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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Changed Updated the default major version of PostgreSQL compatibility for new AlloyDB clusters to PostgreSQL 15. Bare Metal Solution Feature You can now create and manage VRFs for the networks in your Bare Metal Solution environment. This feature is generally available (GA). BigQuery Feature The maximum notebook size has been increased from 10 MB to 20 MB. Notebooks are available in preview. Feature You can now view lists of all saved queries and all notebooks in your project. These features are available in preview. Chronicle Changed There is no longer a limit on the number of feeds you can create for the same log type in Feed Management. Chronicle SOAR Announcement Release 6.2.52 is currently in Preview. Feature Case filter and URL now in a reciprocal relationship In the Cases page, the filter and the URL now directly affect each other. Changing the filter changes the URL, and conversely, changing the URL changes the filter. You can take advantage of this feature by setting a filter for cases and putting the newly created URL in an external dashboard. Clicking on this link would then take you directly to the filtered case queue. Fixed Incident Manager appearing in navigation even though user doesn"t have license (ID #49062139) Fixed lastLoginTime returns wrong date for SAML users (ID #00278010) Fixed Wrong error message returned for environment alias duplicates (ID #00271405) Fixed Playbooks with async actions longer than 7 days can't be saved even though time set to 14 days in IDE (ID #00269032) Fixed Clicking on events configuration opens the wrong mapping & modeling rules Cloud Composer Feature The Logs in Cloud Logging only feature is gradually rolled out to all regions: New Cloud Composer environments now save Airflow task logs only in Cloud Logging by default. Existing environments are not changed. If you upgrade an existing environment, it keeps saving logs to the environment's bucket. You can enable and disable saving logs to the environment's bucket for an existing environment. Currently the feature is rolled out to the following regions: africa-south1, asia-east1, asia-east2, asia-northeast2, asia-south2, asia-southeast2, australia-southeast2, europe-central2, europe-southwest1, europe-west10, europe-west12, europe-west2, europe-west3, europe-west4, europe-west6, europe-west8, me-central1, me-central2, me-west1, northamerica-northeast2, southamerica-west1, us-east5, us-east7, us-south1, and us-west4. Cloud Healthcare API Feature The Healthcare Natural Language API supports the following entity mention types in Preview: Oncology Social determinants of health (SDOH) Protected health information (PHI) Feature Explaining data access using FHIR is available in Preview. Cloud Key Management Service Deprecated Certificate bundles for verifying attestations for Cloud HSM keys are deprecated. You can no longer download certificate bundles as of March 20, 2024. Certificate bundles have been replaced by certificate chains. To learn how to use certificate chains to verify attestations for Cloud HSM keys, see Verifying the attestation manually. Cloud Load Balancing Feature The Google Cloud Console has launched a new wizard experience to walk you through the process of selecting a new load balancer. The new wizard walks you through all the available options (internal or internet-facing, proxy or passthrough, global or regional) and guides you to the appropriate load balancer for your use-case. Try out the new wizard in the Google Cloud Console at Create a load balancer. Container Optimized OS Changed cos-105-17412-294-46 Kernel Docker Containerd GPU Drivers COS-5.15.146 v23.0.3 v1.7.10 v470.239.06(default),v535.161.07(latest) Fixed Upgraded app-editors/vim to v9.0.2167, Upgraded app-editors/vim-core to v9.0.2167. Security Fixed CVE-2024-0727 in dev-libs/openssl. Security Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667. Security Fixed CVE-2023-52447 in the Linux kernel. Changed cos-101-17162-386-47 Kernel Docker Containerd GPU Drivers COS-5.15.146 v20.10.24 v1.6.28 v470.239.06(default),v535.161.07(latest) Security Fixed CVE-2024-0727 in dev-libs/openssl. Security Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667. Security Fixed CVE-2023-52447 in the Linux kernel. Changed cos-97-16919-450-34 Kernel Docker Containerd GPU Drivers COS-5.10.208 v20.10.24 v1.6.21 v470.239.06(default),v535.161.07(latest) Security Fixed CVE-2024-0727 in dev-libs/openssl. Security Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667. Security Fixed CVE-2023-52447 in the Linux kernel. Changed cos-109-17800-147-38 Kernel Docker Containerd GPU Drivers COS-6.1.75 v24.0.9 v1.7.13 v535.161.07(default, latest),v470.239.06(R470 for compatibility with K80 GPUs) Feature Added support for iSCSI targets and RAM block devices. Security Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667. Dataproc Announcement Announcing the Preview release of Dataproc Serverless for Spark 1.2 runtime: Spark 3.5.0 BigQuery Spark Connector 0.35.1 Cloud Storage Connector 3.0.0 Conda 23.11 Java 17 Python 3.12 R 4.3 Scala 2.12 Announcement New Dataproc Serverless for Spark runtime versions: 1.1.55 1.2.0-RC1 2.0.63 2.1.42 2.2.0-RC15 Changed Dataproc Serverless for Spark: Upgraded Spark RAPIDS plugin to version 24.2.0 in the latest runtimes. Upgraded Spark to version 3.3.4 in the latest 1.1 and 2.0 runtimes. Backported SPARK-44198 in the latest 1.2 and 2.2 runtimes. Google Cloud Architecture Center Feature (New guide) Design storage for AI and ML workloads in Google Cloud: Select the recommended storage options for your AI and ML workloads. Google Kubernetes Engine Changed (2024-R08) Version updates GKE cluster versions have been updated. New versions available for upgrades and new clusters. The following Kubernetes