October 04, 2026
Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.102 is being rolled out to the first phase of regions as listed here. This release contains internal and customer bug fixes.
Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.102 is being rolled out to the first phase of regions as listed here. This release contains internal and customer bug fixes.
Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.101 is now available for all regions.
BigQuery 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. Cloud NAT Feature General Availability: Cloud NAT gateways for Private NAT support IPv6 to IPv4 network address translation. For more information, see NAT64 in Private NAT. Google Kubernetes Engin…
BigQuery Change An updated version of the Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery is now available. Feature Chatting with graphs in conversational analytics is now generally available. You can use a combination of multiple graphs, tables, views, and UDFs as data sources. Feature BigQuery pipelines provides support for automated metadata enrichment and Knowledge Catalog data quality scorecard integration. I…
VPC Service Controls Feature Preview stage support for the following integration: Universal Ledger
Gemini Enterprise Feature Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash is the default model for AlphaEvolve AlphaEvolve experiments can now generate candidate programs with Gemini 3.7 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash. Gemini 3.8 Flash is the default model AlphaEvolve uses when you do not explicitly specify a model, replacing Gemini 3.5 Flash. To use a different model, specify the one you want in the models field…
Application Integration Security A Confused Deputy vulnerability was discovered in the Email Task component in Application Integration versions prior to June 30, 2026. For more information, see the GCP-2026-066 security bulletin. Security A Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability was discovered in the JavaScript Task in Application Integration versions prior to June 28, 2026. For more info…
Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.101 is being rolled out to the first phase of regions as listed here. This release contains internal and customer bug fixes.
Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.100 is now available for all regions.
API Keys API Feature The API Keys remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is available in Preview. You can connect to the API Keys remote MCP server from AI applications to create, inspect, restrict, and manage the lifecycle of API keys in your Google Cloud projects. For more information, see the API Keys MCP reference.
Model Armor Feature You can use the following filters in Melbourne (australia-southeast2) with data residency enforcement enabled: Prompt injection and jailbreak detection Responsible AI For information about available Model Armor features for each region, see Supported features by region.
Apigee API hub Feature Preview launch of AWS API Gateway and Azure API Management plugins API hub now includes two new built-in plugins for ingesting API metadata from third-party gateways: AWS API Gateway and Azure API Management. Both plugins are in Public Preview, extending API hub's multi-cloud governance to give you a single pane of glass across your Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure APIs. What's…
Compute Engine Deprecated As of September 15, 2026, NVIDIA P100 (nvidia-tesla-p100 and nvidia-tesla-p100-vws) GPUs have reached end of support (EOS) and are shut down. You can no longer create, launch, or access Compute Engine instances or other Google Cloud resources that use NVIDIA P100 GPUs. For information about migrating your workloads to supported GPU alternatives such as the G2 (NVIDIA L4)…
Apigee X Announcement On September 21st, 2026, we began maintenance updates of Apigee instances configured for maintenance windows. If you set a preferred window for maintenance for your instance, and your instance version is below 1-18-0-apigee-4, your instance will be updated to 1-18-0-apigee-4 within the next seven to 21 days. A notification containing the expected date of upgrade will be sent…
Cloud Load Balancing Feature Managed workload identity for backend mTLS is generally available for the following Application Load Balancers: Global external Application Load Balancers Regional external Application Load Balancers Cross-region internal Application Load Balancers Regional internal Application Load Balancers The key benefits are as follows: Streamline certificate management: Automated…
Oracle Database@Google Cloud Feature For Exadata Database Service, Oracle Database@Google Cloud is available in europe-west12 (Turin, Italy) region. For a list of supported locations, see Supported regions and zones.
BigQuery 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. Datastream Feature Datastream now supports MongoDB extended JSON canonical mode as the default format for new streams from MongoDB sources to BigQuery destinations. Canonical mode provides hi…
Batch Issue A workaround has been added for the known issue that jobs might fail when specifying Compute Engine (or custom) VM OS images with outdated kernels. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Feature Reinforcement learning fine-tuning in the Google Cloud console (Preview) You can create, monitor, and test reinforcement learning fine-tuning jobs for Gemini models in the Google Cloud console (Previ…
Backup and DR Feature You can now monitor restore jobs for Filestore instances directly from the Backup and DR Jobs page in the Google Cloud console. When you trigger a restore on a Filestore instance, Backup and DR automatically tracks the job progress and status. For more information, see Restore a Filestore instance from a backup vault and Monitor backup and restore jobs in Google Cloud console…
Agent Platform Workbench Change 20260911.00_p0 Release Change 20260913.00_p0 Release Change Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies. Change Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies. Fixed Fixed the %%bigquery notebook cell magic, which returned an error instead of query results in JupyterLab 4. Fixed Fixed the %%bigquery notebook cell magic, which returned an error instead…
API Gateway Feature Enable Model Context Protocol (MCP) You can now configure API Gateway to act as a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This Public Preview feature allows you to expose your existing REST APIs to AI agents as tools, without requiring changes to your backend services. You can enable MCP by annotating your OpenAPI 3.x specification using custom Google extensions. For more i…
Cloud Storage Feature Storage Intelligence advisor is now generally available. Storage Intelligence advisor lets you monitor and manage your Cloud Storage environment at scale across organizations, folders, and projects. For more information, see About Storage Intelligence advisor. Gemini Enterprise Feature Gemini Enterprise: Support for channel mentions and multi-turn conversations in the Gemini…
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Feature Agent Gateway supports VPC Service Controls Agent Gateway now enforces VPC Service Controls perimeter rules for agent communications. When you configure Agent Gateway with VPC connectivity, agent traffic is routed through your private VPC network, ensuring that your organization's VPC-SC perimeter rules are applied to all agent traffic as well. Note that se…
Compute Engine Feature Generally available: You can convert a single-project reservation into a shared reservation, or a shared reservation into a single-project reservation. Modify the share type for a reservation to share your reserved resources with other projects in your Google Cloud organization, or to restrict access to only the reservation's owner project. For more information, see Modify t…
Access Approval Feature Privileged Access Manager is generally available (GA). Access Transparency Feature Privileged Access Manager is generally available (GA).
Google SecOps SOAR Feature Case playbooks This feature is in preview. Google SecOps now supports case playbooks. You can run playbooks or execute manual actions across an entire case container rather than individual alerts, consolidating response tasks and reducing redundant operations during investigations. For more information, see Case playbooks overview.
Google SecOps SOAR Announcement Release 6.3.99 is now available for all regions.
Cloud SQL for SQL Server Feature Cloud SQL for SQL Server now supports connecting to instances with write endpoints using the Cloud SQL Auth Proxy or Cloud SQL language connectors. When you configure the proxy or a language connector with a write endpoint DNS name, connections are redirected automatically to the new primary instance during replica failover or switchover. For more information, see…
VPC Service Controls Feature VPC Service Controls feature (Status: Preview): VPC Service Controls supports retrieving and updating service perimeters that contain deleted IAM principals. When you enable this feature, you can manage perimeters that contain deleted user, group, or service account identities without triggering the The email address is invalid or non-existent error. For more informati…
Spanner Feature Spanner supports using the TABLESAMPLE operator in PostgreSQL-dialect databases to select a random sample of a dataset. For more information, see TABLESAMPLE operator.