Gemini Enterprise: New data stores (Preview)
The following data stores are available in Gemini Enterprise: D&B Finance Analytics Omni Analytics Zapier These data stores are in Public Preview. For more information, see Connect a third-party data source .
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (Preview)
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are available in Preview on the global endpoint. The models support structured speaker and style metadata, inline vocal tags, multi-speaker dialogue, streaming, voice design , and voice replication . For more information, see Generate speech with Gemini TTS .
Semantic governance policies support VPC Service Controls (Preview)
Semantic governance policy and the Semantic governance policy engine support VPC Service Controls in Preview . You can include Semantic governance policy and the policy engine in your service perimeter to help mitigate the risk of data exfiltration when governing agent tool calls.
GKE Standard clusters now support up to 512 maximum Pods per node, an increase from the previous limit of 256
GKE Standard clusters now support up to 512 maximum Pods per node, an increase from the previous limit of 256. Nodes configured for 257 to 512 Pods will now be allocated a /22 Pod CIDR block (1,024 IP addresses).
Gemini 3.8 Live
Gemini 3.8 Live is generally available. This release introduces improvements in voice quality, model reliability, and agent orchestration. For more information, see the following: Gemini 3.8 Live Gemini Live API overview
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash enabled by default
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available (GA) and enabled by default in the Gemini Enterprise app in the global , us , and eu regions. Gemini Enterprise administrators can use the Gemini 3.8 Flash toggle in feature management to turn off the model for their users, or turn it on for unsupported in-country regions by confirming the warning dialog to route...
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.36.4-gke.1391000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
Gemini CLI Release v0.61.0
- Changelog for v0.60.0-preview.0 chore(release): bump version to 0.61.0-nightly.20260908.gc647533d6 Changelog for v0.59.0 fix(core): preserve explicit versioned Flash model IDs fix(core): prevent indirect prompt injection via build file modifications and untrusted flags fix(sandbox): harden filesystem boundaries and isolate runtime state fix(core): ensure...
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) : Released our next-generation
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) : Released our next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) audio models and the Gemini API Voices endpoint (/v1beta/voices): Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (gemini-3.8-flash-tts): Flagship creative TTS model engineered for studio-grade voice fidelity, nuanced acting, regional dialects, and long-form...
BigQuery Studio query results pane shows recent run history
The Query results pane now shows a short history of recent runs for a query, including multi-statement queries, without switching to the Job history tab. It is generally available.
xAI's Grok 4.6 is generally available
Grok 4.6 is now generally available (GA) and available for production use on the global endpoint and the US multi-region endpoint.
Antigravity Agent 09-2026
Released antigravity-preview-09-2026, which replaces and deprecates antigravity-preview-05-2026. If you run on a remote sandbox (environment: "remote") and read only output_text or model_output steps, update the agent string and nothing else changes. If you run tools locally (local_environment) or parse function_call steps, the built-in tools changed.
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber available in allowlisted GA
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is a post-training version of the Gemini 3.8 Flash model tailored specifically for cybersecurity use cases. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is available in GA behind an allowlist. For more information, see Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber .
BigQuery migration lineage service enters preview
The migration lineage service visualizes data flow and connections in a source database to help plan a BigQuery data warehouse migration.
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are generally available
Two new audio-to-audio Live API models target real-time voice apps: gemini-3.8-live for low-latency dialogue with asynchronous function calling, and gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking for high-reasoning voice use cases.
Reinforcement learning fine-tuning in the Google Cloud console (Preview)
You can create, monitor, and test reinforcement learning fine-tuning jobs for Gemini models in the Google Cloud console ( Preview ). From the Models > Tuning page, you can configure Python code or model-based reward functions, test reward logic against sample prompts before launching a job, track training and evaluation metrics in real time, and test tuned...
Beginning April 12, 2027, you won't be able to create new instances of Cloud SQL for SQL Server 2017
Beginning April 12, 2027, you won't be able to create new instances of Cloud SQL for SQL Server 2017. Starting on October 13, 2027, SQL Server 2017 will reach end of life (EOL) and Microsoft will stop releasing security updates . Cloud SQL for SQL Server will stop supporting SQL Server 2017 after this date.
Agent Substrate on GKE is now available for evaluation and non-production use
Agent Substrate on GKE is now available for evaluation and non-production use. Production support is offered on an allowlist basis under a limited GA program. Agent Substrate runs agentic workloads at scale on GKE clusters. To reduce resource usage, Agent Substrate suspends idle agents and takes a snapshot of the agent's active memory (RAM) and local files.
AlloyDB audit log pipeline status available in Cloud Monitoring
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instances and nodes now expose the status, throughput and backlog of the audit logging pipeline in Cloud Monitoring.
Spanner Graph adds semantic options and key uniqueness validation
CREATE PROPERTY GRAPH can set description and synonyms options on labels and properties to help natural language query interfaces, and a validate_element_key_uniqueness option controls validation at schema creation.
Appending sqlcommenter tags using the sql_commenter_enabled parameter when executing SQL queries on a Cloud...
Appending sqlcommenter tags using the sql_commenter_enabled parameter when executing SQL queries on a Cloud SQL remote MCP server is temporarily disabled. For more information, see sqlcommenter tags . Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Computer Use and Shell sandboxes are generally available
Computer Use and Shell sandboxes in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform are now generally available (GA). This release also includes the following new features for Agent Platform sandboxes: Shell sandboxes : Run untrusted shell commands, install packages, and manipulate files in an isolated Linux container using direct API /exec calls.
Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function
Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function . This feature is in Preview .
Knowledge Catalog data domains enter preview
Data domains logically organize resources across an enterprise so teams can discover and curate data at scale.
New features in 1.37
- The PodCertificateRequest and ClusterTrustBundle APIs are generally available and promoted to certificates.k8s.io/v1. DRA device metadata publishing is enabled with beta support (for use with DRA drivers which include this feature). HorizontalPodAutoscaler enables beta support for scaling to zero . StatefulSet maxUnavailable support is now enabled.
Lyria 3.5 generally available (GA)
Released the next generation of Google's music generation model: lyria-3.5: Full-length song generation with improved musical coherence, natural vocals, and fine-grained duration and structural control. The model supports text and image inputs and generates high-fidelity 44.1 kHz stereo audio. See the Music generation guide for details and code samples.
Gemini 3.8 Flash generally available (GA)
Released gemini-3.8-flash, our most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows. To get started, see the Gemini 3.8 Flash model page and the Latest model guide.