Libraries

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-bigquery

2.53.0 (2025-07-14)

Features

• bigquery: Add OpenTelemetry support to BigQuery rpcs ( #3860) ( e2d23c1)
• bigquery: Add support for custom timezones and timestamps ( #3859) ( e5467c9)
• Next release from main branch is 2.53.0 ( #3879) ( c47a062)

Bug Fixes

• Load jobs preserve ascii control characters configuration ( #3876) ( 5cfdf85)

Dependencies

• Update dependency com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-cloud-bigqueryconnection-v1 to v2.69.0 ( #3870) ( a7f1007)
• Update dependency com.google.apis:google-api-services-bigquery to v2-rev20250615-2.0.0 ( #3872) ( f081589)
• Update dependency com.google.cloud:sdk-platform-java-config to v3.50.1 ( #3878) ( 0e971b8)

Documentation

• Update maven format command ( #3877) ( d2918da)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-bigquery

3.35.0 (2025-07-15)

Features

• Add null_markers property to LoadJobConfig and CSVOptions ( #2239) ( 289446d)
• Add total slot ms to RowIterator ( #2233) ( d44bf02)
• Add UpdateMode to update_dataset ( #2204) ( eb9c2af)
• Adds dataset_view parameter to get_dataset method ( #2198) ( 28a5750)
• Adds date_format to load job and external config ( #2231) ( 7d31828)
• Adds datetime_format as an option ( #2236) ( 54d3dc6)
• Adds source_column_match and associated tests ( #2227) ( 6d5d236)
• Adds time_format and timestamp_format and associated tests ( #2238) ( 371ad29)
• Adds time_zone to external config and load job ( #2229) ( b2300d0)

Bug Fixes

• Adds magics.context.project to eliminate issues with unit tests … ( #2228) ( 27ff3a8)
• Fix rows returned when both start_index and page_size are provided ( #2181) ( 45643a2)
• Make AccessEntry equality consistent with from_api_repr ( #2218) ( 4941de4)
• Update type hints for various BigQuery files ( #2206) ( b863291)

Documentation

• Improve clarity of "Output Only" fields in Dataset class ( #2201) ( bd5aba8)

Feature

You can now use the DISTINCT pipe operator to select distinct rows from a table in your pipe syntax queries. This feature is generally available (GA).

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes#July_21_2025