GCP Release Note: July 22, 2025
Posted inGoogle Cloud Platform

GCP Release Note: July 22, 2025

Posted inGoogle Cloud Platform

Apigee API hub

Changed

API hub provisioning now enables Apigee API

When you provision API hub, it now enables the Apigee API (apigee.googleapis.com) in your Google Cloud project. If Apigee isn’t already provisioned, an Apigee organization is also automatically created in your project as part of the provisioning process.

API hub remains a free service. Enabling the Apigee API has no additional pricing or billing implications for your project.

For more information, see Provision API hub in the Cloud console.

Changed

API hub deprovisioning changes

Deprovisioning an API hub instance now also deletes any associated Apigee organizations from your Google Cloud project, provided those Apigee organizations have no Apigee instances.

If you deprovision an API hub instance, you can reprovision it later, but you’ll need to wait 7 days before you can do so.

For more information, see Deprovision Apigee API hub.

BigQuery

Feature

You can now use the
VECTOR_INDEX.STATISTICS function to calculate how much an indexed table’s data has drifted between when a
vector index was created and the present. If table data has changed enough
to require a vector index rebuild, you can use the
ALTER VECTOR INDEX REBUILD statement
to rebuild the vector index. This feature is in Preview.

Feature

Access Transparency supports BigQuery data preparation in the GA stage.

Feature

The CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE and LOAD DATA statements now support the following options in Preview:

  • null_markers: define the strings that represent NULL values in CSV files.
  • source_column_match: specify how loaded columns are matched to the schema. You can match columns by position or by name.

Feature

You can now use the MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause in your SQL queries to filter and aggregate matches across rows in a table. This feature is in Preview.

Compute Engine

Feature

Preview: Multi-writer support for Hyperdisk Extreme disks. You can give up to 16 instances, across two zones, simultaneous read-write access to the same disk. For more information, see Share disks between instances.

Document AI

Feature

Custom extractor model pretrained-foundation-model-v1.5-pro-2025-06-20 powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro is in Public Preview. It has ML processing available for US and EU regions, and 30 page per minute processing requests.

For more information, see Managing processor versions.

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Announcement

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now generally available and accessible using the API and Vertex AI Studio. This GA release includes support for explicit caching and batch prediction, as well as expanded region support.

See Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite for more information.

Google Cloud Architecture Center

Feature

(New guide) Secure apps and resources by using context-aware access: Describes how you can use context-aware access to secure different types of apps and resources.

Feature

(New guide) Best practices for securing apps and resources by using context-aware access: Describes best practices for using context-aware access to secure apps and resources.

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.31.700-gke.72 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade a cluster. Google Distributed Cloud 1.31.700-gke.72 runs on Kubernetes v1.31.10-gke.200.

If you are using a third-party storage vendor, check the GDC Ready storage partners document to make sure the storage vendor has already passed the qualification for this release.

After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for use with GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform.

Fixed

The following issues were fixed in 1.31.700-gke.72:

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.31.700-gke.72 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.31.700-gke.72 runs on Kubernetes v1.31.10-gke.200.

After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for installations or upgrades with the GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform.

If you use a third-party storage vendor, check the Ready storage partners document to make sure the storage vendor has already passed the qualification for this release of Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal.

Changed

The following functional changes were made in 1.31.700-gke.72:

Fixed

The following issues were fixed in 1.31.700-gke.72:

Issue

For information about the latest known issues, see Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal known issues in the Troubleshooting section.

Google SecOps

Feature

Silent Host Monitoring

New configuration options are now available for Silent Host Monitoring. You can now define detection rule-based Silent Host Monitoring in SecOps using UDM fields or labels, configurable within a specified time window.

For more information, see Silent host monitoring.

Google SecOps SIEM

Feature

Silent Host Monitoring

New configuration options are now available for Silent Host Monitoring. You can now define detection rule-based Silent Host Monitoring in SecOps using UDM fields or labels, configurable within a specified time window.

For more information, see Silent host monitoring.

Security Command Center

Changed

The Setup guide in Security Command Center Enterprise, used to monitor the activation progress and configure services, is now in General Availability.

Changed

The Impair Defenses: Two Step Verification Disabled finding type of Event Threat Detection was renamed to Persistence: Two Step Verification Disabled. For a complete list of Event Threat Detection finding types, see Event Threat Detection overview.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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