GCP Release Notes: April 28, 2026

GCP Release Notes: April 28, 2026

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Change

When the initial user or password is unspecified during cluster creation, a locked postgres role with null password is created.

BigQuery

Feature

You can now create materialized views over active change data capture (CDC) enabled tables. This feature is generally available (GA).

Cloud Asset Inventory

Feature

The following resource types are publicly available through the ExportAssets, ListAssets, BatchGetAssetsHistory, QueryAssets, Feed, SearchAllResources, and SearchAllIamPolicies APIs.

  • App Lifecycle Manager
    • saasservicemgmt.googleapis.com/Saas
    • saasservicemgmt.googleapis.com/Tenant
    • saasservicemgmt.googleapis.com/UnitKind
    • saasservicemgmt.googleapis.com/Unit
    • saasservicemgmt.googleapis.com/Release
  • Backup and DR
    • backupdr.googleapis.com/BackupPlanRevision
  • Parallelstore
    • parallelstore.googleapis.com/Instance
  • Vertex AI
    • aiplatform.googleapis.com/DeploymentResourcePool

Dataplex

Announcement

Dataproc and Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark are now unified under the Managed Service for Apache Spark brand. This change consolidates our managed Spark deployment options into a single umbrella brand that includes the full breadth of our Spark capabilities. No existing functionality is being removed as part of this change, and there is no impact to the Dataproc API, metastore, client library, CLI, or IAM names.

Gemini Enterprise

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Custom MCP server data stores (Preview)

You can connect your custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with Gemini Enterprise to securely access your company’s private data, custom internal tools, and MCP-compliant third-party systems.

This feature is turned off by default. To enable it, an Organization Policy Administrator must remove the organization constraint.

This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see:

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Feature

Improved transcription quality for Gemini Live API

You can now improve transcription quality for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) by using the [input/output]_audio_transcription.language_codes field.

For more information, see Enable audio transcription for the session.

Feature

Asynchronous function calling with Live API

Asynchronous function calling is now available in public preview in Gemini Live API. You can run functions in parallel with conversation, manage background processing, and handle function responses with policies including SILENT, WHEN_IDLE, and INTERRUPT. For more information, see Asynchronous function calling with Gemini Live API.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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