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October 24, 2024
BigQuery provides context-aware transformation recommendations from Gemini for cleansing data for analysis. Data preparation is available in Preview.
October 16, 2024
General bug fixes and improvements to code transformation for the VS Code Gemini Code Assist extension.
Improved error handling for the IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist plugin. Added more actions to quickly recover from errors.
October 09, 2024
The Standard and Enterprise editions for Gemini Code Assist are now available. For more information about supported features for each edition, see the supported features table.
October 07, 2024
You can now assign Gemini Code Assist subscription licenses to users in your organization. Use the Admin for Gemini page in the Google Cloud console or use the billingAccounts.orders API to view, assign, or unassign user licenses. For more information, see Manage Gemini for Google Cloud licenses.
September 30, 2024
Code customization is now generally available in Gemini Code Assist for:
- VS Code with the Gemini Code Assist + Cloud Code extension (version 2.18.0+)
- IntelliJ with the Gemini Code Assist/Cloud Code plugin (version 1.1.0)
- Cloud Workstations
- Cloud Shell Editor
With code customization, Gemini Code Assist lets you get enhanced code suggestions based on your organization's private codebase(s) (in GitHub.com or GitLab.com) and in line with your coding conventions. For more information, see the code customization overview.
Local codebase awareness is now available for VS Code Gemini Code Assist. Local codebase awareness helps you with high quality code suggestions that are syntactically correct and semantically meaningful within the broader context of your codebase, when you specify files for Gemini Code Assist to use as context. You can specify files in your chat prompt by typing @ and selecting the files. For more information, see Code with Gemini Code Assist.
Gemini Code Assist for VS Code, Cloud Shell, and Cloud Workstations now supports code transformation. You can use commands or natural language prompts in the Quick Pick bar to request modifications to your code, and get a diff view to show pending changes to your code.
Improved error handling for the IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist plugin. Error messages are now actionable with precise error reasons and are supported for chat, code completion, and code generation.
September 24, 2024
The following Gemini in Looker features are available in Public Preview:
- Create custom Looker visualizations: The Visualization Assistant lets you customize formatting options for Looker visualizations using natural language.
- Generate LookML: Gemini in Looker assists you in generating LookML parameters based on a natural language prompt.
To learn more about how to activate these features, see Administer Gemini on your Looker (Google Cloud core) instance.
September 19, 2024
Available now in Preview, you can monitor Gemini for Google Cloud usage in your organization. For more information, see Monitor Gemini for Google Cloud usage.
September 12, 2024
The following Gemini in Looker feature is available in Public Preview:
- Query your data in natural language: Conversational Analytics is a Gemini-powered data querying experience that makes it easier to find answers, explore data, and share insights using natural language.
To learn more about how to activate Conversation Analytics, see Enable and disable Gemini in Looker in Looker Studio.
August 28, 2024
The following Gemini in BigQuery features are now generally available (GA):
- Data insights
- Data canvas
- SQL and Python code assistance features:
- Partitioning and clustering recommendations
To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in BigQuery features, see Set up Gemini in BigQuery.
August 12, 2024
The IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist/Cloud Code plugin now installs a bundle of two plugins:
- Google Cloud Code
- Gemini Code Assist
Code completions for IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist are now completely integrated with native IDE completion framework, which makes it easier to use and override key combinations to trigger, and less conflicting with various IDE or Tab based actions.
Updated IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist chat UX and styling.
You can now use the arrow keys to traverse previous chat history entries to repeat and edit questions in IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist.
Chat conversation history now persists across IDE sessions and restarts for IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist.
You can now exclude any files from AI completions and chat interactions using .aiexclude in IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist, with a format similar to .gitignore.
Improved performance and reliability in IntelliJ Gemini Code Assist.
August 07, 2024
Available in Preview, you can now use Gemini to create functional playbooks based on your prompts in Google Security Operations. For more information, see Create playbooks with Gemini.
July 30, 2024
The VS Code Gemini Code Assist extension now supports Code Transformation. Press Ctrl+I for Windows and Linux or Cmd+I for macOS and use the /generate command to generate code based on your prompt anywhere in the file. For more information, see Code with Gemini Code Assist.
Fixed crashing issue when using VS Code Gemini Code Assist completions.
July 29, 2024
Conversational assistance in Gemini in Databases is now available in Preview for standard and enhanced query insights, system insights, index advisor, and active queries (AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for MySQL, and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL). In the Gemini pane in the Google Cloud console, you can enter prompts to generate troubleshooting guidance for your database workloads and to accelerate the resolution of complex database performance issues. For more information, see Conversational assistance for query insights and system insights.
