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February 17, 2026
Workflows is available in the following additionalregion:asia-southeast3 (Bangkok, Thailand).
March 28, 2025
Support for aKubernetes API connector is generally available (GA). The connector allows you to interact with Kubernetes objects in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. For more information, seeAccess Kubernetes API objects using a connector.
February 28, 2025
Support tocreate and manage tags is available. You can use tags to group workflows and other resources for reporting, auditing, and access control.
February 19, 2025
Workflows is available in the following additionalregion:europe-north2 (Stockholm, Sweden).
February 07, 2025
Support for retrieving thedetailed history of a workflow execution (expected iterations, in-scope variables) is available inPreview.
February 06, 2025
Support forcreating custom organization policy constraints is available.
January 28, 2025
Workflows doesn't support HTTP requests to the IP-based endpoints of Google Kubernetes Engine cluster control planes. To ensure that your workflow functions as expected, you must access the DNS-based endpoints. For more information about the scope and impact, see theservice announcement.
October 28, 2024
Two standard library functions to support common hashing algorithms have been added:compute_checksum andcompute_hmac.
September 30, 2024
Amath.floor function has been added to return the largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
September 13, 2024
The maximum number ofconcurrent workflow executions has increased from 7,500 to 10,000.
September 03, 2024
Support forexecution backlogging is available inPreview. Backlogged executionsautomatically run as soon as execution concurrency quota becomes available.
June 17, 2024
Support for aVertex AI API connector is available inPreview. Learn how toaccess Vertex AI models from a workflow.
May 31, 2024
Support for the following connectors is generally available (GA):
May 30, 2024
The maximum number ofconcurrent workflow executions has increased from 5,000 to 7,500.
April 22, 2024
Workflows is available in the following additionalregion:me-central1 (Doha, Qatar).
March 04, 2024
An issue that allowedjumps in or out of parallel branches, parallel loops, andfor loops is resolved. Only these jumps are allowed:
- To steps within the sameparallel branch or loop
- Between steps belonging to the samefor loop
February 19, 2024
The maximum number ofconcurrent workflow executions has increased from 3,000 to 5,000.
January 31, 2024
Workflows is available in the following additionalregion:africa-south1 (Johannesburg, South Africa).
January 11, 2024
Support fordefining environment variables at deployment time is generally available (GA). See the blog post:Custom Environment Variables in Workflows.
Support forinvoking a VPC Service Controls-compliant private endpoint is generally available (GA).
December 15, 2023
Support toview the history of a workflow execution as a list of step entries is generally available (GA). See the blog post:Announcing Workflows execution steps history.
Note: To view the step entries in the Google Cloud console on theExecution details page, you must have a role that contains theworkflows.workflows.get,workflows.executions.get, andworkflows.stepEntries.list permissions.November 17, 2023
Support for aKubernetes API connector is available inPreview. The connector allows you to interact with Kubernetes objects in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. For more information, seeAccess Kubernetes API objects using a connector.
See the blog post:Deploy and manage Kubernetes applications with Workflows.
October 31, 2023
Workflows is available in the following additionalregion:europe-west10 (Berlin, Germany).
October 26, 2023
A connection reset error is tagged as aConnectionError and not aConnectionFailedError, and it is not retried for non-idempotent requests. For more information, seeWorkflow errors andRetry steps.
September 19, 2023
Workflows is available in the following additionalregion:me-central2 (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
July 06, 2023
Support fordefining environment variables at deployment time is available inPreview. See the blog post:Custom Environment Variables in Workflows.
June 30, 2023
Support forinvoking a VPC Service Controls-compliant private endpoint is available inPreview.
Three functions are available:map.merge takes two maps, creates a copy of the first map, and adds items from the second map to the copy;map.merge_nested recursively adds items from a map to a copy of another map;uuid.generate returns a random universally unique identifier.
June 26, 2023
Support forCustomer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) is generally available (GA).
