AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Issue
Automatic IAM authentication is unavailable when you use managed connection pooling with the AlloyDB Auth Proxy and Language Connectors. To sign into your database without a password, use manual IAM authentication. For more information, see Connect using an IAM account
Apigee X
Security
| Bug ID | Description |
|---|---|
| 471001896, 469829527, 470953822, 462478248, 474415498 | Security fix for Apigee infrastructure. This addresses the following vulnerabilities: |
Fixed
| Bug ID | Description |
|---|---|
| 433999957 | Implemented full TLS validation when fetching JWKS from remote URIs |
| 467762922 | Quota enforcement logic for Server-Sent Events (SSE) updated Quotas for SSE are now calculated strictly for events containing explicit token counts. The quota enforcement logic skips SSE that lack token usage metadata. |
| N/A | Updates to security, infrastructure, and libraries. |
Announcement
On January 21st, 2026, we released an updated version of Apigee (1-17-0-apigee-1).
Artifact Registry
Feature
Artifact Registry is available in the asia-southeast3 region (Bangkok).
For more information, see Global locations.
BigQuery
Feature
You can now use Gemini Cloud Assist to get information about your job history, such as why a particular query was slow or which queries were the most resource-intensive in the past day. This feature is in Preview.
Change
BigQuery is now available in the Bangkok (asia-southeast3) region.
Bigtable
Feature
Bigtable is available in the asia-southeast3 (Bangkok) region. For more
information, see Bigtable locations.
Cloud Billing
Feature
CUD recommendations support more machine types
Resource-based CUD recommendations for cores and RAM now support additional machine series. For a complete list, see Resource-based CUDs supported by recommendations.
You can access these recommendations using the FinOps hub user interface, programmatically using the Recommender API, or when you export recommendations to BigQuery.
Cloud Monitoring
Feature
Your Application Monitoring dashboards now display the trace spans that are associated with your registered App Hub applications. The display includes annotations that let you identify services and workloads. You can also open the Trace Explorer page from your Application Monitoring dashboards. To learn more, see the following documents:
- Application Monitoring overview.
- View application telemetry.
- Find and explore traces describes how to use the Trace Explorer page to filter and explore your trace data.
Cloud SQL for MySQL
Change
Cloud SQL for MySQL 8.0.43 is now the default minor version of Cloud SQL for MySQL 8.0.
If you have automatic minor version upgrade enabled for your instance, then your instance is upgraded to the default minor version automatically during its regularly scheduled maintenance update.
For more information about automatic minor version upgrade, see Upgrade the database minor version of MySQL 8.0.
Cloud Storage
Feature
Bucket relocation with write downtime now supports completed multipart uploads. If a multipart upload is started before relocation begins and is completed before the final synchronization step, the objects are successfully relocated. In-progress multipart uploads continue to block the final synchronization step until they are either completed or cancelled. For more information, see Bucket relocation overview.
Google SecOps Marketplace
Feature
New Azure API integration
Feature
Okta: Version 13.0
The following new action has been added:
- Clear Okta User Session
Change
Azure Active Directory: Version 21.0
Updated the JSON result example of the following action:
- List Members in The Group
Added more metadata to the JSON result example of the following action:
- List Groups
Change
Google Cloud API: Version 7.0
Updated
Expected Response Valuesdescription in the following action:- Execute HTTP Request
Change
Google Chronicle: Version 73.0
Updated the processing of queries in the following action:
- Execute UDM Query
Change
QRadar: Version 62.0
Updated the event processing logic of the following connector:
- QRadar Correlations Connector V2
Change
Microsoft 365 Defender: Version 22.0
Updated the tracking logic for alerts in the following connector:
- Microsoft 365 Defender – Incidents Connector
Change
HTTP v2: Version 12.0
Updated
Expected Response Valuesdescription in the following action:- Execute HTTP Request
Change
Netskope: Version 14.0
Refactored the following action:
- Ping
Source: Google Cloud Platform



![MTA-STS and SMTP DANE mode on connectors [MC1220759] 4 pexels scottwebb 305821](https://mwpro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/pexels-scottwebb-305821-150x150.webp)
