Google Cloud release notes

The following release notes cover the most recent changes over the last 60 days. For a comprehensive list of product-specific release notes, see the individual product release note pages.

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January 30, 2026

Bigtable
Feature

Bigtable has a unified, customizable system insights dashboard. This dashboard includes predefined metrics and other Google Cloud metrics. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Customize the system insights dashboard.

Cloud Storage
Announcement

Object change notification is deprecated on January 30, 2026. To generate notifications for changes to objects, use Pub/Sub notifications for Cloud Storage instead.

January 29, 2026

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2026-R4) Version updates

Change

(2026-R4) Version updates

Change

(2026-R4) Version updates

Change

(2026-R4) Version updates

Change

(2026-R4) Version updates

  • Version 1.33.5-gke.2072001 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Stable channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Stable channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Stable channel:
    • 1.32.9-gke.1675000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2019000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2072000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:
Change

(2026-R4) 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.

Rapid channel

Regular channel

Stable channel

  • Version 1.33.5-gke.2072001 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Stable channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Stable channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Stable channel:
    • 1.32.9-gke.1675000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2019000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2072000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:

Extended channel

No channel

January 28, 2026

Cloud Storage
Feature

Previously, when listing buckets by using the client libraries, JSON API, or RPC API, the request returned an error if some buckets couldn't be reached because a location was temporarily unavailable. You can now use a partial success option to return a list of buckets that are available, as well as the names of any buckets that can't be reached.

January 24, 2026

Dataproc
Feature

Added a new dataproc:pypi.repository property to customize the PyPI repository that pip uses. The value can be a internet-accessible URL, or you can specify google to use a Google-hosted cache of PyPI, which is accessible without public internet connectivity. Starting with Dataproc image version 3.1, google will be the default (you can specify the pypi property value to use public PyPI instead of the default google 3.1 value).

January 23, 2026

Cloud Load Balancing
Feature

Application Load Balancers now support the configuration of a traffic duration setting when you add backends to the backend services. You can configure this setting as SHORT or LONG based on the response time needed by backends to complete HTTP requests.

Application Load Balancers also support the use of a new in-flight balancing mode that lets you configure the load balancer's traffic distribution to supported backends when requests take more than a second to complete.

This feature is available in Preview.

January 22, 2026

Virtual Private Cloud
Feature

You can use Private Service Connect backends to access published services. For more information, see About Private Service Connect backends.

January 21, 2026

Cloud Storage
Feature

Bucket relocation with write downtime now supports completed multipart uploads. If a multipart upload is started before relocation begins and is completed before the final synchronization step, the objects are successfully relocated. In-progress multipart uploads continue to block the final synchronization step until they are either completed or cancelled. For more information, see Bucket relocation overview.

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2026-R3) Version updates

Change

(2026-R3) Version updates

Change

(2026-R3) Version updates

Change

(2026-R3) Version updates

Change

(2026-R3) Version updates

  • Version 1.33.5-gke.2019000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Stable channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Stable channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Stable channel:
    • 1.31.14-gke.1081000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1114000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1632000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1956000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:
Change

(2026-R3) 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.

Rapid channel

Regular channel

Stable channel

  • Version 1.33.5-gke.2019000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Stable channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Stable channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Stable channel:
    • 1.31.14-gke.1081000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1114000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1632000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1956000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:

Extended channel

No channel

January 20, 2026

Cloud Interconnect
Feature

Dedicated Cloud Interconnect support is available in the following colocation facilities:

  • Bangkok, Thailand

For more information, see the Locations table and Global locations.

Cloud VPN
Feature

Cloud VPN is now available in region asia-southeast3 (Bangkok, Thailand). For more information, see Global locations.

Pricing is available on the Cloud VPN pricing page.

Filestore
Feature

Filestore is available in asia-southeast3 (Bangkok). For more information, see Filestore regions and zones.

January 16, 2026

Cloud Storage
Feature

You can now use dry run mode to simulate storage batch operations jobs without modifying or deleting data. Dry run helps you to validate your job configuration before running the actual operation.

To learn how to configure a dry run job, see Create and manage batch operations jobs.

January 15, 2026

Cloud Storage
Feature

When you bulk restore soft-deleted objects, you can restore objects that were live at a specific time. You can also choose the objects to restore based on the object creation time.

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2026-R2) Version updates

Change

(2026-R2) Version updates

Change

(2026-R2) Version updates

Change

(2026-R2) Version updates

Change

(2026-R2) Version updates

Change

(2026-R2) 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.

Rapid channel

Regular channel

Stable channel

Extended channel

No channel

January 07, 2026

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2026-R1) Version updates

Change

(2026-R1) Version updates

Change

(2026-R1) Version updates

  • Version 1.35.0-gke.1340000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
    • 1.31.13-gke.1139000
    • 1.31.13-gke.1454000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1045000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1081000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1114000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1156000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1239000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1548000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1592000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1632000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1675000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1711000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1862000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1894000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1956000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2019000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2072000
    • 1.34.0-gke.2201000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2541000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3355002
    • 1.34.1-gke.3403002
    • 1.34.1-gke.3556000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3759000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3899000
    • 1.35.0-gke.1272000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:
Change

(2026-R1) Version updates

Change

(2026-R1) Version updates

Change

(2026-R1) 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.

