GCP Release Notes: October 20, 2025

App Engine flexible environment Go

Feature

Support for TLS version 1.2 and later, along with a corresponding secure set of cipher suites, is in General Availability (GA).

App Engine flexible environment PHP

Feature

Support for TLS version 1.2 and later, along with a corresponding secure set of cipher suites, is in General Availability (GA).

BigQuery

Feature

You can now use visualization cells to automatically generate a visualization of any DataFrame in your notebook. You can customize the columns, chart type, aggregations, colors , labels, and title.

This feature is in Preview.

Feature

In BigQuery ML, you can now fully manage open models as Vertex AI endpoints. BigQuery-managed open models offer the following benefits:

• Manage Vertex AI resource by using SQL queries
• Automatic or immediate open model undeployment to save costs
• Customize model deployment machine types or reserve open model resources by using Compute Engine reservations

This feature is in Preview.

Cloud Run

Feature

Direct VPC egress now supports VPC Flow Logs (Preview).

Colab Enterprise

Feature

Visualization cells

Preview: You can use visualization cells to generate interactive and editable visualizations from within a Colab Enterprise notebook. You can configure the chart type, aggregation, colors, labels, and other aspects of the visualization to help you explore data and discover insights. For more information, see Use visualization cells.

Compute Engine

Feature

Version 20251009.01 of the guest agent, which introduces the plugin-based architecture to Windows, is now available.

For more information about the plugin-based architecture, see Guest agent.

Security

A vulnerability affecting AMD Zen 5 processors (Turin) was discovered and is being addressed. For more information, see the GCP-2025-058 security bulletin.

Feature

Generally Available: The G4 accelerator-optimized machine series is designed for graphics-intensive workloads such as NVIDIA Omniverse simulations, video transcoding, and virtual desktops. The G4 machine series also provides a cost-effective solution for single-host inference and model tuning. The G4 machine series is now available in the following regions and zones:

• APAC
  • Jurong West, Singapore: asia-southeast1-b
• Europe:
  • Eemshaven, Netherlands: europe-west4-a
• North America
  • Council Bluffs, Iowa: us-central1-b
  • Ashburn, Virginia: us-east4-c
  • Columbus, Ohio: us-east5-c

To get started with G4 machine types, see Create a G2 or G4 instance.

Confidential VM

Security

A vulnerability affecting AMD Zen 5 processors (Turin) was discovered and is being addressed. For more information, see the GCP-2025-058 security bulletin.

Guest Environment

Feature

Version 20251009.01 of the guest agent, which introduces the plugin-based architecture to Windows, is now available.

For more information about the plugin-based architecture, see Guest agent.

Security Command Center

Feature

Container image vulnerability findings has been released to General Availability.

Virtual Private Cloud

Feature

VPC Flow Logs supports logging for Cloud Run resources that are configured with Direct VPC egress. This feature is available in General Availability.

For more information, see Serverless flows and ServerlessDetails field format.

Source: Google Cloud Platform