versions are now available for new clusters and for opt-in control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information on versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and Upgrades. No channelNote: 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. The following cluster and node versions are now available: 1.25.16-gke.1648000 1.26.14-gke.1133000 1.27.11-gke.1202000 1.28.7-gke.1226000 1.29.1-gke.1589018 1.29.2-gke.1521000 The following versions are no longer available: 1.25.16-gke.1570000 1.26.10-gke.1101000 1.27.9-gke.1092000 1.28.7-gke.1100000 1.29.2-gke.1217000 Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.5-gke.1217000 with this release. Stable channelNote: 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. The following versions are now available in the Stable channel: 1.25.16-gke.1460000 1.26.13-gke.1144000 Version 1.26.10-gke.1101000 is no longer available in the Stable channel. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Stable channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Stable channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release. Regular channelNote: 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. The following versions are now available in the Regular channel: 1.26.14-gke.1044000 1.27.11-gke.1062000 1.28.7-gke.1026000 1.29.1-gke.1589018 The following versions are no longer available in the Regular channel: 1.26.13-gke.1144000 1.27.9-gke.1092000 1.28.5-gke.1217000 Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release. Rapid channelNote: 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. The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel: 1.25.16-gke.1648000 1.26.14-gke.1133000 1.27.11-gke.1202000 1.28.7-gke.1226000 1.29.2-gke.1521000 The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel: 1.25.16-gke.1570000 1.26.14-gke.1044000 1.27.11-gke.1062000 1.28.3-gke.1286000 1.28.7-gke.1100000 1.29.2-gke.1217000 Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1596000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1076000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.11-gke.1118000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release. Changed (2024-R08) Version updates 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. The following cluster and node versions are now available: 1.25.16-gke.1648000 1.26.14-gke.1133000 1.27.11-gke.1202000 1.28.7-gke.1226000 1.29.1-gke.1589018 1.29.2-gke.1521000 The following versions are no longer available: 1.25.16-gke.1570000 1.26.10-gke.1101000 1.27.9-gke.1092000 1.28.7-gke.1100000 1.29.2-gke.1217000 Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.5-gke.1217000 with this release. Changed (2024-R08) Version updates 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. The following versions are now available in the Regular channel: 1.26.14-gke.1044000 1.27.11-gke.1062000 1.28.7-gke.1026000 1.29.1-gke.1589018 The following versions are no longer available in the Regular channel: 1.26.13-gke.1144000 1.27.9-gke.1092000 1.28.5-gke.1217000 Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release. Changed (2024-R08) Version updates 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. The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel: 1.25.16-gke.1648000 1.26.14-gke.1133000 1.27.11-gke.1202000 1.28.7-gke.1226000 1.29.2-gke.1521000 The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel: 1.25.16-gke.1570000 1.26.14-gke.1044000 1.27.11-gke.1062000 1.28.3-gke.1286000 1.28.7-gke.1100000 1.29.2-gke.1217000 Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1596000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1076000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.11-gke.1118000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release. Changed (2024-R08) Version updates 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. The following versions are now available in the Stable channel: 1.25.16-gke.1460000 1.26.13-gke.1144000 Version 1.26.10-gke.1101000 is no longer available in the Stable channel. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Stable channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Stable channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release. Security Command Center Feature New misconfiguration detectors for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters released to General Availability. Security Health Analytics, a built-in service of Security Command Center, released new detectors to General Availability. The following detectors, which are available only with the Premium tier of Security Command Center, detect misconfigurations in AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters and instances: ALLOYDB_AUTO_BACKUP_DISABLED: Automated backups are not enabled in AlloyDB for PostgreSQL cluster. ALLOYDB_LOG_ERROR_VERBOSITY: Instance database flag log_error_verbosity for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instance is not set to default or another less restrictive value. ALLOYDB_LOG_MIN_ERROR_STATEMENT_SEVERITY: Instance database flag log_min_error_statement for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instance is not set to ERROR or lower. ALLOYDB_LOG_MIN_MESSAGES: Instance database flag log_min_messages for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instance is not set to at minimum warning. For more information, see SQL vulnerability findings. Spanner Feature Leader-aware routing now dynamically routes read-write transactions to the leader region in Spanner multi-region instances, reducing latency and improving performance. For more information, see Leader-aware routing. reCAPTCHA Enterprise Changed reCAPTCHA Enterprise Mobile SDK v18.5.0-beta02 is now available for Android and iOS. This version contains changes to improve the performance and reliability of getClient() and execute().

