA statements to reverse ETL BigQuery data to Spanner. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can now create an external dataset in BigQuery that links to an existing database in Spanner. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can now use the TYPEOF function to determine the data type of an expression. This feature is generally available (GA).

Cloud Data Fusion version 6.11.0 is available in Preview.

You can view instance metrics and pipeline metrics in Cloud Monitoring and in the dashboard provided by Cloud Data Fusion. For more information, see Metrics overview and Monitor Cloud Data Fusion system, instance, and pipeline health.

You can view instance logs and pipeline logs in Cloud Logging, and in the dashboard provided by Cloud Data Fusion. For more information, see View Cloud Data Fusion logs.

When a pipeline run fails, you can retrieve detailed error information on the pipeline details page of the Cloud Data Fusion web interface.

Cloud Data Fusion classifies pipeline errors by category, reason, and message. This classification speeds up resolution and reduces the need to examine complex logs. For more information, see Retrieve error information for a failed pipeline run.

Cloud Data Fusion 6.11.0 offers high availability with reduced upgrade downtime.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server supports transparent data encryption (TDE) to encrypt data stored in your Cloud SQL for SQL Server instances.

TDE automatically encrypts data before it is written to storage, and automatically decrypts data when the data is read from storage.

TDE provides another layer of encryption in addition to Google's default offering of encryption for data at rest and Google's optional offering of customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). TDE helps you meet regulatory compliance requirements and supports import or export operations of TDE encrypted backups. For more information, see About transparent data encryption.

Cloud Storage now offers the DE configurable dual-region code, which can be used when creating a dual-region bucket in europe-west3 (Frankfurt) and europe-west10 (Berlin). To learn more about Cloud Storage configurable dual-regions, see Configurable dual-regions

Generally available: The A4 accelerator-optimized machine type is now generally available. A4 instances are powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs and provide up to 3x performance of previous GPU instance types for most GPU accelerated workloads. A4 is especially recommended for ML training workloads at large scales. A4 is available in the a4-highgpu-8g machine type in the us-central1-b zone.

To create A4 instances, you must either use AI Hypercomputer to request capacity and create VMs or clusters, or use Spot VMs. For detailed instructions, see Create an A3 Ultra or A4 VM.

Added support for iRDMA devices.

Applied Intel patches to add iRDMA support in the Linux kernel.

Updated cos-gpu-installer to v2.4.8: Add the -skip-nvidia-smi flag to disable the execution of nvidia-smi verification during gpu driver installation.

Added support for iRDMA devices.

Applied Intel patches to add iRDMA support in the Linux kernel.

Updated cos-gpu-installer to v2.4.8: Add the -skip-nvidia-smi flag to disable the execution of nvidia-smi verification during gpu driver installation.

Added support for NVIDIA 570.124.06 GPU driver. Updated the R570, LATEST GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for all GPU devices. Updated the DEFAULT GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for NVIDIA_B200 and NVIDIA_H200 GPU devices.

Added support for iRDMA devices.

Added support for NVIDIA 570.124.06 GPU driver. Updated the R570, LATEST GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for all GPU devices. Updated the DEFAULT GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for NVIDIA_B200 and NVIDIA_H200 GPU devices.

Added support for NVIDIA 570.124.06 GPU driver. Updated the R570, LATEST GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for all GPU devices. Updated the DEFAULT GPU driver label to version 570.124.06 for NVIDIA_H200 GPU devices.

Updated cos-gpu-installer to v2.4.8: Add the -skip-nvidia-smi flag to disable the execution of nvidia-smi verification during gpu driver installation.

Data Catalog is available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region.

Dataplex and data lineage are available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region.

Dataproc on Compute Engine: Added support for Enhanced Flexibility Mode (EFM) with primary worker shuffle mode on Spark for image version 2.2.50 and above.

