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December 09, 2024
You can now transition your Data Catalog content and usage to Dataplex Catalog. For more information, see Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog.
November 18, 2024
Data Catalog is now available in the Mexico (northamerica-south1) region. For more information, see Global locations and pricing.
October 18, 2024
Data lineage is available in the following Google Cloud regions:
- Berlin (
europe-west10) - Dammam (
me-central2) - Doha (
me-central1) - Johannesburg (
africa-south1) - Turin (
europe-west12)
Data lineage is available in the following BigQuery Omni regions:
- AWS - Asia Pacific (Sydney) (
aws-ap-southeast-2) - AWS - Europe (Ireland) (
aws-eu-west-1) - AWS - Europe (Frankfurt) (
aws-eu-central-1) - AWS - US West (Oregon) (
aws-us-west-2)
October 10, 2024
In the data lineage list view, you can filter lineage information based on the time that lineage occurred. For more information, see About data lineage.
August 12, 2024
Data lineage list view is available in preview. The lineage list view displays full lineage information in a single table. For more information, see Data lineage list view.
July 24, 2024
Column-level data lineage for BigQuery is available in Preview for allowlisted users. The existing data lineage feature tracks how BigQuery data moves through your systems at the table level. Column-level lineage extends this feature to let you track BigQuery data movement at the column level.
To sign up for access, fill out the Column-level lineage sign-up form.
February 29, 2024
Data Catalog is now available in the Frankfurt (aws-eu-central-1), Sydney (aws-ap-southeast-2) and Washington (azure-westus2) regions. For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
February 02, 2024
Data Catalog is now available in Johannesburg (africa-south1). For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
September 19, 2023
Data Catalog is available in the me-central2 (Dammam) region.
For more information, see Regions.
September 06, 2023
Data Catalog is now available in Berlin (europe-west10). For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
July 31, 2023
Data Catalog is now available in the Oregon (aws-us-west-2) and Ireland (aws-eu-west-1) regions. For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
April 12, 2023
Data Catalog is now available in the Turin (europe-west12) and Doha (me-central1) regions. For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
March 24, 2023
Data Catalog is now available in Dallas (us-south1). For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
February 01, 2023
Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of the Data Catalog Bulk Tagging.
October 14, 2022
Data Catalog is now available in the following regions: Columbus (us-east5), Milan (europe-west8), Paris (europe-west9), and Madrid (europe-southwest1). For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
October 11, 2022
Data Catalog integration with Analytics Hub is now generally available (GA). For more information, see Analytics Hub documentation and Search syntax.
September 29, 2022
Public tags are now generally available (GA). For more information, see Public tags.
August 24, 2022
Data Catalog search now supports filtering results based on tag values. For more information see Filters for search results.
July 26, 2022
The UI for dataset entry detail pages now includes a section that lets you see what entries are included in that dataset. Look for the new Entry list section when browsing dataset entries in Data Catalog.
July 20, 2022
Data Catalog is now a part of Dataplex to provide a complete data management and governance experience with built-in data intelligence and automation capabilities. See Dataplex product overview.
May 27, 2022
Data Catalog is now available in Santiago (southamerica-west1). For more information on region and feature availability, see regions.
April 06, 2022
Public Preview: Data Catalog is integrated with Analytics Hub, enabling you to work with linked datasets. For more information, see Analytics Hub documentation and updated Data Catalog search syntax.
February 23, 2022
Public preview: Public tags that provide less strict access control as compared to private tags for searching and viewing tags is rolled out to all Data Catalog regions with minimal disruption and in a controlled way. Public tags support simple search and search with predicates while private tags support only search with predicates.
February 15, 2022
Data Catalog now supports cataloguing and searching data entries from Dataplex lakes, zones, tables, and filesets. For more information, see the Dataplex documentation and Data Catalog documentation.
February 03, 2022
In the Data Catalog table details page, there is now an additional section called Schema and column tags that lets you view the applied schema and their values. For more information, see View table details.
January 20, 2022
Public preview: Creating rich-text overview and adding data stewards to your data entries is rolled out to all Data Catalog regions with minimal disruption and in a controlled way. For more information, see Create tag templates, tags, overviews, and data stewards.
December 16, 2021
Starring is now generally available (GA). You can now mark your favorite entries as starred and see them on the Data Catalog's main page in the corresponding list. The list of starred entries is private to you.
October 26, 2021
Data Catalog is now available in two new North Virginia regions (aws-us-east-1 and azure-eastus2).
September 29, 2021
The catalog.search API method now returns the displayName and description of an entry in SearchCatalogResult.
March 08, 2021
Data Catalog is now available in Toronto (northamerica-northeast2), Melbourne (australia-southeast2), and Delhi (asia-south2).
January 05, 2021
Data Catalog is now available in Warsaw (europe-central2).
November 30, 2020
Exposed modification time as an attribute in the results of search API.
November 11, 2020
Data Catalog is now available in Singapore (asia-southeast1).
October 17, 2020
Data Catalog is now available in Tulsa (us-central2) and the Asia multiregion (asia).
October 05, 2020
The description field in the TagTemplateField resource is now visible.
September 23, 2020
Exposed API for a policy tag manager: PolicyTag messages and RPCs.
September 04, 2020
Data Catalog is now available in Jakarta (asia-southeast2).
July 24, 2020
Data Catalog is now available in Seoul (asia-northeast3).
July 20, 2020
Data Catalog is now available in Salt Lake City (us-west3) and Las Vegas (us-west4).
June 14, 2020
Exposed the new RenameTagTemplateFieldEnumValue API method.
May 07, 2020
Added an enum value for BigQuery materialized views in the TableSourceType of the entry API resource.
April 30, 2020
Data Catalog is now generally available (GA). - The Data Catalog v1 API, gcloud commands, and UI are now available. For details, see the API reference. Code samples throughout the documentation have been updated to use the new API. - Data Catalog has been regionalized, and now hosts user metadata in 23 regions worldwide. - Billing has been enabled for Data Catalog API calls and storage using all supported resources. For more info, see the pricing page.
March 12, 2020
Support for custom entries is now in beta. This feature lets you ingest metadata of any type, so it can be tagged and searched in Data Catalog.
January 27, 2020
Data Catalog users, when creating a tag template, can now specify an attribute as required (Beta release). A tag cannot be created unless all the required attributes are populated with valid values. For an example, see Create a tag template and attach the tag to your table.
January 21, 2020
IAM policies are no longer available for individual entries, but still are available for tag templates and entry groups. With this change, users will not be able to set ACLs for individual entries such as filesets, only for tag templates and entry groups. Each fileset belongs to an entry group and an entry group can contain multiple filesets or entries.
This change is relevant to users who have created filesets in Data Catalog. Data Catalog users who do not have filesets are not impacted by this change.
June 27, 2019
Announcing the Beta release of Data Catalog, a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that allows organizations to quickly discover, manage, and understand their data in Google Cloud.