June 19, 2023
An issue with how Workflows handles HTTP headers with duplicate keys is resolved. The values associated with duplicate header keys are merged into a comma-separated list as described inRFC 9110. Previously, all but one of the values associated with duplicate keys would be dropped.
June 15, 2023
Cloud Asset Inventory support for Workflows is now publicly available. For details, see theCloud Asset Inventory release note.
May 17, 2023
Support for aBatch API connector is available inPreview.
May 10, 2023
You can applycall logging to a workflow definition as well as to the execution of a workflow, and specify the level of logging required. The execution log level takes precedence over any workflow log level, unless the execution log level is not specified.
May 01, 2023
TheCloud Workflows service agent has the ability to consume quota and billing for a project through theserviceusage.services.use permission. This allows workflows to count quota and apply billing to the correct project when making calls to other Google APIs.
April 14, 2023
Workflows support forCustomer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) is available inPreview.
Use the Workflows JSON schema in your IDE to provide syntax support when creating a workflow. See the Google Cloud Blog post:Workflows gets an updated JSON Schema.
March 21, 2023
Support for triggering a workflow using Eventarc within aVPC Service Controls perimeter is generally available (GA).
March 16, 2023
Support for aTranscoder API connector is available inPreview.
March 02, 2023
Support forlimiting the maximum number of concurrent branches or iterations within aparallel step is generally available (GA).
Workflows is available in the following additionalregions:
asia-northeast3(Seoul, South Korea)asia-southeast2(Jakarta, Indonesia)me-west1(Tel Aviv, Israel)southamerica-west1(Santiago, Chile)
February 21, 2023
An issue where oneshared variable in a subworkflow overwrote another in a calling subworkflow during a workflow's execution is resolved. This affected calling a subworkflow with a parallel step from within a parallel step.
January 10, 2023
Aget_type function that returns a string indicating an argument's data type is available.
January 04, 2023
Support for anApplication Integration connector is available inPreview.
December 15, 2022
A workflow's source and details can now beupdated independently through the Cloud Console using the Source and Details tabs for quicker editing.
December 09, 2022
Alist.prepend function is available to support creating a copy of a list with a new element added to the beginning.
November 08, 2022
Workflows is available in the following additionalregions:
asia-east2(Hong Kong, China)europe-central2(Warsaw, Poland)europe-southwest1(Madrid, Spain)europe-west9(Paris, France)northamerica-northeast2(Toronto, Canada)us-east5(Columbus, United States)us-south1(Dallas, United States)us-west2(Los Angeles, United States)us-west3(Salt Lake City, United States)
October 24, 2022
Eventarc event-triggered requests are limited by theexecution API write request on workflows. Events that exceed the limit follow theEventarc retry policy.
Support forlimiting the maximum number of concurrent branches or iterations within aparallel step is available inPreview.
October 17, 2022
Support forEventarc triggers for Workflows is generally available (GA).
October 12, 2022
Thememory available for workflow variables and runtime arguments (including Eventarc events) has been doubled to 512 KB per execution.
October 05, 2022
Support forparallel steps is generally available (GA).
September 23, 2022
Workflows isFedRAMP Moderate-compliant.
September 13, 2022
Execution results include the current or final step of theworkflow execution.
September 06, 2022
Support for connectors forGoogle Forms andGoogle Sheets is available inPreview.
August 29, 2022
Added support to deploy a workflow using a cross-project service account through theGoogle Cloud console.
August 05, 2022
Addedskip_polling so thatconnectors can execute asynchronously without waiting for the operation to complete.
August 02, 2022
The following functions have been added:
Workflows is available in the following additionalregions:
asia-northeast2(Osaka, Japan)asia-south2(Delhi, India)australia-southeast2(Melbourne, Australia)europe-north1(Hamina, Finland)europe-west2(London, England)europe-west3(Frankfurt, Germany)southamerica-east1(Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil)us-east4(Ashburn, Virginia, United States)us-west4(Las Vegas, Nevada, United States)
July 11, 2022
Added support to deploy a workflow using across-project service account through the Google Cloud CLI.