The following features have been added to Studio in Looker, which is available in preview:

• If Studio in Looker is disabled and then re-enabled, reports that had been saved within the previous 30 days will still be available. Recovered reports may appear in the Recovered reports folder after an admin re-enables Studio in Looker.
• The Looker Search function will include reports.
• The Looker Trash folder will now contain deleted reports, and Looker admins can restore previously deleted reports.
• The ability to set an instance or a group locale for Studio in Looker.
• Looker admins can manage the data source connectors that are available in Studio in Looker.

Note: This item was updated on March 19, 2025.

Looker connector enhancements

More Looker permissions have been propagated to Looker Studio and can now be granted to Looker Studio Pro users to perform the following the tasks on Looker Studio reports that are built with the Looker connector:

Scheduling report deliveries Create alerts Download and export chart and report data

Learn more about permissions to use the Looker connector.

You can enforce mandatory tags on resources using custom organization policies. When a user attempts to create a resource, the system checks for the presence of the mandatory tags. If any mandatory tag is missing or does not have a value, the resource creation is blocked. By defining mandatory tags within an organization policy, you can ensure that all newly created resources adhere to your organization's tagging standards. This feature is available in Preview.

For more information, see Enforcing mandatory tags on resources.

You can now create an external dataset in BigQuery that links to an existing database in Spanner. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can now use EXPORT DATA statements to reverse ETL BigQuery data to Spanner. This feature is generally available (GA).

Workload Manager supports the following features when you deploy SAP S/4HANA workloads on Google Cloud:

• Deploy SAP S/4HANA workloads on X4 instances.
• Customize the names of application server VMs.
• Specify network tags for the deployed instances.
• Skip the creation of automatic firewall rules.
• Skip the DNS configuration.
• Choose an existing NFS shared storage.
• Specify a service account to be attached to instances for each layer of the deployment.

For more information, see Deploy an SAP S/4HANA application

Remote agent high availability

This feature is currently in preview.

Remote agents can now leverage high availability deployment, ensuring increased reliability for remote connectors, actions, and jobs.

This feature also introduces a new cloud-based remote connector scheduler for improved performance and scalability.

For more information, see Deploy high availability in remote agents.

Remote agent downtime notifications

Customers using remote agents can now opt in to receive in-app or email notifications when the agent is down.

Pause or resume Case SLA

Users can now pause and resume service level agreement (SLA) timers on cases.

For more information, see Pause and resume a case SLA.

The Custom constraints with Organization Policy feature is now generally available (GA).

This feature provides more granular control over Cloud Composer environment configuration fields. You can use custom organization policies to allow or deny specific configuration values for Cloud Composer environments.

Remote agent high availability

This feature is currently in preview.

Remote agents can now leverage high availability deployment, ensuring increased reliability for remote connectors, actions, and jobs.

This feature also introduces a new cloud-based remote connector scheduler for improved performance and scalability.

For more information, see Deploy high availability in remote agents.

Remote agent downtime notifications

Customers using remote agents can now opt in to receive in-app or email notifications when the agent is down.

Pause or resume Case SLA

Users can now pause and resume service level agreement (SLA) timers on cases.

For more information, see Pause and resume a case SLA.

Access Approval supports Access Transparency in the GA stage.

Access Transparency supports Access Transparency in the GA stage.

App Hub supports resources from the following sources in Preview:

• AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
• Cloud Data Fusion
• Cloud Deploy
• Cloud Logging
• Cloud Run jobs
• Firestore
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads
• GKE single cluster Gateway
• Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory
• Secret Manager
• Vertex AI

Artifact Registry remote repositories and virtual repositories for Go are now Generally Available. To learn more about Go format repositories, read Work with Go modules.

Security Command Center ingests Artifact Analysis scanning findings from images scanned in Artifact Registry and deployed to supported runtimes.

In Security Command Center, you can view container image vulnerabilities within your running workloads across all projects alongside your other security risks in. You can also export these findings to BigQuery for in-depth analysis and long-term storage. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see vulnerability assessment.

Database Migration Service now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.41 for homogeneous MySQL migrations. For more information, see Supported source and destination databases in Cloud SQL for MySQL migrations.

You can use PITR to restore a Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance that isn't available.

