Releasesby GlyphNetwork Endpoint Group (NEG) pre-provisioning is now available in Preview
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.
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CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (General availability)
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. CoCo runs in a side panel next to the extension's existing SQL and Snowpark Python workflows, so you can work locally while you stay connected to your Snowflake account.
Lakeflow Designer August Release
The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version-history experience.
Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)
You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job. Genie Code runs your prompt autonomously. It can read upstream task outputs and call tools as needed. The task returns a link to the resulting Genie Code conversation with its response. See Genie Code task for jobs .
Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime. Now in Public Preview , it generates distributed training code, resolves environment and dependency issues, and debugs GPU and distributed workload failures. See Use Genie Code with AI Runtime .
Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta-format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue. Providers add foreign Delta tables to a share, and recipients access the shared data in read-only format.
Atlassian Audit Logs connector (Beta)
The Atlassian Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests organization audit log events, such as user, security, and configuration changes, from Atlassian into Databricks. Authentication uses an Atlassian organization API key.
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(2026-R36) 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.1640000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
In GKE version 1.36 and later, GCPAuthzPolicy and GCPAuthzExtension resources for GKE Gateway are now...
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.
Session affinity support using GCPTrafficDistributionPolicy for GKE Gateway is generally available
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...
GKE version 1.35.1-gke.1031000 and later include the following changes to automatically created firewall...
GKE version 1.35.1-gke.1031000 and later include the following changes to automatically created firewall rules for Services : Changes the priority of multiple existing firewall rules for Services from 1000 to 999 . Creates additional firewall rules to deny traffic that is not explicitly allowed by other auto-created firewall rules.
The bare metal machine types from the C3 machine series are now generally available with GKE clusters
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.
(2026-R37) 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.1767000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.