Cloud Storage release notes

This page documents production updates to Cloud Storage. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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April 17, 2025

February 05, 2025

Announced billing changes for accessing Cloud Storage through BigQuery take effect Feb 21, 2025. These changes were originally set to take effect on February 01, 2025.

November 15, 2024

You can now use the x-amz-decoded-content-length header to allow an XML API upload that uses chunked transfer encoding to include a signature in its Authorization header.

November 07, 2024

You can now restore soft-deleted buckets. If you delete a bucket with an active soft delete policy, Cloud Storage retains the bucket for the specified soft delete retention duration, during which the bucket can be restored to a live state. To learn more about the bucket restore feature, see Use soft-deleted buckets.

October 29, 2024

Data Access logs are now compatible with all authenticated browser downloads.

  • When an authenticated browser download occurs outside of the Google Cloud console, a resulting Data Access log has its principalEmail and callerIp fields redacted.

October 28, 2024

Additional functionality is now available for the Object Retention Lock and Bucket Lock features:

October 22, 2024

You can now emit client-side metrics for gRPC. To learn which metrics are supported and how to emit them, see Use gRPC client-side metrics.

September 23, 2024

You can now use hierarchical namespace with Cloud Storage FUSE. To learn more about how mounting buckets with hierarchical namespace enabled can help improve performance, see Mount buckets with hierarchical namespace enabled.

August 05, 2024

You can now use parallel downloads with Cloud Storage FUSE to accelerate read performance of large files over 1 GB in size. When enabled, parallel downloads use multiple workers to download a file in parallel, accelerating file reads. For more information, see Improve read performance using parallel downloads.

July 31, 2024

You can now use list caching with Cloud Storage FUSE, which is a cache for directory and file list, or ls, responses that improves list operation speeds. To learn more about list caching and how to enable it, see the Cloud Storage FUSE caching overview page.

You can now use the Google Cloud console to set a default soft delete retention duration. For more information, see Use tags to set a default soft delete retention duration for new buckets.

July 23, 2024

You can now use tags to set a default soft delete retention duration on newly created buckets in your organization. To learn how to customize a default soft delete retention duration, see Set a default soft delete retention duration.

July 11, 2024

You can now specify Frankfurt (europe-west3) and Zürich (europe-west6) as a predefined dual-region pairing. For more information, see Predefined dual-regions.

July 08, 2024

You can now specify London (europe-west2) and Frankfurt (europe-west3) as a predefined dual-region pairing. For more information, see Predefined dual-regions.

July 02, 2024

You can now disable soft delete for multiple buckets at a time or for all buckets in a project. To learn more, see Bulk disable soft delete.