GCP Release Notes: October 23, 2025

BigQuery

Feature

BigQuery is now offering early access to conversational analytics. Conversational analytics accelerates data analysis by enabling quick insights through natural language. Users can chat with their BigQuery data, create custom agents, and access those agents even outside of BigQuery. To enroll in conversational analytics early access, fill out the request form.

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

You can now use the Google Cloud CLI and the Cloud Monitoring API to list incidents and get incident details. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following pages:

• Incidents for metric-based alerting policies
• gcloud documentation
• API documentation

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

Cloud SQL now proactively detects and works to cancel high memory usage connections to prevent out-of-memory (OOM) failures. For more information, see Cancelled queries due to high memory usage.

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Feature

The following models are available through Model Garden:

• DeepSeek-OCR
• Qwen3-VL
• Earth AI

Looker

Feature

Conversational Analytics in Looker

The following features are available in Preview for use with Conversational Analytics in Looker instances that are running Looker 25.18 or later:

• Event and event attribute information is now available in System Activity Explores.
• A Conversational Analytics System Activity dashboard is now available to surface usage data for Conversational Analytics features in Looker, including the most popular data agents, the most popular Explores that are used in conversations, and the most active users.

Feature

Looker now supports cloning a public Git repository using an https:// URL. Looker does not support cloning Git repositories using git:// URLs.

Source: Google Cloud Platform