Google Release Notes

Announcement

Gemini Enterprise: Gemini Code Assist availability update for subscriptions

If you're getting a new Gemini Enterprise Standard or Plus subscription or renewing an existing subscription online, the subscription no longer includes access to Gemini Code Assist features. Existing subscriptions that include Gemini Code Assist features can still access the features until the end of their subscription term.

Instead of Gemini Code Assist, you can use Antigravity for IDEs with AI developer tools. For more information, see AI developer tools overview.

If you're still looking to use Gemini Code Assist with your Gemini Enterprise licenses, you can obtain a new Gemini Enterprise subscription that includes Gemini Code Assist by contacting Google Cloud sales.

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Voice input for the chat box

You can speak your queries and prompts to Gemini Enterprise. Use the microphone button to record your voice, review and edit the transcribed text, and then submit the text.

This feature is generally available (GA). To make voice input available to users, a Gemini Enterprise administrator must turn on the Enable speech-to-text toggle in the Google Cloud console.

For more information, see the following:

• Manage web app features …

Feature

CodeMender updates (v0.8.0)

This release introduces updates to CodeMender:

• Gemini 3.8 Flash default: Gemini 3.8 Flash (gemini-3.8-flash) is now supported and enabled as the default model for CodeMender CLI sessions, delivering faster inference and improved reasoning. A one-time notice in the CLI informs users when the new default is active.
• Tool payload guardrails: Introduced safe output limits for file reading (2 MiB) and codebase grep search (512 KiB) with centered match context windows, eliminating payload overflow errors and improving stability during large repository scans.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where shell detection and command execution on Windows could fail during repository resets and exploit verification when Git Bash was installed in standard registry or non-PATH locations.
  • Fixed an issue in cm verify where verified findings could report "not found" or fail to persist confidence and status upon session completion or resumption.
  • Fixed syntax errors in generated verification scripts caused by invalid regex escaping in grep assertions during cm verify.
  • Prevented HTTP 409 lease conflict errors during long-running sessions by ensuring streaming HTTP connections are promptly released.

For more information, see CodeMender documentation.

Feature

Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber available in allowlisted GA …

Cloud Functions

• Cloud Functions for Firebase (2nd gen) now supports Firebase Authentication event triggers. You can use the onUserCreated and onUserDeleted event handlers from firebase-functions/v2/identity to trigger functions in response to user account creation and deletion events. This release includes support for CloudEvents data payloads, Identity Platform multi-tenancy scoping using IS_NOT_TENANT, and compatibility destructuring for 1st gen migrations. To learn more, see Firebase Authentication triggers.

SDK Releases

• The Firebase SDK for C++ (v13.13.0) is now available. This release includes miscellaneous changes.

Feature

Reinforcement learning fine-tuning in the Google Cloud console (Preview)

You can create, monitor, and test reinforcement learning fine-tuning jobs for Gemini models in the Google Cloud console (Preview). From the Models > Tuning page, you can configure Python code or model-based reward functions, test reward logic against sample prompts before launching a job, track training and evaluation metrics in real time, and test tuned checkpoints in Agent Studio.

For more information, see Quick start: Reinforcement learning fine-tuning using the console.

Deprecated

Gemini model deprecation and retirement date updates

The retirement and deprecation dates for the following Gemini models have been updated:

• Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (gemini-2.5-flash-image): Deprecated and scheduled for retirement on March 15, 2027 (extended from October 2, 2026). Migrate to Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image).
• Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image): Retirement date is scheduled for June 28, 2027 or later.

For more information, see Gemini model versions and lifecycle.

Fixed

CodeMender updates (v0.7.0)

This release introduces updates to CodeMender:

• Network stream resilience: Improved CLI session stability with automatic reconnection and transient error recovery during long-running scans and remediation workflows.
• Configuration uniformity: Standardized directory exclusion rules across configuration files and CLI scanning flags under scan_config.exclude_dirs.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where cm report incorrectly categorized DISMISSED findings as OPEN in the summary table.
  • Resolved sandbox permission denial errors by preventing child worker processes from attempting to create internal session logs on disk. …

Features:

• Feature #2888 Publish multi-arch (linux/arm64) image for osv-scanner-action.
• Feature #3066 Configure retry policy with exponential backoff for transient gRPC errors in scalibr plugins.
• Dependency scanning & lockfile improvements via osv-scalibr:
  • Extract Git repository URLs and support local OSV tag matching for Git-based dependencies in JavaScript lockfiles (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, bun.lock).
  • Assign pkg:git PURL type to Git commit-pinned dependencies across JS and Cargo lockfiles to avoid false positives against registry packages (#2863).
  • Retain packages without a version or PURL in SPDX output (google/osv-scalibr#2375) and merge related packages based on lineage relationships.
• New extractors and plugin support via osv-scalibr:
  • Many additional filetypes are supported. These are not enabled by default yet, so if you need a particular new filetype, use --experimental-plugins flag. See "Supported Inventory Types" for the extractor name.

Fixes: …

Agent Platform Workbench

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Change

20260911.00_p0 Release

Change

20260913.00_p0 Release

Change

Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.

Change

Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.

Fixed

Fixed the %%bigquery notebook cell magic, which returned an error instead of query results in JupyterLab 4.

Fixed

Fixed the %%bigquery notebook cell magic, which returned an error instead of query results in JupyterLab 4.

Change

20260913-2230-rc0 Release

Change

20260913-2230-rc0 Release

Change

Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.

Change

Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.

Fixed

Fixed an issue where the notebook-disable-nbconvert metadata flag was ignored in custom containers.

