GCP Release Notes: August 21, 2025

GCP Release Notes: August 21, 2025

Anthos Config Management

Announcement

Announcing experimental features: help shape the future of Config Sync features by providing direct feedback.

  • Introducing PostSync, a feature that lets you run custom actions like cleanup scripts or notifications right after your configurations are synced. We’re looking for your feedback to shape its future! Check out the Post Sync discussion to share your thoughts, suggestions, and bug reports before December 1, 2025.

Feature

Config Sync now supports syncing from Secure Source Manager git repositories. For more information, see Grant access to Git.

Changed

Addressed multiple Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) by updating dependencies.

App Engine flexible environment Go

Feature

Support for Go 1.25 runtime is in General Availability (GA).

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

The following infrastructure is now integrated with Application Monitoring,
which is in public preview.

  • AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters and services
  • Bigtable clusters and services
  • Dataproc Metastore services
  • Cloud Deploy delivery pipelines
  • Firestore databases
  • Secret Manager secrets

To learn more, see
Application Monitoring overview
and
Supported infrastructure.

Cloud Run

Feature

Support for Go 1.25 runtime is in General Availability (GA).

Cloud Run functions

Feature

Support for Go 1.25 runtime is in General Availability (GA).

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Feature

You can save and manage SQL queries in Cloud SQL Studio. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Saved queries overview.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

You can save and manage SQL queries in Cloud SQL Studio. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Saved queries overview.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Feature

You can save and manage SQL queries in Cloud SQL Studio. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Saved queries overview.

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Feature

Vertex AI Agent Engine

Agent Engine now supports the following enterprise security features:

  • You can now deploy your agents in a private VPC environment, configuring a Private Service Connect interface, to ensure data privacy and meet security and compliance requirements. For more information, see Configure Private Service Connect interface.

  • You can now use your own customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to protect data at rest.

  • You can now specify customized resource controls, such as the minimum and maximum number of application instances, resource limits for each container, and concurrency for each container.

  • As a part of Vertex AI Platform, Vertex AI Agent Engine now supports HIPAA workloads.

For more information, see Agent Engine overview.

Looker Studio

Feature

Sort table charts by up to 10 fields

Report creators can now set up to sort 10 fields for table charts, including fields that are not selected in the chart.

Learn more about sorting table charts.

Feature

Looker connector respects LookML value_format property

When you’re using the Looker connector, value formats that you apply using the value_format LookML property will now be displayed in Looker Studio reports. You can
view and edit the value format as usual.

Note that the syntax for
conditional formatting using value_format
is not supported in Looker Studio.

Announcement

Partner connection launch update

The following partner connectors have been added to the Looker Studio Connector Gallery:

Vertex AI

Feature

Vertex AI Agent Engine

Agent Engine now supports the following enterprise security features:

  • You can now deploy your agents in a private VPC environment, configuring a Private Service Connect interface, to ensure data privacy and meet security and compliance requirements. For more information, see Configure Private Service Connect interface.

  • You can now use your own customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to protect data at rest.

  • You can now specify customized resource controls, such as the minimum and maximum number of application instances, resource limits for each container, and concurrency for each container.

  • As a part of Vertex AI Platform, Vertex AI Agent Engine now supports HIPAA workloads.

For more information, see Agent Engine overview.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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