GCP Release Note: July 08, 2025

App Hub

Feature

Dataproc Metastore services are now generally available (GA).

BigQuery

Announcement

Starting August 1, 2025, GoogleSQL will become the default dialect for queries run from the command line interface (CLI) or API. To use LegacySQL, you will need to explicitly specify it in your requests or set the configuration setting default_sql_dialect_option to 'default_legacy_sql' at the project or organization level.

Cloud Life Sciences

Deprecated

As of July 8, 2025, Cloud Life Sciences is beginning to shut down.

Batch is generally available and is a comprehensive successor that supports all use cases for Cloud Life Sciences. Learn how to migrate to Batch.

Cloud Load Balancing

Feature

Zonal affinity, configured on the backend service of an internal passthrough Network Load Balancer, lets you limit cross-zone traffic, reduce latency, and improve performance, all while maintaining the benefits of a multi-zonal architecture.

Internal passthrough Network Load Balancers support three zonal affinity options that offer varying degrees of preference for routing new connections to eligible backends that are in the same zone as a supported client.

For more information, see Zonal affinity for internal passthrough Network Load Balancers.

This feature is in Preview.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Feature

Cloud SQL for SQL Server now offers Active Directory support for write endpoints. For more information, see Write endpoints across forests.

Cloud Storage

Feature

You can now create caches with Anywhere Cache in the us-west3-a, us-west3-b, and us-west3-c zones. For more information about supported locations for Anywhere Cache, see Supported locations.

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Feature

Vertex AI Agent Engine

Vertex AI Agent Engine Memory Bank is now available in Preview. Memory Bank lets you dynamically generate long-term memories based on users’ conversations with your agent.

Google Cloud Armor

Changed

Cloud Armor preconfigured WAF rules can now inspect up to the first 64kB (either 8kB, 16kB, 32kB, 48kB, or 64kB) of the POST or PATCH request body content in Preview.

Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service

Announcement

Mobile SDK 2.13 is released

Mobile SDK 2.13 includes the following updates:

• End-users can download chat transcripts to their devices during a session or after a session ends. For more information, see Download chat transcripts using the web SDK and mobile SDKs.

• The user experience with post-session virtual assistants is improved in the following ways:

  • You can configure an opt-in banner to appear for the post-session virtual assistant experience.

  • The user interface makes it easier for an end-user to know whether they are speaking to a human agent or a post-session virtual agent.

• End-users can navigate the user interface using keyboard shortcuts in conformance with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

• You can configure your instance to let end-users skip customer satisfaction surveys.

Fixed

The following issues were addressed in this release:

• Android SDK:

  • Fixed an issue where system messages containing an empty space were being sent, even though the message strings were set to NULL.

• iOS SDK:

  • Fixed an issue where the “Skip the human agent” button was displayed after an end-user was transferred to a virtual agent.

  • Fixed an issue where a notification sound played for new chat messages despite the end-user disabling notifications.

SAP on Google Cloud

Announcement

BigQuery Connector for SAP version 2.9

Version 2.9 of the BigQuery Connector for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces Change Data Capture (CDC) replication of SAP data into BigQuery through Pub/Sub. This replication path keeps your BigQuery tables up-to-date with the latest changes from your SAP data sources, eliminating the need for custom deduplication.

For more information, see What’s new with BigQuery Connector for SAP.

Secure Source Manager

Changed

Secure Source Manager is now available in the following regions:

• australia-southeast1 (Sydney)
• asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)

Virtual Private Cloud

Feature

The following features of policy-based routes are available in General Availability:

• Applying policy-based routes to IPv6 traffic
• Using a next hop that is in a peered VPC network

For more information, see Create policy-based routes.

Source: Google Cloud Platform