GCP Release Notes: May 12, 2026

GCP Release Notes: May 12, 2026

Apigee API hub

Feature

MCP tools support for Agentic AI workflows (Preview)

API hub now exposes read-only APIs as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. Agentic AI applications can now use the standard MCP tools/list and tools/call methods to list and inspect API hub resources, including APIs, specs, versions, and deployments.

This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see API hub MCP reference.

Apigee X

Announcement

On May 12th, 2026, we released an updated version of Apigee (1-17-0-apigee-7).

Security

Bug ID Description
511325186, 505460952, 502250074, 491231600, 497357701, 509560467, 496969438, 495897297, 495033618, 511332617, 505183435, 500735547, 500890221 Security fix for Apigee infrastructure.

This addresses the following vulnerabilities:

Fixed

Bug ID Description
480260846 Improved XML processing security to prevent external entity injection.
505723451 Fixed an issue where metadata could be shared across unrelated client sessions.
505645076 Fixed a security issue in OAuthV2 policy to prevent unauthorized token injection.
503723862 Fixed a security issue in OAuthV2 policy to prevent unauthorized token injection.
503047744, 410026138, 496021751 Improved security isolation for PythonScript policy execution.
469694040 Fixed an issue where custom security policies could intermittently fail to apply, and improved security policy resolution to ensure correct policy selection.
502971220 Fixed a concurrency issue in streaming response handling to improve stability under high load.
509692565 Fixed content-length header handling in external processing to prevent incorrect values.
282207038 Fixed inconsistent timeouts when querying apps by parallelizing credential lookup.
501102321 Fixed recurring fee calculation in monetization to correctly apply rate plan overrides.
494469747 Fixed content-length header to reflect actual response body size.
N/A Updates to infrastructure and libraries.

BigQuery

Feature

You can now use the AI.COUNT_TOKENS function to estimate the token count of text input that you provide. For some generative AI functions, you can view the total number of input, output, thought, and cache tokens for each modality processed by the query. These features are in Preview.

Buildpacks

Feature

The latest tag of generic builder uses the google-24 stack.

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Change

The command for upgrading Cloud SQL instances to the new network architecture has been re-enabled.

For more information, see Upgrade an instance to the new network architecture.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Change

The command for upgrading Cloud SQL instances to the new network architecture has been re-enabled.

For more information, see Upgrade an instance to the new network architecture.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Change

The command for upgrading Cloud SQL instances to the new network architecture has been re-enabled.

For more information, see Upgrade an instance to the new network architecture.

Compute Engine

Security

A vulnerability in AMD firmware (CVE-2025-61971, CVE-2025-61972, CVE-2024-36315) that could compromise SEV-SNP guests has been addressed. For more information, see the GCP-2026-031 security bulletin.

Security

A vulnerability (CVE-2025-54518) about potential corruption within the micro-operation (OP) cache in Zen 2 microarchitecture processors was discovered and has been addressed. For more information, see the GCP-2026-032 security bulletin.

SAP on Google Cloud

Announcement

BigQuery Connector for SAP version 2.14

Version 2.14 of the BigQuery Connector for SAP is generally available (GA). To protect configuration data, this version assigns the BigQuery Connector for SAP configuration tables to the custom authorization group ZSGC. You must ensure your user roles include authorization for this group to maintain access.

For more information, see What’s new with BigQuery Connector for SAP.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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