GCP Release Notes: September 22, 2025

BigQuery

Feature

You can now run federated queries against PostgreSQL dialect databases in Spanner using BigQuery external datasets with GoogleSQL; this includes cross-region federated queries. This feature is generally available (GA).

Libraries

Cloud Logging

Announcement

Cloud Logging has removed the quota for write requests per minute, which has been replaced by volume-based regional quotas. We’ve also removed the references to August dates for the removal of the old quota from the public documentation. For more information, see Logging API quotas and limits.

Compute Engine

Feature

Generally available: You can create and use Flex-start VMs. Flex-start VMs are virtual machine (VM) instances that can run for up to seven days, and that use the flex-start provisioning model. This model provisions resources from a secure pool of capacity, increasing your chances of obtaining high-demand resources like GPUs. These features make Flex-start VMs suitable for short-duration workloads that can start at any time, such as the following:

• Small model pre-training
• Model fine-tuning
• High performance computing (HPC) simulation
• Batch inference

You can create standalone Flex-start VMs, or add Flex-start VMs all at once to a managed instance group (MIG) by using resize requests. Based on the machine type that your Flex-start VMs use, you get discounts for vCPUs, memory, and any attached GPUs.

For more information, see About Flex-start VMs.

Config Connector

Announcement

Config Connector version 1.135.0 is now available.

Changed

New Beta Resources (Direct Reconciler):

• AssetSavedQuery
• PubSubSnapshot

Changed

Modified Beta Reconciliation: We migrated the following resources from the Terraform-based or DCL-based controller to the new Direct Controller.

• VMWareEngineExternalAddress

Feature

New Fields:

• AlloyDBCluster
  • Added spec.databaseVersion field

Fixed

Bug Fixes:

• PR#5009 Fix the nil pointer dereference error in AlloyDB direct controller

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Feature

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is available through Model Garden.

Sensitive Data Protection

Feature

The DOCUMENT_TYPE/FINANCE/INVOICE and DOCUMENT_TYPE/MEDICAL/RECORD infoType detectors are available in global and the asia, europe, and us multi-regions. For more information about all infoTypes, see InfoType detector reference.

Spanner

Feature

You can now run federated queries against PostgreSQL dialect databases in Spanner using BigQuery external datasets using GoogleSQL; this includes cross-region federated queries. This feature is generally available (GA).

Libraries

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Vertex AI

Feature

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is available through Model Garden.

Source: Google Cloud Platform