GCP Release Notes: October 06, 2025

Access Transparency

Feature

Vertex AI Agent Engine is generally available (GA).

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Feature

AlloyDB supports the tds_fdw extension, which provides a foreign data wrapper for accessing databases—such as Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase—that use the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol. For more information, see Supported database extensions. This feature is generally available (GA).

Assured Workloads

Feature

Vertex AI Agent Engine is generally available (GA).

BigQuery

Feature

The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SHARED_DATASET_USAGE view now includes the following schema fields to support usage metrics for external tables and routines:

• shared_resource_id: the ID of the queried resource
• shared_resource_type: the type of the queried resource
• referenced_tables: Contains project_id, dataset_id, table_id, and processed_bytes fields of the base table.

These fields are generally available (GA).

Feature

The BigQuery Data Transfer Service can now transfer reporting data from Google Analytics 4 into BigQuery. You can also include custom reports from Google Analytics 4 in your data transfer. This feature is generally available (GA).

Feature

The BigQuery Data Transfer Service can now transfer data from the following data sources:

• PayPal
• Stripe

Transfers from these data sources are supported in preview.

Feature

You can now set the priority of BigQuery jobs initiated by Dataform workflows to run queries as interactive jobs that start running as quickly as possible or as batch jobs with lower priority. For more information, see Create a pipeline schedule and InvocationConfig. This feature is generally available (GA).

Announcement

Starting March 17, 2026, the BigQuery Data Transfer Service will require the bigquery.datasets.setIamPolicy and the bigquery.datasets.getIamPolicy permissions on the target dataset to create or update a transfer configuration. For more information, see Changes to dataset-level access controls.

Cloud Load Balancing

Feature

Percentage-based request mirroring is now supported for the global and regional external Application Load Balancers (classic is not supported). By default, the mirrored backend service receives all requests, even if the original traffic is being split between multiple weighted backend services. You can now configure the mirrored backend service to receive only a percentage of the requests by using the mirrorPercent flag to specify the percentage of requests to be mirrored, expressed as a value between 0 and 100.0.

For an example, see Set up traffic management for regional external Application Load Balancers.

This feature is available in General availability.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

You can now assess the upgrade readiness of your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances before a major version upgrade by running a precheck. This precheck either confirms your instance can be upgraded, or lists issues and their solutions that need to be fixed prior to upgrading. For more information, see Assess upgrade readiness for your instance.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Feature

You can now use advanced disaster recovery (DR) for your Private Service Connect (PSC) enabled Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition instances. With advanced DR, you can:

• Designate a cross-region disaster recovery (DR) replica
• Perform a cross-region replica failover for disaster recovery
• Restore your original deployment by using zero-data loss switchover

You can also use switchover to simulate disaster recovery without data loss. For more information, see Use advanced disaster recovery (DR). This feature is generally available (GA).

Dataform

Feature

You can now use custom constraints with Organization Policy to provide more granular control over specific fields for some Dataform resources. For more information, see Create custom organization policy constraints. This feature is generally available (GA).

Feature

You can now set the priority of BigQuery jobs in Dataform to run queries as interactive jobs that start running as quickly as possible or as batch jobs with lower priority. For more information, see Create a workflow configuration and InvocationConfig. This feature is generally available (GA).

Document AI

Feature

Custom extractor model pretrained-foundation-model-v1.5.1-2025-08-07 with improved adaptive few-shot learning is available as Release Candidate (Preview).

Google SecOps

Feature

Advanced BigQuery Export

This feature is in preview.

This feature is available for Google SecOps Enterprise Plus customers only.

Advanced BigQuery Export automatically provisions and manages essential Google SecOps datasets in a secure, Google-managed BigQuery project. You gain secure, read-only access to this data through a BigQuery linked dataset, which appears directly in your own Google Cloud project. This functionality lets you query your security data as if it were stored locally, but without the overhead of managing the data pipeline or storage.

For details, see Use Advanced BigQuery Export.

Google SecOps SIEM

Feature

Advanced BigQuery Export

This feature is in preview.

This feature is available for Google SecOps Enterprise Plus customers only.

Advanced BigQuery Export automatically provisions and manages essential Google SecOps datasets in a secure, Google-managed BigQuery project. You gain secure, read-only access to this data through a BigQuery linked dataset, which appears directly in your own Google Cloud project. This functionality lets you query your security data as if it were stored locally, but without the overhead of managing the data pipeline or storage.