Generally available: The Create an instance page in the Google Cloud console has a Data protection pane where you can specify how to back up and replicate your data. For more information, see Configuration options during instance creation and Data protection options.

Generally available: Memory-optimized M4 VMs are now generally available. M4 3T VMs run on Intel's 5th generation Emerald Rapids CPU. They offer up to 224 vCPUs with up to 3 TB of memory.

M4 is available in five predefined machine types. The megamem VMs have a GB/vCPU ratio of 13.29:1 and the ultramem VMs have a GB/vCPU ratio of 25.57:1.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents): Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) is now a GA feature.

Judge model evaluation and customization tools are now available in Preview for the Gen AI evaluation service in Vertex AI.

JobSet metrics are automatically available on new GKE Standard and Autopilot clusters starting from version 1.32.1-gke.1357001 or later. For existing clusters, you can upgrade your clusters and manually enable the JobSet metrics package. For more details on the list of JobSet metrics, see JobSet metrics.

Custom organization policies are now generally available for Cloud Composer. For more information, see Create custom organization policy constraints.

The following Event Threat Detection rules for Google Kubernetes Engine have been released to General Availability:

• GKE_NODEPORT_SERVICE_CREATED
• GKE_SENSITIVE_NAMESPACE_WORKLOAD_TRIGGERED
• GKE_STATIC_POD_CREATED
• GKE_TOR_PROXY_IP_REQUEST
• GKE_WEBHOOK_CONFIG_CREATED
• YL2_GKE_ANONYMOUS_USERS_GRANTED_ACCESS
• YL2_GKE_APPROVE_CSR_FORBIDDEN
• YL2_GKE_CRB_CLUSTERROLE_AGGREGATION_CONTROLLER
• YL2_GKE_MANUALLY_DELETED_CSR
• YL2_GKE_POD_MASQUERADING
• YL2_GKE_REVERSE_SHELL_POD
• YL2_GKE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREATION_SENSITIVE_NAMESPACE
• YL2_GKE_SUSPICIOUS_CRYPTOMINING_POD

Dataform now supports the CMEK organization policy.

You can now use Gemini Cloud Assist chat to generate SQL queries and Python code. This feature is in preview.

The following resource types are now publicly available through the ExportAssets, ListAssets, BatchGetAssetsHistory, QueryAssets, Feed, and Search (SearchAllResources, SearchAllIamPolicies).

• Storage Transfer Service
  • storagetransfer.googleapis.com/TransferJob

App Hub application labels are now attached to your log entries. The Log Fields pane of the Logs Explorer now includes facets for application, service, and workload labels. For more information, see Log Fields pane.

Documentation for Slack notification channels now supports Markdown. For more information, see Annotate notifications with user-defined documentation.

You can now see changes made to a dashboard by viewing the version history. For more information, see View dashboard version history.

Anywhere Cache for Cloud Storage is now generally available (GA). Anywhere Cache enables you to create SSD-backed caches in the same zones as your workloads, helping you get access to your data faster and avoid multi-region data transfer fees. To learn more about Anywhere Cache, see Overview of Anywhere Cache.

Dataflow now supports data lineage. Data lineage lets you track how data moves through your systems. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Use data lineage in Dataflow.

Data lineage for Dataflow is generally available (GA). For more information, see Use data lineage in Dataflow.

Improved event logging for Looker-based reports

When data is downloaded or exported from a Looker Studio report that uses at least one Looker data source, the connector type for all charts in the report will be included in the Looker Studio audit log.

Learn more about Looker Studio log events (opens in the Google Workspace Help Center).

Security Command Center has released the Artifact Registry vulnerability assessment detection service, which includes the CONTAINER_IMAGE_VULNERABILITY detector. This detector generates vulnerability findings for container images that are stored and scanned in Artifact Registry. The detector generates findings for vulnerable container images deployed to the following assets:

• Google Kubernetes Engine cluster
• Cloud Run revision
• Cloud Run job
• App Engine

This feature is available in Preview to all Security Command Center tiers.

You can automatically create CMEKs using Cloud KMS Autokey to protect your AlloyDB resources. This feature is generally available (GA).

