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Google Cloud, July 2026 new features

76 releases · 8 products · 20 GA · 26 Preview · 7 Deprecation

Jun 2026Aug 2026
DateRelease
Jul 30Deprecation announcement
Gemini APIDeprecation
Jul 30Gemini Robotics ER 2 in public preview
Gemini APIPreview
Jul 30Localization is now supported for the dimension_group parameter
LookerUpdate
Jul 30Looker 26.12 features auto-enable on Looker (original), July 27 to 30, 2026
LookerUpdate
Jul 30Looker Continuous Integration (CI) now supports email alerts
LookerUpdate
Jul 30Looker Insight Assistant explains the data and fields behind responses
LookerUpdate
Jul 30Looker LookML Projects page adds Models, Pending and Marketplace tabs
LookerUpdate
Jul 30Looker Modern visualization theme and dashboard style in preview
LookerPreview
Jul 30Looker adds option to require MFA for password logins
LookerUpdate
Jul 30Looker data agents in Gemini Enterprise now answer with charts
LookerUpdate
Jul 30Looker verified queries for Explore data agents enter preview
LookerPreview
Jul 30The Enhanced search feature is now generally available
LookerGA
Jul 30The Expression Assistant is now generally available
LookerGA
Jul 30The New Looker Explore and Merge Query Experience preview feature is now enabled by default
LookerPreview
Jul 30The custom calendar feature is now generally available
LookerGA
Jul 30You can add tables, views, data sources, and data quality tests as tasks to BigQuery pipelines
BigQueryGA
Jul 30You can audit when users download query results by using the BigQuery console
BigQueryGA
Jul 29BigQuery Data Transfer Service adds incremental Klaviyo transfers in preview
BigQueryPreview
Jul 29Gemini Enterprise: New data stores and support for new actions (Preview)
Gemini EnterprisePreview
Jul 28Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters
AlloyDBPreview
Jul 28Spanner supports creating tables without defining primary keys
SpannerUpdate
Jul 27AlloyDB now supports cross-region failover in Preview
AlloyDBPreview
Jul 27AlloyDB write endpoints are now available in Preview
AlloyDBPreview
Jul 27BigQuery APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions are GA
BigQueryGA
Jul 27BigQuery dataset insights is generally available (GA)
BigQueryGA
Jul 27BigQuery renames insertAll to Storage Write API (REST)
BigQueryUpdate
Jul 27External search with AlloyDB now supports OpenSearch in Preview
AlloyDBPreview
Jul 27Google-developed ODBC driver for BigQuery is generally available
BigQueryGA
Jul 27You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter
BigQueryGA
Jul 24Anthropic's Claude Opus 5
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformUpdate
Jul 24Knowledge Catalog governance workflows for data product access in preview
Dataplex Universal CatalogPreview
Jul 23An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available
BigQueryUpdate
Jul 23Transparent query forwarding is now available in Preview for clusters compatible with PostgreSQL 17 and 18
AlloyDBPreview
Jul 21As of July 13, 2026, Looker reports have been deprecated
LookerDeprecation
Jul 21CodeMender available in Public Preview
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformPreview
Jul 21CodeMender is available in Public Preview
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformPreview
Jul 21Deprecated parameters
Gemini APIDeprecation
Jul 21Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite are generally available (GA)
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformGA
Jul 21Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite generally available (GA)
Gemini APIGA
Jul 21Open model endpoint deprecations
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformDeprecation
Jul 20Lakehouse : Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in Preview
BigQueryPreview
Jul 17Data lineage ingestion control is GA for BigQuery, Spark and Airflow
Dataplex Universal CatalogGA
Jul 17Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview and 3 Pro Image Preview are retired
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformDeprecation
Jul 17Looker admins can stop running queries in bulk
LookerUpdate
Jul 17Starting in Looker 26.8, Looker supports Java OpenJDK version 21
LookerUpdate
Jul 15BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking
BigQueryPreview
Jul 15Memory Bank memory profiles are generally available (GA)
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformGA
Jul 14As part of Gemini in BigQuery , conversational analytics now supports HIPAA compliance
BigQueryUpdate
Jul 14Conversational analytics now supports the AI.AGG function
BigQueryPreview
Jul 13BigQuery Apache Iceberg managed tables get partitioning and transactions GA
BigQueryGA
Jul 13BigQuery Data Transfer Service incremental Salesforce transfers are GA
BigQueryGA
Jul 13BigQuery Migration Service MCP server for SQL translation is GA
BigQueryGA
Jul 13BigQuery Overview page is generally available
BigQueryGA
Jul 13BigQuery project caps limit slots and concurrency per project in preview
BigQueryPreview
Jul 13Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports Snowflake as a remote catalog provider (Preview)
BigQueryPreview
Jul 13Looker 26.12 begins rolling out to Rapid and No Channel release channels
LookerUpdate
Jul 13You can now use the ALTER SEARCH INDEX DDL statement to update the configuration of a search index
BigQueryPreview
Jul 9Knowledge Catalog adds SQL Server and PostgreSQL connectors in preview
Dataplex Universal CatalogPreview
Jul 9Looker (Google Cloud core) now supports FIPS 140-3 level 1 compliance
LookerUpdate
Jul 9Looker 26.12
LookerUpdate
Jul 9Looker CI Run Alert emails now include the Run ID in the subject line to prevent email threading
LookerUpdate
Jul 9Looker Table Row Grouping for table charts enters preview
LookerPreview
Jul 9Retirement for preview models for 2.5 Flash, 2.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.1 Flash-Lite
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformDeprecation
Jul 9The Increased Row Limit feature is now out of labs and generally available
LookerGA
Jul 9The KPI Visualization preview feature is now enabled by default
LookerPreview
Jul 8External search with AlloyDB now supports Apache Solr in Preview
AlloyDBPreview
Jul 8Grok 4.1 models deprecation
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformDeprecation
Jul 8Memory Bank IngestEvents is generally available (GA)
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformGA
Jul 8Memory Bank support for Gemini Embedding 2
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformUpdate
Jul 7Deleted Looker (Google Cloud core) instances go to trash for seven days
LookerUpdate
Jul 6AlphaGenome released for Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformUpdate
Jul 6Gemini API developer logs now cover the Interactions API
Gemini APIUpdate
Jul 6You can use Gemini in Spanner Studio to fix errors in your SQL queries
SpannerPreview
Jul 1Looker (Google Cloud core) release channels enter preview
LookerPreview
Jul 1Looker 26.10 rolls out to all Google Cloud core release channels
LookerUpdate
Jul 1Provisioned Throughput: Multiple pending new orders GA
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformGA

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