Releasesby GlyphFor GKE Standard clusters, the maximum number of nodes that you can upgrade simultaneously by using surge...
For GKE Standard clusters, the maximum number of nodes that you can upgrade simultaneously by using surge upgrades ( maxSurge + maxUnavailable ) is now 100. Each of these settings can be set as high as 100, but their sum can be no higher than 100. For more information, see Surge upgrades .
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Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available. Deep Research is an investigation mode for complex, open-ended questions that require multi-step reasoning across your data.
REPLACE WHERE flows are now generally available
REPLACE WHERE flows for pipelines and standalone streaming tables are now generally available. Use them to replace only rows matching a predicate on each refresh, without reprocessing the full table history. See Batch processing with REPLACE WHERE flows .
Managed Iceberg materialized views are in Public Preview
You can now create a materialized view that is compatible with external Iceberg readers. This feature is in Public Preview . To enable it, reach out to your Databricks account team. See Create a materialized view compatible with external Iceberg readers .
[Launched] Generally Available: Network Security Perimeter support for Azure Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs now supports Network Security Perimeter (NSP), enabling organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for PaaS resources and control public network access through perimeter-based access rules.With Network Security Perimeter
[Launched] Generally Available: Confidential Computing support for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated
Azure Event Hubs Dedicated now supports Confidential Computing, enabling organizations to protect streaming data while it is being processed in memory. By leveraging hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs), customers can help safeguard sensit
Per-user budgets for cost centers in the billing UI
Enterprise admins can now create cost center user-level budgets directly in the billing UI where you manage cost centers and budgets. This feature is available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. This gives you the same per-user AI credit budget controls that were previously only available through the REST API.
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In GKE version 1.34 and later, you can configure Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to collect...
In GKE version 1.34 and later, you can configure Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to collect Pressure Stall Information (PSI) metrics from cAdvisor. You can use PSI metrics to monitor CPU, memory, and I/O congestion and stall times for your containers, Pods, and nodes. For more information, see Collect specific Prometheus metrics from Kubernetes .
In GKE version 1.35.3-gke.1389000 and later, you can run GPU workloads on Confidential GKE Nodes with certain...
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 .
In GKE version 1.36.0-gke.1601000 and later, you can enable the logging of VerticalPodAutoscaler decisions in...
In GKE version 1.36.0-gke.1601000 and later, you can enable the logging of VerticalPodAutoscaler decisions in Cloud Logging. You can use these logs to understand why specific vertical Pod autoscaling decisions were made. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see Collect vertical Pod autoscaler event logs .
GKE Gateway now supports backend mutual TLS (mTLS)
GKE Gateway now supports backend mutual TLS (mTLS). In addition to backend authenticated TLS, backend mTLS allows the GKE Gateway load balancer to authenticate its identity to backend Pods by presenting a client certificate. GKE Gateway configures backend mTLS using the standard Gateway API spec.tls.backend.clientCertificateRef field.
The network-optimized C4N machine series is available with GKE clusters running 1.36.0-gke.3009002 or later
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.
(2026-R27) Version updates
There are no version updates for 2026-R27.
(2026-R28) Version updates
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 .
Note : Your clusters might not have these versions 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 1.36.0-gke.3712000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.