Releasesby GlyphFor node pools running on GKE versions 1.36.3-gke.1480000 and later, the minimum supported boot disk size is...
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.
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Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)
You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...
User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.
Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys
Vercel KMS lets you sign JWTs and arbitrary messages from your Vercel Functions using managed asymmetric signing keys, so private keys never live in your code or environment variables. Your function authenticates with its Vercel OIDC token, and the private key stays inside Vercel's key management service while verifiers use only the public key.
AIP Evolve in beta
AIP Evolve, in beta for enrollments with AIP and AI FDE, coordinates fleets of AI FDE agents to improve AI systems toward a defined target, goal, and constraints.
Baseline CFU for Flink statements (Limited Availability)
Set a best-effort minimum scaling target for an individual Flink statement; Autopilot keeps the statement at or above it. Configurable in Console or the Flink SQL REST API.
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(2026-R35) 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 1.36.3-gke.1537000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
Per the June 10, 2026 release note , the configuration option to not enroll your cluster in a release channel...
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.
The Windows Server 2019 (LTSC) GKE node image doesn't receive updates after the December 2025 version
The Windows Server 2019 (LTSC) GKE node image doesn't receive updates after the December 2025 version. Windows Server 2019 (LTSC) is in the Extended Support period of the Microsoft fixed lifecycle policy and receives only security updates. To prevent stability issues, the GKE node image for Windows Server 2019 (LTSC) is pinned to the December 2025 version.
(2026-R34) 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.
(2026-R33) 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.