Feature The JDBC driver for BigQuery now supports OpenTelemetry for tracing and logging, which helps you monitor the performance of your database interactions and troubleshoot issues. Automatic exports to Google Cloud Observability are also available. This feature is generally available (GA).
Feature You can audit when users download query results by using the BigQuery console. Data Access audit logs for the tabledata.list method now include a uiDownloadRequest field to indicate whether the request was triggered by a UI download. This feature is generally available (GA).
Feature The BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports incremental data transfers when transferring data from Klaviyo to BigQuery. This feature is supported in Preview.
Feature You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter. For more information, see Subscribe to a Cloud Marketplace-integrated listing. This feature is generally available (GA). Feature You can use the APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions to view the rows that were appended to or changed in a table during a given time range. Thi…
Change An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available.
Feature Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg: Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in Preview. This update includes the following features: Federation from SAP BDC: Create Delta Sharing catalogs in Lakehouse to automatically synchronize shares, schemas, and tables from SAP BDC. Querying SAP data: Query synchronized SAP BDC tables directly from BigQuery without…
Feature BigQuery supports data governance tags, which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data governance tags are a type of Resource Manager tag that you can attach to sensitive columns and use in BigQuery data policies to grant conditional access to your users. This feature is in Preview.
Feature Conversational analytics now supports the AI.AGG function. This function is in Preview.
Security A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in repositories in BigQuery, Dataform, and Colab Enterprise. An authenticated attacker could potentially escalate permissions and perform cross-tenant repository takeover. For more information, see the GCP-2026-047 security bulletin. Feature The BigQuery Overview page is a hub for discovering tutorials, features, and resources to help y…
Feature You can use the BigQuery Data Transfer Service to transfer metadata from the following data sources into Knowledge Catalog: PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server This feature is in Preview. Feature The Data Agent Kit extension is an extension for agent coding tools, such as VS Code, Antigravity, and Cursor, that lets you interact with BigQuery resources directly in your agent environment. You ca…
Change An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available. Feature You can now perform multi-level aggregation in GoogleSQL, which lets you use an aggregate function as an argument to another aggregate function. This feature is in Preview.
Change For data transfers from Facebook Ads, support for the AdInsightsMMM report has been temporarily disabled. Existing data transfers from Facebook Ads that include the AdInsightsMMM report will continue to run, but the transfer won't include data from the AdInsightsMMM report. This change is due to schema changes in the Facebook Ads API. For more information, see July 06, 2026.
Feature You can now use pre-trained TimesFM models in BigQuery ML directly from Connected Sheets. These models let you create forecasts and detect anomalies in your data by using the AI.FORECAST and AI.DETECT_ANOMALIES functions. This feature is generally available (GA).
Feature You can specify an optional principal property on BigQuery reservation assignments to route queries to specific reservations based on the identity of the user, service account, or third-party identity executing the job.
Change Effective March 9, 2026, new users are required to have a Cloud Billing account to use the BigQuery Migration Service. This change applies to users starting new projects using BigQuery Migration Service features, such as SQL translation and migration assessment. After May 18, 2026, all users are required to have a Cloud Billing account to use the BigQuery Migration Service. Pricing for the…
Change An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available. Feature You can now use the VECTOR_SEARCH function to combine a semantic search with a lexical (keyword) search. This is known as a hybrid search. For tables with autonomous embedding generation enabled, you can use HYBRID mode in the AI.SEARCH function to simplify your search syntax. You can also extend a vector ind…
Feature You can now configure your BigQuery pipelines to automatically trigger executions based on updates to specific BigQuery tables. For more information, see Trigger-based scheduling. This feature is in Preview. Feature Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now generally available (GA) and includes the following features: You can select whether an agent can only use generally available model…
Feature You can use the BigQuery Data Transfer Service to transfer metadata from the following data sources into Knowledge Catalog: Oracle MySQL This feature is in Preview.
Feature You can enable autonomous embedding generation on new or existing tables that you make with the CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statements. When you do this, BigQuery maintains a column of embeddings on the table based on a source column. When you add or modify data in the source column, BigQuery automatically generates or updates the embedding column for that data. This feature is generally a…
Announcement Table Explorer behavior is moving to the Reference panel. This transition will occur in July 2026 or later. For more information, see Table Explorer.
Feature Use Gemini Cloud Assist to analyze your SQL queries and receive recommendations to optimize query performance in BigQuery. This feature is available to customers who use BigQuery editions. This feature is in Preview. Issue Support for configuring daily token quotas for BigQuery generative AI functions has been temporarily disabled. We are working to restore this feature as soon as possible…
Feature BigQuery AI functions can use ObjectRef values directly as input, without calling the OBJ.GET_ACCESS_URL function. This feature is generally available (GA).
Feature You can monitor performance, analyze capacity, and optimize costs with Gemini Cloud Assist in BigQuery. This feature is in Preview. Feature Support for the AI.KEY_DRIVERS function is restored. You can use the AI.KEY_DRIVERS function to identify segments of data that cause statistically significant changes to a summable metric. This feature is in Preview.
Feature BigQuery continuous queries now support the following aggregation functions: ARRAY_AGG STRING_AGG Support for these functions is in Preview.
Feature You can analyze data lineage with Gemini Cloud Assist in BigQuery. This feature is in Preview. Feature You can now use Gemini Cloud Assist to schedule queries. This feature is in Preview. Feature You can use the Google-developed, open source Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver for BigQuery to connect your Java applications to BigQuery. This feature is generally available (GA). Feature…
Feature Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports AWS Glue as a remote catalog provider (Preview). You can configure federated catalogs to query data stored in AWS Glue directly from Google Cloud using BigQuery or Apache Spark without migrating data or building complex ETL pipelines. For more information, see Set up cross-cloud Lakehouse for AWS Glue.
Feature BigQuery fluid scaling, which provides per-second billing with no minimum duration for autoscaling reservations, is generally available (GA).
Feature Remote functions now support a custom path in the endpoint URL. You can reuse a single Cloud Run service for multiple BigQuery remote functions by specifying different path suffixes on the same endpoint. This feature is generally available (GA).
Change The Facebook Ads connector for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports data transfers from the following Facebook Ads reports: AdInsightsMMM Ads AdCreatives AdSets Campaigns AdImages AdLabels Businesses CustomAudiences
Change An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available.