BigQuery changelog
19 announcements since September 2026 · 15 GA · 3 previews · 1 Region expansion
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Query results can be retrieved in Apache Arrow format for faster retrievalPreview
Function translates text between languages, supporting NMT and Translation LLM workloadsGA
Table-valued function splits documents into text chunks for embeddings and RAGGA
Incremental transfers for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are GAGA
Available in asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) endpoint, supports gemini-3.5-flash modelGA
Built-in forecasting model adds multivariate forecasting in AI.FORECASTPreview
Supports AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT to quantify impact of interventions on time series dataPreview
Flexible column names on by default; gemini-embedding-2 model available for AI functionsGA
Rust SDK is GA; Data Engineering Agent adds gemini-3.7-flash for us, eu and global endpointsGA