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August 26, 2026
VM Extension Manager extension policies for the Ops Agent are Generally Available (GA). Extension policies provide zonal and project-wide Ops Agent installation, version upgrades, and configuration management. For more information, see Install and manage the Ops Agent by using VM Extension Manager policies.
August 14, 2026
The Telemetry API for logs ingestion is generally available (GA). You can ingest OTLP logs into Cloud Logging by using an OpenTelemetry Collector, an OTLP exporter, and the Telemetry API. For more information, see OTLP ingestion overview.
June 22, 2026
If the parent project for a Cloud Storage bucket changes, a log sink stops routing log entries to that bucket. For more information about error messages and recovery options, see Errors routing to Cloud Storage.
June 18, 2026
The Cloud Logging API adds support for the ca regional endpoint. For a
complete list of regional endpoints, see the
REST reference pages.
May 28, 2026
You can view the available regional endpoints for the Cloud Logging API on the REST reference pages. For an example, see Method: projects.locations.buckets.list.
May 15, 2026
Starting with version 2.66.0, the Ops Agent can export your logs and metrics by using the OpenTelemetry-based Telemetry API rather than by using the Cloud Logging API and Cloud Monitoring API. During the preview Preview period, you can opt-in to using the Telemetry API. For more information, see Use the Telemetry API.
April 22, 2026
The Cloud Logging API MCP server is generally available (GA). To learn about using the Logging MCP server to let agents and AI applications interact with your log entries, see Use the Cloud Logging remote MCP server.
April 20, 2026
Go
v1.16.0 (2026-04-13)
April 13, 2026
Go
v1.15.0 (2026-04-09)
April 07, 2026
You can now ingest OTLP-formatted logs into Cloud Logging by using an OpenTelemetry Collector, an OTLP exporter, and the Telemetry API. For more information, see OTLP log ingestion overview. The Telemetry API for log ingestion is in Preview.
April 06, 2026
Go
v1.14.0 (2026-04-02)
April 03, 2026
Cloud Logging adds support for the ca multi-region. For a complete list
of supported regions, see Supported regions.
This note is incorrect; see entry for
June 18, 2026.
April 02, 2026
The filter capabilities for log views have been extended to include support for disjunctive clauses, negation statements, and labels. To learn more, see Filters for log views.
March 30, 2026
For any new project that is created on or after March 30, 2026, if the project enables the Cloud Logging API, then Google Cloud Observability also enables the Telemetry API.
March 12, 2026
The automatic backfill operation performed on a log bucket that has been upgraded to use Log Analytics has been temporarily paused. To manually initiate the backfill operation, contact Cloud Customer Care.
February 12, 2026
You no longer need to configure BigQuery reservation assignments to create SQL-based alerting policies or run Log Analytics queries on BigQuery slots. These queries now use on-demand slots by default if no BigQuery reservation assignment exists.
For more information, see the following documents:
February 09, 2026
You can use the Cloud Logging API MCP server to let agents and AI applications interact with your log entries. This feature is in Preview.
February 02, 2026
January 29, 2026
You can now export your Crashlytics data and (optionally) Firebase sessions data to Cloud Logging. Once the data is exported, it's also available to Cloud Monitoring, so you can filter your logs, build custom dashboards, set up custom alerts, and even export the data to other services. For information about how to export your Crashlytics data, see Export Crashlytics data to Cloud Logging, and for information about how you can use this data, see What can you do with Crashlytics data in Cloud Logging.
January 26, 2026
To support correlation between log and trace data, the following changes have been made:
The required format for the
LogEntry.tracefield has been relaxed. The preferred format for this field is the trace ID. However, you can continue to provide the full resource name. For more information, seeLogEntry.If you open the Trace Details flyout page by using options provided in a log entry, then the resources listed in the default trace scope are searched for the trace data.
If you open the Logs Explorer page by using options on span data, then the resources listed in the default log scope are searched for log data.
To learn more about default scopes, see Configure observability scopes for multi-project queries.
You can now install and manage the Ops Agent on virtual machines across zones in your Google Cloud project by using global VM Extension Manager extension policies. Global and zonal extension policies can keep the installed version of the agent current, keep a specified version of the agent installed, and other tasks. For more information, see Install and manage the Ops Agent by using VM Extension Manager policies.
January 20, 2026
Cloud Logging adds support for the asia-southeast3 region. For a complete
list of supported regions, see
Supported regions.
