Google Cloud release notes

General Availability: You can cancel pending deletion requests for VPC Network Peering connections that are in consensus mode. For more information, see Cancel a deletion request.

Customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) support for Cloud SQL enhanced backups is generally available. You can protect your CMEK-enabled Cloud SQL instances using Google Cloud Backup and DR Service.

For more information, see Choose your backup option.

Customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) support for Cloud SQL enhanced backups is generally available. You can protect your CMEK-enabled Cloud SQL instances using Google Cloud Backup and DR Service.

For more information, see Choose your backup option.

Generally available: You can create instances all at once in a regional managed instance group (MIG) by using resize requests. For more information, see About resize requests in a MIG.

Cloud SQL for MySQL now supports minor version 8.0.46. To upgrade your existing instance to the new minor version, see Upgrade the database minor version.

When you create composite objects, you can delete the temporary source objects as part of the composition process.

Cloud SQL for MySQL managed buffer pool is now generally available (GA). Managed buffer pool helps you avoid out-of-memory events (OOMs) on your Cloud SQL instance by reducing innodb_buffer_pool_size when memory usage is high.

Generally available: You can gradually create Flex-start VMs in a managed instance group (MIG) as capacity becomes available. Unlike resize requests for MIGs that wait for full capacity before creating VMs, this method might create only a portion of your requested Flex-start VMs if capacity is unavailable. The MIG creates the remaining VMs later as capacity permits. Flex-start VMs run for up to seven days and help you obtain high-demand resources, such as GPUs, at a discounted price.

For more information, see Create a MIG that uses Flex-start VMs.

As of August 26, 2026, in buckets with hierarchical namespace enabled, the Object Lifecycle Management Delete action will delete empty folders when the empty folder meets all of the conditions in the lifecycle rule.

Application Load Balancers now support the configuration of a traffic duration setting when you add backends to 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 the 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 in General availability.

Zonal affinity, which was previously available in Preview, is generally available (GA).

For more information, see Zonal affinity for internal passthrough Network Load Balancers.

Due to a known issue, the limit of firewall endpoint associations per organization-level firewall endpoint is restricted to 15. To track the planned increase of the limit to 50 or to request a limit increase, contact Support.

You can now create and configure the following organization-level Cloud NGFW resources within a Google Cloud project:

• Security profiles
• Security profile groups
• Firewall endpoints
• Firewall endpoint associations

For more information, see Security profile overview, Security profile group overview, and Firewall endpoint overview. This feature is available in Public preview.

Generally available: Compute Engine has enabled support of Spot VMs in Google Cloud Dedicated universes. Spot VMs are available for C3, M3, and A3 machine series. Use Spot VMs for workloads that can withstand preemption to receive a discount of up to 60% off the on-demand price. For the latest pricing information, see the pricing page.

For information about how Spot VMs work, see Spot VMs and Create and use Spot VMs.

Custom data retention periods are supported for the _Default log bucket and for user-defined log buckets in Google Cloud Dedicated universes. For more information, see Configure custom retention.