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Content <strong class="release-note-product-title">AlloyDB for PostgreSQL</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>AlloyDB now supports the use of Google Cloud tags on cluster and backup resources. Tags are key-value pairs you can apply to your resources for granular IAM permissions. To learn more, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/docs/tags">Organize resources using tags</a>. To use tags now, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/docs/manage-tags">Attach and manage tags on AlloyDB resources</a>.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Anti Money Laundering AI</strong> <h3>Announcement</h3> <p>Added a new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/financial-services/anti-money-laundering/docs/reference/engine-versions">engine version</a> page so you can keep track of the latest engine version releases.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Backup and DR</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>Backup and DR Service is now integrated with Cloud Monitoring. You can analyze metrics and set custom email alerts. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/metrics">Learn more</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>Backup and DR Service has added a new reporting system based on the built-in Google Cloud services: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and BigQuery. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/reports-overview">Learn more</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>You can now view prebuilt reports in BigQuery. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/logs-route-bigquery">Learn more</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>You can now view comprehensive job related reporting data through backup and recovery job logs in Cloud Logging. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/job-logs">Learn more</a>.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">BigQuery</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>Materialized views can now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-create#reference_logical_views">reference logical views</a>. This feature is in <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">preview</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>The ability to perform <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-detect-anomalies">anomaly detection</a> with BigQuery ML <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-create-multivariate-time-series">multivariate time series (<code>ARIMA_PLUS_XREG</code>) models</a> is now in <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">preview</a>. This feature enables you to detect anomalies in historical time series data or in new data with multiple feature columns. Try this new feature by using the <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/time-series-anomaly-detection-tutorial">Perform anomaly detection with a multivariate time-series forecasting model</a> tutorial.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>The following statements are now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">generally available</a> (GA) with billing enabled:</p> <ul> <li><code>CREATE TABLE AS SELECT</code></li> <li><code>CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS AS SELECT</code></li> <li><code>CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE AS SELECT</code></li> <li><code>INSERT INTO SELECT</code></li> </ul> <p>These statements let you <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/load-data-using-cross-cloud-transfer#filter-data">filter data from files in Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage</a> before transferring results into BigQuery tables.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Cloud Composer</strong> <h3>Announcement</h3> <p><strong>Cloud Composer 2.6.3</strong> release started on <strong>February 28, 2024</strong>. Get ready for upcoming changes and features as we roll out the new release to all regions. This release is in progress at the moment. Listed changes and features might not be available in some regions yet</p> <h3>Changed</h3> <p><em>(Cloud Composer 2 in select regions)</em> Cloud Composer shows the account selection and consent screens when opening Airflow UI for an environment.</p> <p>If you have the &quot;Don&#39;t allow users to access any third-party apps&quot; setting enabled in Google Workspace, then configure access to the &quot;Apache Airflow in Cloud Composer&quot; app in Google Workspace, so that your Google Workspace users can still access Airflow UI in Cloud Composer environments. For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/composer-2/access-control#airflow-ui-access-google-workspace">Allow access to Airflow UI in Google Workspace</a>.</p> <h3>Changed</h3> <p><em>(Cloud Composer 2 in select regions)</em> Reduced the propagation time of the revoked Cloud IAM permission that blocks access to Airflow UI.</p> <h3>Changed</h3> <p>In new environments with Airflow 2.6.3, the <strong>default values</strong> of the following Airflow configuration options are changed to provide more optimized Cloud Composer environments:</p> <ul> <li><code>[scheduler]job_heartbeat_sec</code> to <code>30</code></li> <li><code>[scheduler]scheduler_heartbeat_sec</code> to <code>15</code></li> </ul> <h3>Fixed</h3> <p>Fixed a problem where the IAM policy of a <a href="https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/composer-2/use-custom-bucket">custom environment&#39;s bucket</a> is replaced when an environment is created.