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In GKE version 1.37.0-gke.3570000 and later, you can split each Local SSD on a node between ephemeral storage and raw block storage. When you create a cluster or node pool, use the capacity property of the --ephemeral-storage-local-ssd flag to set how much Local SSD capacity GKE formats for ephemeral storage.
Managed OpenTelemetry for GKE is now generally available, allowing users to collect traces, metrics, and logs using a Google-managed collector. It supports OTLP ingestion and improved integration with Cloud Telemetry API.
Google Kubernetes Engine updated its Rapid channel with new versions, including 1.34.12-gke.1539000, 1.35.9-gke.1505000, 1.36.5-gke.1982000, and 1.37.1-gke.3020000, alongside new 1.38.0 alpha releases.
C4D bare metal machine types are now generally available on Google Kubernetes Engine for clusters running version 1.36 or later.
You can now provision GKE nodes from storage-optimized Z4M machine series : Manually: starting from GKE version 1.36.3-gke.1767000 and later. Using compute classes, cluster autoscaler, node pool auto-creation and in Autopilot clusters: starting from GKE version 1.37.0-gke.4713000 and later.
For GKE Standard CPU node pools, GKE can now upgrade nodes by updating the existing Compute Engine VM in place, instead of deleting the VM and creating a new one. Because the node keeps its underlying VM, it also keeps its compute capacity during the upgrade. This lowers the risk that a node upgrade fails or stalls because resources aren't available.
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.37.1-gke.1552000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.36.4-gke.2046002 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
The microVM sandbox type is now Generally Available (GA) with GKE Sandbox in clusters that run version 1.37.0-gke.4713000 and later. MicroVM sandboxes provide hardware virtualization and isolation for untrusted workloads, AI agent runtimes, and multi-tenant environments.
Starting on July 1, 2026, Identity Service for GKE is deprecated in GKE version 1.36 and earlier. This feature is also unavailable in organizations that were created on or after July 1, 2025. GKE version 1.37 and later don't support Identity Service for GKE.
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.36.4-gke.1495000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
GKE now automatically applies protection tier labels to TPU node pools created from Compute Engine reservations. Depending on your configuration, GKE adds: Node pool resource label: goog-gke-node-pool-protection-tier ( standard or capacity_optimized ) Kubernetes node label: cloud.google.com/protection-tier ( STANDARD or CAPACITY_OPTIMIZED ) To learn more...
The storage-optimized Z4D machine series is available with GKE clusters running 1.36.3-gke.1244000 or later. You can use Z4D machine types in Standard or Autopilot mode. For more information about limitations for this machine series in GKE, see About machine support with GKE clusters .
GKE Standard clusters now support up to 512 maximum Pods per node, an increase from the previous limit of 256. Nodes configured for 257 to 512 Pods will now be allocated a /22 Pod CIDR block (1,024 IP addresses).
GKE ambient networking is now available in Preview through an allowlist. GKE ambient networking provides a simplified, sidecarless deployment model for a service mesh with Layer 4 capabilities.
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.36.4-gke.1391000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades .
Agent Substrate on GKE is now available for evaluation and non-production use. Production support is offered on an allowlist basis under a limited GA program. Agent Substrate runs agentic workloads at scale on GKE clusters. To reduce resource usage, Agent Substrate suspends idle agents and takes a snapshot of the agent's active memory (RAM) and local files.
GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades .
- The PodCertificateRequest and ClusterTrustBundle APIs are generally available and promoted to certificates.k8s.io/v1. DRA device metadata publishing is enabled with beta support (for use with DRA drivers which include this feature). HorizontalPodAutoscaler enables beta support for scaling to zero . StatefulSet maxUnavailable support is now enabled.
GKE support for using the c3-standard-*-lssd machine types as Confidential GKE Nodes with Intel TDX is generally available. For more information, see the following: To use this feature with GKE, see Encrypt workload data in-use with Confidential GKE Nodes . To learn more about the feature from Compute Engine, see Confidential VM overview .
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.36.3-gke.1767000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
The bare metal machine types from the C3 machine series are now generally available with GKE clusters. You can now provision machine types such as c3-standard-192-metal in Standard mode with any available GKE version.
Session affinity support using GCPTrafficDistributionPolicy for GKE Gateway is generally available. This release currently supports single-cluster GKE Gateway load balancers using the following GatewayClasses: gke-l7-rilb gke-l7-regional-external-managed gke-l7-global-external-managed In addition to the session affinity types available in Preview, you can...
Network Endpoint Group (NEG) pre-provisioning is now available in Preview. With this feature, you can force the creation of empty zonal GCE_VM_IP_PORT NEGs in specified zones (or all zones within a region) during Service creation, regardless of whether the cluster has nodes in those zones.
In GKE version 1.36 and later, GCPAuthzPolicy and GCPAuthzExtension resources for GKE Gateway are now available in Preview. You can use these resources to enforce identity-based access control and zero-trust authorization on incoming traffic at the Gateway layer.
Per the June 10, 2026 release note , the configuration option to not enroll your cluster in a release channel is deprecated, and will be removed on June 14, 2027. In alignment with this deprecation, creating new clusters not enrolled in a release channel is now only allowed for existing customers.
GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades .
For node pools running on GKE versions 1.36.3-gke.1480000 and later, the minimum supported boot disk size is 15 GB. For earlier versions, the minimum supported boot disk size is 12 GB.
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.
GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades .
You can generate optimized GKE configurations that can improve performance for specific workloads, such as Redis and MySQL, by using the gcloud CLI. The configurations are ConfigMaps and ComputeClasses that apply performance recommendations to the workloads and the nodes.
TPU Subslicing (also known as Dynamic Subslicing) is now generally available for Ironwood (TPU7x). This feature enables you to incrementally provision node pools for a cube or litepod, breaking them into smaller slices (subslices) to run workloads requiring smaller topologies.
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones. Version 1.36.2-gke.2064000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
GKE Gateway and Inference Gateway now support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). You can configure a CORS filter directly on an HTTPRoute resource by using the portable syntax standardized by Gateway API .
In version 1.36.2-gke.1498000 and later, GKE supports mixed-protocol Services of type LoadBalancer in general availability (GA). Mixed-protocol Services let both external (NetLB) and internal (ILB) passthrough Network Load Balancers handle simultaneous TCP and UDP traffic on a single IP address across IPv4, IPv6, and dual-stack environments. Main
GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades .
To improve security, Ubuntu node images in GKE version 1.37 and later don't pre-install the vulkan-tools package. If you run Vulkan diagnostic tools (such as vulkaninfo ) directly on GKE Ubuntu hosts, then you must manually install the vulkan-tools package. This change doesn't affect containerized GPU/Vulkan workloads.
In GKE version 1.36.0-gke.4447000 and later, the VerticalPodAutoscaler supports CPU startup boost , which temporarily increases CPU requests during application startup to improve startup latency and cost efficiency. This feature is available in Preview. Stable Channel
Rollout sequencing with custom stages is now generally available. This version of rollout sequencing, which is recommended if you're configuring an environment for the first time, offers a robust set of features including the following: Define custom stages : Sequence the rollout of a new GKE version across environments.
GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades .
There are no version updates for 2026-R27.
The network-optimized C4N machine series is available with GKE clusters running 1.36.0-gke.3009002 or later. You can use C4N machine types in Standard or Autopilot mode.
In GKE version 1.35.3-gke.1389000 and later, you can run GPU workloads on Confidential GKE Nodes with certain G4 machine types and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see Encrypt GPU workload data in use with Confidential GKE Nodes .
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| 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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