1.85.0 (2026-04-14)

Features

• [appoptimize] new module for appoptimize (#12768) (050187d)
• [chronicle] Add DataTableService to Chronicle v1 Client Libraries (fc62b1e)
• [databasecenter] Add support for BigQuery datasets and (fc62b1e)
• [dataplex] Allow Data Documentation DataScans to support BigQuery (fc62b1e)
• [dataproc] Add Engine field to support LightningEngine in (fc62b1e)
• [discoveryengine] add AUTO condition to SearchAsYouTypeSpec in (fc62b1e)
• [infra-manager] adding DeploymentGroups, you can now manage (fc62b1e)
• [kms] add a variable to SingleTenantHsmInstanceCreate to control (fc62b1e)
• [kms] support external-μ in the Digest (fc62b1e)
• [shopping-merchant-products] a new field base64_encoded_name is (fc62b1e)
• [vectorsearch] Added CMEK support (fc62b1e)

Bug Fixes

• auth: Address ClientSideCredentialAccessBoundary RefreshTask race condition (#12681) (30088d2)
• bqjdbc: lazily instantiate Statement in BigQueryDatabaseMetaData (#12752) (72e5508)
• deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to (fc62b1e)
• gdch: support EC private keys (#1896) (bf926fb)
• update appoptimize version to 0.0.1 to match released repo (#12782) (80dfac6)

Documentation

• [network-management] Update comment for the region field in (fc62b1e)
• [shopping-merchant-inventories] A comment for field name in (fc62b1e)

1.82.0 (2026-03-20)

Features

• add initial span tracing to http calls (#12089) (db50ccd)
• bigquery: add HTTP response attribute tracing (#12109) (f8a13e5)
• [aiplatform] Add new embed_content_config to message EmbedContentRequest (49cc185)
• [aiplatform] Add new embed_content_config to message EmbedContentRequest (49cc185)
• [aiplatform] add VALIDATED Function Calling mode to v1 (49cc185)
• [aiplatform] update the schema proto for the RagChunk with file_id and chunk_id to align with the vertex_rag_data.proto (49cc185)
• [dlp] added support for detecting key-value pairs in document metadata (49cc185)
• [dlp] added support for image exclusion and adjustment rules (49cc185)
• [dlp] add InfoType launch status in InfoType Description (49cc185)
• [maps-places] add a new business status FUTURE_OPENING for places, (49cc185)
• [maps-places] add a new include_future_opening_businesses flag to Nearby Search (49cc185)
• [shopping-merchant-accounts] Add CreateTestAccount RPC to Accounts service for creating test-only Merchant Center accounts (49cc185)
• Add v1beta BigLake Hive client library (#12118) (73c0bd3)
• Add v1 hypercomputecluster client library (#12110) (b3e042a)

Bug Fixes

• jdbc bq: unshade BQ SDK in uber jar (#12078) (c4cabde)
• StreamWriterTest to allow version in trace ID (#12084) (d463c15)
• telemetry: fix incorrect span titles and missing otelAttributes (#12080) (f1c04a9)
• update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.58.0 (#12106) (15fa933)

Documentation

• [dlp] added formatting to various comments (49cc185)

1.81.0 (2026-03-11)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• [vectorsearch] Removed field DenseScannParams from SearchHint
• [vectorsearch] Removed obsolete field vertex from message .google.cloud.vectorsearch.v1.Ranker
• [vectorsearch] Removed obsolete field vertex from message .google.cloud.vectorsearch.v1.Ranker
• [auditmanager] Update existing packaging option cloud.google.com/go/auditmanager/apiv1/auditmanagerpb;auditmanagerpb for go_package

