GCP Release Notes: April 10, 2026

BigQuery

Feature

SQL cells in BigQuery notebooks are now generally available (GA).

Cloud Load Balancing

Feature

Published service backends let you configure supported load balancers or regional Cloud Service Mesh to route traffic to published services through Private Service Connect endpoints.

For more information, see Published service backends.

This feature is in Preview.

Cloud Trace

Feature

Use Cloud Trace to troubleshoot your MCP server usage, tool failures, and latency causes. For more information, see Investigate MCP calls using Trace.

Colab Enterprise

Feature

SQL cells

Generally available: You can use SQL cells to write, edit, and run SQL queries directly from your Colab Enterprise notebooks. For more information, see Use SQL cells.

Dataplex

Announcement

Dataplex Universal Catalog is now called Knowledge Catalog. The API, client library, CLI, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) names remain unchanged.

Feature

The lightweight profiling mode for data profile scans is available in preview.

The lightweight mode provides low-latency profile scans that return results in seconds, making it ideal for grounding AI agent responses and interactive data exploration. For more information, see Profiling modes.

Service Extensions

Feature

When configuring extensions by using plugins or callouts, you can specify some request and connection attributes to forward to backend services. For more information, see supported attributes.

Virtual Private Cloud

Feature

Private Service Connect consumers can configure supported load balancers or regional Cloud Service Mesh to access published services through Private Service Connect endpoints. This feature is available in Preview.

For more information, see Published service backends.

Source: Google Cloud Platform