GCP Release Notes: January 12, 2026

API Gateway

Feature

Centralize API Gateway API management using Apigee API hub

Connect API Gateway to Apigee API hub to enable seamless publishing of API metadata from your API Gateway project to API hub. This integration provides a centralized, unified view of your APIs across different gateways, simplifying API discovery, governance, and management.

Key benefits include:

• Centralized API discovery: All your API Gateway APIs are discoverable in API hub alongside APIs from other sources
• Enhanced visibility: Gain insights into your API landscape with consolidated metadata
• Streamlined management: Simplify API governance and lifecycle management across your diverse API ecosystem

For more detail, see Centralize API management using API hub.

Note: Rollouts of this release to production instances might take up to 5 business days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Your instances might not have the feature available until the rollout is complete.

Apigee Advanced API Security

Announcement

On January 12, 2026 we released an updated version of Advanced API Security Abuse Detection

Feature

Introduction of Terraform support for managing Advanced API Security abuse detection exclusion lists

You can now use Terraform to manage Advanced API Security abuse detection exclusion lists. The feedback feature allows you to specify CIDR ranges and IP addresses to exclude from future incident reports, and is used to exclude traffic known to be safe, such as requests related to automated testing.

Note: Exclusion lists are not available for VPC-SC customers at this time.

For usage information, see Exclude traffic from abuse detection and Use Terraform in Apigee in the Apigee documentation and the Terraform abuse detection feedback (exclusion lists) instructions.

Apigee UI

Announcement

On January 12, 2026, we released an updated version of the Apigee UI.

Feature

Manage environment-level resources in the Apigee UI

You can now manage environment-level resources using the Apigee UI. Previously, environment-level resources could only be managed using the API. For more information, see Managing resources.

Cloud Build

Change

Cloud Build now supports OCI artifacts. OCI artifacts for a build are shown in the following locations:

• The Artifacts column of Build history page
• The Execution details tab of the Build details page
• The Build Artifacts tab of the Build details page

For more information, see View build results.

Contact Center AI Insights

Announcement

This product has a new name. The same product with the same features is now called Customer Experience Insights, or CX Insights for short.

Dataplex

Breaking

Some of the metadata that is stored in Dataplex Universal Catalog is changing. This change brings the metadata stored in Dataplex into consistency with metadata from the original source systems such as Vertex AI, Bigtable, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataform, and Dataproc Metastore. If you have workloads that depend on such Dataplex metadata, you must adjust them to preserve continuity. For more information about the scope of this change and what you need to do, see Changes to metadata stored in Dataplex Universal Catalog.

Document AI

Feature

Document AI is introducing document-level prompting for custom document processors. This feature allows you to provide an overall description of the document to inject deep business knowledge into the model, leading to improved extraction quality.

Document-level prompting offers improved accuracy by giving the model necessary context for extraction at the document level. This allows for easily supplied general information, such as geographical limitations (for example, all the address fields are located in the USA), to guide the model.

For more details, refer to the documentation on custom extractor mechanisms and document-level prompting.

Google SecOps

Feature

Copy instance metadata

To enable Google support to test and troubleshoot customer issues, a new option to copy SOAR information and share with Support has been added to the platform. This option, entitled Copy instance metadata, can be accessed from the question mark at the top of the platform.

Google SecOps SIEM

Feature

Copy instance metadata

To enable Google support to test and troubleshoot customer issues, a new option to copy SOAR information and share with Support has been added to the platform. This option, entitled Copy instance metadata, can be accessed from the question mark at the top of the platform.

Infrastructure Manager

Change

Infrastructure Manager is available in the following regions:

• me-central2

For more information about regions, see Infrastructure Manager locations.

Source: Google Cloud Platform