GCP Release Notes: October 07, 2025

BigQuery

Announcement

As of February 25, 2025, enhancements to the workload management autoscaler that were announced on July 31, 2024 have rolled out to all users. These enhancements are generally available (GA).

Bigtable

Feature

The Cassandra-Bigtable proxy adapter, which lets you connect your Apache Cassandra-based applications to Bigtable, is generally available (GA).

Feature

You can connect to Bigtable from Java applications and other reporting tools that support a generic JDBC adapter by using the Bigtable JDBC driver. This feature is available in Preview.

Cloud CDN

Feature

Cloud CDN provides predefined dashboards that are enabled by default for a quick insight into system health and performance. These dashboards display key metrics that enable you to monitor traffic distribution and cache effectiveness without manual configuration. This feature is Generally Available.

For more information, see Predefined dashboards.

Cloud Run functions

Feature

Cloud Run functions (1st gen) supports the Node.js 22 runtime at the General Availability release level.

Colab Enterprise

Feature

Post-startup scripts

Preview: You can use a post-startup script to perform tasks after the startup process of your Colab Enterprise runtime. For example, you can use a post-startup script to install specific packages or make specific changes to your runtime’s VM. For more information, see Use a post-startup script.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Feature

Starting with GKE version 1.33.2-gke.1240000 and later, you can specify the network tier (Standard or Premium) for ephemeral IP addresses used by the gke-l7-regional-external-managed-mc GatewayClass. For more information, see Configure Network Tier.

Security Command Center

Changed

Google Cloud console pages for all Security Command Center tiers have been enhanced.

• The following changes were made to all service tiers—Standard, Premium, and Enterprise:

  • You can refresh findings in the Finding query results panel.
  • The JSON tab on the detail pane of the Findings page displays the raw findings JSON object, making it compatible with APIs.
  • Autocompletion of a query in the Findings page query editor is improved.
  • The Findings > Quick filters panel shows default values if there is an error fetching results.
  • The Findings > Quick filters panel shows separate State and Mute filter sections.

• The following changes were made to the Enterprise service tier:

  • Added support for the Vulnerabilities page.
  • Added support for security marks.
  • Added support for the Threats dashboard on the Risk overview page.
  • The finding detail panel on the Issues page is updated. Open the panel using the View details button when viewing a toxic combination issue type.
  • Additional query operators and query functions are available.
  • The opt-out banner is no longer available.

Source: Google Cloud Platform