You can configure reusable, default Cloud resource connections in a project. Default connections are available in Preview.

The following resource types are now publicly available through the ExportAssets, ListAssets, BatchGetAssetsHistory, QueryAssets, Feed, and Search (SearchAllResources, SearchAllIamPolicies).

• GKE On-Prem API
  • gkeonprem.googleapis.com/BareMetalCluster
  • gkeonprem.googleapis.com/BareMetalNodePool
  • gkeonprem.googleapis.com/VmwareCluster
  • gkeonprem.googleapis.com/VmwareNodePool

You can now use the Observability API to set the default log scope. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following documents:

• Create and manage log scopes
• Observability scopes overview
• Observability API reference

Applied Intel patches to add iRDMA support in the Linux kernel.

Updated cos-gpu-installer to v2.4.8: Add the -skip-nvidia-smi flag to disable the execution of nvidia-smi verification during gpu driver installation.

M128 release

• Except for TensorFlow container images, new container images don't include conda. This change was made to improve size, performance, and vulnerability management. The existing container image names now point to container images that don't include conda (for example: gcr.io/deeplearning-platform-release/base-cpu.py310).
• Container images that include conda will be available until at least September 30, 2025. These container images now have -conda appended to the name (for example: gcr.io/deeplearning-platform-release/base-cpu-conda.py310).
• All TensorFlow container images still include conda, but M128 container image names have -conda appended. Specifying container images without -conda appended references older container images, which also include conda.

M128 release

• Except for TensorFlow images, new images don't include conda. This change was made to improve size, performance, and vulnerability management. The existing image names and image family names now point to images and image families that don't include conda (for example: the image name common-cpu-v20250310-debian-11-py310 and corresponding image family name common-cpu-debian-11-py310).
• Images that include conda will be available until at least September 30, 2025. These images now have -conda appended to the name (for example: the image name common-cpu-v20250310-debian-11-py310-conda and corresponding image family name common-cpu-debian-11-py310-conda).
• All TensorFlow images and image families still include conda, but M128 image names and image family names have -conda appended. Specifying images or image families without -conda appended references older images, which also include conda.

• Gemma 3 and ShieldGemma 2 are now available in Model Garden.
• CogVideoX-2b is now available in Model Garden.

By default, Looker connects to your database using the latest version of the JDBC driver for your database dialect. If your selected database dialect has more than one JDBC driver version that is supported by Looker, you can now select an earlier version of the JDBC driver for your dialect. See the Connecting Looker to your database documentation page for more information.

The Open SQL Interface feature now supports Explores that use the conditionally_filters parameter. Previously disabled Explores are now enabled.

The Chart Config Editor now supports dynamic annotations. Use the annotationsSource and annotationsTarget parameters to use data from a field as an annotation on a visualization.

Looker now supports key-pair authentication for Snowflake connections. Note: This feature is not currently available but will be available later in the release cycle (early April 2025).

The Content Validator scoping feature is now out of Labs and generally available. This feature allows developers to scope the validation to specific LookML projects and a specific content folder (including its subfolders, if any). This can improve the performance of the Content Validator.

The New Database Connection Setup feature is now out of Labs and generally available. This feature updates the Add/Edit Connection page with a modernized UI, enhanced validation, connection testing capabilities, and a comprehensive configuration summary. If you want to revert to the legacy connections workflow, you can enable the Use Legacy Connections Page legacy toggle. Note: This item was updated on March 17, 2025.

A new Labs feature, Fast Dev Mode Transition, improves the performance of Development Mode on your instance by loading LookML projects in read-only mode until a developer clicks the Create Developer Copy button for the project.

Looker (Google Cloud core) instances now support the Admin via IAM Looker role. This role has full administrative privileges within a Looker (Google Cloud core) instance, but it's managed exclusively through Identity and Access Management (IAM), providing a direct sync between a principal's Looker Admin IAM role and admin privileges within the instance.