</p> <h3>Changed</h3> <p>The <code>apache-airflow-providers-google</code> package is upgraded to version 10.15.0 in images with Airflow 2.6.3. For more information about changes, see the <a href="https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/10.15.0/commits.html">apache-airflow-providers-google changelog</a> from version 10.14.0 to version 10.15.0.</p> <h3>Changed</h3> <p><strong>Cloud Composer 2.6.3</strong> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/concepts/versioning/composer-versions">images</a> are available:</p> <ul> <li>composer-2.6.3-airflow-2.6.3 (default)</li> <li>composer-2.6.3-airflow-2.5.3</li> </ul> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Confidential Space</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>Data collaborators can now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing/confidential-space/docs/reference/attestation-assertions?tab=vm-assertions#instance_memory_monitoring_enabled">check if memory monitoring is enabled</a> on a Confidential VM running a Confidential Space workload.</p> <h3>Announcement</h3> <p>A new Confidential Space image (240200) is now available. This image provides support for data collaborators to add memory monitoring as part of their attestation assertions.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Dataproc</strong> <h3>Announcement</h3> <p>New <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/versioning/dataproc-version-clusters#supported_dataproc_versions">Dataproc on Compute Engine subminor image versions</a>:</p> <ul> <li>2.0.93-debian10, 2.0.93-rocky8, 2.0.93-ubuntu18</li> <li>2.1.41-debian11, 2.1.41-rocky8, 2.1.41-ubuntu20, 2.1.41-ubuntu20-arm</li> <li>2.2.7-debian12, 2.2.7-rocky9, 2.2.7-ubuntu22</li> </ul> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Dataproc on Compute Engine</strong>: The new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/guides/hadoop-google-secret-manager-credential-provider">Secret Manager credential provider</a> feature is available in the latest 2.1 image versions.</p> <h3>Changed</h3> <p><strong>Dataproc on Compute Engine</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Upgraded Zookeeper to 3.8.3 for Dataproc 2.2.</li> <li>Upgraded ORC for Hive to 1.15.13 for Dataproc 2.1.</li> <li>Upgraded ORC for Spark to 1.7.10 for Dataproc 2.1.</li> <li>Extended expiry for the internal Knox Gateway certificate from one year to five years from cluster creation for Dataproc images 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2.</li> </ul> <h3>Fixed</h3> <p><strong>Dataproc on Compute Engine</strong>: Fixed ZooKeeper startup failures in image 2.2 HA (High Availability) clusters that use fully qualified hostnames.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Deep Learning VM Images</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>M117 release</strong></p> <ul> <li>Added the CUDA version (CUDA 11.8) to the TensorFlow 2.12, 2.13, and 2.14 image names and image family names. For example, <code>tf-2-12-gpu</code> is renamed <code>tf-2-12-cu118</code>.</li> </ul> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Google Cloud Architecture Center</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/configure-networks-fedramp-dod-google-cloud">Configure networks for FedRAMP and DoD in Google Cloud</a>: Provides configuration guidance to help you comply with design requirements for FedRAMP High and DoD IL2, IL4, and IL5 when you deploy Google Cloud networking policies.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/rag-capable-gen-ai-app-using-vertex-ai">Infrastructure for a RAG-capable generative AI application using Vertex AI</a>: Design infrastructure to run a generative AI application with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to help improve the factual accuracy and contextual relevance of LLM-generated content.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Google Cloud VMware Engine</strong> <h3>Announcement</h3> <p>Beginning on March 12, 2024, the VMware Engine operations team will perform essential maintenance of the network infrastructure to improve equipment robustness and apply security patches. Users affected by this upgrade will receive an email with planned maintenance dates and times.</p> <p>For details about the upgrade and steps to prepare, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine/docs/service-announcements">Service annoucements</a>.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Google Kubernetes Engine</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p>The <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/performance-pods">Performance Compute Class</a>, designed for running whole-machine CPU workloads, is available in Autopilot mode from versions 1.28.6-gke.1369000 and 1.29.1-gke.1575000 and later.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">SAP on Google Cloud</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Disk snapshot based backup and recovery for SAP HANA</strong></p> <p>From version 3.0, you can use the disk snapshot feature of Google Cloud&#39;s Agent for SAP to perform backup and recovery operations for SAP HANA systems running on Google Cloud.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/sap/docs/agent-for-sap/latest/disk-snapshot-backup-recovery">Disk snapshot based backup and recovery for SAP HANA</a>.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Security Command Center</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Virtual Machine Threat Detection</strong>, a built-in service of Security Command Center Premium, has launched a new detector, <code>Defense Evasion: Rootkit</code>, in <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">Preview</a>.</p> <p>The detector monitors virtual machines and generates a finding if a combination of signals matching a known kernel-mode rootkit is present.