GCP Release Notes: January 21, 2026

GCP Release Notes: January 21, 2026

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Issue

Automatic IAM authentication is unavailable when you use managed connection pooling with the AlloyDB Auth Proxy and Language Connectors. To sign into your database without a password, use manual IAM authentication. For more information, see Connect using an IAM account

Apigee X

Security

Bug ID Description
471001896, 469829527, 470953822, 462478248, 474415498 Security fix for Apigee infrastructure.

This addresses the following vulnerabilities:

Fixed

Bug ID Description
433999957 Implemented full TLS validation when fetching JWKS from remote URIs
467762922 Quota enforcement logic for Server-Sent Events (SSE) updated

Quotas for SSE are now calculated strictly for events containing explicit token counts. The quota enforcement logic skips SSE that lack token usage metadata.

N/A Updates to security, infrastructure, and libraries.

Announcement

On January 21st, 2026, we released an updated version of Apigee (1-17-0-apigee-1).

Artifact Registry

Feature

Artifact Registry is available in the asia-southeast3 region (Bangkok). For more information, see Global locations.

BigQuery

Feature

You can now use Gemini Cloud Assist to get information about your job history, such as why a particular query was slow or which queries were the most resource-intensive in the past day. This feature is in Preview.

Change

BigQuery is now available in the Bangkok (asia-southeast3) region.

Bigtable

Feature

Bigtable is available in the asia-southeast3 (Bangkok) region. For more information, see Bigtable locations.

Cloud Billing

Feature

CUD recommendations support more machine types

Resource-based CUD recommendations for cores and RAM now support additional machine series. For a complete list, see Resource-based CUDs supported by recommendations.

You can access these recommendations using the FinOps hub user interface, programmatically using the Recommender API, or when you export recommendations to BigQuery.

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

Your Application Monitoring dashboards now display the trace spans that are associated with your registered App Hub applications. The display includes annotations that let you identify services and workloads. You can also open the Trace Explorer page from your Application Monitoring dashboards. To learn more, see the following documents:

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Change

Cloud SQL for MySQL 8.0.43 is now the default minor version of Cloud SQL for MySQL 8.0.

If you have automatic minor version upgrade enabled for your instance, then your instance is upgraded to the default minor version automatically during its regularly scheduled maintenance update.

For more information about automatic minor version upgrade, see Upgrade the database minor version of MySQL 8.0.

Cloud Storage

Feature

Bucket relocation with write downtime now supports completed multipart uploads. If a multipart upload is started before relocation begins and is completed before the final synchronization step, the objects are successfully relocated. In-progress multipart uploads continue to block the final synchronization step until they are either completed or cancelled. For more information, see Bucket relocation overview.

Google SecOps Marketplace

Feature

New Azure API integration

Feature

Okta: Version 13.0

  • The following new action has been added:

    • Clear Okta User Session

Change

Azure Active Directory: Version 21.0

  • Updated the JSON result example of the following action:

    • List Members in The Group
  • Added more metadata to the JSON result example of the following action:

    • List Groups

Change

Google Cloud API: Version 7.0

  • Updated Expected Response Values description in the following action:

    • Execute HTTP Request

Change

Google Chronicle: Version 73.0

  • Updated the processing of queries in the following action:

    • Execute UDM Query

Change

QRadar: Version 62.0

  • Updated the event processing logic of the following connector:

    • QRadar Correlations Connector V2

Change

Microsoft 365 Defender: Version 22.0

  • Updated the tracking logic for alerts in the following connector:

    • Microsoft 365 Defender – Incidents Connector

Change

HTTP v2: Version 12.0

  • Updated Expected Response Values description in the following action:

    • Execute HTTP Request

Change

Netskope: Version 14.0

  • Refactored the following action:

    • Ping

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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