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July 21, 2026
Cloud Tasks support for the following is available in Preview:
- Set retry parameters when creating a task and override the queue-level retry configuration for the task.
- Create a batch of tasks and add the batch to an existing queue.
- Delete a batch of tasks from a queue.
July 14, 2026
Cloud Tasks is available in the following locations:
me-central1(Doha, Qatar)me-central2(Dammam, Saudi Arabia)
January 06, 2025
To help ensure CMEK usage across an organization, Cloud Tasks is integrated with two organization policy constraints.
March 18, 2024
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.
The BufferTask method for creating tasks is now at General Availability (GA).
October 18, 2023
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
Cloud Asset Inventory support for Cloud Tasks is now in Preview. For details, see the Cloud Asset Inventory release note.
April 18, 2023
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.
You can now create tasks by sending an HTTP request to your queue. To learn more, read about the new