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/security-command-center/docs/concepts-vm-threat-detection-overview">Virtual Machine Threat Detection overview</a>.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Vertex AI Search and Conversation</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Add metadata to your web index (Public preview)</strong></p> <p>If advanced website indexing is enabled in your data store, you can add metadata to the data store schema to enrich your indexing.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/add-website-metadata">Add metadata for advanced site indexing</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Automatic web page refresh (Public preview)</strong></p> <p>With advanced website indexing, Vertex AI Search performs conditional, automatic refresh. </p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/recrawl-websites">Refresh web pages</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Apply tuned search to some queries (Public preview)</strong></p> <p>You can specify whether you want a query to use the tuned search model or the non-tuned search model. This is particularly helpful for testing the difference between the two versions of the model. </p> <p>Previously, the tuned search model was enabled (or disabled) for all queries against the data store.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/tune-search#tune-search-test">Test tuned search and use it for individual search queries</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Access controlled data sources (Public preview)</strong></p> <p>Access control for BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Confluence data is available in Public preview. This feature allows you to limit the data that users can view in your search app&#39;s results. Google uses your identity provider to identify the end user performing a search and determine if they have access to the documents that are returned as results. Google Identity and third-party identity provider federation are supported.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/data-source-access-control">Use data source access control</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Blended search (Public preview)</strong></p> <p>Blended search, where multiple data stores can be connected to a single generic search app, is available in Public preview. This feature allows you to use one generic search app to search across multiple sources and types of data.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/create-data-store-es#multi-data-stores">About connecting multiple data stores</a>.</p> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Search analytics (GA)</strong></p> <p>Search analytics are GA for global data stores. For data stores in US and EU multi-regions, viewing analytics is in Public Preview.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/view-analytics">View analytics</a>.</p> <strong class="release-note-product-title">Vertex AI Workbench</strong> <h3>Feature</h3> <p><strong>M117 release</strong></p> <p>The M117 release of Vertex AI Workbench instances includes the following:</p> <ul> <li>Removed the Cloud Storage browser in the left side pane in favor of the existing <strong>Mount shared storage</strong> button.</li> </ul>

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Hidden blurb --- !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::AtomEntry entry_id: tag:google.com,2016:gcp-release-notes#February_28_2024 content: "<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">AlloyDB for PostgreSQL</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>AlloyDB now supports the use of Google Cloud tags on cluster and backup resources. Tags are key-value pairs you can apply to your resources for granular IAM permissions. To learn more, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/docs/tags\">Organize resources using tags</a>. To use tags now, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/docs/manage-tags\">Attach and manage tags on AlloyDB resources</a>.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Anti Money Laundering AI</strong>\n<h3>Announcement</h3>\n<p>Added a new <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/financial-services/anti-money-laundering/docs/reference/engine-versions\">engine version</a> page so you can keep track of the latest engine version releases.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Backup and DR</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>Backup and DR Service is now integrated with Cloud Monitoring. You can analyze metrics and set custom email alerts. <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/metrics\">Learn more</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>Backup and DR Service has added a new reporting system based on the built-in Google Cloud services: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and BigQuery. <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/reports-overview\">Learn more</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>You can now view prebuilt reports in BigQuery. <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/logs-route-bigquery\">Learn more</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>You can now view comprehensive job related reporting data through backup and recovery job logs in Cloud Logging. <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/backup-disaster-recovery/docs/monitor-reports/job-logs\">Learn more</a>.