The Content Validator scoping feature is now generally available. This feature allows developers to scope the validation to specific LookML projects and a specific content folder (including its subfolders, if any). This can improve the performance of the Content Validator.

The Add/Edit Connection page is updated with a modernized UI, enhanced validation, connection testing capabilities, and a comprehensive configuration summary.

Experimental: Migrate to Virtual Machines now supports the migration of VM instances running Amazon Linux 2 to Rocky Linux 8 as part of an open access experimental program. In order to migrate a VM running Amazon Linux 2, Migrate to Virtual Machines first converts Amazon Linux 2 to Rocky Linux 8, and then completes the migration.

M128 release

The M128 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:

• Miscellaneous package updates.

The M128 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

• Miscellaneous package updates.

M128 release

The M128 release of Vertex AI Workbench instances includes the following:

• Miscellaneous package updates.

You can use Cloud KMS Autokey to automate the creation and use of customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) in Bigtable clusters. This feature is generally available (GA).

Data lineage for Dataflow jobs is generally available (GA) in the Bigtable Beam connector (BigtableIO) and the Bigtable HBase Beam connector (CloudBigtableIO). For more information, see Tracking lineage.

A new region is now available for Cloud Run GPUs: europe-west1.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents) generators: Model gemini-2.0-flash-001 is now a GA feature available in the following regions: global, us, us-central1, us-east1, us-west1, europe-west1, europe-west4.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents) data store handlers: Model gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001 is now a Preview feature available in the following regions: global, us, us-central1, us-east1, us-west1, europe-west1, europe-west4.

Within Curated Detections, the following rules have been added to the Cloud Hacktool rule pack for Google Cloud data in the "Broad" category. These rules are intended to detect the behavior of common open source hacktools.

• Collection: Set GCP Cloud Storage Bucket to Public
• Discovery: Cloud Run Enumeration
• Discovery: CloudFunctions Enumeration of GCP Cloud Functions
• Discovery: CloudKMS Enumeration of GCP Cloud KMS
• Discovery: CloudResourceManager Resource Manager Enumeration
• Discovery: Compute Enumeration
• Discovery: GCP Cloud IAM Enumeration
• Discovery: Secret Manager Cloud Secrets Enumeration
• Discovery: Storage Cloud Storage Enumeration
• Exfiltration: Download Cloud Function Code
• Exfiltration: Export a Compute Image Instance
• Persistence: Generate Signed URL for Modifying Cloud Function Code
• Privilege Escalation: Compute Set Instance or Project Metadata to Enable OS Login

URL indicators are now available for matching as part of Applied Threat Intelligence. For more information about Applied Threat Intelligence, see Applied Threat Intelligence overview.

Within Curated Detections, the following rules have been added to the Cloud Hacktool rule pack for Google Cloud data in the "Broad" category. These rules are intended to detect the behavior of common open source hacktools.

• Collection: Set GCP Cloud Storage Bucket to Public
• Discovery: Cloud Run Enumeration
• Discovery: CloudFunctions Enumeration of GCP Cloud Functions
• Discovery: CloudKMS Enumeration of GCP Cloud KMS
• Discovery: CloudResourceManager Resource Manager Enumeration
• Discovery: Compute Enumeration
• Discovery: GCP Cloud IAM Enumeration
• Discovery: Secret Manager Cloud Secrets Enumeration
• Discovery: Storage Cloud Storage Enumeration
• Exfiltration: Download Cloud Function Code
• Exfiltration: Export a Compute Image Instance
• Persistence: Generate Signed URL for Modifying Cloud Function Code
• Privilege Escalation: Compute Set Instance or Project Metadata to Enable OS Login

URL indicators are now available for matching as part of Applied Threat Intelligence. For more information about Applied Threat Intelligence, see Applied Threat Intelligence overview.

VPC spoke updates for IPv6 subnet exchange is available in public preview.

You can update, or propose updates to, an existing VPC spoke to enable or disable the exchange of IPv6 subnet ranges. For information about updating spokes, see Update whether a VPC spoke exports IPv6 subnet ranges. For information about accepting proposed updates to spokes, see Review proposed spokes.

