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October 02, 2026
Feature The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now generally available (GA). Feature The Data Engineering Agent now supports the gemini-3.7-flash model for the us, eu, and global multi-regional endpoints.
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October 01, 2026
Feature BigQuery pipelines provides support for automated metadata enrichment and Knowledge Catalog data quality scorecard integration. In addition, the Data Engineering Agent can proactively generate semantic metadata for your pipeline assets. For more information, see Metadata enrichment and data quality scorecard integration. These features are generally available.
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September 30, 2026
Feature The BigQuery Security center is now available in the Google Cloud console. You can use the Security center to analyze your data security profile, create and manage row- and column-level security policies, and configure and manage data governance and policy tags. This feature is generally available (GA). Feature You can now view the UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE, and EXPORT execution steps in your…
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September 29, 2026
Feature You can query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FAILOVER_HISTORY view to retrieve a near real-time list of failover events for reservations within an administration project that use managed disaster recovery. This feature is now in (Preview).
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September 28, 2026
Feature The BigQuery Data Transfer Service MCP server is now Generally Available (GA). Feature You can now write the output rows produced by BigQuery continuous queries directly into Apache Iceberg managed tables. This lets you continuously process streaming data from BigQuery and write it into your open-format lakehouse by using an INSERT DML statement.
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September 24, 2026
Feature In the BigQuery Studio query editor, the Query results table now keeps the row numbers visible on the left as you scroll horizontally. This helps you maintain context and track data across wide tables. This feature is generally available (GA).
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September 22, 2026
Feature You can now publish a BigQuery data agent in Gemini Enterprise by registering the agent with Agent Registry and importing it using default Google-managed credentials. When BigQuery and Gemini Enterprise are in the same Google Cloud project and configured with a matching Agent Gateway region, you don't need to manually copy the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) JSON card or configure OAuth client creden…
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September 21, 2026
Feature BigQuery generative AI functions now support the gemini-3.8-flash Gemini model.
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September 17, 2026
Feature You can add unit tests to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets. Unit tests for pipelines are generally available (GA).
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September 16, 2026
Feature You can use the migration lineage service to visualize the data flow and connections in your source database and help you plan a BigQuery data warehouse migration. This feature is in Preview.
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September 14, 2026
Feature Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview.
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September 10, 2026
Feature The Data Engineering Agent now integrates with BigQuery Graph to provide additional context between your data source and destination schema, and improves schema mapping accuracy for your data engineering pipelines. This feature is generally available (GA).
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September 09, 2026
Feature BigQuery generative AI functions now support the following Gemini models: gemini-3.5-flash-lite gemini-3.6-flash gemini-3.7-flash
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September 08, 2026
Feature Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function. This feature is in Preview.
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September 03, 2026
Feature Conversational analytics now supports questions about market basket analysis. This feature is generally available (GA).
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September 02, 2026
Change An updated version of the Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery is now available.
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September 01, 2026
Feature The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now in Preview.
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August 31, 2026
Feature You can now create, store, and manage pipelines in Git folders. This feature is in Preview. Feature Using folders to create, store, and manage pipelines is generally available.
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August 27, 2026
Feature The Data Engineering Agent is now HIPAA compliant. For more information, see HIPAA compliance on Google Cloud.
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August 26, 2026
Security An Improper Input Validation vulnerability was discovered in the JDBC driver in BigQuery Data Transfer Service versions prior to May 1, 2026. An authenticated attacker could use crafted JDBC connection string parameters to achieve remote code execution in the connector container and escalate privileges in the tenant project. For more information, see the GCP-2026-056 security bulletin.
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August 25, 2026
Feature BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform. This feature is in Preview.
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August 24, 2026
Feature You can now monitor the performance, adoption, latency, and costs of your data agents and their conversations by using Google Cloud Observability in BigQuery. This feature is in Preview.
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August 20, 2026
Deprecated Starting April 26, 2027, core graph processing for BigQuery Graph will be restricted to the BigQuery Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions. Consequently, we are deprecating support for Standard edition and on-demand billing for core graph processing. Graph measures will remain available in the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions and for queries run using on-demand pricing. Measure…
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August 18, 2026
Feature The default per-project limit of user-specific reservation assignments has been increased from 10 to 100.
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August 13, 2026
Feature BigQuery pipelines now support automated metadata enrichment, allowing you to define semantic metadata directly in SQLX configurations for synchronization with Knowledge Catalog. In addition, the Data Engineering Agent proactively generates this metadata based on your intent or context. For more information, see Metadata enrichment and data quality scorecard integration. This feature is in…
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August 12, 2026
Announcement Table Explorer behavior has moved to the Reference panel. Table Explorer has been deprecated. For more information, see "Use the Reference panel" in Run a query.
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August 11, 2026
Feature Query templates for data clean rooms are generally available (GA). Query templates allow data clean room owners and publishers to share predefined queries without exposing the underlying tables and views. Additionally, table parameters in table-valued functions (TVFs) are generally available (GA). You can use the ANY TABLE type as a table parameter to create generic functions that accept t…
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August 10, 2026
Feature BigQuery now supports the gemini-3.1-flash-lite and gemini-3.5-flash GA models, which are available for the us, eu, and global multi-regional endpoints. You can use these models in all generative AI functions. For information about how to specify a multi-regional endpoint and how endpoints are selected, read about locations in the generative AI overview.
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August 03, 2026
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).
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July 30, 2026
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).