GCP Release Notes: April 15, 2026

BigQuery

Feature

BigQuery agent analytics is now generally available (GA) in the Google Agent Developer Kit. BigQuery agent analytics is an open source solution that lets you capture, analyze, and visualize multimodal agent interaction data at scale.

Announcement

A known issue has been resolved where a materialized view refresh could expose could expose masked or filtered data from fine grained access control policies in error messages. No further action is needed.

Feature

You can now use EXPORT DATA statements to reverse ETL BigQuery data to AlloyDB. This feature is in Preview.

Bigtable

Feature

Dataplex Universal Catalog is now called Knowledge Catalog. The API, client library, CLI, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) names remain unchanged. For more information about how Bigtable metadata interacts with Knowledge Catalog, see Manage data assets using Knowledge Catalog.

Cloud Composer

Announcement

To more strongly embrace the success and growing customer preference for OSS solutions, Cloud Composer is evolving to become Managed Service for Apache Airflow. This name change provides improved customer understanding of our portfolio while reinforcing our commitment to being the most open cloud ecosystem.

Feature

Airflow 3 is now generally available (GA) in Cloud Composer 3.

Feature

Cloud Composer remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is available in Preview.

You can use Cloud Composer remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to connect to Cloud Composer from AI applications such as Gemini CLI, ChatGPT, Claude, or in AI applications that you’re developing. The Cloud Composer MCP server lets you manage Cloud Composer environments and get details about executed DAG runs and Airflow tasks.

Cloud Run

Feature

The Cloud Run remote MCP server, which lets agents and AI applications deploy with Cloud Run, is in General Availability (GA).

Cloud Trace

Feature

Your trace data can be encrypted with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK). To enable CMEK, set a default storage location and for that location, set a default Cloud Key Management Service key.

You can set these defaults for an organization, a folder, or a project. When set for an organization or folder, the settings apply to that resource and to its descendants. For more information, see Set defaults for observability buckets.

Feature

When you configure a default storage location, you control the location of your new observability buckets. These buckets store your trace data.

You can set a default storage location for an organization, a folder, or a project. When set for an organization or folder, the setting applies to that resource and to its descendants. For more information, see Set defaults for observability buckets.

Compute Engine

Announcement

You can view the physical location of your Compute Engine instances in a zone to understand your cluster topology. This information helps you reduce network latency between your compute instances. For more information, see View Compute Engine instance topology.

Feature

Generally available: You can control the physical location of the Compute Engine instances in a MIG by using workload policies. Workload policies help you to, for example, place your compute instances close together to minimize network latency when running AI or ML workloads. For more information, see About workload policies in MIGs.

Gemini Enterprise

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Use Gemini Enterprise Admin and Gemini Enterprise User IAM roles

Use the Gemini Enterprise Admin and Gemini Enterprise User roles.

The Gemini Enterprise Admin and Gemini Enterprise User roles still map to the Discovery Engine admin and user roles, so existing customers do not need to make any changes.

For more information, see IAM roles and permissions.

Google SecOps

Announcement

Unified and upgraded Chronicle API

Chronicle API has been unified with API resources from legacy SOAR API. In addition, we’ve upgraded the following Chronicle API resources from alpha to beta. This upgrade signals API stability and functional completeness, enabling customer and partner adoption for production usage. We recommend customers use Chronicle API for a more robust, secure, and extensible experience. Learn more about API Stability.

Feature	Chronicle API Resources upgraded to v1 Beta
Alerts and ATIs, UEBA	ThreatCollection, IoC, CoverageDetail, EntityRisk
Dashboards	NativeDashboard, DashboardChart, DashboardQuery, FeaturedContentNativeDashboard
Data Tables	DataTable, DataTableRow, DataTableOperationError
Ingestion	Logs, Feed, LogTypeSchema, FeedSourceSchema, FeedPack, Forwarder, Collector
Normalization	Logtype, Parser, IngestionLogLabel
Detections	FindingsRefinement, VerifyRuleText, FeaturedContentRule, RuleExecutionError
Search & Investigation	Event, Entity, SearchQuery, SavedColumnSet
Exports	BigQueryExportService
Enrichment Controls	EnrichmentControl, EnrichmentCombination
SOAR	Case, CaseAlert, CaseStageDefinition, CaseTagDefinition, CaseQueueFilter, CaseCloseDefinition, ConnectorEvent, CustomFieldValue, ContextProperty, InvolvedEntity, Task, Webhook CaseComment, CaseWallRecord, ChatMessage, View, VisualFamily, ChatMessages.attachment, CustomFieldValues, ContentPack, SocRole, EmailTemplate, DynamicParameter, EntitiesBlocklist, Environment, EnvironmentGroup, Integration, Integrationaction, UserNotification, Integrationactionrevision, Connector, ConnectorInstance, RemoteAgent, Connectorlog, Connectorrevision, IntegrationInstance, UniqueEntity, Integrationsjob, JobInstance, JobInstances.log, Jobs.revision, Integrationmanager, Integrationmanagerrevision, AlertGroupingRule, Announcement, Attachment, CustomList, FormDynamicParameter, LabsExperiment, MarketplaceIntegration, ModuleSetting, SlaDefinition, NotificationSetting, PropertySchemaDefinition, RequestTemplate, SoarDomain, SoarNetwork, WorkdeskLink, SystemNotification, WorkdeskContact, WorkdeskNote, LegacySoarUsers.localization.

Looker

Breaking

Migrate your Teams webhook to “Workflows”

Microsoft is retiring the legacy Office 365 Connectors in favor of Power Automate Workflows. Connectors will stop working by the end of April 2026. To ensure that your Looker alerts continue to deliver to Teams, you must replace your current webhook URL with a new “Workflow” URL. For more information, see the Migrate your Teams webhook to “Workflows” Best Practices notice.

Memorystore for Valkey

Feature

Memorystore for Valkey has new node types that you can select for your instances. This feature is Generally Available.

Security Command Center

Change

When you activate Security Command Center Standard or Premium tier for a project, several services are automatically enabled and service-specific service agents are provisioned with the required IAM roles and permissions.

For more information, see Activate for a project when Security Command Center is not active in the organization.

Source: Google Cloud Platform