Releasesby IbisIncremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now...
GAyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 13, 2026
Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now generally available (GA).
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Every BigQuery releaseThe BigQuery Data Engineering Agent is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) regional endpoint and...
The BigQuery Data Engineering Agent is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) regional endpoint and supports the gemini-3.5-flash model. For more information, see Where Gemini in BigQuery processes your data . This feature is Generally Available (GA).
The following table types now support flexible column names by default: - Iceberg external tables and Iceberg...
The following table types now support flexible column names by default: Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed tables in BigQuery Apache Iceberg tables managed by the Lakehouse runtime catalog This feature is generally available (GA).
You can use Gemini assistance in the BigQuery Studio SQL editor through an inline action button when you...
You can use Gemini assistance in the BigQuery Studio SQL editor through an inline action button when you select text. For more information, see Write SQL with Gemini assistance . This feature is generally available (GA).
BigQuery offers TimesFM 3.0 , a built-in time series forecasting model that implements Google Research's open...
BigQuery offers TimesFM 3.0 , a built-in time series forecasting model that implements Google Research's open source TimesFM model. You can use TimesFM 3.0 with the following functions: Use AI.FORECAST to perform time series forecasting.
Conversational analytics in BigQuery now supports the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of...
Conversational analytics in BigQuery now supports the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data. This feature is in Preview .
Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed tables now support flexible column names by default
Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed tables now support flexible column names by default. This feature is generally available (GA).
The gemini-embedding-2 model works well for embedding long strings, including multilingual and unstructured...
The gemini-embedding-2 model works well for embedding long strings, including multilingual and unstructured data. It supports a mix of text, images, audio, video, and PDF files. You can use this model in the AI.EMBED , AI.SIMILARITY , and AI.GENERATE_EMBEDDING functions. This model is generally available .
The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now generally available (GA)
The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now generally available (GA).
Also shipped on Oct 12, 2026
Google Cloud in October 2026Change an incident’s conference bridge without leaving Slack with /pd meeting now Generally Available
Run /pd meeting during an incident, paste the new link, and PagerDuty updates the incident card instantly with a Join meeting button in the channel. Scribe Agent follows along to the new meeting on its own, so you keep the transcript for your post-incident review. Available to customers using the Pa...
New Incident Workflow action: Get Slack Mentions for Incident Participants now Generally Available
This new Incident Workflow action pulls the assignees, acknowledgers, and role holders on an incident and turns them into Slack @mentions. Pair it with Send Slack Message to tag everyone involved without hard-coding names, so the same workflow works across every team and rotation. Available to Pager...
Conference bridge selection in the Slack declare modal now Generally Available
Declare an incident with /pd declare and choose one of your pre-configured PagerDuty conference bridges from a dropdown, or paste a meeting URL if you don't have one set up. The bridge is on the incident from the moment it's declared, so responders can join from Slack in one click. Available to cust...
Unity Gateway Skills API and developer tools are available in Beta
The Unity Gateway Skills REST API is now available in Beta , with create, read, update, list, delete, and finalize support across Databricks developer tools: Databricks CLI Python SDK Go SDK Go Modular SDK Java SDK JavaScript SDK See the Skills API and SDK reference .
Feature Views will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Feature Views are now generally available. They will be automatically enabled for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled in mid-November 2026. Define and compute features declaratively from batch or streaming data, then use them for model training and online serving. See Feature Views .
Governed tag propagation is in Beta
Tag propagation in Unity Catalog is in Beta . When you enable tag propagation for a governed tag, Unity Catalog uses lineage to automatically apply that tag to derived tables and views whenever a supported operation runs, such as CREATE TABLE AS SELECT , CREATE VIEW , INSERT INTO ... SELECT , or MERGE .