July 25, 2024
Gemini conversion assistant in Database Migration Service conversion workspaces is now available in Preview as part of Gemini in Databases. For more information, see:
July 17, 2024
Available now in Preview, you can enable the collection and storage of user input, contextual information, and responses when you use Gemini for Google Cloud. For more information, see View Gemini for Google Cloud logs.
July 16, 2024
Database Center, which is part of Gemini in Databases, now has the following features in Public Preview:
- New health issues
- CSV export
- All Resources page
- Additional resource metadata
For more information, see Database Center release notes.
July 10, 2024
The following Gemini in Looker features are now available in Public Preview:
- Create calculated fields: create custom fields and calculations in Looker Studio without prerequisite knowledge or experience with Looker Studio formula language.
- Add Looker Studio content to Google Slides: import components from your Looker Studio reports into a Google Slides presentation.
Learn more about Gemini in Looker and how to enable it in Looker Studio.
July 02, 2024
Gemini Code Assist is available to try at no cost until November 8, 2024, limited to one user per billing account. Customers can purchase a license on the Gemini Admin page in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Set up Gemini Code Assist for a project.
June 25, 2024
Added a tips card in chat showing useful keyboard shortcuts for using the VS Code Gemini Code Assist plug-in.
Added a diff button to code snippets in chat so that code returned from Gemini Code Assist can be easily compared to the code in the VS Code editor.
Rejected Gemini Code Assist code suggestions will no longer come back in the VS Code Gemini plug-in.
June 11, 2024
Updated Gemini Code Assist to use Gemini 1.5 Flash model (with 32k token window), with improved support for code explanation, unit test generation, and code transformations. Automatically triggered code completions use an 8k token window.
May 14, 2024
You can now create Gemini-enhanced translation rules to use with the BigQuery interactive SQL translator. Translation rules let you customize and adjust the results of the interactive translator as you migrate your SQL queries into BigQuery. This feature is in preview.
April 09, 2024
Added ability to provide direct links to Cloud console pages that are relevant to users' prompts. Also improved response formatting to better handle longer responses.
Enabled contextualization in responses by incorporating a set of basic user data and their environment data into the prompts. Also, expanded data sources for grounding and improved response accuracy via RAG.
The Code Transformation features in Gemini Code Assist are now available in Public Preview for Cloud Shell. For more information, see Use Code Transformation features.
Gemini Code Assist is available to try at no cost until July 11, 2024, limited to one user per billing account. Customers can purchase a license on the Gemini Admin page in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Set up Gemini Code Assist for a project.
The Transform Code features in Gemini Code Assist are now available in Public Preview for Workstations and Cloud Shell.
Gemini in Security Command Center is released to General Availability. For more information, see Gemini features in Security Command Center.
The following Gemini in BigQuery features are now available in Public Preview:
- Data insights: an automated and intuitive way to explore and understand your data.
- Data canvas: a graphic interface that lets you discover, transform, query, and visualize data using natural language.
- SQL and Python code assistance: Gemini-assisted code generation, completion, and explanation.
- Materialized views, partitioning, and clustering recommendations: recommendations to reduce cost and improve performance.
- Autotune and troubleshoot serverless Spark: optimize and explain Spark workloads.
To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in BigQuery features, see Set up Gemini in BigQuery.
The following Gemini in Databases features are now available in Public Preview:
- Database Center: an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you one centralized view across your entire database fleet.
- Cloud SQL Studio: lets authorized users interact directly with the SQL database and run SQL queries from the Google Cloud console to access and manipulate data.
- Monitor active queries: monitor and troubleshoot the queries that are active in your database.
- Index advisor: a fully managed index advisor that tracks the queries your database handles regularly.
- 4-week query metric retention in the Query Insights dashboard.
- 15 new database insight recommendations.
To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in Databases, see Set up Gemini in Databases.
The following Gemini in Databases features are now available in Public Preview:
- Database Center: an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you one centralized view across your entire database fleet.
- AlloyDB Studio (GA): lets authorized users interact directly with the SQL database and run SQL queries from the Google Cloud console to access and manipulate data.
- Monitor active queries: monitor and troubleshoot the queries that are active in your database.
- Index advisor: a fully managed index advisor that tracks the queries your database handles regularly.
- Enhanced Query Insights: an assistive query performance diagnostics platform that lets you detect, troubleshoot, and prevent database and query performance problems in near real-time.
- 4-week query metric retention in the Query Insights dashboard.
- 5 new database insight recommendations.
To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in Databases, see Set up Gemini in Databases.
