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Apigee X Feature With this release, Apigee expanded its support for data residency to additional regions in the European Union. Data residency for Apigee meets compliance and regulatory requirements by allowing you to specify the geographic locations (regions) where Apigee data is stored. For more information, see Introduction to data residency. For a list of supported geographic locations, see Apigee locations. Chronicle SOAR Announcement Release 6.2.52 is now in General Availability. Dataproc Breaking Dataproc Serverless for Spark: runtime version 2.2 will become the default Dataproc Serverless for Spark runtime version on May 3, 2024. Deep Learning Containers Fixed M119 release Fixed an issue wherein Dataproc extensions caused JupyterLab to crash when remote kernels weren't available. Deep Learning VM Images Fixed M119 release Fixed an issue wherein Dataproc extensions caused JupyterLab to crash when remote kernels weren't available. Dialogflow Changed Starting on April 17, 2024, the Dialogflow CX and Dialogflow ES traffic with audio will gradually route away from the classic phone_call speech model to the new conformer-based speech models for the following language tags: en-au, en-gb, de, de-de, es, es-es, es-us, fr, fr-ca, fr-fr, it, it-it, ja, pt-br. For more information, see Dialogflow ES migration documentation and Dialogflow CX migration documentation. Feature Dialogflow CX: You can now enable smart endpointing. Retail API Feature Vertex AI Retail Search: Search analytics v2 improvements Enhanced dashboard experience: Leverages Looker for a more interactive and informative analysis of your search and browse performance. Detailed metrics: Gain granular insights with per-search/per-browse metrics, along with metrics tied to search/browse visits. Full funnel reporting: Analyze page-views, add-to-cart events, purchases, and revenue to understand the entire customer conversion journey. Flexible analysis: Filter data by date ranges and device types to tailor your analysis. Spanner Libraries A monthly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK. GoChanges for spanner/admin/database/apiv1 1.58.0 (2024-03-06) Features spanner/admin/instance: Add instance partition support to spanner instance proto (ae1f547) spanner: Add field for multiplexed session in spanner.proto (a86aa8e) spanner: SelectAll struct spanner tag annotation match should be case-insensitive (#9460) (6cd6a73) spanner: Update TransactionOptions to include new option exclude_txn_from_change_streams (0195fe9) 1.59.0 (2024-03-13) Features spanner/spansql: Support Table rename & Table synonym (#9275) (9b97ce7) spanner: Add support of float32 type (#9525) (87d7ea9) Bug Fixes spanner: Add JSON_PARSE_ARRAY to funcNames slice (#9557) (f799597) 1.60.0 (2024-03-19) Features spanner: Allow attempt direct path xds via env var (e4b663c) JavaChanges for google-cloud-spanner 6.61.0 (2024-03-04) Features Support float32 type (#2894) (19b7976) Bug Fixes Flaky test issue due to AbortedException. (#2925) (cd34c1d) Dependencies Update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.27.0 (#2935) (f8f835a) Update dependency org.json:json to v20240303 (#2936) (1d7044e) Documentation Samples and tests for backup Admin APIs and overall spanner Admin APIs. (#2882) (de13636) Update all public documents to use auto-generated admin clients. (#2928) (ccb110a) 6.62.0 (2024-03-19) Features Allow attempt direct path xds via env var (#2950) (247a15f) Next release from main branch is 6.56.0 (#2929) (66374b1) Bug Fixes Return type of max commit delay option. 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(#1109) (d683a14) Use autogenerated methods to get names from admin samples (#1110) (3ab74b2) 3.44.0 (2024-03-13) Features Add support of float32 type (#1113) (7e0b46a) Changes for float32 in dbapi (#1115) (c9f4fbf) Bug Fixes Correcting name of variable from table_schema to schema_name (#1114) (a92c6d3) Documentation Add sample for managed autoscaler (#1111) (e73c671) Vertex AI Workbench Fixed M119 release The M119 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following: Fixed an issue wherein Dataproc extensions caused JupyterLab to crash when remote kernels weren't available.

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Title: March 29, 2024
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Apigee X
Feature
With this release, Apigee expanded its support for data residency to additional regions in the European Union. Data residency for Apigee meets compliance and regulatory requirements by allowing you to specify the geographic locations (regions) where Apigee data is stored. 

For more information, see Introduction to data residency.

For a list of supported geographic locations, see Apigee locations.
Chronicle SOAR
Announcement
Release 6.2.52 is now in General Availability.
Dataproc
Breaking
Dataproc Serverless for Spark: runtime version 2.2 will become the default Dataproc Serverless for Spark runtime version on May 3, 2024. 
Deep Learning Containers
Fixed
M119 release


Fixed an issue wherein Dataproc extensions caused JupyterLab to crash when remote kernels weren't available.

