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Network Connectivity Center update on August 13, 2025 https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/network-connectivity-center/release-notes/#August_13_2025 #googlecloud Site-to-site data transfer locations in the following countries have been added to Network

Uber's modern edge: a paradigm shift in network performance and efficiency | Google Cloud Blog Uber and Google Cloud re-engineered Uber's global edge network using Hybrid NEGs, cutting latency by a significant margin and saving millions.

Uber's modern edge: A new approach to network performance and efficiency #googlecloud https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/ubers-modern-edge-a-paradigm-shift-in-network-performance-and-efficiency/

This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where unfavoriting a dashboard or Look on a board would not persist. This feature now performs as expected.

An issue has been fixed where the MoreVert button would not be disabled when no options were available in the menu. This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where the new dashboard name wasn't preserved when a LookML dashboard was copied to a folder

An issue has been fixed where the last accessed time for Looks that were saved to a dashboard as Looks wasn't updated when the dashboard was accessed. This feature now performs as expected

An issue has been fixed where the HTTP error codes for moving and copying dashboards and Looks could return 422 when they should return 404. This feature now performs as expected

An issue has been fixed where special characters such as slashes, ampersands, and question marks were allowed in BigQuery and Spanner connection names. This feature now performs as expected

An issue has been fixed where sorting a pivoted column in the drill modal could sort all pivoted columns instead of just the selected one. This feature now performs as expected

This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where resetting a project's git connection and attempting to use a bare repo would fail. This feature now performs as expected

An issue has been fixed where projects that have not been deployed to production wouldn't appear in a user's list of available projects. This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where removing fields from embedded dashboard tiles could become impossible

This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where project names weren't fully sanitized. This feature now performs as expected

An issue has been fixed where include statements for empty folders that used single-slash syntax returned an unrecognized project reference error. This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where multiple tooltips could be displayed at once

This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where getting LookML for dashboards wouldn't preserve all query filters even if they overlapped with dashboard-level filters. This feature now performs as expected

An issue has been fixed where "Create view from table" would fail if it was initiated from a LookML subfolder. This feature now performs as expected. An issue has been fixed where color palettes with Japanese labels could not be added or removed

The LookML validation spinner now correctly stops if there is an error with the server's validation process. An issue has been fixed where a route that wasn't intended for embedding was allowed to be embedded. This feature now performs as expected

Users can use the Explore from here link in a drill menu by using the keyboard. Users can interact with Single Value visualizations by using the keyboard. PDF rendering progress messages have been updated to better integrate with screen readers

ARIA labels have been added to the Looker page header and logo. ARIA labels have been added to untitled dashboard tiles. Keyboard focus has been improved on modals. Text contrast has been increased on banners. Dashboard filters stay in focus while users are typing

Looker 25.14 contains the following accessibility improvements: ARIA labels have been added to iframes that contain custom visualizations. ARIA labels have been added to legends on visualizations. ARIA labels have been added to modals

Note: This feature was included in the Looker 25.12 release notes but its launch was delayed. New visualizations have been added to the Database Performance dashboard and the Instance Performance dashboard in System Activity

and can be used to grant support access to Google Cloud customer engineers. This Explore can help you identify periods of high load and investigate performance bottlenecks that are related to database connection limits

The following Looker events are now visible in the System Activity Events Explore: create_project delete_project update_project create_git_deploy_key delete_repository_credential update_repository_credential A new Customer Engineer Advanced Editor default role has been added

Looker now displays a notice to instance admins if the instance license has been revoked. Admins will have 14 days to correct any problems before the instance will be shut down

Two new tiles have been added to the Database Performance System Activity dashboard: Time Spent in the Database and Average Query Concurrency. A new JavaScript event, dashboard:tile:merge, has been added

Denodo 9 databases are now supported. The Maria JDBC Driver has been updated to version 3.5.3. The Athena driver has been updated to version 2.2.1. The Databricks JDBC driver has been upgraded to version 2.7.3

other features to answer questions more accurately. The API Usage Hourly System Activity Explore is now available. This Explore provides a detailed, hourly summary of the volume and performance of API calls that are made to your Looker instance

deployment: Monday, September 1, 2025 For projects that are enabled for the New LookML Runtime, the synonyms parameter is now supported. The synonyms parameter lets LookML developers provide additional context about their data that will help Conversational Analytics and

(original) deployment start: Monday, August 18, 2025 Expected Looker (original) final deployment and download available: Thursday, August 28, 2025 Expected Looker (Google Cloud core) deployment start: Monday, August 18, 2025 Expected Looker (Google Cloud core) final

Looker update on August 13, 2025 https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/release-notes/#August_13_2025 #googlecloud Looker (Google Cloud core) and Looker (original) changes Looker 25.14 is expected to include the following changes, features, and fixes: Expected Looker

BigQuery update on August 13, 2025 https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes#August_13_2025 #googlecloud You can aggregate table data with Gemini assistance in your BigQuery data preparations. Aggregations in data preparations are in Preview.

Cloud Interconnect update on August 13, 2025 https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/interconnect/release-notes/#August_13_2025 #googlecloud Cross-Site Interconnect (Preview) support is available in the following colocation facilities: Global Switch Singapore,