Features

• [aiplatform] A new field inference_generation_config is added to message .google.cloud.aiplatform.v1beta1.EvaluationConfig (6c3721b)
• [aiplatform] add AskContexts and AsyncRetrieveContexts APIs to VertexRagService (6b658dc)
• [aiplatform] add AskContexts and AsyncRetrieveContexts APIs to VertexRagService (6b658dc)
• [aiplatform] Add custom session id field to create session v1beta1 (6b658dc)
• [alloydb] Add a new field to support Dataplex integration configuration (6b658dc)
• [ces] update public libraries for CES v1beta (6b658dc)
• [compute] Update Compute Engine v1 API to revision 20260213 (6b658dc)
• [document-ai] Added a field for enabling image and table annotation for layout parser processor (6b658dc)
• [gdchardwaremanagement] Add OFFLINE state to Zone resources (6b658dc)
• [gkehub] A new field kubernetes_api_server_version is added to message .google.cloud.gkehub.configmanagement.v1beta.MembershipState (6b658dc)
• [maps-routing] add a new Waypoint source to accept a token that identifies a Navigation Point obtained from the SearchDestinations method of the Geocoding API (6b658dc)
• [network-management] Add API fields related to GKE Pods and Network Policies (6c3721b)
• [storagebatchoperations] add new transformation update_object_custom_context (6c3721b)
• add email and skip-kokoro flags to release bot (#12050) (12e2e94)
• jdbc: centralize connection properties from BigQueryConnection and DataSource (#4116) (d3b8bde)

Bug Fixes

• [auditmanager] Update existing packaging option cloud.google.com/go/auditmanager/apiv1/auditmanagerpb;auditmanagerpb for go_package (6c3721b)
• [vectorsearch] Removed field DenseScannParams from SearchHint (6b658dc)
• [vectorsearch] Removed obsolete field vertex from message .google.cloud.vectorsearch.v1.Ranker (6c3721b)
• [vectorsearch] Removed obsolete field vertex from message .google.cloud.vectorsearch.v1.Ranker (6c3721b)
• Configure defualt keep alive pings for BQ Storage Read API RPCs (#12037) (a808bbe)
• jdbc: various perf improvements (#4114) (0137e4b)

Documentation

• [errorreporting] update the reference link for ErrorGroupStats (6b658dc)

Small patch fix for BigQueryStorage client library

What's Changed

• Configure default keep alive pings for BQ Storage Read API RPCs

1.80.0 (2026-02-25)

Features

• [aiplatform] Add traffic_type, tool_use_prompt_tokens_details to message GenerateContentResponse.UsageMetadata (a8b55ed)
• [aiplatform] Add image_spec to Reasoning Engine public protos (01d7309)
• [aiplatform] Add image_spec to Reasoning Engine public protos (01d7309)
• [aiplatform] Add transcription fields to Session Service (01d7309)
• [compute] Update Compute Engine v1 API to revision 20260106 (#1148) (a8b55ed)
• [datamanager] add UserListService for creating and managing user lists (2ac7566)
• [developerconnect] Add Secure Source Manager and Generic HTTP Endpoint connection types (a8b55ed)
• [dialogflow-cx] Add new value DETECT_INTENT_RESPONSE_VIEW_DEFAULT to enum DetectIntentResponseView (d544f39)
• [grafeas] A new field registry is added to message .grafeas.v1.BaseImage (d544f39)
• [kms] Add KeyProjectResolutionMode to AutokeyConfig to support project-level configurations (d544f39)
• [kmsinventory] Add support for project level key usage tracking (a8b55ed)
• [network-management] Add API fields related to GKE Pods and Network Policies (fc77e70)
• [speech] adds endpointing sensitivity to streaming recognition features (a8b55ed)
• Add CES v1beta library (833da55)
• Add VectorSearch v1 library (833da55)

Bug Fixes

• deps: update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-storage to v2.63.0 (#11895) (aa65976)
• deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.67.0 (a8b55ed)
• update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.57.0 (#11956) (62b97e1)

Documentation

• [databasecenter] Replace "GCP" with "Google Cloud" in API comments (a8b55ed)