Deep Learning VM Images
Fixed
M119 release


Fixed an issue wherein Dataproc extensions caused JupyterLab to crash when remote kernels weren't available.

Dialogflow
Changed
Starting on April 17, 2024, the Dialogflow CX and Dialogflow ES traffic with audio will gradually route away from the classic phone_call speech model to the new conformer-based speech models for the following language tags: en-au, en-gb, de, de-de, es, es-es, es-us, fr, fr-ca, fr-fr, it, it-it, ja, pt-br. For more information, see Dialogflow ES migration documentation and Dialogflow CX migration documentation.
Feature
Dialogflow CX: You can now enable smart endpointing.
Retail API
Feature
Vertex AI Retail Search: Search analytics v2 improvements


Enhanced dashboard experience: Leverages Looker for a more interactive and informative analysis of your search and browse performance.
Detailed metrics: Gain granular insights with per-search/per-browse metrics, along with metrics tied to search/browse visits.
Full funnel reporting: Analyze page-views, add-to-cart events, purchases, and revenue to understand the entire customer conversion journey.
Flexible analysis: Filter data by date ranges and device types to tailor your analysis.

Spanner
Libraries
A monthly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

GoChanges for spanner/admin/database/apiv1

1.58.0 (2024-03-06)

Features


spanner/admin/instance: Add instance partition support to spanner instance proto (ae1f547)
spanner: Add field for multiplexed session in spanner.proto (a86aa8e)
spanner: SelectAll struct spanner tag annotation match should be case-insensitive (#9460) (6cd6a73)
spanner: Update TransactionOptions to include new option exclude_txn_from_change_streams (0195fe9)


1.59.0 (2024-03-13)

Features


spanner/spansql: Support Table rename & Table synonym (#9275) (9b97ce7)
spanner: Add support of float32 type (#9525) (87d7ea9)


Bug Fixes


spanner: Add JSON_PARSE_ARRAY to funcNames slice (#9557) (f799597)


1.60.0 (2024-03-19)

Features


spanner: Allow attempt direct path xds via env var (e4b663c)

JavaChanges for google-cloud-spanner

6.61.0 (2024-03-04)

Features


Support float32 type (#2894) (19b7976)


Bug Fixes


Flaky test issue due to AbortedException. (#2925) (cd34c1d)


Dependencies


Update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.27.0 (#2935) (f8f835a)
Update dependency org.json:json to v20240303 (#2936) (1d7044e)


Documentation


Samples and tests for backup Admin APIs and overall spanner Admin APIs. (#2882) (de13636)
Update all public documents to use auto-generated admin clients. (#2928) (ccb110a)


6.62.0 (2024-03-19)

Features


Allow attempt direct path xds via env var (#2950) (247a15f)
Next release from main branch is 6.56.0 (#2929) (66374b1)


Bug Fixes


Return type of max commit delay option. (#2953) (6e937ab)


Performance Improvements


Keep comments when searching for params (#2951) (b782725)


Dependencies


Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring to v3.38.0 (#2942) (ba665bd)
Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-trace to v2.37.0 (#2944) (b5e608e)
Update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.28.1 (#2952) (1e45237)
Update opentelemetry.version to v1.36.0 (#2945) (e70b035)


Documentation


samples: Add tag to statement timeout sample (#2931) (2392afe)

Node.jsChanges for @google-cloud/spanner

7.5.0 (2024-03-04)

Features


spanner: Add emulator support for the admin client autogenerated API samples (#1994) (e2fe5b7)


Bug Fixes


Revert untyped param type feature (#2012) (49fa60d)

PythonChanges for google-cloud-spanner

3.43.0 (2024-03-06)

Features


Add retry and timeout for batch dml (#1107) (4f6340b)
Add support for max commit delay (#1050) (d5acc26)
Exposing Spanner client in dbapi connection (#1100) (9299212)
Include RENAME in DDL regex (#1075) (3669303)
Support partitioned dml in dbapi (#1103) (3aab0ed)
Untyped param (#1001) (1750328)


Documentation


Samples and tests for admin backup APIs (#1105) (5410c32)
Samples and tests for admin database APIs (#1099) (c25376c)
Update all public documents to use auto-generated admin clients. (#1109) (d683a14)
Use autogenerated methods to get names from admin samples (#1110) (3ab74b2)


3.44.0 (2024-03-13)

Features


Add support of float32 type (#1113) (7e0b46a)
Changes for float32 in dbapi (#1115) (c9f4fbf)


Bug Fixes


Correcting name of variable from table_schema to schema_name (#1114) (a92c6d3)


Documentation


Add sample for managed autoscaler (#1111) (e73c671)


Vertex AI Workbench
Fixed
M119 release

The M119 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:


Fixed an issue wherein Dataproc extensions caused JupyterLab to crash when remote kernels weren't available.

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