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August 13, 2025
BigQueryYou can aggregate table data with Gemini assistance in your BigQuery data preparations. Aggregations in data preparations are in Preview.
August 04, 2025
Virtual Private CloudWhen you reserve an internal range with an automatically allocated IPv4 CIDR block, you can specify the allocation strategy that is used to select a free block. This feature is available in General Availability.
July 30, 2025
Container Optimized OSRuntime sysctl changes:
- Changed: fs.file-max: 811539 -> 811510
July 28, 2025
Container Optimized OSFixed KCTF-5e28d5a in the Linux kernel.
Runtime sysctl changes:
- Changed: fs.file-max: 811820 -> 811775
July 25, 2025
Cloud NGFWYou can create a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over converged ethernet (RoCE) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network and configure firewall rules that apply to the network. For more information, see Cloud NGFW for RoCE VPC networks. This feature is available in Preview.
July 15, 2025
BigQueryYou can flatten JSON columns in BigQuery data preparation with a single operation. This feature is generally available (GA).
July 09, 2025
Virtual Private CloudVPC Network Peering supports peering connections in consensus mode. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see Update strategy.
July 08, 2025
Google Cloud ArmorCloud Armor preconfigured WAF rules can now inspect up to the first 64kB (either 8kB, 16kB, 32kB, 48kB, or 64kB) of the POST or PATCH request body content in Preview.
June 30, 2025
Compute EngineGenerally available: You can now modify licenses attached to your disks. Previously, licenses on disk resources were immutable. You had to delete and recreate disks, or engage our support team to change licenses.
This feature provides greater flexibility for managing your disk licenses. You can now:
- Append, remove, replace, and view the history of license updates.
- Perform in-place license upgrades, such as Ubuntu to Ubuntu Pro, using the
gcloudCLI and REST. - Switch from PAYG to BYOS billing models.
- Review license changes and restrictions and append a RHEL ELS license to a newer version.
For more information on how to manage licenses, see Manage licenses.
June 27, 2025
Compute EngineGenerally available: You can specify a custom ephemeral external IPv6 address when creating an instance. For more information, see Create instances that use IPv6 addresses.