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Bigtable reroutes CheckAndMutateRows and ReadModifyWriteRows

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Chalmer Lowe Peter Hawkins release-please[bot] Amir Hardon Daniel Sanche mattjj copybara-service
10 people shipped this
Chalmer Lowe @chalmerlowe 2 cited Peter Hawkins @hawkinsp 1 cited release-please[bot] @release-please[bot] 1 cited Amir Hardon @amirh 1 cited Daniel Sanche @daniel-sanche 1 cited mattjj @mattjj copybara-service @copybara-service saladpalad @saladpalad release-please @release-please Shuowei Li @shuoweil

Bigtable's conditional and append row commits now route through the data client instead of raw protos.

The bigtable Python library rerouted `ConditionalRow.commit` and `AppendRow.commit`, which back CheckAndMutateRows and ReadModifyWriteRows, to use the data client rather than raw protos, with `Row` objects now holding data-client `Mutation` and `ReadModifyWriteRowRule` objects [1]. This is a breaking change for code that referenced those row internals directly.

Google-api-core added a centralized `apply_interceptors` helper, allowing generated libraries to apply gRPC channel wrappers in a predictable, order-preserving pipeline, addressing sync-versus-async channel wrapping differences [2]. A companion refactor simplified the OTel interceptor helpers by extracting `_get_tracer_provider(client_options)` into one lookup point [3].

Python-genai v2.22.0 adds the Gemini 3.8 Flash model to its SDKs [4][5], alongside a JAX fix that guards `PyArray_Storage::ifrt_array` behind the existing `mu`, making it thread-safe [6].

Action items

References

  1. [1] feat(bigtable): Rerouted CheckAndMutateRows and ReadModifyWriteRows to data client (#18190) ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  2. [2] feat(api-core): add ClientInterceptor and apply_interceptors helper (A) ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  3. [3] refactor(api-core): simplify OTel interceptor helpers and extract tracer provider (#18263) ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  4. [4] v2.22.0 ↗ googleapis/python-genai
  5. [5] feat: Add Gemini 3.8 Flash model to SDKs and update Flash model descriptions ↗ googleapis/python-genai
  6. [6] Guard PyArray_Storage::ifrt_array with mu. ↗ google/jax

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Quick answers

What shipped in Google on September 3, 2026?
Bigtable's conditional and append row commits now route through the data client instead of raw protos. In total, 44 commits, 42 pull requests, and 5 releases landed.
Who contributed to Google on September 3, 2026?
10 developers shipped this update, including Peter Hawkins, mattjj, copybara-service, saladpalad, release-please[bot], Amir Hardon, release-please, and Shuowei Li, and 2 more.
What were the notable Google updates?
feat(bigtable): Rerouted CheckAndMutateRows and ReadModifyWriteRows to data client (#18190), feat(api-core): add ClientInterceptor and apply_interceptors helper (A), and refactor(api-core): simplify OTel interceptor helpers and extract tracer provider (#18263).
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