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

Google in review

One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.

Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories

JAX drops legacy IFRT device APIs, google-auth adds 3.15

Google's client libraries ship three python-genai model releases and Python 3.15 support lands across google-auth, BigQuery, and Django S...

Sep 21–27, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories

XLA:GPU to flip f32 dot default from TF32 to BF16

The change lands "in the nearest future" and aligns GPU precision with TPU, but numerically shifts a number of existing tests.

Sep 14–20, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories

JAX 0.11.2 adds minmax and log2, drops NumPy 2.1

python-genai 2.24.0 lands credential and retrieval APIs for gaos, and Spanner fixes a transaction lock leak on failed inline begin.

Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories

google-auth 2.58.0 adds aiohttp mTLS reconfiguration

JAX removed two Pallas flags and a deprecated pltpu.HOST symbol, added log2 primitives, and bumped XLA.

Sep 1–30, 2026 monthly [plan] 8 stories

JAX free-threading push reshapes 0.11.2 and 0.12 cleanup

google-auth 2.59.0 declares Python 3.15 support while python-genai ships four releases and XLA:GPU flips its default dot precision.

Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly [act]

JAX free-threading push dominates the week

JAX landed PyArray thread-safety, XLA pinning, Pallas tags, and removed deprecated Pallas APIs, all without a security advisory.

Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly

JAX's performance tuning, Google Cloud's sync, and a deleted API

JAX trimmed fetch time in some workloads and killed the deprecated shard_alike entry point, while Google Cloud Python libraries shipped r...

Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly

JAX ships 0.11.1 and reworks custom_vjp, Cloud Python hardens Spanner

August saw JAX stabilize its custom_vjp and autodiff internals ahead of a 0.11.1 release, while Google Cloud Python patched data-loss bug...