Releasesby GlyphGKE Rapid channel version updates available
Google Cloud updated GKE versions in the Rapid channel, adding control plane and node versions 1.34.12, 1.36.5, 1.37.2, and 1.38.0-gke.5166000+preview while removing 1.38.0-gke.3229000+preview.
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AI Function task support in Declarative Automation Bundles (Beta)
Databricks introduced Beta support for AI Function tasks within Declarative Automation Bundles.
Give agents only the access they need
Buildkite released token permissions and queue scopes for agent tokens, allowing teams to restrict agent capabilities and limit job acceptance to specific queues.
Many-to-many relationships in semantic views (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI launched a public preview for modeling many-to-many relationships between logical tables within semantic views.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in December
GitHub announced the upcoming deprecation of several Copilot models on December 14, 2026, including Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
Aurora PostgreSQL with express configuration now supported in CloudFormation
AWS added support for Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration in CloudFormation, enabling single-property automated cluster creation and faster serverless database setup.
Deploy pg\_pinecone to Render or Railway
Pinecone released one-click templates to deploy pg_pinecone on Render or Railway running PostgreSQL 18 with preloaded vector extensions.
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(2026-R48) Version updates
Google Cloud updated GKE cluster versions for new cluster creation as well as manual control plane and node upgrades.
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 .
Agent 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.
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.