v2.40.0 (2026-05-13)

Features

• Add bigframes.execution_history API to track BigQuery jobs (#16588) (fa20a740)

  import bigframes.pandas as bpd
  bpd.options.compute.enable_execution_history = True
  df = bpd.read_gbq("my_table")
  # ... perform operations ...
  history = bpd.execution_history
  print(history.jobs) # Access BigQuery job details for executed queries

• Implement ai.similarity and ai.embed for text embeddings and semantic similarity (#16771, #16759) (d4afa2c8, fcb4579b)

  import bigframes.pandas as bpd
  # Generate embeddings
  df["embeddings"] = bpd.bigquery.ai.embed(df["text_col"])
  # Compute similarity
  df["similarity"] = bpd.bigquery.ai.similarity(df["embeddings_a"], df["embeddings_b"])

• Support hparam_range and hparam_candidates parameters for hyperparameter tuning in model creation (#16640) (ca47835c)

• Update ai.score, ai.classify and ai.if_ parameters to match their SQL equivalents (#16919, #16990, #16857) (9f42fe14, e9c52b12, f3cb4ad0)

• Support unstable sorting in sort_values and sort_index (#16665) (bbdeb70f)

• Support loading Avro and ORC data formats (#16555) (6d46cba3)

• Add NumPy ufunc support directly on column expressions (#16554) (2f792abd)

Bug Fixes

• Fix bugs compiling ambiguous ids and in subqueries (#16617) (479e44dd)

• BigFrames respects bq default region (#16933) (ef9945a5)

• avoid views when querying BigLake tables from SQL cells (#16562) (fdd3e0de)

• avoid copy argument warning in to_pandas (#16917) (fe5245b8)

Performance Improvements

• Improve write api upload throughput (#16641) (ef856b04)

Documentation

• Add docs to the to_csv methods of dataframe and series (#16570) (a8fccefd)

v1.32.0 (2026-05-11)

v1.18.0 (2026-05-06)

Bug Fixes

• correctly parse type assertions in extends clause (@​nicolo-ribaudo) - #​17723 [7.x backport] fix(parser): improve super type argument parsing (@​JLHwung) - babel-traverse - #​17708 (5098df26)

• provide a hub when traversing a File or Program and no parentPath is given (@​simbahax) - babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-traverse - #​17737 [7.x backport] fix: Rename switch discriminant references when body creates shadowing variable (@​magic-akari) (5098df26)

Documentation

• fix FAQ grammar in httplib2 example</li> <li><a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520class%3D"commit-link" href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpsf%2Frequests%2Fcommit%2F774a0b837a194ee885d4fdd9ca947900cc3daf71%26amp%3B%2334%3B%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3Bcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B774a0b8%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fa">psf/requests@774a0b837a194ee885d4fdd9ca947900cc3daf71&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;774a0b8&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a> (07a610c5)

• exclude Response.is_permanent_redirect from API docs (<a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520href%3D"https://redirect.github.com/psf/requests/issues/7244&#34;&gt;#7244&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li">https://redirect.github.com/psf/requests/issues/7244&#34;&gt;#7244&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li> <li><a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520class%3D"commit-link" href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpsf%2Frequests%2Fcommit%2Fd568f47278492e630cc990a259047c67991d007a%26amp%3B%2334%3B%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3Bcode%26amp%3Bgt%3Bd568f47%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fa">psf/requests@d568f47278492e630cc990a259047c67991d007a&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;d568f47&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a> (07a610c5)

• same block as other sections</li> <li><a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520class%3D"commit-link" href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpsf%2Frequests%2Fcommit%2F9c72a41bec8597f948c9d8caa5dc3f12273b3303%26amp%3B%2334%3B%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3Bcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B9c72a41%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fa">psf/requests@9c72a41bec8597f948c9d8caa5dc3f12273b3303&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;9c72a41&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a> Bump github/codeql-action from 4.33.0 to 4.34.1</li> <li><a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520class%3D"commit-link" href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpsf%2Frequests%2Fcommit%2Febf71906798ec82f34e07d3168f8b8aecaf8a3be%26amp%3B%2334%3B%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3Bcode%26amp%3Bgt%3Bebf7190%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fa">psf/requests@ebf71906798ec82f34e07d3168f8b8aecaf8a3be&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;ebf7190&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a> Bump github/codeql-action from 4.32.0 to 4.33.0</li> <li><a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520class%3D"commit-link" href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpsf%2Frequests%2Fcommit%2F0e4ae38f0c93d4f92a96c774bd52c069d12a4798%26amp%3B%2334%3B%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3Bcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B0e4ae38%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fcode%26amp%3Bgt%3B%26amp%3Blt%3B%2Fa">psf/requests@0e4ae38f0c93d4f92a96c774bd52c069d12a4798&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;0e4ae38&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a> (07a610c5)

• clarify Quickstart POST example (<a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520href%3D"https://redirect.github.com/psf/requests/issues/6960&#34;&gt;#6960&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li">https://redirect.github.com/psf/requests/issues/6960&#34;&gt;#6960&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li> <li>Additional commits viewable in <a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520class%3D"commit-link" href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpsf%2Frequests%2Fcompare%2Fv2.32.5...v2.33.0%26amp%3B%2334%3B%26amp%3Bgt%3Bcompare">psf/requests@v2.32.5...v2.33.0&#34;&gt;compare view</a></li> </ul> </details> <br /> (07a610c5)

• add AGENTS.md for project guidance and development commands</li> <li>Additional commits viewable in <a href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.github.com%2Fgoogleapis%2Fgoogle-cloud-python%2F%253Ca%2520class%3D"commit-link" href="/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fandialbrecht%2Fsqlparse%2Fcompare%2F0.5.3...0.5.4%26amp%3B%2334%3B%26amp%3Bgt%3Bcompare">andialbrecht/sqlparse@0.5.3...0.5.4&#34;&gt;compare view</a></li> </ul> </details> <br /> (dbbe4c81)

v1.17.0 (2026-05-06)

Bug Fixes

• Support Creation of JSON columns (#16733) (153b82a4)

• Drop support for Python 3.8 and 3.9 (#16956) (63f6d96c)

v1.28.0 (2026-05-06)

v1.75.0 (2026-05-06)

v1.4.0 (2026-05-06)

v1.6.0 (2026-05-06)

v1.4.0 (2026-05-06)

v2.9.0 (2026-05-06)

Bug Fixes

• Drop support for Python 3.9 (#16938) (33b55050)