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Title: March 12, 2024
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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Feature
AlloyDB Language Connectors are now generally available (GA). These language connectors are libraries that provide automated mutual TLS connections, IAM-based authorization, and Automated IAM Authentication when connecting to an AlloyDB instance. For more information about language connectors, see AlloyDB Language Connectors overview.
Anti Money Laundering AI
Announcement
Added a new metric to AML AI, providing insight into the importance of each feature family to an AML AI Model. This metric is available in new v4 engine versions. It allows you to:


Act on model monitoring outputs in the context of their importance to a model
Check the contribution of your Party Supplementary Data to a model

App Engine standard environment Go
Breaking
You can't use the latest version of dev_appserver.py to locally run your
applications for runtimes that reached end of support.
To continue using an archived version of dev_appserver.py, see
Use the local development server after runtimes reach the end of support.
App Engine standard environment Java
Breaking
You can't use the latest version of dev_appserver.py to locally run your
applications for runtimes that reached end of support.
To continue using an archived version of dev_appserver.py, see
Use the local development server after runtimes reach the end of support.
App Engine standard environment PHP
Breaking
You can't use the latest version of dev_appserver.py to locally run your
applications for runtimes that reached end of support.
To continue using an archived version of dev_appserver.py, see
Use the local development server after runtimes reach the end of support.
App Engine standard environment Python
Breaking
You can't use the latest version of dev_appserver.py to locally run your
applications for runtimes that reached end of support.
To continue using an archived version of dev_appserver.py, see
Use the local development server after runtimes reach the end of support.
Blockchain Node Engine
Announcement
On March 12, 2024, Blockchain Node Engine upgraded all mainnet Ethereum nodes in preparation for the Dencun Hardfork.
Certificate Manager
Feature
Certificate Manager supports integration with regional external Application Load Balancers and regional internal Application Load Balancers. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Certificate Manager overview.
Chronicle
Feature
Forwarder troubleshooting guide is now available to help you diagnose and resolve common issues that may arise while using the Chronicle Linux forwarder. 
Cloud Composer
Fixed
Fixed creation and upgrades in environments that have environment variables with special symbols.
Changed
Cloud Composer 2.6.4 images are available:


composer-2.6.4-airflow-2.6.3 (default)
composer-2.6.4-airflow-2.5.3

Deprecated
Cloud Composer versions 2.1.8 and 1.20.8 have reached their end of full support period.
Cloud Data Fusion
Fixed
The Cloud Data Fusion version 6.9.2.3 patch revision is generally available (GA). 6.9.2.3 includes the following fixes:


Skipped running MetadataConsumerSubscriberService when Dataplex Data Lineage Integration is disabled (CDAP-20947).
Fixed an issue causing runtime arguments of pipeline triggers to not propagate to downstream pipelines (CDAP-20943).
Fixed an issue causing pipelines to fail in starting state when the system worker service is intermittently unavailable (CDAP-20956).
Fixed an issue causing pipelines to fail in starting state when the Compute Engine metadata server is intermittently unavailable (CDAP-20955).

Cloud Load Balancing
Feature
The global external Proxy Network Load Balancer is implemented on globally distributed GFEs and supports advanced traffic management capabilities. This load balancer can be configured to handle either TCP or SSL traffic by using either a target TCP proxy or a target SSL proxy respectively. Global external proxy Network Load Balancers support backends such as instance groups, hybrid NEGs, and Private Service Connect NEGs.
For details, see the External proxy Network Load Balancer overview.

To set up a global external Proxy Network Load Balancer, see the following pages:


Instance group backends with SSL
Instance group backends with TCP


This capability is in General Availability.
Feature
Regional external Application Load Balancers and regional internal Application Load Balancers now support Certificate Manager certificates.  For more information, see Certificates and Google Cloud load balancers.

This capability is in General Availability.
Cloud Storage
Feature
You can now view granular bucket-level cost data in the Cloud Billing Detailed data export.
Cloud Translation
Feature
For AutoML datasets, you can tag segment pairs when importing them through the Google Cloud console.
Changed
You can request document translations with multi-regional endpoints.
Compute Engine
Feature
Generally available: You can scale a single VM into a managed instance group (MIG), which is a group of VMs that you can manage as a single entity. A MIG can make your workload scalable and highly available using features like autoscaling, autohealing, regional (multiple zones) deployment, and automatic updating. 

For more information, see Create a MIG from an existing VM.
Container Registry
Announcement
New tooling is available to upgrade from Container Registry to Artifact Registry. For more information on the available tools, see Automate migration to Artifact Registry.
Dataform
Feature
Granting repository access to all authenticated users is available. For more information, see Grant public access to a repository.
Retail API
Changed
Vertex AI Search for retail: Renamed in the console and documentation

The Google Cloud console has been updated to show the current product name for Vertex AI Search for retail.

You might see the old names (Retail or Retail API) in some places—for example, in the documentation. Google is in the process of updating content to reflect the new branding.
Vertex AI Search and Conversation
Announcement
Vertex AI Search: Vertex AI Search for healthcare (GA)

Vertex AI Search for healthcare is Generally available (GA).  Healthcare search lets you query healthcare records stored in FHIR data stores.  For more information, see Vertex AI Search. With healthcare search, you can:


Create a healthcare search data store and import FHIR R4 data
Create a healthcare search app
Search healthcare data using keywords and natural language queries
Search healthcare data using natural language queries with generative AI answers (Private preview)

Feature
Vertex AI Search: Specify a parser for unstructured content (Public preview)

You can control how documents are parsed when they are uploaded to Vertex AI Search. Parser specification is available in Public preview.

Vertex AI Search provides a digital parser (GA), an OCR parser for PDFs (Public preview), and a layout parser (Public Preview). During data store creation for generic search apps with unstructured data, you can set a default parser for the data store and an override parser for specific file types.

For more information, see Parse documents. 
Feature
Vertex AI Search: Turn on document chunking (Public preview)

To use Vertex AI Search for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for LLMs, you can turn on document chunking when creating a data store. Document chunking is available in Public preview.

When document chunking is turned on, your documents are split into chunks when you ingest documents into your data store, and your search app can return chunks of data in search results instead of full documents. Using chunked data for RAG increases relevance for LLM answers and reduces computational load for LLMs. Document chunking is in Public preview. For more information, see Chunk documents for RAG. 
Feature
Vertex AI Search: Connect ServiceNow as a data source (Private preview)

You can connect ServiceNow as a third-party data source for Vertex AI Search. For more information, see Connect a third-party data source.
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PublishedDate: 2024-03-12
Category: Technology
NewsPaper: GCP latest releases