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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Changed
Updated the default major version of PostgreSQL compatibility for new AlloyDB clusters to PostgreSQL 15.
Bare Metal Solution
Feature
You can now create and manage VRFs for the networks in your Bare Metal Solution environment. This feature is generally available (GA).
BigQuery
Feature
The maximum notebook size has been increased from 10 MB to 20 MB. Notebooks are available in preview.
Feature
You can now view lists of all saved queries and all notebooks in your project. These features are available in preview.
Chronicle
Changed
There is no longer a limit on the number of feeds you can create for the same log type in Feed Management.
Chronicle SOAR
Announcement
Release 6.2.52 is currently in Preview.
Feature
Case filter and URL now in a reciprocal relationship  

In the Cases page, the filter and the URL now directly affect each other. Changing the filter changes the URL, and conversely, changing the URL changes the filter. 
You can take advantage of this feature by setting a filter for cases and putting the newly created URL in an external dashboard. Clicking on this link would then take you directly to the filtered case queue. 
Fixed
Incident Manager appearing in navigation even though user doesn"t have license (ID #49062139)
Fixed
lastLoginTime returns  wrong date for SAML users (ID #00278010)
Fixed
Wrong error message returned for environment alias duplicates (ID #00271405)
Fixed
Playbooks with async actions longer than 7 days can't be saved even though time set to 14 days in IDE (ID #00269032)
Fixed
Clicking on events configuration opens the wrong mapping & modeling rules
Cloud Composer
Feature
The Logs in Cloud Logging only feature is gradually rolled out to all regions:


New Cloud Composer environments now save Airflow task logs only in Cloud Logging by default.
Existing environments are not changed. If you upgrade an existing environment, it keeps saving logs to the environment's bucket.
You can enable and disable saving logs to the environment's bucket for an existing environment.


Currently the feature is rolled out to the following regions: africa-south1, asia-east1, asia-east2, asia-northeast2, asia-south2, asia-southeast2, australia-southeast2, europe-central2, europe-southwest1, europe-west10, europe-west12, europe-west2, europe-west3, europe-west4, europe-west6, europe-west8, me-central1, me-central2, me-west1, northamerica-northeast2, southamerica-west1, us-east5, us-east7, us-south1, and us-west4.
Cloud Healthcare API
Feature
The Healthcare Natural Language API supports the following entity mention types in Preview:


Oncology
Social determinants of health (SDOH)
Protected health information (PHI)

Feature
Explaining data access using FHIR is available in Preview.
Cloud Key Management Service
Deprecated
Certificate bundles for verifying attestations for Cloud HSM keys are deprecated. You can no longer download certificate bundles as of March 20, 2024.