The following Gemini in Databases features are now available in Public Preview:
- Spanner Studio (GA): lets users interact with the SQL database and run SQL queries from the Google Cloud console to access and manipulate data.
- Spanner now supports the use of Gemini models with GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL machine learning prediction functions.
To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in Databases, see Set up Gemini in Databases.
April 03, 2024
The Gemini Code Assist code generation feature now allows users to generate code repeatedly at the same cursor location.
Fixed an issue where handling very small .csv, .tsv, and .jsonl files crashed the Gemini Cloud Code extension.
Fixed an issue where empty files weren't being included as chat context.
Fixed telemetry data issue in the VSCode Gemini Code Assist plug-in.
March 26, 2024
Duet AI in Google Cloud is now Gemini for Google Cloud. See our blog post for more information.
March 20, 2024
Retrieval-augmented generation is rolling out in the Intellij Duet AI plug-in as an experiment to select users to improve code suggestions for their repository.
Added thumbs up and thumbs down buttons in the Intellij Duet AI plug-in chat window for quick response quality feedback .
Improved notifications when the Intellij Duet AI plug-in needs action or has an error.
The Intellij Duet AI plug-in Skaffold version has been updated to 2.10.1
The context source panel in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in chat window now displays which file was included in the user's chat request.
Local code customization is enabled in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in as an experiment to select users to improve code suggestions. Additional files in the user's local directory will open when the user requests code generation. Local files are scored and included in the response based on relevance to the user's active context.
Improved error handling and messaging in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in code editor and in chat. Error specific actions are now provided to better assist users in resolving errors.
Improved confusing messaging and troubleshooting steps for permission denied errors and API enablement errors in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in.
March 19, 2024
You can now use Duet AI to help you create a synthetic monitor in Cloud Monitoring. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Create a synthetic monitor.
March 14, 2024
Updated Duet AI for Developers chat assistance and Smart Actions to use Gemini 1.0 Pro models.
Updated Duet AI for Developers code completion model to increase response accuracy.
Improved code completion triggering logic to reduce occurrences of code completion previously dismissed.
Duet AI Chat in Google Cloud console now uses Gemini 1.0 Pro models when giving responses.
February 21, 2024
Duet AI admin controls are now available to add or change your subscriptions on the Duet AI Admin page in the Google Cloud console.
Duet AI Chat in the Google Cloud Console includes basic contextual information (project ID, product area, page title, and organization ID) when giving responses. Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) commands and other code may incorporate user context directly into the generated code snippet.
January 31, 2024
Duet AI for Developers is available to try at no cost until May 11, 2024, limited to one user per billing account. Customers can purchase a license on the Duet AI Admin page in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Set up Duet AI for a project.
December 13, 2023
Duet AI, an AI-powered collaborator in Google Cloud, is Generally available. The Generally available release includes the following:
- Duet AI for Developers is Generally available.
- The Duet AI pane in VSCode, JetBrains, Cloud Workstations and Cloud Shell Editor uses an improved model with higher accuracy and more complete responses.
- In VSCode, a sign-in expiration issue for Duet AI has been fixed.
- In VSCode and JetBrains IDEs, you can enable Duet AI entirely from the IDE instead of visiting the Google Cloud console.
- In VSCode and JetBrains IDEs, improved filtering and sorting reduces the amount of generated code that contains only comments.
- Improved logic for defining the final code completion token. This resolves issues where extra closing brackets were suggested and where lines of code broken in the middle were returned.
- In JetBrains IDEs, Duet AI cancels code generation when the user changes the code position before a response is returned. This ensures generated code isn't rendered in the wrong place.
November 01, 2023
Duet AI code generation and code completion latency has been reduced when it's used in IntelliJ and VSCode.
The following improvements have been made when using using IntelliJ IDEA and other JetBrains IDEs with Duet AI:
- Duet AI supports linux ARM builds in IntelliJ
- A daily sign-in expiration issue has been fixed.
- Linux support on JetBrains IDE's has been improved.
- Chat in IntelliJ and JetBrains IDEs is available in Preview.
- Confidence scoring is enabled which should improve code completion quality.
You don't need to switch between using REST and gRPC when using Duet AI. Duet AI does this for you.
Duet AI added multi-file support for code generation.
Duet AI has an improved threshold to filter out low quality code completions.
Duet AI for VS Code provides an indication that code generation is in progress.
Duet AI for VS Code is available in Cloud Shell Editor.
Duet AI for Cloud Workstations is available.
Duet AI in Google Cloud has fewer false positive responses and increased its response length for questions about code.
Chat in Duet AI in Google Cloud can be opened in a new browser tab while maintaining your current chat session.