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">BigQuery</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>Materialized views can now <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-create#reference_logical_views\">reference logical views</a>. This feature is in <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages\">preview</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>The ability to perform\n<a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-detect-anomalies\">anomaly detection</a>\nwith BigQuery ML\n<a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/bigqueryml-syntax-create-multivariate-time-series\">multivariate time series (<code>ARIMA_PLUS_XREG</code>) models</a>\nis now in\n<a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages\">preview</a>.\nThis feature enables you to detect anomalies in historical time series data or\nin new data with multiple feature columns. 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Get ready for upcoming changes and features as we roll out the new release to all regions. This release is in progress at the moment. Listed changes and features might not be available in some regions yet</p>\n<h3>Changed</h3>\n<p><em>(Cloud Composer 2 in select regions)</em> Cloud Composer shows the account selection and consent screens when opening Airflow UI for an environment.</p>\n\n<p>If you have the &quot;Don&#39;t allow users to access any third-party apps&quot; setting enabled in Google Workspace, then configure access to the &quot;Apache Airflow in Cloud Composer&quot; app in Google Workspace, so that your Google Workspace users can still access Airflow UI in Cloud Composer environments. For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/composer-2/access-control#airflow-ui-access-google-workspace\">Allow access to Airflow UI in Google Workspace</a>.</p>\n<h3>Changed</h3>\n<p><em>(Cloud Composer 2 in select regions)</em> Reduced the propagation time of the revoked Cloud IAM permission that blocks access to Airflow UI.</p>\n<h3>Changed</h3>\n<p>In new environments with Airflow 2.6.3, the <strong>default values</strong> of the following Airflow configuration options are changed to provide more optimized Cloud Composer environments:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><code>[scheduler]job_heartbeat_sec</code> to <code>30</code></li>\n<li><code>[scheduler]scheduler_heartbeat_sec</code> to <code>15</code></li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fixed</h3>\n<p>Fixed a problem where the IAM policy of a <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/composer-2/use-custom-bucket\">custom environment&#39;s bucket</a> is replaced when an environment is created.</p>\n<h3>Changed</h3>\n<p>The <code>apache-airflow-providers-google</code> package is upgraded to version 10.15.0 in images with Airflow 2.6.3. For more information about changes, see the <a href=\"https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/10.15.0/commits.html\">apache-airflow-providers-google changelog</a> from version 10.14.0 to version 10.15.0.</p>\n<h3>Changed</h3>\n<p><strong>Cloud Composer 2.6.3</strong> <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/concepts/versioning/composer-versions\">images</a> are available:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>composer-2.6.3-airflow-2.6.3 (default)</li>\n<li>composer-2.6.3-airflow-2.5.3</li>\n</ul>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Confidential Space</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>Data collaborators can now <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing/confidential-space/docs/reference/attestation-assertions?tab=vm-assertions#instance_memory_monitoring_enabled\">check if memory monitoring is enabled</a> on a Confidential VM running a Confidential Space workload.</p>\n<h3>Announcement</h3>\n<p>A new Confidential Space image (240200) is now available. This image provides support for data collaborators to add memory monitoring as part of their attestation assertions.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Dataproc</strong>\n<h3>Announcement</h3>\n<p>New <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/versioning/dataproc-version-clusters#supported_dataproc_versions\">Dataproc on Compute Engine subminor image versions</a>:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>2.0.93-debian10, 2.0.93-rocky8, 2.0.93-ubuntu18</li>\n<li>2.1.41-debian11, 2.1.41-rocky8, 2.1.41-ubuntu20, 2.1.41-ubuntu20-arm</li>\n<li>2.2.7-debian12, 2.2.7-rocky9, 2.2.7-ubuntu22</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Dataproc on Compute Engine</strong>: The new <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/guides/hadoop-google-secret-manager-credential-provider\">Secret Manager credential provider</a> feature is available in the latest 2.1 image versions.</p>\n<h3>Changed</h3>\n<p><strong>Dataproc on Compute Engine</strong>:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Upgraded Zookeeper to 3.8.3 for Dataproc 2.2.</li>\n<li>Upgraded ORC for Hive to 1.15.13 for Dataproc 2.1.</li>\n<li>Upgraded ORC for Spark to 1.7.10 for Dataproc 2.1.</li>\n<li>Extended expiry for the internal Knox Gateway certificate from one year to five years from cluster creation for Dataproc images 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fixed</h3>\n<p><strong>Dataproc on Compute Engine</strong>: Fixed ZooKeeper startup failures in image 2.2 HA (High Availability) clusters that use fully qualified hostnames.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Deep Learning VM Images</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>M117 release</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Added the CUDA version (CUDA 11.8) to the TensorFlow 2.12, 2.13, and 2.14 image names and image family names. For example, <code>tf-2-12-gpu</code> is renamed <code>tf-2-12-cu118</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Google Cloud Architecture Center</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>(New guide) <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/architecture/configure-networks-fedramp-dod-google-cloud\">Configure networks for FedRAMP and DoD in Google Cloud</a>: Provides configuration guidance to help you comply with design requirements for FedRAMP High and DoD IL2, IL4, and IL5 when you deploy Google Cloud networking policies.