Cloud Tasks release notes

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July 21, 2026

v2beta3
Feature

Cloud Tasks support for the following is available in Preview:

July 14, 2026

v2
Change

Cloud Tasks is available in the following locations:

  • me-central1 (Doha, Qatar)
  • me-central2 (Dammam, Saudi Arabia)

January 06, 2025

v2 & v2beta3
Feature

To help ensure CMEK usage across an organization, Cloud Tasks is integrated with two organization policy constraints.

March 18, 2024

v2
Announcement

For tasks that have HTTP targets (as opposed to App Engine targets), the option to set routing for tasks at the queue level is now at General Availability (GA). If you set routing at the queue level, you do not have to set routing for each individual task. To learn more, see Configure routing.

v2
Announcement

The BufferTask method for creating tasks is now at General Availability (GA).

October 18, 2023

v2 & v2beta3
Feature

Support for Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) is now available for Cloud Tasks. To learn more, see the documentation on using CMEK with Cloud Tasks.

June 15, 2023

v2 & v2beta3
Feature

Cloud Asset Inventory support for Cloud Tasks is now in Preview. For details, see the Cloud Asset Inventory release note.

April 18, 2023

v2beta3
Feature

For tasks that have HTTP targets (as opposed to App Engine targets), you can now set routing for tasks at the queue level. If you set routing at the queue level, you do not have to set routing for each individual task. To learn more, see Configure routing.

This feature is in Preview.

v2beta3
Feature

You can now create tasks by sending an HTTP request to your queue. To learn more, read about the new