Cloud Tasks release notes

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January 06, 2025

v2 & v2beta3
Feature

To help ensure CMEK usage across an organization, Cloud Tasks is integrated with two organization policy constraints.

October 18, 2023

v2 & v2beta3
Feature

Support for Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) is now available for Cloud Tasks. To learn more, see the documentation on using CMEK with Cloud Tasks.

January 31, 2023

v2
Feature

Support for resource location organization policies for Cloud Tasks is now at General Availability. To learn more, see the Resource Manager entry for Cloud Tasks.

November 14, 2022

v2
Feature

Support for internal ingress from Cloud Tasks to Cloud Run and Cloud Functions is now at General Availability.

December 13, 2021

v2
Change

You can now create Cloud Tasks queues in multiple GCP Regions around the world. If you are using HTTP Targets, you no longer need to deploy an App Engine application.

February 24, 2021

v2
Change

Maximum push task size is now increased to 1 MB.

January 14, 2021

v2beta3
Feature

Two Queue fields that in previous versions were output only are now configurable.

  • taskTtl is the maximum amount of time that a task is retained in this queue.
  • tombstoneTtl is the amount of time the task tombstone is retained after a task is deleted or executed. The tombstone is used in task de-duplication. For more information on this process, see Create Task Request.

These fields are also available in v2beta2.

November 20, 2019

v2
Feature

HTTP Targets GA release.

May 20, 2019

v2
Feature

HTTP Targets Beta release.

April 09, 2019

v2
Feature

Cloud Tasks GA release.