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>(New guide) <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/architecture/rag-capable-gen-ai-app-using-vertex-ai\">Infrastructure for a RAG-capable generative AI application using Vertex AI</a>: Design infrastructure to run a generative AI application with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to help improve the factual accuracy and contextual relevance of LLM-generated content.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Google Cloud VMware Engine</strong>\n<h3>Announcement</h3>\n<p>Beginning on March 12, 2024, the VMware Engine operations team will perform essential maintenance of the network infrastructure to improve equipment robustness and apply security patches. Users affected by this upgrade will receive an email with planned maintenance dates and times.</p>\n\n<p>For details about the upgrade and steps to prepare, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine/docs/service-announcements\">Service annoucements</a>.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Google Kubernetes Engine</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/performance-pods\">Performance Compute Class</a>, designed for running whole-machine CPU workloads, is available in Autopilot mode from versions 1.28.6-gke.1369000 and 1.29.1-gke.1575000 and later.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">SAP on Google Cloud</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Disk snapshot based backup and recovery for SAP HANA</strong></p>\n\n<p>From version 3.0, you can use the disk snapshot feature of Google Cloud&#39;s Agent for SAP to perform backup and recovery operations for SAP HANA systems running on Google Cloud.</p>\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/solutions/sap/docs/agent-for-sap/latest/disk-snapshot-backup-recovery\">Disk snapshot based backup and recovery for SAP HANA</a>.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Security Command Center</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Virtual Machine Threat Detection</strong>, a built-in service of Security Command Center Premium, has launched a new detector, <code>Defense Evasion: Rootkit</code>, in <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages\">Preview</a>.</p>\n\n<p>The detector monitors virtual machines and generates a finding if a combination of signals matching a known kernel-mode rootkit is present.</p>\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/security-command-center/docs/concepts-vm-threat-detection-overview\">Virtual Machine Threat Detection overview</a>.</p>\n<strong class=\"release-note-product-title\">Vertex AI Search and Conversation</strong>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Add metadata to your web index (Public preview)</strong></p>\n\n<p>If advanced website indexing is enabled in your data store, you can add metadata to the data store schema to enrich your indexing.</p>\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/add-website-metadata\">Add metadata for advanced site indexing</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Automatic web page refresh (Public preview)</strong></p>\n\n<p>With advanced website indexing, Vertex AI Search performs conditional, automatic refresh. </p>\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/recrawl-websites\">Refresh web pages</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Apply tuned search to some queries (Public preview)</strong></p>\n\n<p>You can specify whether you want a query to use the tuned search model or the non-tuned search model. This is particularly helpful for testing the difference between the two versions of the model. </p>\n\n<p>Previously, the tuned search model was enabled (or disabled) for all queries against the data store.</p>\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/tune-search#tune-search-test\">Test tuned search and use it for individual search queries</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Access controlled data sources (Public preview)</strong></p>\n\n<p>Access control for BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Confluence data is available in Public preview. This feature allows you to limit the data that users can view in your search app&#39;s results. Google uses your identity provider to identify the end user performing a search and determine if they have access to the documents that are returned as results. Google Identity and third-party identity provider federation are supported.</p>\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/data-source-access-control\">Use data source access control</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Blended search (Public preview)</strong></p>\n\n<p>Blended search, where multiple data stores can be connected to a single generic search app, is available in Public preview. This feature allows you to use one generic search app to search across multiple sources and types of data.</p>\n\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs/create-data-store-es#multi-data-stores\">About connecting multiple data stores</a>.</p>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<p><strong>Vertex AI Search: Search analytics (GA)</strong></p>\n\n<p>Search analytics are GA for global data stores. 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