GCP Release Notes: October 27, 2025

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Feature

AlloyDB supports configuring Authorized Networks for Public IP without any CIDR-range restrictions. Use custom organization policies to limit the size and number of Authorized Networks. See Supported custom constraints and operations for examples.

Apigee X

Announcement

On October 27, 2025, we released an updated version of Apigee.

Feature

Introduction of the target.evaluated.url flow variable

This release includes a new flow variable, target.evaluated.url, which should be used instead of the target.url flow variable in cases when the URL is dynamically constructed based on user input.

For more information, see the target flow variables documentation.

BigQuery

Feature

BigQuery now offers the following managed AI functions that use Gemini to help you filter, join, rank, and classify your data:

• AI.IF: Filter and join text or multimodal data based on a condition described in natural language.
• AI.SCORE: Rate text or multimodal input to rank your data by quality, similarity, or other criteria.
• AI.CLASSIFY: Classify text into user-defined categories.

These functions are in Preview.

Feature

You can now use the Data Engineering Agent to use Gemini in BigQuery to build and modify data pipelines to ingest data into BigQuery. This feature is in preview.

Feature

The administrative jobs explorer now includes a job details page to help you diagnose and troubleshoot queries. The Performance tab compiles query information including the execution graph, SQL text, execution history, performance variance, and system load during execution. You can also compare two jobs to identify discrepancies and potential areas to improve query performance.

This feature is in Preview.

Feature

You can now use the Apache Arrow format to stream data to BigQuery with the Storage Write API. This feature is generally available (GA).

Bigtable

Feature

Bigtable provides vector and key-value store integrations for LangChain, an LLM orchestration framework. For more information, see Build LLM-powered applications using LangChain and Perform Maximal Marginal Relevance search with LangChain on Bigtable.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

The rollout of the following extension versions and plugin versions is underway:

Extensions and plugins

• pg_squeeze is upgraded from 1.8 to 1.9 for PostgreSQL version 13 and later.
• pg_cron is upgraded from 1.6.4 to 1.6.7 for PostgreSQL version 10 and later.
• postgis is upgraded from 3.5.2 to 3.6.0 for PostgreSQL version 13 and later.
• rdkit is upgraded from 4.6.1 to 4.7.0.

To use these versions of the extensions and plugins, update your instance to [PostgreSQL version].R20251004.01_07.

If you use a maintenance window, then the updates to the minor, extension, and plugin versions happen according to the timeframe that you set in the window. Otherwise, the updates occur within the next few weeks.

For more information on checking your maintenance version, see Self-service maintenance. To find your maintenance window or to manage maintenance updates, see Find and set maintenance windows.

Firestore

Feature

The database clone feature is now supported at the General Availability (GA) level.

Firestore in Datastore mode

Feature

The database clone feature is now supported at the General Availability (GA) level.

Libraries

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Google SecOps

Announcement

New rules for Chrome Enterprise Premium

Curated Detections has been enhanced with additional Chrome Enterprise Premium Browser Threat detections. The following rules have been added to the rulepack:

• Archive Exfiltration Event to Non-Google Websites
• Google Chrome Navigation Event to Shortened URLs
• Suspicious Download from Filehosting or Chat Platform in Chrome Management
• Chrome Suspicious Download Event from Newly Observed Domain in Environment

Google SecOps SIEM

Announcement

New rules for Chrome Enterprise Premium

Curated Detections has been enhanced with additional Chrome Enterprise Premium Browser Threat detections. The following rules have been added to the rulepack:

• Archive Exfiltration Event to Non-Google Websites
• Google Chrome Navigation Event to Shortened URLs
• Suspicious Download from Filehosting or Chat Platform in Chrome Management
• Chrome Suspicious Download Event from Newly Observed Domain in Environment

Announcement

New rules for Chrome Enterprise Premium

Curated Detections has been enhanced with additional Chrome Enterprise Premium Browser Threat detections. The following rules have been added to the rulepack:

• Archive Exfiltration Event to Non-Google Websites
• Google Chrome Navigation Event to Shortened URLs
• Suspicious Download from Filehosting or Chat Platform in Chrome Management
• Chrome Suspicious Download Event from Newly Observed Domain in Environment

Sensitive Data Protection

Feature

The NEW_ZEALAND_DRIVERS_LICENSE_NUMBER infoType detector is available in all regions. For more information about all built-in infoTypes, see the InfoType detector reference.

Source: Google Cloud Platform