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)