GCP Release Notes: March 04, 2026

BigQuery

Feature

Monitor dataset replication latency and network egress bytes in Cloud Monitoring for BigQuery cross-region replication and managed disaster recovery. These metrics are generally available (GA).

Feature

You can now use continuous queries to stream BigQuery data to Spanner in real time. This feature is generally available (GA).

Compute Engine

Feature

Generally available: You can use managed constraints with Organization Policy Service for centralized, programmatic control of your Compute Engine resources. Managed constraints replace legacy compute.* constraints and are identifiable by the compute.managed.* prefix. They also include built-in support for safe rollout tools like Policy Simulator and dry run mode.

For more information, see Organization policies for Compute Engine and Managed constraints.

Gemini

Feature

File outline and finish changes features in VS Code general availability

The file outline and finish changes features are now available in VS Code and generally available (GA).

Feature

File outline and finish changes features in VS Code general availability

The file outline and finish changes features are now available in VS Code and generally available (GA).

Gemini Enterprise

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Chat with files in the Microsoft Outlook and Box connectors

Gemini Enterprise can analyze content and generate answers from email attachments in the Microsoft Outlook connector and from CSV, PDF, PPTX, and XLSX files in the Box connector, removing the need to upload these files to the Gemini Enterprise assistant. For more information, see Chat with files in connectors.

Guest Environment

Feature

Version 20260228.00 of the guest agent is now available for Windows. To review the features and fixes included in version 20260228.00 of the guest agent, see the March 2, 2026 release notes.

Source: Google Cloud Platform