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DateRelease
Sep 22You can now publish a BigQuery data agent in Gemini Enterprise by registering the agent with Agent Registry...unverified
BigQueryPreview
Sep 21BigQuery Studio query results pane shows recent run history
Sep 21BigQuery generative AI functions now support the gemini-3.8-flash Gemini model
BigQueryUpdate
Sep 17You can add unit tests to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets
Sep 16BigQuery migration lineage service enters preview
BigQueryPreview
Sep 14BigQuery supports WHERE clauses inside aggregate function calls in preview
BigQueryPreview
Sep 14Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog
BigQueryPreview
Sep 14An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available
BigQueryUpdate
Sep 10BigQuery Data Engineering Agent integrates with BigQuery Graph
Sep 10You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data
BigQueryPreview
Sep 10BigQuery ML.METRICS evaluates predictions without a stored model
BigQueryPreview
Sep 10BigQuery conversational analytics adds ML.CORRELATION in preview
BigQueryPreview
Sep 9BigQuery generative AI functions add gemini-3.5-flash-lite, 3.6-flash and 3.7-flash
BigQueryUpdate
Sep 8Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function
BigQueryPreview
Sep 3Conversational analytics now supports questions about market basket analysis
Sep 2An updated version of the Simba JDBC driver for BigQuery is now available
BigQueryUpdate
Sep 1The Rust SDK for BigQuery is now in Preview
BigQueryPreview
Aug 31BigQuery Graph is generally available (GA)
Aug 31BigQuery now supports TabFM , Google's pre-trained foundation model for tabular data
BigQueryPreview
Aug 31Using folders to create, store, and manage pipelines is generally available
Aug 31You can now create an identity column , sometimes referred to as an auto-incrementing column, on a table
BigQueryPreview
Aug 31You can now create, store , and manage pipelines in Git folders
BigQueryPreview
Aug 27You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option
Aug 27Core graph processing for BigQuery Graph requires an Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition reservation
BigQueryUpdate
Aug 27The Data Engineering Agent is now HIPAA compliant
BigQueryUpdate
Aug 26You can now view real-time logs for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging
Aug 25BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform
BigQueryPreview
Aug 24BigQuery data agent monitoring with Google Cloud Observability in preview
BigQueryPreview
Aug 20The run_bq_command tool exposes the bq command-line tool within the Cloud CLI remote MCP server
BigQueryPreview
Aug 20BigQuery Graph core processing limited to Enterprise editions from April 26, 2027
BigQueryDeprecation
Aug 20BigQuery adds ML.TREND, ML.SEASONALITY and ML.DETECT_CHANGE_POINTS in preview
BigQueryPreview
Aug 18The default per-project limit of user-specific reservation assignments has been increased from 10 to 100
BigQueryUpdate
Aug 13BigQuery pipelines add automated metadata enrichment in preview
BigQueryPreview
Aug 12Table Explorer behavior has moved to the Reference panel
BigQueryUpdate
Aug 11Query templates for data clean rooms are generally available (GA)
Aug 10BigQuery supports gemini-3.1-flash-lite and gemini-3.5-flash GA models
Aug 3BigQuery JDBC driver adds OpenTelemetry tracing and logging
Aug 3BigQuery cross-cloud connections query AWS, Azure and Salesforce in preview
BigQueryPreview
Aug 3BigQuery hybrid search with VECTOR_SEARCH and AI.SEARCH is restored
BigQueryUpdate
Jul 30You can audit when users download query results by using the BigQuery console
Jul 30You can add tables, views, data sources, and data quality tests as tasks to BigQuery pipelines
Jul 29BigQuery Data Transfer Service adds incremental Klaviyo transfers in preview
BigQueryPreview
Jul 27BigQuery dataset insights is generally available (GA)
Jul 27BigQuery APPENDS and CHANGES change history functions are GA
Jul 27BigQuery renames insertAll to Storage Write API (REST)
BigQueryUpdate
Jul 27Google-developed ODBC driver for BigQuery is generally available
Jul 27You can discover commercial BigQuery sharing listings on Google Cloud Marketplace with the Marketplace filter
Jul 23An updated version of the Simba ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available
BigQueryUpdate
Jul 20Lakehouse : Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in Preview
BigQueryPreview
Jul 15BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking
BigQueryPreview
Jul 14As part of Gemini in BigQuery , conversational analytics now supports HIPAA compliance
BigQueryUpdate
Jul 14Conversational analytics now supports the AI.AGG function
BigQueryPreview
Jul 13BigQuery Data Transfer Service incremental Salesforce transfers are GA
Jul 13BigQuery Migration Service MCP server for SQL translation is GA
Jul 13BigQuery Overview page is generally available
Jul 13You can now use the ALTER SEARCH INDEX DDL statement to update the configuration of a search index
BigQueryPreview
Jul 13BigQuery Apache Iceberg managed tables get partitioning and transactions GA
Jul 13BigQuery project caps limit slots and concurrency per project in preview
BigQueryPreview
Jul 13Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports Snowflake as a remote catalog provider (Preview)
BigQueryPreview

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