You can copy tables across regions.

You can export a conversational analytics agent's answer, including text, visualizations, tables, and citations, to a PDF or CSV file.

This feature is generally available (GA).

You can now use column aliases in GoogleSQL.

This feature lets you define an alias for an expression in the SELECT clause of a SQL query and immediately reference that alias within the same SELECT list or in the WHERE clause of the same query block.

The Apache Hive catalog endpoint in the Lakehouse runtime catalog is now generally available (GA).

This integration lets you use the metastore as a serverless, central metadata layer, enabling seamless data sharing and unified querying across Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and BigQuery.

The AI.AGG function now supports the output_schema argument, which lets you specify the schema of the function output as a comma-separated list of fields.

This feature is generally available (GA).

Metadata migration from Dataproc Metastore to Lakehouse is now generally available (GA).

You can perform a one-time backfill migration or dry run to migrate metadata from a Dataproc Metastore service to an Apache Iceberg REST catalog endpoint or a Hive catalog endpoint using the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, or the REST API.