Rapid channel

  • Version 1.35.0-gke.1340000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
    • 1.31.13-gke.1139000
    • 1.31.13-gke.1454000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1045000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1081000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1114000
    • 1.31.14-gke.1156000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1239000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1548000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1592000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1632000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1675000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1711000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1862000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1894000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1956000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2019000
    • 1.33.5-gke.2072000
    • 1.34.0-gke.2201000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2541000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3355002
    • 1.34.1-gke.3403002
    • 1.34.1-gke.3556000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3759000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3899000
    • 1.35.0-gke.1272000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:

Regular channel

Stable channel

Extended channel

No channel

January 06, 2026

Dataproc
Feature

Added a new property dataproc:pypi.repository to customize the PyPI repository used for pip. The value can be a URL, or google to use a Google-hosted cache of PyPI, accessible without public internet connectivity. Starting in image version 3.1, google will be the default; to opt out and return to public PyPI, use the value pypi.

January 05, 2026

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2025-R54) Version updates

Change

(2025-R54) Version updates

Change

(2025-R54) Version updates

Change

(2025-R54) Version updates

Change

(2025-R54) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Change

(2025-R54) 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.

Rapid channel

Regular channel

Stable channel

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Extended channel

No channel

December 29, 2025

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2025-R53) Version updates

Change

(2025-R53) Version updates

Change

(2025-R53) Version updates

Change

(2025-R53) Version updates

Change

(2025-R53) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Change

(2025-R53) 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.

Rapid channel

Regular channel

Stable channel

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Extended channel

No channel

December 18, 2025

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2025-R52) Version updates

Change

(2025-R52) Version updates

Change

(2025-R52) Version updates

Change

(2025-R52) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Regular channel.

Change

(2025-R52) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Change

(2025-R52) 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.

Rapid channel

Regular channel

There are no new releases in the Regular channel.

Stable channel

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Extended channel

No channel

December 14, 2025

Compute Engine
Feature

Instance flexibility in regional managed instance groups (MIGs) support the ANY target distribution shape. Selecting this shape lets you maximize resource obtainability and the utilization of unused zonal reservations. For more information, see About instance flexibility in MIGs.

December 12, 2025

Bigtable
Feature

In the Google Cloud console, you can import data into Bigtable using the Dataflow job builder, a web interface for building and running Dataflow pipelines. This integration provides a pre-populated template to import data from Pub/Sub to Bigtable. You can also create a custom job to import data from other sources. For more information, see Import and export data.

December 11, 2025

Cloud VPN
Feature

Cloud VPN provides predefined dashboards in the Google Cloud console for a quick, single-view insight into system health and tunnel performance. These dashboards display key metrics that enable you to monitor project-wide health and conduct tunnel-specific diagnosis without manual configuration. This feature is Generally Available.

For more information, see View Monitoring dashboards

December 10, 2025

Compute Engine
Fixed

If you clone a source disk that's encrypted with a customer-supplied encryption key or customer-managed encryption key, you must use the same key to encrypt the clone.

For more information, see Create a clone of an encrypted source disk.

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2025-R51) Version updates

Change

(2025-R51) Version updates

Change

(2025-R51) Version updates

  • Version 1.34.1-gke.3355002 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
    • 1.31.13-gke.1231000
    • 1.31.13-gke.1377000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1330000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1462000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3355001
    • 1.34.1-gke.3403001
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:
    • GKE upgrades clusters to the following new minor versions if there are no factors, such as maintenance exclusions or deprecated APIs, preventing upgrades:
    • GKE upgrades clusters to the following new patch versions if no minor version upgrade is available, or if the cluster has maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
Change

(2025-R51) Version updates

Change

(2025-R51) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Change

(2025-R51) 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.

Rapid channel

  • Version 1.34.1-gke.3355002 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
    • 1.31.13-gke.1231000
    • 1.31.13-gke.1377000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1330000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1462000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3355001
    • 1.34.1-gke.3403001
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:
    • GKE upgrades clusters to the following new minor versions if there are no factors, such as maintenance exclusions or deprecated APIs, preventing upgrades:
    • GKE upgrades clusters to the following new patch versions if no minor version upgrade is available, or if the cluster has maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:

Regular channel

Stable channel

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Extended channel

No channel

December 06, 2025

Google Cloud Armor
Security

The Cloud Armor cve-canary rules include the google-mrs-v202512-id000002-rce signature to help detect and mitigate CVE-2025-55182. For more information, see Cloud Armor preconfigured WAF rules overview.

December 05, 2025

Dataproc
Feature

dataproc-ml is available by default in 2.3 -ml images.

Google Kubernetes Engine
Change

(2025-R50) Version updates

Change

(2025-R50) Version updates

Change

(2025-R50) Version updates

  • Version 1.34.1-gke.3355001 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
    • 1.31.14-gke.1033000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1575000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1350000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1521000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1697000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1791000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2037001
    • 1.34.1-gke.2037002
    • 1.34.1-gke.2541000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2909000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2980000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3084001
    • 1.34.1-gke.3225000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3355000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:
Change

(2025-R50) Version updates

Change

(2025-R50) Version updates

Change

(2025-R50) 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.

Rapid channel

  • Version 1.34.1-gke.3355001 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
  • The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
    • 1.31.14-gke.1033000
    • 1.32.9-gke.1575000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1350000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1521000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1697000
    • 1.33.5-gke.1791000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2037001
    • 1.34.1-gke.2037002
    • 1.34.1-gke.2541000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2909000
    • 1.34.1-gke.2980000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3084001
    • 1.34.1-gke.3225000
    • 1.34.1-gke.3355000
  • Clusters in this channel running the listed minor version have new general auto-upgrade targets. GKE can upgrade control planes and nodes to the following new versions with this release:

Regular channel

Stable channel

Extended channel

No channel