2.78.0 (2026-05-07)

Features

• Add custom attempt latency metric (#2882) (820acbe)
• Add Editions field to Instance (678346d)

Bug Fixes

• bigtable: Record 0 if dp check fails (#2890) (0aecd6a)
• Cancel even when vrpc is not started yet and fix newRealCall (#2897) (45905a0)
• deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.71.0 (678346d)
• Fix handling recycled channels (#2899) (8220283)
• Fix race identified by tsan (#2891) (0a2bf6c)
• Fix skip logging on exporter closing (#2892) (89f4faf)
• Update local vRPC status to match the last session failure when a Session couldn't be established (#2888) (261ed95)

Dependencies

• Update shared dependencies (#2910) (f406eff)

2.77.1 (2026-04-13)

Bug Fixes

• Bump reported admin versions (#2876) (cb56060)
• Fix translate exception in compat layer (#2879) (2742460)

2.77.0 (2026-04-09)

Features

• Add new session based protocol stack (#2862) (d5565b5)

2.76.0 (2026-04-09)

Features

• Add locations field to AutomatedBackupPolicy (9345b35)
• bigtable: Classic direct access checker and it's implementation (#2840) (c2ccda1)
• bigtable: Enable direct access by default (#2857) (bffd892)

Bug Fixes

• Check alts if we return permission denied for pingandwarm (#2860) (3926275)
• deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.68.0 (9345b35)
• Logic to suppress failed metric export during client shutdown (#2858) (ae0f0ef)

Dependencies

• Manually update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.59.0 (#2865) (21c1833)

2.75.1 (2026-03-26)

Bug Fixes

• Ensure that EnvInfo stays constant between metric exports (#2853) (cfc616d)

2.75.0 (2026-03-24)

WARNING: This release contains a known bug with clientside metrics which was fixed in v2.75.1

Features

• Expose generated GAPIC instance admin client (#2828) (7c42799)

Bug Fixes

• bigtable: Add gauge handling (#2830) (915733b)
• bigtable: Plumb transport type correctly (#2824) (d25f39c)
• Fix automated backup (#2844) (5dc6829)
• Fix race in emulator controller (#2836) (17707be)
• Use all known headers to detect connectivity errors (#2841) (6466166)

Dependencies

• Update shared dependencies (#2850) (fb437e0)

Documentation

• bigtable: Expose Admin API Stubs in Javadoc (#2835) (b7a0232)
• bigtable: Expose Base Admin Clients in Javadoc (#2833) (2933ef6)

2.74.0 (2026-03-02)

WARNING: This release contains a known bug with clientside metrics which was fixed in v2.75.1

Features

• Add awaitOptimizeRestoredTable helper for Bigtable Admin (#2781) (cf15d45)
• Add TieredStorageConfig to table admin api (f05a1a3)
• Bigtable: Add support for creating instances with tags (#2733) (bc46174)
• Expose generated GAPIC admin client and freeze legacy surface (#2806) (c620710)

Bug Fixes

• deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.67.0 (f05a1a3)
• Ensure that per attempt metrics tracer is below the retries (#2793) (1f39032)

Dependencies

• Update shared dependencies (#2814) (dde68fe)

2.73.1 (2026-02-17)

Bug Fixes

• Drop redudant fields from internal otel metrics which are already in monitored resource (#2783) (f45bb0e)
• Fix skip large row (#2785) (504bb51)
• Test proxy doesn't return "http2 excpetion" for long errors (#2775) (dafe647)
• Use StatusProto.fromThrowable for ApiException in test-proxy (#2778) (de1669e)

2.73.0 (2026-02-06)

Features

• Add methods to wait for consistency with a token (#2762) (b4a90b2)

Dependencies

• Update shared dependencies (#2773) (33a6d8a)

2.72.0 (2026-01-30)

Features

• Add GcRuleBuilder for safe GC rule construction (#2758) (4a99a8c)
• Handle StatusRuntimeException in CbtTestProxy, increase inbound message / metadata size (#2763) (3e27d28)
• Regenerate protos using protoc 4

Bug Fixes

• deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.66.0 (ca24007)

Dependencies

• Update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.56.0 (#2765) (d1020a1)