Google Kubernetes Engine Release notes from Google Cloud

61 releases · 16 this month

61 releases

Date	Release	Type
Sep 23	(2026-R40) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Sep 23	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Preview	Preview
Sep 17	(2026-R39) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Sep 17	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Sep 11	Agent Substrate on GKE is now available for evaluation and non-production useunverified GA	GA
Sep 8	(2026-R38) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Sep 8	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Sep 4	New features in 1.37unverified GA	GA
Sep 4	Other changes in 1.37unverified Update	Update
Sep 4	Kubernetes 1.37 is availableunverified Update	Update
Sep 4	Removed in 1.37unverified Deprecation	Deprecation
Sep 3	GKE support for using the c3-standard-*-lssd machine types as Confidential GKE Nodes with Intel TDX is...unverified GA	GA
Sep 2	(2026-R37) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Sep 2	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Preview	Preview
Sep 1	GKE version 1.35.1-gke.1031000 and later include the following changes to automatically created firewall...unverified Update	Update
Sep 1	The bare metal machine types from the C3 machine series are now generally available with GKE clustersunverified GA	GA
Aug 31	Session affinity support using GCPTrafficDistributionPolicy for GKE Gateway is generally availableunverified GA	GA
Aug 27	Network Endpoint Group (NEG) pre-provisioning is now available in Previewunverified Preview	Preview
Aug 26	In GKE version 1.36 and later, GCPAuthzPolicy and GCPAuthzExtension resources for GKE Gateway are now...unverified Preview	Preview
Aug 26	(2026-R36) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Aug 26	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Preview	Preview
Aug 21	Per the June 10, 2026 release note , the configuration option to not enroll your cluster in a release channel...unverified Update	Update
Aug 21	The Windows Server 2019 (LTSC) GKE node image doesn't receive updates after the December 2025 versionunverified Update	Update
Aug 20	(2026-R35) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Aug 20	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Aug 18	For node pools running on GKE versions 1.36.3-gke.1480000 and later, the minimum supported boot disk size is...unverified Update	Update
Aug 14	(2026-R34) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Aug 14	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Preview	Preview
Aug 12	(2026-R33) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Aug 12	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Aug 5	In GKE version 1.36.0-gke.3302001 and later, you can run Arm workloads on the Autopilot container-optimized...unverified Update	Update
Aug 5	You can generate optimized GKE configurations that can improve performance for specific workloads, such as...unverified Preview	Preview
Aug 3	TPU Subslicing (also known as Dynamic Subslicing) is now generally available for Ironwood (TPU7x)unverified GA	GA
Jul 30	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Jul 30	(2026-R32) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Jul 28	GKE Gateway and Inference Gateway now support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)unverified Preview	Preview
Jul 28	GKE now supports opting out of the default kubernetes.io/arch=arm64:NoSchedule taint on Arm nodes in Standard...unverified Update	Update
Jul 27	In GKE version 1.36 and later, GKE Dataplane V2 with NetworkPolicies supports up to 15,000 nodes per cluster...unverified Update	Update
Jul 27	In version 1.36.2-gke.1498000 and later, GKE supports mixed-protocol Services of type LoadBalancer in general...unverified GA	GA
Jul 24	(2026-R31) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Jul 24	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Jul 20	To improve security, Ubuntu node images in GKE version 1.37 and later don't pre-install the vulkan-tools...unverified Deprecation	Deprecation
Jul 16	(2026-R30) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Jul 16	GKE version 1.33 now supports the N4D machine series for node pool auto-creation and Autopilot clusters in...unverified Update	Update
Jul 16	In GKE version 1.36.0-gke.3204000 and later, when you manually or automatically create a GKE node pool that...unverified Update	Update
Jul 16	In GKE version 1.36.0-gke.4447000 and later, the VerticalPodAutoscaler supports CPU startup boost , which...unverified Preview	Preview
Jul 16	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Jul 16	Starting on June 30, 2026, the Filestore API ( file.googleapis.com ) is enabled by default when you enable...unverified Update	Update
Jul 14	GKE Dataplane V2 clusters running version 1.35.1-gke.1516000 or later now use CNI version 1.1.0 in the CNI...unverified Update	Update
Jul 14	Rollout sequencing with custom stages is now generally availableunverified GA	GA
Jul 10	(2026-R29) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Jul 10	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Jul 9	(2026-R27) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Jul 9	(2026-R28) Version updatesunverified Update	Update
Jul 9	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Update	Update
Jul 8	The network-optimized C4N machine series is available with GKE clusters running 1.36.0-gke.3009002 or laterunverified Update	Update
Jul 7	For GKE Standard clusters, the maximum number of nodes that you can upgrade simultaneously by using surge...unverified Update	Update
Jul 7	GKE Gateway now supports backend mutual TLS (mTLS)unverified Update	Update
Jul 7	In GKE version 1.34 and later, you can configure Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to collect...unverified Update	Update
Jul 7	In GKE version 1.35.3-gke.1389000 and later, you can run GPU workloads on Confidential GKE Nodes with certain...unverified Preview	Preview

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Cloud SQL for MySQL docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	RSS
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	RSS
Colab Enterprise docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	None
Dataflow docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	RSS
Dataproc docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	RSS
Firestore docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	None
Gemini Enterprise – Business edition release notes support.google.com	support.google.com	None
Google Cloud all release notes docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	RSS
Pub/Sub docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	RSS
Vertex AI / Agent Platform docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	RSS
Vertex AI generative AI docs.cloud.google.com	docs.cloud.google.com	None
‎Gemini Apps' release updates & improvements gemini.google	gemini.google	None

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