GCP Release Notes: May 25, 2026

Knowledge Catalog

Feature

Data products in Knowledge Catalog is Generally Available (GA). A data product serves as a logical, curated package of data assets and context designed to solve a specific business problem.

This release includes the following new features:

• Approval workflows for data product consumption: Data product consumers can browse published data products, submit access requests, and track their status. Data product owners can track, approve, or reject access requests using the Google Cloud Console or the API. For more information, see Use data products and Manage data products.

• Automated documentation and insights: Data product owners can leverage Knowledge Catalog data insights and Gemini to automatically generate sample queries, business insights, and documentation templates for data products. For more information, see Create data products.

• Service account support: Data product owners can configure service accounts in access groups, and data product consumers can request access for their service accounts. For more information, see Create data products.

• Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support (Preview) Data applications and AI agents can programmatically interact with data products. By deploying the Knowledge Catalog remote MCP server, developers can create data products, discover data products, and inspect data product metadata from external IDEs and LLM clients. For more information, see Access data products using Model Context Protocol.

Source: Google Cloud Platform