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September 16, 2026
Feature You can use the migration lineage service to visualize the data flow and connections in your source database and help you plan a BigQuery data warehouse migration. This feature is in Preview.
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September 14, 2026
Feature Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview.
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September 10, 2026
Feature The Data Engineering Agent now integrates with BigQuery Graph to provide additional context between your data source and destination schema, and improves schema mapping accuracy for your data engineering pipelines. This feature is generally available (GA).
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September 09, 2026
Feature BigQuery generative AI functions now support the following Gemini models: gemini-3.5-flash-lite gemini-3.6-flash gemini-3.7-flash
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September 08, 2026
Feature Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function. This feature is in Preview.
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September 03, 2026
Feature Conversational analytics now supports questions about market basket analysis. This feature is generally available (GA).
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September 02, 2026
Change An updated version of the Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery is now available.
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September 01, 2026
Feature The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now in Preview.
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August 31, 2026
Feature You can now create, store, and manage pipelines in Git folders. This feature is in Preview. Feature Using folders to create, store, and manage pipelines is generally available.
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August 27, 2026
Feature The Data Engineering Agent is now HIPAA compliant. For more information, see HIPAA compliance on Google Cloud.
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August 26, 2026
Security An Improper Input Validation vulnerability was discovered in the JDBC driver in BigQuery Data Transfer Service versions prior to May 1, 2026. An authenticated attacker could use crafted JDBC connection string parameters to achieve remote code execution in the connector container and escalate privileges in the tenant project. For more information, see the GCP-2026-056 security bulletin.
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August 25, 2026
Feature BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform. This feature is in Preview.
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August 24, 2026
Feature You can now monitor the performance, adoption, latency, and costs of your data agents and their conversations by using Google Cloud Observability in BigQuery. This feature is in Preview.
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August 20, 2026
Deprecated Starting April 26, 2027, core graph processing for BigQuery Graph will be restricted to the BigQuery Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions. Consequently, we are deprecating support for Standard edition and on-demand billing for core graph processing. Graph measures will remain available in the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions and for queries run using on-demand pricing. Measure…
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August 18, 2026
Feature The default per-project limit of user-specific reservation assignments has been increased from 10 to 100.
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August 13, 2026
Feature BigQuery pipelines now support automated metadata enrichment, allowing you to define semantic metadata directly in SQLX configurations for synchronization with Knowledge Catalog. In addition, the Data Engineering Agent proactively generates this metadata based on your intent or context. For more information, see Metadata enrichment and data quality scorecard integration. This feature is in…
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August 12, 2026
Announcement Table Explorer behavior has moved to the Reference panel. Table Explorer has been deprecated. For more information, see "Use the Reference panel" in Run a query.
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August 11, 2026
Feature Query templates for data clean rooms are generally available (GA). Query templates allow data clean room owners and publishers to share predefined queries without exposing the underlying tables and views. Additionally, table parameters in table-valued functions (TVFs) are generally available (GA). You can use the ANY TABLE type as a table parameter to create generic functions that accept t…
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August 10, 2026
Feature BigQuery now supports the gemini-3.1-flash-lite and gemini-3.5-flash GA models, which are available for the us, eu, and global multi-regional endpoints. You can use these models in all generative AI functions. For information about how to specify a multi-regional endpoint and how endpoints are selected, read about locations in the generative AI overview.
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August 03, 2026
Feature The JDBC driver for BigQuery now supports OpenTelemetry for tracing and logging, which helps you monitor the performance of your database interactions and troubleshoot issues. Automatic exports to Google Cloud Observability are also available. This feature is generally available (GA).
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July 30, 2026
Feature You can audit when users download query results by using the BigQuery console. Data Access audit logs for the tabledata.list method now include a uiDownloadRequest field to indicate whether the request was triggered by a UI download. This feature is generally available (GA).
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July 29, 2026
Feature The BigQuery Data Transfer Service now supports incremental data transfers when transferring data from Klaviyo to BigQuery. This feature is supported in Preview.
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July 27, 2026
Feature You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter. For more information, see Subscribe to a Cloud Marketplace-integrated listing. This feature is generally available (GA). Feature You can use the APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions to view the rows that were appended to or changed in a table during a given time range. Thi…
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July 23, 2026
Change An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available.
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July 20, 2026
Feature Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg: Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in Preview. This update includes the following features: Federation from SAP BDC: Create Delta Sharing catalogs in Lakehouse to automatically synchronize shares, schemas, and tables from SAP BDC. Querying SAP data: Query synchronized SAP BDC tables directly from BigQuery without…
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July 15, 2026
Feature BigQuery supports data governance tags, which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data governance tags are a type of Resource Manager tag that you can attach to sensitive columns and use in BigQuery data policies to grant conditional access to your users. This feature is in Preview.
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July 14, 2026
Feature Conversational analytics now supports the AI.AGG function. This function is in Preview.
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July 13, 2026
Security A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in repositories in BigQuery, Dataform, and Colab Enterprise. An authenticated attacker could potentially escalate permissions and perform cross-tenant repository takeover. For more information, see the GCP-2026-047 security bulletin. Feature The BigQuery Overview page is a hub for discovering tutorials, features, and resources to help y…
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July 09, 2026
Feature You can use the BigQuery Data Transfer Service to transfer metadata from the following data sources into Knowledge Catalog: PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server This feature is in Preview. Feature The Data Agent Kit extension is an extension for agent coding tools, such as VS Code, Antigravity, and Cursor, that lets you interact with BigQuery resources directly in your agent environment. You ca…
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July 08, 2026
Change An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available. Feature You can now perform multi-level aggregation in GoogleSQL, which lets you use an aggregate function as an argument to another aggregate function. This feature is in Preview.