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June 17, 2024
Pub/Sub Lite is deprecated. Effective March 18, 2026, Pub/Sub Lite will be turned down.
Current customers: Pub/Sub Lite remains functional until March 18, 2026. If you have not used Pub/Sub Lite within the 90-day period preceding September 24, 2024 (June 26, 2024 - September 24, 2024), you won't be able to access Pub/Sub Lite starting on September 24, 2024.
New customers: Pub/Sub Lite is no longer available for new customers after September 24th, 2024
You can migrate your Pub/Sub Lite service to Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka or Pub/Sub.
January 23, 2023
You can now migrate your producers from Apache Kafka to Pub/Sub Lite with only configuration changes. To check the feasibility of the migration and to perform the migration workflow, refer to the Kafka to Pub/Sub Lite migration guide. This feature is in public preview.
December 19, 2022
Pub/Sub Lite now supports export subscriptions. You can use an export subscription to export Pub/Sub Lite messages to a destination Pub/Sub topic. This feature is generally available (GA).
November 18, 2022
The Kafka Connector library for Pub/Sub and Pub/Sub Lite is now generally available.
September 29, 2022
The Kafka Connector library for Pub/Sub and Pub/Sub Lite is now in preview.
September 13, 2022
Pub/Sub Lite is now available in Tel Aviv (me-west1).
May 25, 2022
The Kafka Shim Java client library for Pub/Sub Lite is now GA.
February 03, 2022
Pub/Sub Lite now supports regional Lite topics that replicate data to a secondary zone.
September 24, 2021
Pub/Sub Lite reservations allow you to reserve and share throughput capacity among multiple topics in a region.
- For more information, see Creating and managing Lite reservations.
July 19, 2021
The Pub/Sub Lite Python client library is now GA.
July 08, 2021
The Pub/Sub Lite Go client library is now GA.
May 04, 2021
Pub/Sub Lite is now available in the following regions:
- Hong Kong (
asia-east2) - Tokyo (
asia-northeast1) - Osaka (
asia-northeast2) - Seoul (
asia-northeast3) - Mumbai (
asia-south1) - Jakarta (
asia-southeast2) - Warsaw (
europe-central2) - Montreal (
northamerica-northeast1) - Sao Paulo (
southamerica-east1) - Northern Virginia (
us-east4) - Salt Lake City (
us-west3) - Las Vegas (
us-west4)
For the full list of available regions, see Pub/Sub Lite locations.
March 22, 2021
Pub/Sub Lite now supports increasing the number of partitions in a topic.
February 24, 2021
An Apache Spark connector is now available for Pub/Sub Lite, allowing you to read messages from Pub/Sub Lite in your Spark clusters.
November 19, 2020
The Pub/Sub Lite Python client library is now in Beta.
October 30, 2020
A Kafka Shim Java client library is now available for Pub/Sub Lite, allowing you to use the Kafka API with Pub/Sub Lite as a backend.
October 09, 2020
Pub/Sub Lite is now available in GA.
May 26, 2020
Pub/Sub Lite is now available at the beta launch stage.
May 18, 2020
The Pub/Sub Lite Java client library is now in Beta.