This page details updates to Service Usage. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.
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## July 30, 2026

Deprecated Support for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint enablement using the
Service Usage v2beta API is shut down.

For more information, see
[Feature deprecations](https://docs.cloud.google.com/service-usage/docs/deprecations.md.txt).

## July 24, 2026

Deprecated As of July 30, 2026, support for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
enablement and consumer policies using the Service Usage v2beta API will be shut
down.

For more information, see
[Feature deprecations](https://docs.cloud.google.com/service-usage/docs/deprecations.md.txt).

## June 03, 2026

Deprecated Support for managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enablement and consumer
policies using the Service Usage v2beta API is deprecated. MCP server enablement
is no longer required. Enabling the underlying service is sufficient.

For more information, see
[Feature deprecations](https://docs.cloud.google.com/service-usage/docs/deprecations.md.txt).

## November 11, 2025

Feature Service Usage support for
[hierarchical service activation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/service-usage/docs/hierarchical-service-activation/overview.md.txt)
is available in
[Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages).
This feature lets you enable and disable services across your organization's
resource hierarchy.

## June 01, 2018

Feature **Public v1 release**: Service Usage is now generally available. You can use version 1 of Service Usage to discover and manage other APIs and services in your Google Cloud project.
Change The default behavior of the [`services.disable`](https://docs.cloud.google.com/service-usage/docs/reference/rest/v1/services/disable.md.txt) method now generates an error if any currently enabled services depend on the service you are trying to disable. If you set the `disableDependentServices` field to true, any enabled services that depend on the service you are disabling, are also disabled.

## March 01, 2018

Feature When you call the [`services.list`](https://docs.cloud.google.com/service-usage/docs/reference/rest/v1beta1/services/list.md.txt) method, you can now filter for disabled APIs and services.

## February 01, 2018

Feature **Public beta release**: Service Usage is an infrastructure service of Google Cloud that lets you discover and manage other APIs and services in your Cloud project.