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Information about Workbench releases, improvements, and bug fixes
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This document provides information about Verily Workbench product releases, improvements, and bug fixes. The most recent releases are listed first.

2025

June 30: Migrate Workbench GCP workflow

Workbench’s GCP workflow has been migrated from the Google Cloud Life Sciences API (deprecated on July 8, 2025) to Google Cloud Batch API. Google Cloud Batch API supports all use cases previously covered by the Cloud Life Sciences API. The Workbench team has already adjusted permissions for new and existing projects to ensure seamless continuity.

For more information about workflows and Batch API, see Workflows overview.

June 11: Allow editing compute environments after creation in UI

Users can now edit the machine type and disk size of Google Compute Engine apps via the Workbench UI. The CPU and memory fields are now configured by the machine type selection.

For more information, see Update compute options for an existing app.

June 5: Enable Vertex AI services

We are enabling the GCP Vertex AI APIs in Workbench workspaces backed by GCP projects. We will also grant permissions to workspace users to call those APIs.

For more information, see Access Vertex AI from your app.

April 22: Workbench groups 2.0

Workbench groups have been reconfigured. All newly created groups must now be linked to an organization. Legacy groups will continue to function as normal.

Additionally, new group roles include:

  • Admin
  • Member
  • Reader

An admin of a group must also be a member of the group to be able to access all resources that have that group as the group policy. The reader role allows a user or group to view that group's membership.

For more information about these changes, see Organization-scoped groups and legacy groups.

March 7: Support for self-service billing

Workbench now allows users to add their own Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing information directly through the user interface.

Key updates include:

  • Google Account authentication: In the Profile section, users can authenticate with a Google Account that has access to a desired billing account.
  • Create pods with custom billing: Users can then navigate to the Pods section and create new pods using a billing account their Google Account has access to.

March 7: UI modifications for organization and pod management

Organizations and pods can now be directly managed via the Workbench UI. This will allow organization and pod admins to:

  • Add and remove users to organizations and pods
  • Change the roles of a given user in an organization or pod
  • Create pods
  • View and edit basic metadata on an organization and pod
  • View member lists and associated permissions for organizations and pods

For more information about these updates, see Set up billing with pods, Manage organizations, and Manage users.

January 21: Google Compute Engine JupyterLab apps

Workspace JupyterLab apps will now use a custom Google Compute Engine (GCE) configuration, replacing Vertex AI notebooks.

All new JupyterLab apps must use the new GCE configuration. To get started with a JupyterLab Compute Engine instance, see Create a new cloud app.

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Last Modified: 10 July 2025