Certificate bundles have been replaced by certificate chains. To learn how to use certificate chains to verify attestations for Cloud HSM keys, see Verifying the attestation manually. 
Cloud Load Balancing
Feature
The Google Cloud Console has launched a new wizard experience to walk you through the process of selecting a new load balancer. The new wizard walks you through all the available  options (internal or internet-facing, proxy or passthrough, global or regional) and guides you to the appropriate load balancer for your use-case.

Try out the new wizard in the Google Cloud Console at Create a load balancer. 
Container Optimized OS
Changed
cos-105-17412-294-46 


  
    Kernel
    Docker
    Containerd
    GPU Drivers
  
  
    COS-5.15.146
    v23.0.3
    v1.7.10
    v470.239.06(default),v535.161.07(latest)
  

Fixed
Upgraded app-editors/vim to v9.0.2167, Upgraded app-editors/vim-core to v9.0.2167.
Security
Fixed CVE-2024-0727 in dev-libs/openssl.
Security
Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667.
Security
Fixed CVE-2023-52447 in the Linux kernel.
Changed
cos-101-17162-386-47 


  
    Kernel
    Docker
    Containerd
    GPU Drivers
  
  
    COS-5.15.146
    v20.10.24
    v1.6.28
    v470.239.06(default),v535.161.07(latest)
  

Security
Fixed CVE-2024-0727 in dev-libs/openssl.
Security
Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667.
Security
Fixed CVE-2023-52447 in the Linux kernel.
Changed
cos-97-16919-450-34 


  
    Kernel
    Docker
    Containerd
    GPU Drivers
  
  
    COS-5.10.208
    v20.10.24
    v1.6.21
    v470.239.06(default),v535.161.07(latest)
  

Security
Fixed CVE-2024-0727 in dev-libs/openssl.
Security
Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667.
Security
Fixed CVE-2023-52447 in the Linux kernel.
Changed
cos-109-17800-147-38 


  
    Kernel
    Docker
    Containerd
    GPU Drivers
  
  
    COS-6.1.75
    v24.0.9
    v1.7.13
    v535.161.07(default, latest),v470.239.06(R470 for compatibility with K80 GPUs)
  

Feature
Added support for iSCSI targets and RAM block devices.
Security
Updated app-editors/vim to 9.0.2167. This fixed CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667.
Dataproc
Announcement
Announcing the Preview release of Dataproc Serverless for Spark 1.2 runtime:


Spark 3.5.0
BigQuery Spark Connector 0.35.1
Cloud Storage Connector 3.0.0
Conda 23.11
Java 17
Python 3.12
R 4.3
Scala 2.12

Announcement
New Dataproc Serverless for Spark runtime versions:


1.1.55
1.2.0-RC1
2.0.63
2.1.42
2.2.0-RC15

Changed
Dataproc Serverless for Spark:


Upgraded Spark RAPIDS plugin to version 24.2.0 in the latest runtimes.
Upgraded Spark to version 3.3.4 in the latest 1.1 and 2.0 runtimes.
Backported SPARK-44198 in the latest 1.2 and 2.2 runtimes.

Google Cloud Architecture Center
Feature
(New guide) Design storage for AI and ML workloads in Google Cloud: Select the recommended storage options for your AI and ML workloads.
Google Kubernetes Engine
Changed
(2024-R08) Version updates

GKE cluster versions have been updated.

New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.

The following Kubernetes versions are now available for new clusters and for
opt-in control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more
information on versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support
and Upgrades.

No channelNote: 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.