What's Changed

• chore(main): release 1.79.0-SNAPSHOT by @release-please[bot] in #11933
• chore: replace old java team with cloud-sdk-java-team by @chingor13 in #11905
• chore: remove duplicate declaration for com.google.api:gax-grpc:jar:testlib by @zhumin8 in #11546
• build: split integration tests for split repositories by @chingor13 in #11886
• chore: Update generation configuration at Fri Feb 13 02:59:52 UTC 2026 by @cloud-java-bot in #11928
• feat: [ces] new module for ces by @cloud-java-bot in #11940
• feat: [workloadmanager] new module for workloadmanager by @cloud-java-bot in #11941
• chore: Update generation configuration at Fri Feb 13 20:33:48 UTC 2026 by @cloud-java-bot in #11942
• chore(main): release 1.79.0 by @ldetmer in #11943

Full Changelog: v1.78.0...v1.79.0

1.78.0 (2026-02-09)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• The SpannerIndexingConfig message and the spanner_indexing_config field within the Dataset message have been removed. Client code referencing these will need to stop referencing these in case of an error docs: [document-ai] Updated comments for various fields and messages
• [visionai] An existing default host visionai.googleapis.com is changed to warehouse-visionai.googleapis.com in service Warehouse

Features

• [aiplatform] Add fps to message VideoMetadata (91994ba)
• [aiplatform] add Vertex Multimodal Datasets as input and output types in google.cloud.aiplatform.v1beta1.BatchPredictionJob (91994ba)
• [aiplatform] add Vertex Multimodal Datasets as input and output types in google.cloud.aiplatform.v1beta1.BatchPredictionJob (91994ba)
• [aiplatform] Force-delete for RagCorpora, ignoring any external errors and ensuring deletion of the RagCorpus (91994ba)
• [artifact-registry] add DIRSUM_SHA256 hash type (91994ba)
• [chat] Addition of QuoteType enum, QuotedMessageSnapshot & ForwardMetadata in the QuotedMessageMetadata proto (91994ba)
• [cloudquotas] Hierarchical Quota Adjuster (91994ba)
• [confidentialcomputing] add Nvidia Attestation proto message with its relevant fields and ConfidentialGke options (91994ba)
• [dialogflow] added a new field StreamingAnalyzeContentRequest.output_multiple_utterances (91994ba)
• [document-ai] A new field revisions is added to message .google.cloud.documentai.v1beta3.Evaluation (91994ba)
• [geminidataanalytics] add ClarificationMessage, thought-signature, formatted-data (91994ba)
• [gkehub] Add GKE Hub teams scope and RBAC GAPIC (91994ba)
• [vectorsearch] add SearchHint to SemanticSearch requests (91994ba)

Bug Fixes

• [visionai] An existing default host visionai.googleapis.com is changed to warehouse-visionai.googleapis.com in service Warehouse (91994ba)
• deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.66.1 (91994ba)
• update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.56.1 (#11916) (6127aa6)

Documentation

• [aiplatform] update documentation of .google.cloud.aiplatform.v1.DatasetService, .google.cloud.aiplatform.v1.Dataset, and .google.cloud.aiplatform.v1.DatasetVersion (91994ba)
• [aiplatform] update documentation of .google.cloud.aiplatform.v1beta1.Dataset and .google.cloud.aiplatform.v1beta1.DatasetVersion (91994ba)
• [datamanager] describe additional URI format for kek_uri in GcpEncryptionInfo and AwsKmsEncryptionInfo (91994ba)

1.77.0 (2026-01-29)

