Cloud Tasks - Release notes

January 06, 2025

2025-01-06T00:00:00-08:00

v2 & v2beta3

Feature

To help ensure CMEK usage across an organization, Cloud Tasks is integrated with two organization policy constraints.

March 18, 2024

2024-03-18T00:00:00-07:00

Announcement

For tasks that have HTTP targets (as opposed to App Engine targets), the option to set routing for tasks at the queue level is now at General Availability (GA). If you set routing at the queue level, you do not have to set routing for each individual task. To learn more, see Configure routing.

Announcement

The BufferTask method for creating tasks is now at General Availability (GA).

October 18, 2023

2023-10-18T00:00:00-07:00

v2 & v2beta3

Feature

Support for Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) is now available for Cloud Tasks. To learn more, see the documentation on using CMEK with Cloud Tasks.

June 15, 2023

2023-06-15T00:00:00-07:00

v2 & v2beta3

Feature

Cloud Asset Inventory support for Cloud Tasks is now in Preview. For details, see the Cloud Asset Inventory release note.

April 18, 2023

2023-04-18T00:00:00-07:00

v2beta3

Feature

For tasks that have HTTP targets (as opposed to App Engine targets), you can now set routing for tasks at the queue level. If you set routing at the queue level, you do not have to set routing for each individual task. To learn more, see Configure routing.

This feature is in Preview.

Feature

You can now create tasks by sending an HTTP request to your queue. To learn more, read about the new BufferTask method to Create tasks.

This feature is in Preview.

January 31, 2023

2023-01-31T00:00:00-08:00

Feature

Support for resource location organization policies for Cloud Tasks is now at General Availability. To learn more, see the Resource Manager entry for Cloud Tasks.

January 09, 2023

2023-01-09T00:00:00-08:00

Feature

Support for VPC Service Controls is now at General Availability. To learn more, see Set up a service perimeter using VPC Service Controls.

November 14, 2022

2022-11-14T00:00:00-08:00

Feature

Support for internal ingress from Cloud Tasks to Cloud Run and Cloud Functions is now at General Availability.

November 09, 2022

2022-11-09T00:00:00-08:00

Feature

Support for VPC Service Controls is in Preview.

December 13, 2021

2021-12-13T00:00:00-08:00

Change

You can now create Cloud Tasks queues in multiple GCP Regions around the world. If you are using HTTP Targets, you no longer need to deploy an App Engine application.

June 25, 2021

2021-06-25T00:00:00-07:00

Announcement

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Cloud Tasks is now in effect.

June 16, 2021

2021-06-16T00:00:00-07:00

Feature

Cloud Tasks is now available in us-west1, asia-east1, and asia-southeast1.

February 24, 2021

2021-02-24T00:00:00-08:00

Change

Maximum push task size is now increased to 1 MB.

January 14, 2021

2021-01-14T00:00:00-08:00

v2beta3

Feature

Two Queue fields that in previous versions were output only are now configurable.

taskTtl is the maximum amount of time that a task is retained in this queue.
tombstoneTtl is the amount of time the task tombstone is retained after a task is deleted or executed. The tombstone is used in task de-duplication. For more information on this process, see Create Task Request.

These fields are also available in v2beta2.

December 16, 2020

2020-12-16T00:00:00-08:00

Change

The relationship between your queues and your App Engine app has changed. If your queues only manage tasks with HTTP Targets, you no longer need to have an enabled App Engine app. For more information, see Create Cloud Tasks queues.

November 20, 2019

2019-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

Feature

HTTP Targets GA release.

May 20, 2019

2019-05-20T00:00:00-07:00

Feature

HTTP Targets Beta release.

April 09, 2019

2019-04-09T00:00:00-07:00

Feature

Cloud Tasks GA release.

September 26, 2018

2018-09-26T00:00:00-07:00

Feature

Cloud Tasks Beta release.