Network Security Integration, including the Out-of-band integration, is available in General Availability.

Use out-of-band integration service to analyze your workloads' network traffic at scale. For more information, see Out-of-band integration overview.

Vertex AI Search for commerce: Conversational commerce

Conversational commerce uses LLM and conversational product filtering to provide users with a real-time, ongoing conversational experience. The conversational product filtering feature functions as part of the Guided Search package, helping narrow down search queries sooner by presenting users with either relevant products, follow-up questions, or both.

Conversational commerce is in private preview. For more information, see Conversational commerce and Conversational product filtering.

Cancelling jobs is generally available (GA).

Cloud SQL for MySQL introduces a set of improvements that adjust MySQL configurations dynamically based on workload demands and underlying infrastructure to optimize write performance and reduce latency. By default these improvements are enabled for all new Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition instances that you create or that you upgrade to from Cloud SQL Enterprise edition. Existing Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus instances that are updated with maintenance version [MySQL_version].R20250304.00_01 will also enable these improvements automatically.

For more information about these improvements, see Configure database flags.

Generally available: Compute flexible committed use discounts (CUDs) are available for Local SSD disks that you attach to instances of eligible machine types. Flexible CUDs add flexibility to your Compute Engine spending capabilities by eliminating the need to restrict your commitments to a single project, region, or machine series.

For more information, see Compute flexible CUDs.

Generally available: Configure the host error detection time, which is the the maximum amount of time Compute Engine waits to restart or terminate an instance after detecting that the instance is unresponsive. For more information, see Set VM host maintenance policy.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents): You can now use the console search feature to search for all resources, including playbooks, examples, and tools.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents): Playbooks now support the following new features:

• Two different playbook types: Task playbooks and routine playbooks.
• Connector tools.
• Conditional actions.
• DTMF.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents): You can now use the Conversational Agents console to manage languages.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents) data store handlers: New model gemini-2.0-flash-001 is now available to data store handlers as a Preview feature. This launch is limited to the following regions: global, us, us-central1, us-east1, us-west1, europe-west1, europe-west4.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents): Text-to-speech used by Dialogflow now supports new Chirp 3 HD voices.

Dialogflow CX (Conversational Agents): Git export/restore now supports additional Git providers and Google Secrets for token storage.

The following detectors have been added to Container Threat Detection.

• Execution: Program Run with Disallowed HTTP Proxy Env
• Exfiltration: Launch Remote File Copy Tools in Container

For more information, see Container Threat Detection detectors.

Tiered storage is Generally Available in Spanner. Tiered storage is a fully-managed feature that lets you store your data across solid-state drives (SSD) or hard disk drives (HDD). Using tiered storage lets you take advantage of both SSD storage, which supports the high performance of active data, and HDD storage, which supports infrequent data access at a lower cost. For more information, see Tiered storage.

Map users in the platform for Google Cloud Identity customers

Administrators can now provision and map new users into the platform by adding them to groups in bulk using their email addresses. This streamlines user management and access control for organizations using Google Cloud Identity.

For more information, see Map users with email groups to the platform.

Availability of data obfuscation support with Advanced API Security

With this release, data obfuscation can be used with Advanced API Security.

For usage information, see Obfuscate user data for Apigee API Analytics and Data obfuscation with Advanced API Security.

You can integrate Agent Assist summarization generators with Conversational Insights. Summarization uses existing LLM generators to automatically summarize conversations. You can then export those summaries along with your other Insights data.

GKE now allows you to enable logging of Horizontal Pod Autoscaler decisions starting from GKE version 1.31.5-gke.1090000 or later, or version 1.32.1-gke.1260000 or later. These logs include atomic recommendations (based on individual metrics) and final recommendations (consolidated HPA decisions). The logs are stored in Cloud Logging and offer insights into the decision-making process of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

You can now monitor startup latency of Kubernetes workloads and nodes using the new Startup Latency dashboard available in the Observability tab on the Deployment details and Cluster details pages in the GKE Console. The dashboard is useful for tracking, troubleshooting and optimizing startup latency of your GKE workloads.