Features

• [aiplatform] RAG - add mode config to RagEngineConfig with Spanner and Serverless (d7a49aa)
• [auditmanager] new module for auditmanager (#11888) (c307b61)
• [backupdr] Add support for AlloyDB backup and restore (d7a49aa)
• [container] Add GPUDirectConfig to configure GPU Direct for node pools (d7a49aa)
• [container] Add SwapConfig to enable and configure swap memory for node pools (d7a49aa)
• [databasecenter] Adding Method AggregateIssueStats of Database Center API v1beta (d7a49aa)
• [dialogflow-cx] updated v3 dialogflow client libraries (d7a49aa)
• [grafeas] A new field last_vulnerability_update_time is added to message .grafeas.v1.DiscoveryOccurrence (d7a49aa)
• [kms] add the SingleTenantHsm functionality including the management API and resource types (d7a49aa)
• [network-management] add fields and messages for GKE Pods and IP masquerading (d7a49aa)
• [network-management] add fields and messages for GKE Pods and IP masquerading (d7a49aa)
• [networkconnectivity] Added OUTPUT_ONLY annotations to create_time and update_time in InternalRange to reflect existing service behavior (d7a49aa)
• [retail] add a user_attributes field in SearchRequest that can be used for personalization (d7a49aa)
• [run] add instances client library (d7a49aa)
• google/cloud/apiregistry/v1 release (#11892) (ec0643e)

Bug Fixes

• deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.66.0 (d7a49aa)
• update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.56.0 (#11879) (ac1f018)

Documentation

• [cloudquotas] Correct typo in comment for field quota_id (d7a49aa)
• [document-ai] Regenerated REST and RPC Document AI documentation to include missing changes from September 2024 to November 2025 (d7a49aa)

1.76.0 (2026-01-15)

Features

• [aiplatform] Add Lustre support to the Vertex Training Custom Job API (59c954c)
• [aiplatform] Add Lustre support to the Vertex Training Custom Job API (c70c873)
• [aiplatform] add streaming function call argument API changes (59c954c)
• [alloydb] add POSTGRES_18 to DatabaseVersion (59c954c)
• [alloydb] add POSTGRES_18 to DatabaseVersion (59c954c)
• [artifact-registry] add Fingerprint to Artifact Registry Version resource (59c954c)
• [backupdr] A new service BackupDrProtectionSummary is added (59c954c)
• [cloudapiregistry] new module for cloudapiregistry (#11864) (37c933f)
• [compute] Update Compute Engine v1 API to revision 20251210 (#1137) (59c954c)
• [compute] Update Compute Engine v1 API to revision 20251230 (#1144) (bb0102d)
• [databasecenter] Adding Method AggregateFleet of Database Center API v1beta (59c954c)
• [databasecenter] Adding Method QueryDatabaseResourceGroups of Database Center API v1beta (59c954c)
• [geminidataanalytics] add LookerGoldenQuery to Context (59c954c)
• [geminidataanalytics] added sync APIs for the CRUD operations of Data Agent (59c954c)
• [grafeas] A new message File is added (59c954c)
• [infra-manager] add support for enabling automigration from deprecated Terraform versions (59c954c)
• [netapp] Update NetApp v1 API with Host Groups, Block Volumes, Cache Volumes, and Backup Restore (bb0102d)
• [speech] add custom prompt config in the request and return prompt in the response (59c954c)

Bug Fixes

• deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.65.1 (59c954c)
• update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.55.1 (#11863) (50cda6e)

Documentation

• [bigqueryreservation] change comment indicating enable_gemini_in_bigquery field for BigQuery Reservation Assignments is deprecated (59c954c)
• [chat] Improve documentation of attachment.proto, event_payload.proto and space.proto (c70c873)
• [geminidataanalytics] specify the data sources supported only by the QueryData API (c70c873)
• [kms] Marking MODIFIED_CUSTOMER_INITIATED_ACCESS and MODIFIED_GOOGLE_INITIATED_SYSTEM_OPERATION Key Access Justification codes as deprecated in favor of GOOGLE_RESPONSE_TO_PRODUCTION_ALERT (59c954c)
• [maintenance] A comment for field filter in message .google.cloud.maintenance.api.v1.SummarizeMaintenancesRequest is changed (59c954c)

1.76.0-rc1 (2025-12-17)

Features

• [vertexai] Upgrade to protobuf 4.33.0 gencode (#11840) (e9c2bbe)

Dependencies

• update sdk-platform-java-config to 3.55.0-rc1 (#11836) (65af7bd)
• update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.65.0-rc1 (5bd22f9)