Releasesby GlyphAgent Gateway for GKE is now available in Preview in the Rapid channel on clusters running GKE version...
Agent Gateway for GKE is now available in Preview in the Rapid channel on clusters running GKE version 1.37.2-gke.1042000 or later. Agent Gateway provides a centralized management layer to control traffic flowing to, from, and between your agents on GKE.
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Genie ZeroOps is available in Beta
Genie ZeroOps is now in beta, providing automated monitoring for jobs, pipelines, and tables. It detects failures and data quality issues, investigates root causes, and proposes fixes.
Amazon Aurora and RDS now support Graviton5-based R9g database instances
AWS Graviton5-based R9g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and MySQL compatibility, and for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.
[In preview] Public Preview: SQL performance monitoring for Azure SQL Managed Instance
The public preview of Microsoft-managed performance monitoring for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now available. Customers monitoring business-critical SQL Managed Instance workloads often rely on custom scripts and disconnected monitoring tools. This requ
Actions for ARM32 Linux & Windows retirement
GitHub Actions hosted runners will be ending support for ARM32 job execution on Windows and Linux by 8th Dec 2026. This follows our end of support for node20 where Node 24 does not support ARM32. This includes the removal of support on hosted runners for native AArch32 User-space execution. Join the discussion within GitHub Community .
Artifacts and slides in Genie One (Beta)
Artifacts are slide decks and other custom visual pages that Genie One builds from your data and saves to your workspace. Ask Genie for an artifact in chat, edit it yourself or ask for changes, then present it and share it with others. Anyone who views an artifact can use Ask Genie to ask questions about the data behind a chart or number.
Connectors section in Genie Agent settings (Beta)
The Configure settings for a Genie Agent now have a dedicated section for adding connectors. This feature is in Beta. See Add connectors to a Genie Agent .
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Agent Sandbox on GKE is generally available and runs on any supported GKE version
Agent Sandbox on GKE is generally available and runs on any supported GKE version. Agent Sandbox on GKE is optimized for running isolated, stateful, single-replica workloads, such as AI agents, at no additional cost. You can install Agent Sandbox on GKE by using the open source Agent Sandbox installation .
In GKE version 1.35.1-gke.1516000 or later, GKE Dataplane V2 clusters use a unified cilium-cni configuration...
In GKE version 1.35.1-gke.1516000 or later, GKE Dataplane V2 clusters use a unified cilium-cni configuration instead of a chained CNI setup. With this change, Cilium configures the Pod default gateway by using its node-local virtual router interface ( cilium_host ), which has the statically assigned link-local IP address 169.254.4.6 .
GKE capacity buffers are generally available
Capacity buffers for GKE Standard and Autopilot are now generally available. This feature allows users to pre-provision and suspend compute capacity to accelerate workload scaling.
(2026-R47) 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 1.37.1-gke.2097000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
GKE Gateway adds SNI-based routing with TLS passthrough
GKE Gateway now supports TLS passthrough, allowing traffic routing based on SNI without terminating TLS at the load balancer.
Agent Substrate on GKE is generally available
Agent Substrate is now generally available for GKE Standard clusters. It provides an infrastructure layer optimized for high-density AI agent workloads with efficient sandbox provisioning.
In GKE version 1.37.0-gke.3570000 and later, you can split each Local SSD on a node between ephemeral storage...
In GKE version 1.37.0-gke.3570000 and later, you can split each Local SSD on a node between ephemeral storage and raw block storage. When you create a cluster or node pool, use the capacity property of the --ephemeral-storage-local-ssd flag to set how much Local SSD capacity GKE formats for ephemeral storage.