Cloud DNS release notes

This page contains release notes for features and updates to Cloud DNS.

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August 14, 2023

You can now select a cross-region internal Application Load Balancer as a health checked target for DNS routing policies. For more information, see Manage DNS routing policies and health checks.

August 07, 2023

You can now select internal Application Load Balancers as a health checked target for DNS routing policies. For more information, see Manage DNS routing policies and health checks.

February 22, 2023

Health checks for internal load balancers and automatic failovers in Cloud DNS routing policies are now available in GA.

December 14, 2022

Zonal Cloud DNS zones are now available in GA.

You can create private DNS zones that are scoped only to a Google Cloud zone.

Configuring Cloud DNS scopes is now available in GA.

December 05, 2022

August 18, 2022

Health checks for internal load balancers and automatic failovers in Cloud DNS routing policies are now available in Preview.

August 16, 2022

Alias records are available in Preview.

You can now manage an alias record, which maps an alias domain name to a canonical name at the zone apex, by using Cloud DNS.

June 13, 2022

Cloud DNS per resource IAM permissions are available in Preview.

You can now set up specific read, write, or administrator permissions for different managed zones under the same project.

February 22, 2022

Zonal Cloud DNS zones are now available in Preview.

You can create private DNS zones that are scoped only to a Google Cloud zone.

February 07, 2022

This release fixes an issue in which Audit Logs for PATCH operations on managed zones and DNS server policies were not being generated.

January 21, 2022

Managing routing policies in Cloud DNS is available in GA.

November 12, 2021

The type of the vmInstanceId field in Cloud DNS's Stackdriver Logs has been changed from a number to a string.

November 09, 2021

Cloud Logging for managed public zones in Cloud DNS is now available in GA.

November 03, 2021

Managing response policies and rules in Cloud DNS is available in GA.

August 19, 2021

Managing routing policies in Cloud DNS is available in preview.

May 20, 2021

May 12, 2021

Configuring Cloud DNS scopes is now available in Preview.

March 24, 2021

February 16, 2021

Managing response policies and rules in Cloud DNS is available in Preview.

January 11, 2021

May 18, 2020

DNS forwarding to a non-RFC 1918 address is available in General Availability.

January 07, 2020

Cloud DNS peering is available in General Availability.

November 19, 2019

October 08, 2019

Private DNS User Facing Query Logging and Monitoring is available in General Availability.

September 24, 2019

DNS Forwarding is available in General Availability.

April 05, 2019

Private DNS logging and monitoring is available in Beta.

DNS peering is available in Beta.

March 26, 2019

Private zones support is available in General Availability.

March 12, 2019

Shared VPC service projects now support Cloud DNS private zones by default.

December 11, 2018

DNS forwarding is available in Beta.

October 23, 2018

Private zones support is available in Beta.

May 02, 2018

DNSSEC for Cloud DNS is available in General Availability.

November 02, 2017

DNSSEC for Cloud DNS is available in Beta.

March 06, 2017

Private zones for Cloud DNS is available in Alpha.

May 28, 2016

DNSSEC for Cloud DNS is available in Beta.

April 13, 2015

Cloud DNS is available in General Availability.