January 27, 2025

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Libraries

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Go

Changes for bigquery/storage/apiv1beta1

1.66.0 (2025-01-20)

Features

• bigquery/storage/managedwriter: Graceful connection drains ( #11463) ( b29912f)

Bug Fixes

• bigquery: Update golang.org/x/net to v0.33.0 ( e9b0b69)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-bigquery

3.29.0 (2025-01-21)

Features

• Add ExternalCatalogTableOptions class and tests ( #2116) ( cdc1a6e)

Bug Fixes

• Add default value in SchemaField.from_api_repr() ( #2115) ( 7de6822)

Feature

The following BigQuery ML generative AI features are now available:

• Creating a
  remote model
  based on an
  open model from Vertex Model Garden or Hugging Face that is deployed to Vertex AI.
  Options include Llama, Gemma, and other leading open text generation models.
• Using the
  ML.GENERATE_TEXT function
  with this remote model to perform a broad range of generative AI tasks.
• Using the
  ML.EVALUATE function
  to evaluate the remote model.

Try these features with the
Generate text by using the ML.GENERATE_TEXT function
how-to topic and the

Generate text by using a Gemma open model and the ML.GENERATE_TEXT function
tutorial.

These features are
generally available
(GA).

Announcement

We previously communicated that after January 27, 2025, a purchase would be required to use Gemini in BigQuery features. We are temporarily delaying enforcement of these procurement methods, and no purchase is required at this time. For more information, see Gemini for Google Cloud pricing.

Feature

You can now set conditional IAM access on BigQuery datasets with access control lists (ACLs). This feature is generally available (GA).

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes#January_27_2025