For details, see Use Advanced BigQuery Export.

Looker

Announcement

Looker 25.18 is expected to include the following changes, features, and fixes:

• Expected Looker (original) deployment start: Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• Expected Looker (original) final deployment and download available: Thursday, October 16, 2025

• Expected Looker (Google Cloud core) deployment start: Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• Expected Looker (Google Cloud core) final deployment: Monday, October 20, 2025

Feature

You can now set the Auto Resize Value setting on single value visualizations. This setting has no effect if the Smart Single Value Text Size setting is enabled on the Admin > General Settings page.

Feature

The Athena JDBC driver version has been upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.2.2. The Athena JDBC driver is used for connections to Amazon Athena.

Feature

Looker admins can no longer create or edit individual users’ API keys. Instead, from the Admin > Users page, admins can enable users to manage their own API keys. Once a user has API key management enabled, they can create, view, edit, and delete their API keys from their Looker account page.

Fixed

Looker 25.18 contains the following accessibility improvements:

• You can navigate drill menus by using a keyboard.

• When you select a button toggle with a keyboard, the focus ring uses more contrasting colors.

• You can switch button toggles on or off by using the Enter key.

• When you use a keyboard to select a Look, dashboard, or folder that’s inside a folder, a focus ring will appear around the selected item.

• You can now use a keyboard to edit boards.

• You can now use the keyboard to access LookML field definitions in the field picker.

• The Alerts dialog is now compatible with screen readers.

• The Series tab of the visualization editor is now compatible with screen readers.

• Tile notes are now added to ARIA descriptions.

• Actions for pivot columns are now accessible with a keyboard.

• The color contrast has been improved on large text boxes such as the custom filter editor.

• The options in the visualization settings panel now have names that can be read by screen readers.

• The state of expanded dialogs on the Explore page, such as the field picker and visualization settings panel, can now be read by screen readers.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where, when dashboard filters were updated, column widths could resize on table visualizations that included pivoted values. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where non-string values that were entered in the expression element of the dynamic_fields section of a LookML dashboard could cause the LookML validator to crash. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where subtotal values could display incorrect values after a filter was added or updated. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where, when dashboard filters were updated, table visualizations could get incorrectly cropped to exclude the Total row and scroll bar. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where the Collapse Subtotal toggle wasn’t collapsing subtotals on table visualizations. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where the maximum column limit warning could obscure the contents of a visualization. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where users couldn’t sort tables that included pivoted values. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

LookML dashboards that aren’t deployed to production can no longer be moved into folders other than the LookML Dashboards folder.

Fixed

LookML project parse errors now include the LookML file path as well as the line number of the error.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where Databricks connections that used OAuth could not be saved if the password field was blank. You can now use OAuth without entering a password on the connections page.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where users were sometimes unable to add line breaks to table calculations. This feature now performs as expected.

Fixed

An issue has been fixed where certain countries would not be displayed when a custom TopoJSON file was used. The following country names are now supported:

• Czechia for Czech Republic
• Eswatini for Swaziland
• Brunei Darussalam for Brunei
• North Macedonia for Macedonia
• Timor-Leste for East Timor

Feature

The Prerender iframes for custom visualizations feature is now out of Labs and generally available on the Admin > Content Guardrails page.

Feature

The Smart single value text size feature is now out of Labs and generally available on the Admin > General Settings page.

Feature

The API endpoint search_lookml_dashboards is now out of Labs and generally available. This endpoint is similar to the search_dashboards endpoint except that it searches LookML dashboards instead of user-defined dashboards.

Feature

The Data History Playback Labs feature is is now out of Labs and generally available on the Admin > Settings page.

Feature

The Reduce Filter Queries Labs feature is now is now out of Labs and generally available on the Admin > Settings page.

Feature

The Prerender iframes for custom visualizations feature is now generally available on the Admin > Content Guardrails page.

Feature

The Smart single value text size feature is now generally available on the Admin > General Settings page.

Feature

The API endpoint search_lookml_dashboards is now generally available. This endpoint is similar to the search_dashboards endpoint except that it searches LookML dashboards instead of user-defined dashboards.

Feature

The Data History Playback feature is now generally available on the Admin > Settings page.

Feature

The Reduce Filter Queries feature is now generally available on the Admin > Settings page

Source: Google Cloud Platform