The following cluster and node versions are now available:

1.25.16-gke.1648000
1.26.14-gke.1133000
1.27.11-gke.1202000
1.28.7-gke.1226000
1.29.1-gke.1589018
1.29.2-gke.1521000

The following versions are no longer available:

1.25.16-gke.1570000
1.26.10-gke.1101000
1.27.9-gke.1092000
1.28.7-gke.1100000
1.29.2-gke.1217000

Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.5-gke.1217000 with this release.

Stable channelNote: 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.

The following versions are now available in the Stable channel:

1.25.16-gke.1460000
1.26.13-gke.1144000

Version 1.26.10-gke.1101000 is no longer available in the Stable channel.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Stable channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Stable channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release.

Regular channelNote: 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.

The following versions are now available in the Regular channel:

1.26.14-gke.1044000
1.27.11-gke.1062000
1.28.7-gke.1026000
1.29.1-gke.1589018

The following versions are no longer available in the Regular channel:

1.26.13-gke.1144000
1.27.9-gke.1092000
1.28.5-gke.1217000

Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release.

Rapid channelNote: 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.

The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

1.25.16-gke.1648000
1.26.14-gke.1133000
1.27.11-gke.1202000
1.28.7-gke.1226000
1.29.2-gke.1521000

The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

1.25.16-gke.1570000
1.26.14-gke.1044000
1.27.11-gke.1062000
1.28.3-gke.1286000
1.28.7-gke.1100000
1.29.2-gke.1217000

Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1596000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1076000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.11-gke.1118000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release.


Changed
(2024-R08) Version updates
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.

The following cluster and node versions are now available:

1.25.16-gke.1648000
1.26.14-gke.1133000
1.27.11-gke.1202000
1.28.7-gke.1226000
1.29.1-gke.1589018
1.29.2-gke.1521000

The following versions are no longer available:

1.25.16-gke.1570000
1.26.10-gke.1101000
1.27.9-gke.1092000
1.28.7-gke.1100000
1.29.2-gke.1217000

Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.5-gke.1217000 with this release.

Changed
(2024-R08) Version updates
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.

The following versions are now available in the Regular channel:

1.26.14-gke.1044000
1.27.11-gke.1062000
1.28.7-gke.1026000
1.29.1-gke.1589018

The following versions are no longer available in the Regular channel:

1.26.13-gke.1144000
1.27.9-gke.1092000
1.28.5-gke.1217000

Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release.

Changed
(2024-R08) Version updates
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.

The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

1.25.16-gke.1648000
1.26.14-gke.1133000
1.27.11-gke.1202000
1.28.7-gke.1226000
1.29.2-gke.1521000

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1.25.16-gke.1570000
1.26.14-gke.1044000
1.27.11-gke.1062000
1.28.3-gke.1286000
1.28.7-gke.1100000
1.29.2-gke.1217000

Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1596000 with this release.
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Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release.
Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release.

Changed
(2024-R08) Version updates
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1.25.16-gke.1460000
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Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Stable channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release.

Security Command Center
Feature
New misconfiguration detectors for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters released to General Availability.

Security Health Analytics, a built-in service of Security Command Center, released new detectors to General Availability. The following detectors, which are available only with the Premium tier of Security Command Center, detect misconfigurations in AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters and instances:


ALLOYDB_AUTO_BACKUP_DISABLED: Automated backups are not enabled in AlloyDB for PostgreSQL cluster.
ALLOYDB_LOG_ERROR_VERBOSITY: Instance database flag log_error_verbosity for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instance is not set to default or another less restrictive value.
ALLOYDB_LOG_MIN_ERROR_STATEMENT_SEVERITY: Instance database flag log_min_error_statement for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instance is not set to ERROR or lower.
ALLOYDB_LOG_MIN_MESSAGES: Instance database flag log_min_messages for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instance is not set to at minimum warning.


For more information, see SQL vulnerability findings.
Spanner
Feature
Leader-aware routing now dynamically routes read-write transactions to the leader region in Spanner multi-region instances, reducing latency and improving performance. For more information, see Leader-aware routing.
reCAPTCHA Enterprise
Changed
reCAPTCHA Enterprise Mobile SDK v18.5.0-beta02 is now available for Android and iOS.

This version contains changes to improve the performance and reliability of getClient() and execute().
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