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Oct 23 days ago	You can use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to automatically optimize... unverified Preview	Preview
Sep 305 days ago	GKE now automatically applies protection tier labels to TPU node pools created from Compute Engine... unverified Update	Update
Sep 287 days ago	The storage-optimized Z4D machine series is available with GKE clusters running 1.36.3-gke.1244000 or later unverified Update	Update
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Sep 2312 days ago	(2026-R40) Version updates unverified Update	Update
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