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Google Cloud Release Notes

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August 07, 2026

Cortex Framework Announcement Release 7.0.1 Fixed Resolved an issue where running the uv run cortex-build command in Windows PowerShell or Windows Command Prompt resulted in a Could not auto-import local builder warning and an Invalid builder type NoneType for category ... error. Improved Dataform quota management in uv run cortex-deploy script.

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August 06, 2026

NetApp Volumes Feature The thick clone (thin clone split) feature is generally available (GA) for the Flex Unified Default-mode service level. For more information, see Manage volume clones. VPC Service Controls Feature VPC Service Controls feature: The VPC Service Controls service patterns feature is generally available. You can use service patterns to explicitly configure which Google APIs (both…

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August 05, 2026

Cloud Monitoring Announcement The Telemetry API for metric ingestion is generally available (GA). You can ingest OTLP metrics into Cloud Monitoring by using an OpenTelemetry Collector, an OTLP exporter, and the Telemetry API. For more information, see OTLP metric ingestion overview.

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August 04, 2026

Cloud CDN Feature Cloud CDN supports native image optimization at the Google network edge for global external Application Load Balancers. This feature offloads compute-intensive image transformations, such as resizing, cropping, and format conversion to reduce origin server load and egress costs. This feature is in Preview. Note: During the Preview phase, image optimization is available free of ch…

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August 03, 2026

Cloud Workstations Change Updated the following JetBrains preconfigured base images to version 2026.x: CLion 2026.1 GoLand 2026.2 IntelliJ Ultimate 2026.1 PhpStorm 2026.2 WebStorm 2026.1 RubyMine 2026.1 PyCharm 2026.1 Rider 2026.1

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August 02, 2026

Google SecOps Announcement Scheduled Maintenance SOAR database and infrastructure maintenance is scheduled to take place during the standard maintenance window on August 2. During this window, environments will experience a brief period of downtime. No customer action is required. Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.96 is being rolled out to the first phase of regions as listed here. This…

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July 31, 2026

Datastream Feature You can now replicate change data from Workday with Datastream. For more information, see Stream data from Workday. This feature is in Preview.

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July 30, 2026

Google SecOps Marketplace Change Google Chronicle: Version 91.0 Updated Wiz Defend alert naming format in the following connector: Google Chronicle - Chronicle Alerts Connector Managed Service for Apache Spark Announcement New Managed Service for Apache Spark on Google Kubernetes Engine (formerly Dataproc on Google Kubernetes Engine) subminor image version: 3.5-dataproc-28 Key updates in this imag…

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July 29, 2026

Google SecOps Feature View prebuilt parser version content You can now view the prebuilt parser preview version content even if you are using a custom parser for the same log type. Although the prebuilt parser version is inactive, you can still see the content of the new preview version for this parser. Google SecOps SIEM Feature View prebuilt parser version content You can now view the prebuilt p…

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July 28, 2026

Google SecOps Feature [Spotlight Feature] Data RBAC for first-party (1P) cases and alerts Availability This feature is now available in public preview for all regions. Google SecOps now supports data role-based access control (Data RBAC) for first-party (1P) SOAR cases and alerts. This feature automatically applies SIEM data access scopes to alerts and cases ingested using the Chronicle connector,…

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July 27, 2026

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Feature External search with AlloyDB now supports OpenSearch in Preview. You can use the external_search_fdw extension to connect to an OpenSearch cluster and query its data directly from your database.

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July 26, 2026

Google SecOps Feature [Spotlight Feature] Investigation and case management experience This feature is in public preview. Google SecOps now includes a revamped Investigation Management experience that supports tracking raw UDM events and detections alongside alerts to accommodate new investigation types (such as retrohunt and threat hunt) and higher investigation volumes in cases. You can navigate…

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July 24, 2026

Compute Engine Feature You can observe real-time virtual machine (VM) distribution across zones, machine types, and instance states in your managed instance groups (MIGs) by using the GCE MIG Instance Distribution Monitoring dashboard in Cloud Monitoring. When your group uses location flexibility across zones, instance flexibility across machine types, or both, this visibility helps you monitor ca…

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July 23, 2026

Apigee hybrid Feature Runtime rollout strategy configuration In this release, you can configure the rollout strategy used when updating runtime (message processor) ReplicaSets by setting the runtime.release.strategy property (with options rolling, scale-down-first, or none) or per-environment with envs[].components.runtime.release.strategy in your overrides configuration file. The property default…

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July 22, 2026

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware Announcement Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.35.300-gke.87 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud 1.35.300-gke.87 runs on Kubernetes v1.35.3-gke.400. If you are using a third-party storage vendor, check the Google Distributed Cloud-ready storage partners document to make sur…

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July 21, 2026

Binary Authorization Feature To provide long-term security and address threats from future quantum computers, Binary Authorization supports keys that use post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. These algorithms, such as ML-DSA-65 (Dilithium3), are standardized to be resistant to attacks from both classical and quantum computers. To learn how to generate a PQC key pair and create an attestor, s…

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July 20, 2026

Batch Breaking Starting on the following dates, you can no longer create a job that locates its Compute Engine resources outside of the job's location. For projects that have successfully submitted before July 31, 2026 at least one job that uses the allowedLocations[] field with any region or zones outside of the job's location, changes are starting on June 30, 2027. For all other projects, change…

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July 19, 2026

Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.94 is being rolled out to the first phase of regions as listed here. This release contains internal and customer bug fixes.

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July 17, 2026

Batch Feature Instance flexibility is available in Preview. Instance flexibility lets you allow a job to run on multiple machine types that you specify and can optionally rank. Use instance flexibility to improve obtainability—the probability that resources are available to run your job. For example, by allowing multiple machine types, you can reduce the probability of resource availability errors…

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July 16, 2026

Oracle Database@Google Cloud Feature Oracle Database@Google Cloud supports cloning for Autonomous AI Databases. You can create full, metadata, and refreshable clones using Google Cloud CLI and API. For more information, see Clone an Autonomous AI Database. This feature is Generally Available (GA).

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July 15, 2026

Apigee hybrid Announcement v1.15.6 On July 15, 2026 we released an updated version of the Apigee hybrid software, v1.15.6. For information on upgrading, see Upgrading Apigee hybrid to version v1.15.6. For information on new installations, see The big picture. Note: This is a patch release: The container images used in patch releases are integrated with the Apigee hybrid Helm charts. Upgrading to a…

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July 13, 2026

Dataform 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 Dataform security bulletin.

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July 12, 2026

Google SecOps Feature Publisher Agent Version 2.7.0 Publisher Agent Version 2.7.0 is now available for all regions. This release includes the following updates for the remote agent: High Availability support: Adds applicative support for Publisher high availability. File transfer support: You can now upload and download files using playbooks and the SDK on agents that have been migrated to the GCO…

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July 10, 2026

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal Announcement Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal 1.33.1000-gke.59 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.33.1000-gke.59 runs on Kubernetes v1.33.11-gke.100. After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for instal…