August 25, 2025

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Feature

You can use the ST_REGIONSTATS geography function to combine raster data using Earth Engine with your vector data stored in BigQuery. For more information, see Work with raster data and try the tutorial that shows you how to use raster data to analyze global temperature. This feature is generally available.

Feature

You can now use data insights to have Gemini generate table and column descriptions from table metadata. This feature is generally available (GA).

Libraries

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

Python

Changes for google-cloud-bigquery

3.36.0 (2025-08-20)

Features

• Add created/started/ended properties to RowIterator. ( #2260) ( 0a95b24)
• Retry query jobs if jobBackendError or jobInternalError are encountered ( #2256) ( 3deff1d)

Documentation

• Add a TROUBLESHOOTING.md file with tips for logging ( #2262) ( b684832)
• Update README to break infinite redirect loop ( #2254) ( 8f03166)

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes#August_25_2025