GCP Release Notes: February 19, 2026

GCP Release Notes: February 19, 2026

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Feature

AlloyDB now integrates with Database Center to provide prioritized health monitoring in the Google Cloud console. This integration highlights critical and high-priority risks, offering one-click navigation to recommended fixes and system insights for quick resolution. For more information, see Monitor the health of your AlloyDB clusters and instances.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

Cloud SQL now provides brute-force detection and protection for your Cloud SQL instances. This helps protect your instances from brute-force access attempts by identifying the source and mitigating the risk caused by these attempts. For more information, see Use brute-force protection.

Dataplex

Feature

When you create a data quality rule, you can now optionally include a debug query to run alongside the rule. A debug query is a SQL statement that returns up to 10 scalar values to help diagnose rule failures. This feature is available in preview.

Gemini Enterprise

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Support for new actions (Preview)

New actions are available for the following data stores:

For a list of actions for these data stores, see Supported actions.

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Use Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)

You can use Gemini 3.1 Pro in Preview with Gemini Enterprise. This version replaces Gemini 3 Pro in Preview.

To make Gemini 3.1 Pro available to users in your Gemini Enterprise app, a Gemini Enterprise admin must enable the Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) toggle within the Model availability feature control.

If an admin had previously enabled the Gemini 3 Pro (Preview) toggle, then Gemini Enterprise enables the Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) toggle by default too.

For more information about feature controls, see Manage features on the web app.

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Chat with files in the Microsoft SharePoint connector

Gemini Enterprise can analyze content and generate answers from XLSX and CSV files in the Microsoft SharePoint connector, eliminating the need to upload these files to the assistant. For more information, see Chat with files in connectors.

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Feature

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.1 Pro is available in preview in Model Garden. Gemini 3.1 Pro is our most advanced reasoning Gemini model, capable of solving complex problems from different information sources, including text, audio, images, video, PDFs, and even entire code repositories with its 1M token context window.

Network Intelligence Center

Feature

Connectivity Tests identifies peering dynamic routes and Network Connectivity Center dynamic routes that are dropped due to network- or hub-level quotas as invalid.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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