Change

The obsolete google-cloud-sdk transitional package is no longer installed. The Google Cloud CLI itself is unchanged; it was already provided by the google-cloud-cli package.

Fixed

Fixed the %%bigquery notebook cell magic, which returned an error instead of query results in JupyterLab 4.

Fixed

Fixed an issue where the notebook-disable-nbconvert metadata flag was ignored in custom containers.

Fixed

Fixed the %%bigquery notebook cell magic, which returned an error instead of query results in JupyterLab 4.

Change

20260913-2130-rc0 Release

Change

Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.

Fixed …

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: New data stores and support for new actions (Preview)

The following data stores are available in Public Preview in Gemini Enterprise:

• D&B Risk Analytics (actions supported)
• Finnhub
• Grafana

You can search and read data from these data stores, and perform actions using natural language.

Additionally, the following data store supports new actions in Public Preview:

• Clay: Find and enrich company, find and enrich contacts at company, and find and enrich list of contacts.

Feature

Meet API

Generally Available: The spaces.members resource is now generally available. You can use the Meet API to manage meeting space members and assign co-host roles before or during a meeting.

The following methods are available on the spaces.members resource:

• create: Adds a member to a meeting space.
• delete: Removes a member from a meeting space.
• get: Retrieves details about a member.
• list: Lists members in a meeting space.
• patch: Updates a member's role.
• batchUpdate: Updates multiple members' roles in a single request.

For details, see Manage meeting space members.

Firebase AI Logic

• Firebase AI Logic now lets you run your own custom server-side scripts before and after every request. You implement these scripts as functions deployed to Cloud Functions for Firebase, and they'll trigger for every generateContent request that your app sends to the Gemini API via Firebase AI Logic. You can use this capability for many use cases, like moderating prompts, capping token usage, logging generations for analytics, redacting response content, etc. — all without modifying your client-side code.

SDK Releases

• The Firebase Admin Node.js SDK (v14.4.0) is now available. This release includes deprecations in Firebase ML ahead of the service turndown on June 15, 2027. This release also includes dependency updates in Cloud Firestore and Cloud Storage packages. To install this SDK, see Add the Firebase Admin SDK to your server.

Feature

Standard PayGo adds Tier 4

Tier 4 is added to the Standard PayGo usage tiers, for spend above $50,000 per 30-day period, and Tier 3 is bounded at $2,000 to $50,000 per 30-day period. For details, see Standard PayGo usage tiers.

Change

Priority PayGo removes ramp limits

Priority PayGo throughput limits are available immediately, with no ramp-up period, and traffic above the limit is downgraded to Standard PayGo only when there isn't spare capacity to serve it at priority. For details, see Priority PayGo throughput limits.

Feature

Provisioned Throughput: Support for multiple pending orders and change requests

Provisioned Throughput now directly supports from the self service console the ability to schedule multiple new orders at the same time and change requests across multiple orders within the same project.

For more information, see Purchase Provisioned Throughput.

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Pay-as-you-go edition and AI developer tools available for all invoiced Cloud Billing accounts

Subscribing to the Gemini Enterprise Pay-as-you-go edition and accessing AI developer tools is available to all projects linked to an invoiced Cloud Billing account. Previously, only customers who received an email with the subject line [Billing Update] New Gemini Enterprise overage billing controls launching Aug 17, 2026 could access AI developer tools. This restriction no longer applies.

For more information, see:

• Compare editions of Gemini Enterprise
• AI developer tools overview

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Support for channel mentions and multi-turn conversations in the Gemini Enterprise app for Slack

The Gemini Enterprise app for Slack has the following new capabilities:

• Channel mentions: You can @mention the Gemini Enterprise app directly in Slack channels and conversational threads. The app returns responses privately so you can review them before choosing to share. …

Firebase CLI (v15.30.0)

• The latest Firebase CLI (v15.30.0) is now available. This version updates the Firebase SQL Connect local toolkit to v3.4.19, repurposes the local dataconnect_execute tool, and includes several fixes and improvements.

  To use the Firebase CLI in your development environment, set up or update the CLI.

SDK Releases

• The Firebase Apple SDK (v12.19.1) is now available. For more details, see the Firebase Apple SDK release notes. To install this SDK, see Add Firebase to your app.

• The Firebase Apple SDK (v12.19.0) is now available. For more details, see the Firebase Apple SDK release notes. To install this SDK, see Add Firebase to your app.

• The Firebase Android SDKs for Firebase AI Logic, Cloud Messaging, Cloud Storage, Crashlytics, Crashlytics NDK, Firebase ML, and Realtime Database have been updated. For more details, check out the latest Android Release Notes. To get started with Firebase in Android, see Add Firebase to your Android Project. …

Feature

Computer Use and Shell sandboxes are generally available

Computer Use and Shell sandboxes in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform are now generally available (GA). This release also includes the following new features for Agent Platform sandboxes:

• Shell sandboxes: Run untrusted shell commands, install packages, and manipulate files in an isolated Linux container using direct API /exec calls. For more information, see the Shell sandbox quickstart.

• VPC Service Controls & Private Service Connect: Protect sandbox data and isolate network boundaries with VPC Service Controls, private ingress endpoints (PSC-E), and private egress routing (PSC-I). For more information, see Configure VPC Service Controls and Private Service Connect with sandboxes.

• Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK): Protect sandbox data at rest, including disk storage and snapshot checkpoints, using Cloud KMS keys. For more information, see Configure customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for sandboxes. …