Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed tables now support flexible column names by default

GAOct 5, 2026yesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 6, 2026

Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed tables now support flexible column names by default. This feature is generally available (GA).

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Oct 5yesterday	The gemini-embedding-2 model works well for embedding long strings, including multilingual and unstructured... unverified GA	GA
Oct 24 days ago	The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now generally available (GA) unverified GA	GA
Oct 24 days ago	The Data Engineering Agent now supports the gemini-3.7-flash model for the us , eu , and global... unverified Update	Update
Oct 15 days ago	An updated version of the Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery is now available unverified Update	Update
Oct 15 days ago	Chatting with graphs in conversational analytics is now generally available unverified GA	GA
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Sep 306 days ago	The BigQuery Security center is now available in the Google Cloud console unverified GA	GA
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