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2024-03-19 - (from GCP latest releases)

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Changed The Quotas documentation is updated to include additional guidance on setting the maximum number of concurrent connections for your database instance size. App Hub Announcement App Hub is generally available (GA). Artifact Registry Fixed Fixed the issue causing images copied to Artifact Registry from Container Registry with the automatic migration tool to fail to propagate their creation time to Artifact Registry. Artifact Registry creation time is set to the time the image was uploaded to Container Registry, and update time is set to the time the image is copied to Artifact Registry. BigQuery Feature You can now create and run Spark stored procedures that are written in Python, Java, and Scala. You can also use the PySpark editor in BigQuery to create stored Python procedures for Apache Spark. This feature is now generally available (GA). Feature The minimum duration between scheduled queries has been reduced from 15 minutes to 5 minutes. This feature is generally available. Bigtable Feature You can now create daily backups of your Bigtable table by enabling automated backup. This feature is available in Preview. For details, see Automated backup. Blockchain Node Engine Announcement On March 19, 2024, Blockchain Node Engine upgraded all mainnet Polygon nodes in preparation for the Napoli (PIP-33) Hardfork. Cloud Asset Inventory Feature The following resource types are now publicly available through the ExportAssets, ListAssets, BatchGetAssetsHistory, QueryAssets, Feed, and Search (SearchAllResources, SearchAllIamPolicies) APIs. NetApp netapp.googleapis.com/Backup netapp.googleapis.com/BackupPolicy netapp.googleapis.com/BackupVault Cloud Composer Feature Airflow 2.7.3 is available in Cloud Composer images. Fixed Fixed an issue where past Airflow task instances could be marked as failed in some cases. Fixed Fixed an issue where Airflow task logs for the first try of a task might not be visible in Airflow UI. Fixed BigQueryInsertJobOperator now correctly handles ephemeral tables created with tableDefinitions. Fixed In BigQueryInsertJobOperator, fixed the handling of parsing errors during Lineage emission when the query is too long or deeply nested. Changed The apache-airflow-providers-google package is upgraded to version 10.16.0 in images with Airflow 2.6.3, and images with Airflow 2.7.3 have this version. For more information about changes, see the apache-airflow-providers-google changelog from version 10.15.0 to version 10.16.0. Changed The apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes package was upgraded to version 8.0.1 in images with Airflow 2.6.3, and images with Airflow 2.7.3 have this version. Changed Cloud Composer 2.6.5 images are available: composer-2.6.5-airflow-2.7.3 composer-2.6.5-airflow-2.6.3 (default) composer-2.6.5-airflow-2.5.3 Deprecated Cloud Composer versions 2.1.10, 2.1.9, 1.20.10, and 1.20.9 have reached their end of full support period. Cloud Run Feature You can now mount an NFS file share as a volume for Cloud Run services and jobs. (In Preview) Cloud SQL for MySQL Feature Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition now supports the me-central2 (Dammam) region. Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Feature Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition now supports the me-central2 (Dammam) region. Dialogflow Feature Dialogflow CX now provides the offers and deals prebuilt component. Feature Vertex AI Conversation data store tools now support filter and userMetadata example parameters. Feature Dialogflow CX request-scoped parameters now supports the $request.user-utterance parameter to reference the end-user utterance. Eventarc Feature Eventarc support for creating triggers for direct events from Network Services is generally available (GA). Google Kubernetes Engine Feature Cilium cluster-wide network policies are now generally available with the following GKE versions: 1.28.6-gke.1095000 or later 1.29.1-gke.1016000 or later You can now control your GKE workloads' ingress and egress traffic cluster-wide, without being bound to a namespace for your network policies. This new capability is intended to streamline network policies for GKE platform administrators looking for a uniform way to apply policies across namespaces or application teams. Cilium cluster-wide network policy is available in all GKE editions. To learn more, read Control cluster-wide communication using network policies. Issue Workloads running on GKE clusters with COS-based nodes may experience DNS resolution issues. The likelihood of impact is low and not all clusters are impacted. The issue is resolved on the following minimal GKE node versions: For 1.27: 1.27.11-gke.1118000 For 1.28: 1.28.7-gke.1100000 For 1.29: 1.29.2-gke.1217000 Clusters with a node version that is lower than 1.27.3-gke.1200 are not affected. Spanner Feature Statistics for active partitioned data manipulation language (DML) queries are now generally available. You can get insights on active partitioned DMLs queries and their progress from statistics tables in your Spanner database. For more information, see Active partitioned DMLs statistics. VPC Service Controls Announcement Beta stage support for the following integration: App Hub Feature Preview stage support for the following integration: Cloud Code