July 01, 2022
To reduce naming conflicts and improve memory usage, local scoping now applies to any variable created inside anexcept block.
If you are assigning a variable inside anexcept block and want to access the variable outside of the block,assign the variable before the block to place it in the surrounding scope.
June 21, 2022
Workflows caninvoke private on‑premises, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or other Google Cloud endpoints that are Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)-enabled.
June 20, 2022
Support forVPC Service Controls is generally available (GA).
June 13, 2022
Parallel steps are available inPreview.
June 01, 2022
Workflows is available in theeurope-west8 (Milan, Italy)region.
May 16, 2022
Workflows using callbacks that were deployed on or before January 11, 2022 must be redeployed to continue executing workflows without failures.
May 12, 2022
The following functions have been added:
defaultandifsupportconditions within expressionsmap.getperforms a safe lookup on a map, returningnullif a key is not found
AStatus field that tracks the current steps and progress of an execution is available inPreview. See theWorkflows Executions REST API Overview.
April 21, 2022
Call logging is generally available (GA).
April 06, 2022
Terraform support tocreate an Eventarc trigger that invokes Workflows is available inPreview.
March 31, 2022
Support forcreating an Eventarc trigger on theWorkflows page in the Cloud Console is now available inPreview.
March 25, 2022
Workflows is available in the followingregions:
asia-east1(Changhua County, Taiwan)asia-northeast1(Tokyo, Japan)asia-south1(Mumbai, India)australia-southeast1(Sydney, Australia)northamerica-northeast1(Montréal, Québec)us-west1(The Dalles, Oregon)
March 07, 2022
Support for the following connectors is available inPreview:
March 03, 2022
Support forVPC Service Controls is inBeta stage.
February 28, 2022
Eventarc triggers for Workflows is available inPreview.
February 18, 2022
Checking for the existence of a key in a list is supported.
January 31, 2022
January 28, 2022
Workflows is available in the followingregions:
europe-west1(Belgium)europe-west6(Zurich)us-east1(South Carolina)
January 24, 2022
Callback endpoints are generally available (GA).
January 18, 2022
Workflows is now certified asSOC 1-compliant.
January 05, 2022
Workflows can invoke Cloud Functions or Cloud Run services that haveingress restricted to internal traffic.
December 10, 2021
Dynamic keys are supported.
December 07, 2021
Resource limits for variable memory and argument size have been increased to 256 KB.
December 06, 2021
AWorkflows Service Level Agreement (SLA) is available and applicable.
November 19, 2021
Workflows can bescheduled through the Workflows page in the Cloud Console.
November 17, 2021
The following functions have been added:
sys.sleep_until— Suspends execution until the given timetime.format— Formats timestamp as a human-readable stringtime.parse— Parses ISO 8601-compatible string into a timestamp
October 28, 2021
Abuilt-in environment variable,GOOGLE_CLOUD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME, is supported to access the service account name for a workflow execution.
September 14, 2021
Call logging is available inPreview.
September 13, 2021
Connectors are generally available (GA).
September 07, 2021
Support forcallback endpoints is available inPreview.
September 02, 2021
July 28, 2021
Alist.concat function has been added to support adding an element to a list.
July 23, 2021
Platform logs are supported by Cloud Logging.
June 25, 2021
Syntax for updatinglist values andmap values is supported.
June 07, 2021
String processing functions are available in thetext module of theWorkflows standard library.
May 31, 2021
Visualization support while editing the Workflows iteration syntax is available through theGoogle Cloud Console.
May 10, 2021
Workflows isHIPAA compliant.
January 25, 2021
Connectors are available inPreview.
Workflows is generally available (GA).
December 10, 2020
Workflows launched a visualization feature. TheGoogle Cloud Console displays a visualization of the workflow during editing.
December 08, 2020
Workflows is available in the following regions:
asia-southeast1(Singapore)europe-west4(Netherlands)
August 25, 2020
Beta launch ofWorkflows.
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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.