The following features of internal ranges are available in Preview:

• Reserving internal ranges with IPv6 addresses
• Creating immutable internal ranges (ranges that can't be updated, except for the description)
• Editable descriptions

For more information, see Internal ranges overview.

You can exclude IP address ranges from internal range automatic IP address allocation. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see Reserve internal ranges.

You can create internal ranges that overlap with routes and subnets. This feature is available in General Availability. For more information, see Internal ranges overview.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports custom reports for Google Ads. You can use Google Ads Query Language (GAQL) queries in your transfer configuration to ingest custom Google Ads reports and fields beyond those available in the standard reports and fields. This feature is now generally available (GA).

Cloud Router support for BGP route policies is now generally available. For more information, see BGP route policies overview.

The following new region is now available: europe-north2.

Conversational Insights offers Rule-based analysis as a GA feature to customize your conversation analyses. Rule-based analysis provides the following customizations:

• Filter conversations.
• Select a percentage of your dataset.
• Designate different types of analysis.

You can now specify an order in which Airflow searches for secrets by overriding the [secrets]backends_order Airflow configuration option.

Configurable dual-regions now include the Turin, Italy (europe-west12) region. For more information, see Cloud Storage configurable dual-regions.

Memorystore for Redis Cluster supports storing and querying vector data. This feature is now Generally Available (GA). For more information, see About Vector Search.

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is available in the following region: europe-north2 (Stockholm). For more information, see AlloyDB Locations.

Artifact Registry is available in the europe-north2 region (Stockholm). For more information, see Global locations.

Bigtable is available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region. For more information, see Bigtable locations.

Cloud Composer 3 supports Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK).

Dedicated Cloud Interconnect support is available in the following colocation facilities:

• Stockholm, Sweden

For more information, see the Locations table and Global Locations.

Cloud KMS is available in the following region:

• europe-north2

For more information, see Cloud KMS locations.

Application Load Balancers now support the use of custom metrics that let you configure your load balancer's traffic distribution behavior to be based on metrics specific to your application or infrastructure requirements, rather than Google Cloud's standard utilization or rate-based metrics. Defining custom metrics for your load balancer gives you the flexibility to route application requests to the backend instances and endpoints that are most optimal for your workload.

For more information, see Custom metrics for Application Load Balancers.

This capability is in Preview.

The following new region is now available: northamerica-south1.

Cloud SQL Enterprise edition now supports the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region.

Cloud SQL for MySQL now supports minor version 8.0.41. To upgrade your existing instance to the new version, see Upgrade the database minor version.

Cloud SQL Enterprise edition now supports the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region.

Cloud SQL Enterprise edition now supports the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region.

Cloud Storage now offers support in the Stockholm, Sweden (europe-north2) region. To learn more about supported locations, see Cloud Storage bucket locations.

Cloud VPN is now available in region europe-north2 (Stockholm, Sweden). For more information, see Global locations.

Pricing is available on the Cloud VPN pricing page.

Generally available: Stockholm, Sweden, Europe (europe-north2-a,b,c) has launched with N4, C3D highmem, C4 highmem, and E2 machine types available in all three zones. For more information, see Cloud locations and VM instance pricing.

New Data Sources

• Marketing: Cross Media & Product Connected Insights. Understand the effectiveness of marketing campaigns running across media platforms such as Google Ads, YouTube (with DV360), Meta, and TikTok for product and product category sales performance with the power of Gemini Flash 2.0. Access the Looker Block for Cross Media with sample dashboards for further analytics.
• Cortex Common Dimensions: Newly added utility views and tables created within the Data Foundation to enable advanced use cases across different data sources, such as Cross Media & Product Connected Insights. Currently Country, Product Hierarchy and Currency Conversion are available.

Dataflow is now available in Stockholm (europe-north2).

Dataproc is now available in the europe-north2 region (Stockholm, Sweden).

Firestore now supports the europe-north2 Stockholm region.

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

Firestore in Datastore mode now supports the europe-north2 Stockholm region.

