<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>BigQuery API Changes — Google Cloud Radar</title><description>Real-time pre-release intelligence and changelog for Google BigQuery. Tracked from Google Discovery Service.</description><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/</link><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://google-cloud-radar.com/services/bigquery/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>⚠️ [BREAKING] Routine Package Details &amp; IAM Policy Members Added, Several Fields Now Read-Only</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-11-10-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-11-10-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery now provides detailed information about installed packages within routine build statuses and introduces a new schema for IAM policy members on tables. 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Be aware of breaking changes where several job and replica statistics properties are now read-only.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>high</impact><breaking>true</breaking><interesting_score>9</interesting_score><status>canary</status></item><item><title>Secure Context for Extract Jobs</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-10-17-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-10-17-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery&apos;s `secureContext` feature, previously available for queries, now extends to extract jobs. This allows passing sensitive, context-specific information to modify extract job behavior.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>medium</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>7</interesting_score><status>canary</status></item><item><title>⚠️ [BREAKING] BigQuery: Secure Query Context, Native Parquet Geography Export, and a Breaking Change</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-09-26-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-09-26-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery introduces a new `secureContext` for passing sensitive, context-specific information to queries, accessible via a new SQL function. Additionally, you can now export Parquet data with native Geography types. Heads up: `JobStatistics2.referencedLogicalViews` is now read-only, which may break existing integrations.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>high</impact><breaking>true</breaking><interesting_score>9</interesting_score><status>canary</status></item><item><title>BigQuery adds GCS mounts for Python UDFs and native UUIDs</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-09-13-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-09-13-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery now supports mounting GCS buckets as volumes for Python UDFs and introduces a native UUID data type for SQL schemas.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>medium</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>7</interesting_score><status>canary</status></item><item><title>Explicit statement types and new data skew metrics</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-07-26-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-07-26-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery now explicitly identifies the SQL statement type in query responses and provides new percentile-based metrics for detecting data skew in query stages.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>medium</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>6</interesting_score><status>released</status></item><item><title>Table-valued arguments and multi-cloud storage stats</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-07-09-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-07-09-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery now supports table-valued arguments for routines and provides granular object storage statistics for multi-cloud queries. Developers can also now force on-demand billing by setting reservations to &apos;none&apos;.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>medium</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>7</interesting_score><status>released</status></item><item><title>Native Apache Arrow support for query results</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-26-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-26-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery is introducing native Apache Arrow support for query results, enabling high-performance columnar data transfer directly from the query API.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>medium</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>7</interesting_score><status>released</status></item><item><title>Python UDF concurrency documentation update</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-23-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-23-bigquery-v2</guid><description>Updated documentation for Python UDF concurrency settings in ExternalRuntimeOptions, adding links to configuration guides.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>low</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>2</interesting_score><status>canary</status></item><item><title>Clarified transferredBytes for BigQuery Omni</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-22-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-22-bigquery-v2</guid><description>The description for transferredBytes in query statistics has been updated to specifically define its role in BigQuery Omni data movement.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>low</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>2</interesting_score><status>released</status></item><item><title>BigQuery API clarifies IAM requirements across all methods</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-21-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-06-21-bigquery-v2</guid><description>The BigQuery v2 discovery document has been updated to explicitly document the IAM permissions required for nearly every API method, simplifying least-privilege configuration.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>low</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>5</interesting_score><status>released</status></item><item><title>Iceberg timestamp autodetection and UDF clarifications</title><link>https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-05-28-bigquery-v2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://google-cloud-radar.com/changes/2026-05-28-bigquery-v2</guid><description>BigQuery has expanded timestamp precision autodetection to Iceberg External Tables and clarified concurrency settings for Python UDFs.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data Analytics</category><service>BigQuery</service><api>bigquery.v2</api><impact>low</impact><breaking>false</breaking><interesting_score>4</interesting_score><status>canary</status></item></channel></rss>