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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Changed
The Quotas documentation is updated to include additional guidance on setting the maximum number of concurrent connections for your database instance size.
App Hub
Announcement
App Hub is generally available (GA).
Artifact Registry
Fixed
Fixed the issue causing images copied to Artifact Registry from Container Registry with the automatic migration tool to fail to propagate their creation time to Artifact Registry. Artifact Registry creation time is set to the time the image was uploaded to Container Registry, and update time is set to the time the image is copied to Artifact Registry.
BigQuery
Feature
You can now create and run Spark stored procedures that are written in Python, Java, and Scala. You can also use the PySpark editor in BigQuery to create stored Python procedures for Apache Spark. This feature is now generally available (GA).
Feature
The minimum duration between scheduled queries has been reduced from 15 minutes to 5 minutes. This feature is generally available.
Bigtable
Feature
You can now create daily backups of your Bigtable table by enabling automated backup. This feature is available in Preview. For details, see Automated backup.
Blockchain Node Engine
Announcement
On March 19, 2024, Blockchain Node Engine upgraded all mainnet Polygon nodes in preparation for the Napoli (PIP-33) Hardfork.
Cloud Asset Inventory
Feature
The following resource types are now publicly available through the ExportAssets, ListAssets, BatchGetAssetsHistory, QueryAssets, Feed, and Search (SearchAllResources, SearchAllIamPolicies) APIs.


NetApp

netapp.googleapis.com/Backup
netapp.googleapis.com/BackupPolicy
netapp.googleapis.com/BackupVault


Cloud Composer
Feature
Airflow 2.7.3 is available in Cloud Composer images.
Fixed
Fixed an issue where past Airflow task instances could be marked as failed in some cases.
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Airflow task logs for the first try of a task might not be visible in Airflow UI.
Fixed
BigQueryInsertJobOperator now correctly handles ephemeral tables created with tableDefinitions.
Fixed
In BigQueryInsertJobOperator, fixed the handling of parsing errors during Lineage emission when the query is too long or deeply nested.
Changed
The apache-airflow-providers-google package is upgraded to version 10.16.0 in images with Airflow 2.6.3, and images with Airflow 2.7.3 have this version. For more information about changes, see the apache-airflow-providers-google changelog from version 10.15.0 to version 10.16.0.
Changed
The apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes package was upgraded to version 8.0.1 in images with Airflow 2.6.3, and images with Airflow 2.7.3 have this version.
Changed
Cloud Composer 2.6.5 images are available:


composer-2.6.5-airflow-2.7.3
composer-2.6.5-airflow-2.6.3 (default)
composer-2.6.5-airflow-2.5.3

Deprecated
Cloud Composer versions 2.1.10, 2.1.9, 1.20.10, and 1.20.9 have reached their end of full support period.
Cloud Run
Feature
You can now mount an NFS file share as a volume for Cloud Run services and jobs. (In Preview)
Cloud SQL for MySQL
Feature
Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition now supports the me-central2 (Dammam) region.
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Feature
Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition now supports the me-central2 (Dammam) region.
Dialogflow
Feature
Dialogflow CX now provides the offers and deals prebuilt component.
Feature
Vertex AI Conversation data store tools now support filter and userMetadata example parameters.
Feature
Dialogflow CX request-scoped parameters now supports the $request.user-utterance parameter to reference the end-user utterance.
Eventarc
Feature
Eventarc support for creating triggers for direct events from Network Services is generally available (GA).
Google Kubernetes Engine
Feature
Cilium cluster-wide network policies are now generally available with the following GKE versions:


1.28.6-gke.1095000 or later
1.29.1-gke.1016000 or later


You can now control your GKE workloads' ingress and egress traffic cluster-wide, without being bound to a namespace for your network policies. This new capability is intended to streamline network policies for GKE platform administrators looking for a uniform way to apply policies across namespaces or application teams.

Cilium cluster-wide network policy is available in all GKE editions.

To learn more, read Control cluster-wide communication using network policies.
Issue
Workloads running on GKE clusters with COS-based nodes may experience DNS resolution issues. The likelihood of impact is low and not all clusters are impacted. The issue is resolved on the following minimal GKE node versions:


For 1.27: 1.27.11-gke.1118000
For 1.28: 1.28.7-gke.1100000
For 1.29: 1.29.2-gke.1217000


Clusters with a node version that is lower than 1.27.3-gke.1200 are not affected.
Spanner
Feature
Statistics for active partitioned data manipulation language (DML) queries are now generally available. You can get insights on active partitioned DMLs queries and their progress from statistics tables in your Spanner database. For more information, see Active partitioned DMLs statistics.
VPC Service Controls
Announcement
Beta stage support for the following integration:


App Hub

Feature
Preview stage support for the following integration:


Cloud Code

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Category: Technology
NewsPaper: GCP latest releases
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