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JAX tightens compilation cache security while Google Cloud standardizes Spanner connections

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JAX shipped critical warnings for unsafe compilation cache practices, forcing a breaking change in how you specify distributed sharding across the stack.

JAX is hardening its compilation cache with mandatory security warnings [1] that will surface in API docs, addressing a vulnerability surface that's been quietly dangerous. In the same pass, JAX is ripping out the `Manual` HloSharding path entirely [2], forcing users toward the safer NamedSharding API instead of silently ignoring unsafe configurations during Shardy import. The JAX scipy special module gained Dawson's integral [3], adding another scientific computing primitive to the ecosystem. Across the cloud side, Google Cloud Python is deprecating the experimental Spanner host parameter [4] in favor of a unified `instance_type` option that explicitly marks connections as cloud or omni, cleaning up years of half-finished API surface. The sqlalchemy-spanner package received substantial nox session work [5], standardizing test infrastructure against google-cloud practices. Code generation caught up with grafeas [6] and container analysis [7] libraries, keeping protos in sync with their service definitions.

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References

  1. [1] Make warnings about security on the compilation cache warnings. ↗ google/jax
  2. [2] Remove setting `Manual` HloSharding directly as it would be anyways ignored during Shardy import. If required, JAX NamedSharding should be set instead which would be correctly lowered to corresponding ↗ google/jax
  3. [3] scipy.special: add dawsn (Dawson's integral) ↗ google/jax
  4. [4] chore(spanner): deprecate experimental host option/parameter to replace with Spanner Omni (#17246) ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  5. [5] chore: add missing nox sessions and polish dependencies in sqlalchemy-spanner ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  6. [6] chore: generate grafeas ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  7. [7] chore: generate google-cloud-containeranalysis ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python

$ ls google/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review JAX drops legacy IFRT device APIs, google-auth adds 3.15 the month in review JAX free-threading push reshapes 0.11.2 and 0.12 cleanup
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Quick answers

What shipped in Google on May 30, 2026?
JAX shipped critical warnings for unsafe compilation cache practices, forcing a breaking change in how you specify distributed sharding across the stack. In total, 43 commits, 36 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Google on May 30, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including TheSkyentist, chalmerlowe, and parthea.
What were the notable Google updates?
Make warnings about security on the compilation cache warnings, Remove setting `Manual` HloSharding directly as it would be anyways ignored during Shardy import. If required, JAX NamedSharding should be set instead which would be correctly lowered to corresponding, and scipy.special: add dawsn (Dawson's integral).
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JAX pins OpenXLA revision, disables overlap_test against older libtpu 5 shipped JAX adds type-2 and type-3 Hermitian eigensolves, lexsort batching cuts unique compile time 69 shipped JAX hijax flags read at call time, Spanner stops deleting multiplexed sessions 112 shipped Vertex AI client timeout fix, Compute v1 API regenerated 87 shipped

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