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

The europe-north2 region in Stockholm, Sweden is now available. For more information, see the Global Locations.

The europe-north2 region in Stockholm, Sweden is now available. For more information, see the Global Locations.

Memorystore is available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region. For more information, see Regions and zones.

Memorystore is available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region. For more information, see Regions and zones.

Memorystore is available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region. For more information, see Memorystore for Redis Cluster locations.

You can now start, stop, and restart your Autonomous Databases through the Google Cloud console. This feature is generally available (GA).

Pub/Sub is now available in the europe-north2 region (Stockholm, Sweden, Europe). For more information, see Cloud locations.

Sensitive Data Protection is available in the europe-north2 region. For more information, see Sensitive Data Protection locations.

You can create Spanner regional instance configurations in Stockholm, Sweden (europe-north2). For more information, see Google Cloud locations and Spanner pricing.

A new multi-region instance configuration is now available in Europe - eur7 (Milan/Frankfurt/Turin).

For auto mode VPC networks, added a new subnet 10.226.0.0/20 for the Stockholm europe-north2 region. For more information, see Global Locations and Auto mode IP ranges.

Go 1.23 is now generally available.

Go 1.23 is now generally available.

App Engine now sets the automatic scaling maximum instances default for standard environment deployments to 20. This change doesn't impact existing apps. To override the default, specify a new max_instances value in your app.yaml file, and deploy a new version or redeploy over an existing version.

App Engine now sets the automatic scaling maximum instances default for standard environment deployments to 20. This change doesn't impact existing apps. To override the default, specify a new max_instances value in your app.yaml file, and deploy a new version or redeploy over an existing version.

App Engine now sets the automatic scaling maximum instances default for standard environment deployments to 20. This change doesn't impact existing apps. To override the default, specify a new max_instances value in your app.yaml file, and deploy a new version or redeploy over an existing version.

App Engine now sets the automatic scaling maximum instances default for standard environment deployments to 20. This change doesn't impact existing apps. To override the default, specify a new max_instances value in your app.yaml file, and deploy a new version or redeploy over an existing version.

App Engine now sets the automatic scaling maximum instances default for standard environment deployments to 20. This change doesn't impact existing apps. To override the default, specify a new max_instances value in your app.yaml file, and deploy a new version or redeploy over an existing version.

App Engine now sets the automatic scaling maximum instances default for standard environment deployments to 20. This change doesn't impact existing apps. To override the default, specify a new max_instances value in your app.yaml file, and deploy a new version or redeploy over an existing version.

You can create a SQL user-defined aggregate function by using the CREATE AGGREGATE FUNCTION statement. This feature is generally available (GA).

Gemini in BigQuery can help you complete Python code with contextually appropriate recommendations that are based on content in the query editor. This feature is now generally available (GA).

Certificate Authority Service is now available in the following region:

• europe-north2 (Stockholm)

For more information, see Certificate Authority Service locations.

Support for the Go 1.23 runtime is now in general availability (GA).

Cloud Run functions now supports the Go 1.23 runtime at the General Availability release level.

The rollout of the following minor versions, extension versions, and plugin versions is complete:

Minor versions

• 12.21 is upgraded to 12.22.
• 13.18 is upgraded to 13.20.
• 14.15 is upgraded to 14.17.
• 15.10 is upgraded to 15.12
• 16.6 is upgraded to 16.8.
• 17.2 is upgraded to 17.4.

Extensions and plugins

• PostGIS is upgraded from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4.

To use these versions of the extensions, update your instance to [PostgreSQL version].R20250112.01_14.

If you use a maintenance window, then the updates to the minor, extension, and plugin versions happen according to the timeframe that you set in the window. Otherwise, the updates occur within the next few weeks.

For more information on checking your maintenance version, see Self-service maintenance. To find your maintenance window or to manage maintenance updates, see Find and set maintenance windows.

Updated cos-gpu-installer to v2.4.8: Add the -skip-nvidia-smi flag to disable the execution of nvidia-smi verification during gpu driver installation.