Release notes

This page documents production updates to Cloud SQL. You can check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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June 23, 2020

Committed use discounts (CUDs) are now available to purchase for Cloud SQL. CUDs provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a specified term. With committed use discounts for Cloud SQL, you can earn a deep discount off your cost of use in exchange for committing to continuously use database instances in a particular region for a 1- or 3-year term. See the documentation for more details.

June 08, 2020

Support for asia-southeast2 region (Jakarta).

May 21, 2020

PostgreSQL version 12 is now generally available. To start using PostgreSQL 12, see Creating instances.

May 15, 2020

PostgreSQL 9.6 minor version is upgraded to 9.6.16. PostgreSQL 10 minor version is upgraded to 10.11. PostgreSQL 11 minor version is upgraded to 11.6. PostgreSQL 12 minor version is upgraded to 12.1.

May 11, 2020

Cloud SQL has expanded support for PostgreSQL extensions. Eight additional PostgreSQL extensions are now available:

pageinspect
pgfincore
pg_freespacemap
pg_repack
pg_visibility
PL/Proxy
postgres_fdw
postgresql-hll

For information about these newly-added extensions, see PostgreSQL extensions.

April 20, 2020

Support for us-west4 region (Las Vegas).

March 27, 2020

PostgreSQL version 12 is now Beta. To start using PostgreSQL 12, see Creating instances.

PostgreSQL version 10 is now generally available. To start using PostgreSQL 10, see Creating instances.

March 24, 2020

Cloud SQL now supports 96-core machine types for MySQL, Postgres, and SQL Server instances. For pricing-related information, see the Pricing page.

March 16, 2020

Cloud SQL now supports read replicas in a different region than that of the primary instance, providing additional protection against regional outages and improving read performance by making replicas available closer to your application. To get started, see Cross-region replicas.

Cloud SQL instances using private IP are now accessible across regions, at the regular cross-region network egress cost.

February 24, 2020

Support for us-west3 region (Salt Lake City).

January 30, 2020

PostgreSQL version 10 is now Beta. To start using PostgreSQL 10, see Creating Instances.

January 24, 2020

Support for asia-northeast3 region (Seoul).

December 17, 2019

Cloud SQL now supports VPC Service Controls, which let you add a service perimeter around the Cloud SQL Admin API and host project for Cloud SQL instances to reduce the risk of data exfiltration. To learn more about using VPC Service Controls with Cloud SQL, see Configuring VPC Service Controls.

December 13, 2019

You can now use Cloud VPN with Cloud SQL. To get started, see Using a VPN with Cloud SQL.

Connection organization policies for Cloud SQL give you the ability to set policies that control access to and from Cloud SQL instances. To learn more about this feature, see Connection organization policies. To use this feature, see Setting organization policies for Cloud SQL.

December 10, 2019

Cloud SQL now offers notifications for upcoming maintenance. See the Overview of maintenance on Cloud SQL instances. To find out how to sign up for notifications and check your instances for upcoming maintenance, see Finding and setting maintenance windows.

November 25, 2019

Cloud SQL now supports Access Transparency. As part of Google's long-term commitment to security and transparency, you can use Access Transparency, which provides you with logs of actions that Google staff have taken when accessing your data. To learn more about Access Transparency, see the Overview of Access Transparency.

November 19, 2019

Cloud SQL now supports customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). With CMEK, you can encrypt Cloud SQL instances using a key you manage. To learn more about CMEK, see the Overview of customer managed encryption keys (CMEK). To start using CMEK, see Using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

September 27, 2019

PostgreSQL version 11 is now generally available. PostgreSQL 11 is the default version when creating new instances. To start using PostgreSQL 11, see Creating Instances.

June 25, 2019

This release increases the maximum data storage for instances of MySQL (MySQL Second Generation) and PostgreSQL. The maximum data storage is increased from 10,230 GB to 30,720 GB. For Cloud SQL storage limits, see Limits. You can limit your automatic storage increases; see Automatic storage increase limit.

May 24, 2019

Cloud SQL now allows you to specify a location for backups, and to restrict data to a single region. To learn about custom backup locations, see Custom backup locations. To learn how to set a custom location for a backup, see Setting and viewing a custom location for backups.

April 18, 2019

Support for asia-northeast2 region (Osaka, Japan).

April 09, 2019

Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL version 11.1 Beta. To start using PostgreSQL 11 Beta, see Creating Instances.

April 03, 2019

Support added for 122 MySQL flags and 96 PostgreSQL flags. See Supported PostgreSQL Flags and Supported MySQL Flags.

March 11, 2019

Support for europe-west6 region (Zürich, Switzerland).

February 13, 2019

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL connection limits are now double when memory is 6 GiB or higher. See the connection limits table for details.

December 06, 2018

GA support for Private IP connectivity.

November 06, 2018

Support for CSV format for PostgreSQL instance imports and exports.

October 01, 2018

Support for asia-east2 region (Hong Kong).

September 01, 2018

Beta support for private IP (private services access) connectivity.

Proxy version 1.12 released.

August 01, 2018

PostGIS extension includes full support for JSON-C.

July 01, 2018

Support for us-west2 region (Los Angeles).

June 01, 2018

Support for connecting from Cloud Functions ^Beta.

Support for europe-north1 region (Finland).

Support for rotating SSL certificates.

May 01, 2018

Support for asia-southeast1 region (Singapore).

April 01, 2018

GA support for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

March 01, 2018

Support for europe-west4 region (Netherlands).

February 01, 2018

Maximum concurrent connections to App Engine updated from 12 to 60.

January 01, 2018

MySQL 5.6 minor version upgraded to 5.6.36.

Support for northamerica-northeast1 region (Montréal).

Connection limits for PostgreSQL instances changed. Learn more.

November 01, 2017

Beta support for the high availability configuration and replication for PostgreSQL instances.

October 01, 2017

Support for asia-south1 region (Mumbai).

Proxy version 1.11 released.

September 01, 2017

Support for 64-core machine types for MySQL instances and 64 cores for PostgreSQL instances.

Support for southamerica-east1 region (São Paulo).

August 01, 2017

Support for europe-west3 region (Frankfurt).

June 01, 2017

Support for labels.

Proxy version 1.10 released.

Support for the JDBC Socket Library for PostgreSQL.

Support for australia-southeast1 region (Sydney).

Support for europe-west2 region (London).

Support for the following PostgreSQL extensions: btree-gin, btree-gist, chkpass, citext, cube, dict_int, dict_xsyn, earthdistance, intagg, intarray, isn, ltree, pgstattuple, pg_trgm, tablefunc, tsm_system_rows, tsm_system_time, unaccent, uuid-ossp.

May 01, 2017

GA support for Second Generation and PostgreSQL instances in version 157.0.0 of the gcloud command-line tool. The beta version is no longer required for these instances.

Support for us-west1 region (Oregon).

Support for us-east4 region (Northern Virginia).