GCP Release Notes: August 13, 2025
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GCP Release Notes: August 13, 2025

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BigQuery

Feature

You can aggregate table data with Gemini assistance in your BigQuery data preparations. Aggregations in data preparations are in Preview.

Cloud Interconnect

Feature

Cross-Site Interconnect (Preview) support is available in the following colocation facilities:

  • Global Switch Singapore, Singapore

For more information, see the Locations table and Global Locations.

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Feature

Cloud SQL now supports Private Service Connect (PSC) outbound connectivity. With PSC outbound connectivity, you can attach a PSC interface to your existing Cloud SQL PSC-enabled instances to allow your instances to make outbound connections to your network. This is required for homogeneous migrations using Database Migration Service. For more information, see PSC outbound connections.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

Cloud SQL now supports Private Service Connect (PSC) outbound connectivity. With PSC outbound connectivity, you can attach a PSC interface to your existing Cloud SQL PSC-enabled instances to allow your instances to make outbound connections to your network. This is required for homogeneous migrations using Database Migration Service. For more information, see PSC outbound connections.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Feature

Cloud SQL now supports Private Service Connect (PSC) outbound connectivity. With PSC outbound connectivity, you can attach a PSC interface to your existing Cloud SQL PSC-enabled instances to allow your instances to make outbound connections to your network. This is required for homogeneous migrations using Database Migration Service. For more information, see PSC outbound connections.

Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service

Announcement

Check the version number of your instance

You can now check the version number of your instance and compare it with the version numbers of the updates and patches that Google announces in these release notes. In this way you can know which capabilities are available in your instance. For more information, see Check the version number of your instance.

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.31.800-gke.32 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.31.800-gke.32 runs on Kubernetes v1.31.10-gke.300.

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.

Fixed

The following issues were fixed in 1.31.800-gke.32:

  • Fixed an issue where the CronJob for periodic health checks wasn't updating after configuration changes.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Ansible playbook for handling Customer-Acquired Licenses (CAL) to fail and not complete.

  • Fixed vulnerabilities listed in Vulnerability fixes.

Issue

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

Google SecOps

Announcement

New parser documentation now available

New parser documentation is available to help you ingest and normalize logs from the following sources:

Google SecOps Marketplace

Feature

New CyberArk Credential Provider integration

Changed

Jira: Version 47.0

  • Updated timestamp processing logic in the following jobs:

    • Sync Comments

    • Sync Closure

  • Updated logic for processing closed tickets in the following job:

    • Sync Closure

Changed

Microsoft Graph Mail: Version 29.0

  • Integration: Updated dependencies.

Google SecOps SIEM

Announcement

New parser documentation now available

New parser documentation is available to help you ingest and normalize logs from the following sources:

Looker

Announcement

Looker 25.14 is expected to include the following changes, features, and fixes:

  • Expected Looker (original) deployment start: Monday, August 18, 2025

  • Expected Looker (original) final deployment and download available: Thursday, August 28, 2025

  • Expected Looker (Google Cloud core) deployment start: Monday, August 18, 2025

  • Expected Looker (Google Cloud core) final deployment: Monday, September 1, 2025

Feature

For projects that are enabled for the New LookML Runtime, the synonyms parameter is now supported. The synonyms parameter lets LookML developers provide additional context about their data that will help Conversational Analytics and other features to answer questions more accurately.

Feature

The API Usage Hourly System Activity Explore is now available. This Explore provides a detailed, hourly summary of the volume and performance of API calls that are made to your Looker instance.

Feature

Denodo 9 databases are now supported.

Feature

The Maria JDBC Driver has been updated to version 3.5.3.

Feature

The Athena driver has been updated to version 2.2.1.

Feature

The Databricks JDBC driver has been upgraded to version 2.7.3.

Feature

A new JavaScript event, dashboard:tile:merge, has been added.

Feature

Looker now displays a notice to instance admins if the instance license has been revoked. Admins will have 14 days to correct any problems before the instance will be shut down.

Feature

The following Looker events are now visible in the System Activity Events Explore:

  • create_project
  • delete_project
  • update_project
  • create_git_deploy_key
  • delete_repository_credential
  • update_repository_credential

Feature

A new Customer Engineer Advanced Editor default role has been added and can be used to grant support access to Google Cloud customer engineers.

Feature

The Query Concurrency System Activity Explore is now available. This Explore can help you identify periods of high load and investigate performance bottlenecks that are related to database connection limits. Note: This feature was included in the Looker 25.12 release notes but its launch was delayed.

Feature

New visualizations have been added to the Database Performance dashboard and the Instance Performance dashboard in System Activity.

Fixed

Looker 25.14 contains the following accessibility improvements:

  • ARIA labels have been added to iframes that contain custom visualizations.
  • ARIA labels have been added to legends on visualizations.
  • ARIA labels have been added to modals.
  • ARIA labels have been added to the Looker page header and logo.
  • ARIA labels have been added to untitled dashboard tiles.
  • Keyboard focus has been improved on modals.
  • Text contrast has been increased on banners.
  • Dashboard filters stay in focus while users are typing.
  • Users can use the Explore from here link in a drill menu by using the keyboard.
  • Users can interact with Single Value visualizations by using the keyboard.
  • PDF rendering progress messages have been updated to better integrate with screen readers.

Fixed

The LookML validation spinner now correctly stops if there is an error with the server's validation process.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where a route that wasn't intended for embedding was allowed to be embedded. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where "Create view from table" would fail if it was initiated from a LookML subfolder. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where color palettes with Japanese labels could not be added or removed. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where getting LookML for dashboards wouldn't preserve all query filters even if they overlapped with dashboard-level filters. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where include statements for empty folders that used single-slash syntax returned an unrecognized project reference error. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where multiple tooltips could be displayed at once. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where project names weren't fully sanitized. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where projects that have not been deployed to production wouldn't appear in a user's list of available projects. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where removing fields from embedded dashboard tiles could become impossible. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where resetting a project's git connection and attempting to use a bare repo would fail. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where sorting a pivoted column in the drill modal could sort all pivoted columns instead of just the selected one. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where special characters such as slashes, ampersands, and question marks were allowed in BigQuery and Spanner connection names. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where the HTTP error codes for moving and copying dashboards and Looks could return 422 when they should return 404. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where the last accessed time for Looks that were saved to a dashboard as Looks wasn't updated when the dashboard was accessed. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where the MoreVert button would not be disabled when no options were available in the menu. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where the new dashboard name wasn't preserved when a LookML dashboard was copied to a folder. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where unfavoriting a dashboard or Look on a board would not persist. This feature now performs as expected.

Spanner

Feature

Spanner offers a predefined library of over 80 MySQL functions that you can install in a database. These functions let you perform operations that are common in the MySQL environments directly with Spanner. They can help reduce the changes required when migrating workloads from MySQL to Spanner.

These functions are packaged as user-defined functions that can be installed from an open-source DDL script hosted on GitHub. For more information, see Install MySQL functions in Spanner.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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