BigQuery conversation logging GA; Python UDF volume mounts and REGEXP_EXTRACT_GROUPS in Preview

Conversation logging for Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now generally available (GA). You can log data agent conversations to a BigQuery table in the agent's project. For more information, see Conversation logging overview and Configure settings.

Python user-defined functions now support volume mounts, which let you access dependency files from Cloud Storage directly from your Python UDF code. This feature is in Preview.

The REGEXP_EXTRACT_GROUPS function produces substrings that match multiple capturing groups in a regular expression.

This function is in Preview.