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UpdateUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026

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 .

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DateRelease
Jul 30Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified
Update
Jul 28GKE now supports opting out of the default kubernetes.io/arch=arm64:NoSchedule taint on Arm nodes in Standard...unverified
Update
Jul 28GKE Gateway and Inference Gateway now support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)unverified
Preview
Jul 27In GKE version 1.36 and later, GKE Dataplane V2 with NetworkPolicies supports up to 15,000 nodes per cluster...unverified
Update
Jul 27In version 1.36.2-gke.1498000 and later, GKE supports mixed-protocol Services of type LoadBalancer in general...unverified
GA
Aug 3TPU Subslicing (also known as Dynamic Subslicing) is now generally available for Ironwood (TPU7x)unverified
GA
Aug 5You can generate optimized GKE configurations that can improve performance for specific workloads, such as...unverified
Preview
Aug 5In GKE version 1.36.0-gke.3302001 and later, you can run Arm workloads on the Autopilot container-optimized...unverified
Update

Also shipped on Jul 30, 2026

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Jul 30[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in India South Central
MicrosoftAzure databases and analyticsGA
Jul 30Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
OpenAIChatGPTPricing
Jul 30GitHub Models is now retired
GitHubGitHub CopilotDeprecation

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