January 19, 2026
December 22, 2025
Python
3.13.0 (2025-12-15)
Features
- Add support for python 3.14 (#1065) (6be3df6a)
Bug Fixes
- remove setup.cfg configuration for creating universal wheels (#981) (70f612c3)
Java
3.24.0-rc1 (2025-12-16)
Features
- [java] allow passing libraries_bom_version from env (#1967) (#1615) (dc00cd0)
- Add an API method for reordering firewall policies (#1538) (9cd6b96)
- Add Cloud Run Jobs support (#1574) (1dd64d0)
- enable hermetic library generation (#1620) (034b9c4)
- introduce
java.timemethods (#1729) (323eb33) - Log Analytics features of the Cloud Logging API (#1335) (7d43b80)
- logging: OpenTelemetry trace/span ID integration for Java logging library (#1596) (67db829)
- next release from main branch is 3.22.0 (#1776) (7736073)
- next release from main branch is 3.23.0 (#1826) (f0ef15f)
- update with latest from main (#1904) (d613362)
- Upgrade protobuf gen code to 4.33 (#1905) (e25b532)
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.31.0 (#1502) (c7a20de)
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.32.0 (#1511) (e2f574c)
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.37.0 (#1553) (15b05fc)
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.39.0 (#1587) (848418b)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.47.0 (90b88ee)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.49.0 (a1ec68d)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.50.0 (afcf63c)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.51.0 (04d8868)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.51.1 (705dba2)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.52.0 (888a885)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.54.0 (67fa9fb)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.55.1 (dd25992)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.56.2 (7cce5b5)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.56.3 (844f4fa)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.58.0 (45b4878)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.59.0 (f2362fb)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.60.2 (6a268f8)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.61.0 (0a21b83)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.62.1 (1438bff)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.62.2 (eeca440)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.62.3 (5d5d8a7)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.63.0 (385a1dc)
- deps: update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.64.1 (9187dcd)
- enable v2.LogEntry Protobufs converter functions (#1509) (9ef4d90)
- Fixed outdated link to X-Cloud-Trace-Context header description (#1713) (d474313)
- java: handle empty modules (09eeff0)
- java: skip fixing poms for special modules (#1744) (#1256) (09eeff0)
- next release candidate (31ee5a3)
- regenerate gapic yaml and service yaml for logging by augmentation configs (9023895)
- Remove org.jspecify dependency (#1364) (8138f46)
- Replace internal Structs class with google-cloud-core version (#1501) (21e1929)
Dependencies
- update actions/checkout action to v4 (#1570) (ea0db35)
- update actions/github-script action to v7 (#1571) (16d6192)
- update actions/setup-java action to v4 (#1572) (9eb8834)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.1.1 (#1243) (fdf6b7a)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.1.2 (#1258) (d4bc663)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.10.1 (#1354) (b2f1111)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.11.0 (#1367) (8cd2a53)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.12.0 (#1382) (8241302)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.13.0 (#1388) (03179b0)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.13.1 (#1395) (1a29b9d)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.14.0 (#1409) (f9af381)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.15.0 (#1424) (4f82f33)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.16.1 (#1434) (e9e9835)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.17.0 (#1444) (748e8a2)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.18.0 (#1454) (dc25a87)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.19.0 (#1468) (5835a7d)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.2.0 (#1269) (e196a80)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.20.0 (#1484) (f3227db)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.21.0 (#1500) (6cce3c9)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.22.0 (#1510) (b40e846)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.23.0 (#1518) (30ba9ed)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.3.0 (#1282) (58ac608)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.4.0 (#1290) (84d42ae)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.5.0 (#1301) (9fa6f05)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.6.0 (#1308) (febcf49)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.7.0 (#1318) (973d260)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.8.0 (#1326) (5a56f1b)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.9.0 (#1342) (8b14ae1)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.24.0 (#1526) (235f1aa)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.25.0 (#1535) (7fde779)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.27.0 (#1552) (6c5464d)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.28.0 (#1560) (d52e623)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.28.1 (#1563) (81aa3e6)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.28.1 (#1569) (8eb0781)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.29.0 (#1586) (edcaf8d)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.30.0 (#1603) (16967e5)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.30.1 (#1611) (e7a0904)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.31.0 (#1625) (9db8f3b)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.32.0 (#1649) (cb428d1)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.33.0 (#1664) (cb6de76)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.34.0 (#1677) (dbd050c)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.35.0 (#1683) (31ec2b9)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.36.1 (#1698) (9491512)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.37.0 (#1702) (1f7da17)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.41.1 (#1745) (6a7280d)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.42.0 (#1755) (d404381)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.43.0 (#1763) (e0f9f27)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.44.0 (#1768) (a69e699)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.45.1 (#1779) (a643ab0)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.46.2 (#1796) (1f88271)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.46.3 (#1801) (d7aa7bc)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.47.0 (#1803) (5967ffe)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.48.0 (#1808) (6327c51)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.49.0 (#1813) (c15da84)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.50.0 (#1821) (af4edc5)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.50.1 (#1828) (44c3094)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.50.2 (#1834) (2e46f6e)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.51.0 (#1843) (975d8ae)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.52.0 (#1848) (162ef56)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.52.1 (#1853) (c21a635)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.52.2 (#1858) (0252352)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.52.3 (#1869) (94405fa)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.53.0 (#1875) (b79fd2b)
- update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.54.1 (