Cloud NGFW release notes

This page contains release notes for features and updates to Cloud Next Generation Firewall.

To view Cloud NGFW announcements prior to April 2023, see the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) release notes.

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August 28, 2024

v1

You can use custom constraints to provide more granular and customizable control over specific fields for firewall policy resources. For more information, see Manage firewall policy resources by using custom constraints. This feature is available in General Availability.

April 08, 2024

v1

Cloud NGFW Enterprise, including the intrusion prevention service, is available in General Availability. Use intrusion prevention service to safeguard your workload traffic from threats such as malware, spyware, and command-and-control attacks.

Starting April 9, 2024, you will be charged for the Cloud NGFW Enterprise feature—intrusion prevention service. For more information about billing, see Cloud NGFW pricing.

Cloud Firewall in Google Cloud is now Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). For more information, see Cloud NGFW.

September 30, 2023

v1

Starting September 30, 2023, you will be charged for the Cloud Firewall Standard feature—fully qualified domain name (FQDN) objects. For more information about billing, see Cloud Firewall pricing.

September 27, 2023

v1

You can use fully qualified domain name (FQDN) objects in firewall policy rules to filter incoming or outgoing traffic from specific domain names. This feature is available in General Availability.

September 08, 2023

v1

Starting September 8, 2023, you will be charged for the following Cloud Firewall Standard features:

For more information about billing, see Cloud Firewall pricing.

August 29, 2023

v1

You can use intrusion prevention service to safeguard your workload traffic from threats such as malware, spyware, and command-and-control attacks. This feature is available in Preview.

June 30, 2023

v1

You can use custom constraints to provide more granular and customizable control over specific fields for VPC firewall rule resources. For more information, see Manage firewall resources by using custom constraints. This feature is available in Preview.

June 26, 2023

v1

Address groups are a logical collection of either IPv4 address ranges or IPv6 address ranges in CIDR format. You can use address groups to define consistent sources or destinations referenced across multiple rules in the same or different firewall policies. This feature is available in General Availability.

June 05, 2023

v1

Use Geo-location objects in firewall policy rules to filter external IPv4 and external IPv6 traffic based on specific geographic locations or regions. This feature is available in General Availability.

Use Threat Intelligence for firewall policy rules to secure your network by allowing or blocking traffic based on threat intelligence data. This feature is available in General Availability.

April 28, 2023

v1