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February 24, 2021
Cloud SQL now offers faster maintenance, with average connectivity loss lasting 90 seconds or less on average. See more about maintenance timelines.
February 22, 2021
The following PostgreSQL minor versions are now available. If you use maintenance windows, you might not yet have the minor version. In this case, you will see the new minor version once your maintenance update occurs. To find your maintenance window or manage maintenance updates, see Finding and setting maintenance windows.
- PostgreSQL 9.6.19 is upgraded to 9.6.20.
- PostgreSQL 10.14 is upgraded to 10.15.
- PostgreSQL 11.9 is upgraded to 11.10.
- PostgreSQL 12.4 is upgraded to 12.5.
- PostgreSQL 13 is upgraded to 13.1.
February 10, 2021
The Cloud SQL Admin API v1beta4 is now generally available. The URL for the Admin API will continue to refer to v1beta4 for backward compatibility. To start using the Cloud SQL Admin API now, see Using the Cloud SQL Admin API.
January 28, 2021
Query Insights is now generally available. Query Insights helps you detect, diagnose, and prevent query performance problems for Cloud SQL databases. It provides self-service, intuitive monitoring, and diagnostic information that goes beyond detection to help you to identify the root cause of performance problems.
To learn more, see Overview of Query Insights. To get started now, see Troubleshooting query performance problems using Query Insights.
January 19, 2021
Database auditing in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is generally available, through the open-source pgAudit extension. Using this extension, you can selectively record and track SQL operations performed against a given database instance.
The pgAudit extension helps you configure many of the logs often required to comply with government, financial, and ISO certifications.
January 13, 2021
Cloud SQL now exposes the metric database/memory/total_usage. This metric provides visibility into the database working set (including buffer cache). You can find this metric in the Metrics explorer within the Monitoring dashboard.
For more information about database/memory/total_usage, see Cloud SQL Metrics.
December 21, 2020
IAM database authentication for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is now generally available. To get started using IAM database authentication, see the Overview of Cloud SQL IAM database authentication.
December 17, 2020
Cloud SQL has expanded support for PostgreSQL extensions. Three additional PostgreSQL extensions are now available:
- dblink
- ip4r
- prefix
For additional information, see PostgreSQL extensions.
The following PostgreSQL minor versions have been upgraded:
- PostgreSQL 9.6.18 is upgraded to 9.6.19.
- PostgreSQL 10.13 is upgraded to 10.14.
- PostgreSQL 11.8 is upgraded to 11.9.
- PostgreSQL 12.3 is upgraded to 12.4.
December 16, 2020
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supports the effective_cache_size flag.
November 19, 2020
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supports retention settings for automated backups. You can configure retention of your automated backups for shorter or longer periods (1 to 365 days). The default setting remains 7 days.
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supports retention settings for point-in-time recovery. You have the option of retaining logs, used for point-in-time recovery, for shorter periods (1 to 7 days). The default setting is 7.
November 05, 2020
PostgreSQL version 13 is now generally available. To start using PostgreSQL 13, see Creating instances.
October 12, 2020
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now offers IAM database authentication to help you better monitor and manage access for users and service accounts to databases. This feature allows users and service accounts to use IAM credentials to log into PostgreSQL instances. To learn more about how IAM database authentication works, see the Overview of Cloud SQL IAM database authentication. To configure an instance, see Configuring instances for IAM database authentication. To create users or service accounts, see Creating and managing users that use IAM database authentication.
Cloud SQL now offers "deny maintenance periods". With deny maintenance periods, you can prevent automatic maintenance from occurring during a specific time period. For example, the end-of-year holiday season is a time of peak load that requires heightened focus on infrastructure stability for many retail businesses. By setting a deny maintenance period from mid-October to mid-January, these businesses can prevent planned upgrades from Cloud SQL during their busiest time of year.
Database auditing in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is available through the open-source pgAudit extension. Using this extension, you can selectively record and track SQL operations performed against a given database instance.
The pgAudit extension helps you configure many of the logs often required to comply with government, financial, and ISO certifications.
September 15, 2020
Cloud SQL now offers serverless export. With serverless export, Cloud SQL performs the export from a temporary instance. Offloading the export operation allows databases on the primary instance to continue to serve queries and perform other operations at the usual performance rate.
The following PostgreSQL minor versions have been upgraded:
- PostgreSQL 9.6.16 is upgraded to 9.6.18.
- PostgreSQL 10.11 is upgraded to 10.13.
- PostgreSQL 11.6 is upgraded to 11.8.
- PostgreSQL 12.1 is upgraded to 12.3.
July 09, 2020
Cloud SQL now supports point-in-time recovery (PITR) for PostgreSQL. Point-in-time recovery helps you recover an instance to a specific point in time. For example, if an error causes a loss of data, you can recover a database to its state before the error occurred.
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
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).
April 01, 2017
Proxy version 1.09 released.
March 01, 2017
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Beta availability.
To provide feedback on the beta release, go to our Cloud SQL user forum.