GCP Release Notes: November 20, 2025

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Feature

AlloyDB now supports horizontal autoscaling for read pool instances. This feature is available in Preview.

App Engine flexible environment Node.js

Feature

Support for Node.js 24 runtime is in General Availability.

App Engine standard environment Node.js

Feature

Support for Node.js 24 runtime is in General Availability.

BigQuery

Feature

You can now use the BigQuery Agent Analytics plugin within the Agent Development Kit to export agent interaction data directly into BigQuery. This plugin captures comprehensive logs of your agent’s prompts, tool usage, and responses, enabling you to analyze and visualize agent performance metrics. The plugin leverages the BigQuery Storage Write API for efficient high-throughput streaming. For more information on how to leverage this plugin in your agent, see the Announcing BigQuery Agent Analytics for the Google ADK.

Cloud Asset Inventory

Feature

The following resource types are publicly available through the ExportAssets, ListAssets, BatchGetAssetsHistory, QueryAssets, Feed, SearchAllResources, and SearchAllIamPolicies APIs.

• Vertex AI
  • aiplatform.googleapis.com/ReasoningEngine

Cloud Run

Feature

Support for Node.js 24 runtime is in General Availability.

Cloud Run functions

Feature

Support for Node.js 24 runtime is in General Availability.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

PostgreSQL version 18 is now generally available for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

You can now use Database Migration Service with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL when using PostgreSQL version 18.

To upgrade your instance to PostgreSQL 18, see Upgrade the database major version in-place.

The following extensions are also now available for PostgreSQL 18:

• pg_hint_plan
• pgrouting
• anonymizer
• pg_wait_sampling
• tds_fdw
• plpgsql_check

For more information about these extensions, see Configure PostgreSQL extensions.

Gemini

Other

Bug fixes in IntelliJ

Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Changed

(2025-R48) 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.

Security

(2025-R48) Security updates

This release includes new GKE versions that use updated Container-Optimized OS images. These updated images are cumulative, incorporating security fixes from all Container-Optimized OS versions released since the previous GKE release.

To identify the specific vulnerabilities that were resolved in each updated Container-Optimized OS image, see the Security release notes for that image. The following table includes links to the release notes for each updated Container-Optimized OS image:

GKE version	Container-Optimized OS version	Details
1.28.15-gke.3163000	cos-113-18244-521-16	cos-113-18244-521-16 release notes
1.29.15-gke.2467000	cos-113-18244-521-16	cos-113-18244-521-16 release notes
1.30.14-gke.1719000	cos-113-18244-521-16	cos-113-18244-521-16 release notes
1.31.13-gke.1454000	cos-117-18613-439-22	cos-117-18613-439-22 release notes
1.32.9-gke.1548000	cos-117-18613-439-22	cos-117-18613-439-22 release notes
1.33.5-gke.1791000	cos-121-18867-294-17	cos-121-18867-294-17 release notes
1.34.1-gke.2980000	cos-125-19216-0-115	cos-125-19216-0-115 release notes

Changed

(2025-R48) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Extended channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.3163000
  • 1.29.15-gke.2467000
  • 1.30.14-gke.1719000

Changed

(2025-R48) Version updates

• The following versions are now available:
  • 1.31.13-gke.1454000
  • 1.32.9-gke.1548000
  • 1.33.5-gke.1791000
• The following node versions are now available:
  • 1.28.15-gke.3163000
  • 1.29.15-gke.2467000
  • 1.30.14-gke.1719000
  • 1.31.13-gke.1454000
  • 1.32.9-gke.1548000
  • 1.33.5-gke.1791000

Changed

(2025-R48) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.31.13-gke.1454000
  • 1.32.9-gke.1548000
  • 1.33.5-gke.1791000
  • 1.34.1-gke.2980000
  • 1.34.1-gke.3084001

Changed

(2025-R48) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Regular channel:
  • 1.31.13-gke.1231000
  • 1.32.9-gke.1330000
  • 1.33.5-gke.1521000

Changed

(2025-R48) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Stable channel.

Guest Environment

Feature

Version 20251120.01 of the guest agent is now available for Windows only. This version includes the following fix:

• Changes the start mode guest agent from auto to delayed-auto on Windows Service Manager.

Security Command Center

Changed

The following updates simplify Security Command Center Standard and Premium tier activation for organizations:

• You need fewer Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to activate Security Command Center.
• A variety of services are automatically enabled during activation. Service-specific service agents are automatically enabled with the IAM roles and permissions that are required for these services to function.

See the following for detailed information about activating a specific tier:

• Activate Security Command Center Standard tier for an organization
• Activate Security Command Center Premium tier for an organization

Spanner

Feature

Query optimizer version 8 is now the default version for Spanner.

Vertex AI Search

Feature

Vertex AI Search: Updated file size restrictions for unstructured data

The file size restrictions for unstructured data import have been unified. For unstructured data, you can import files up to 200 MB regardless of the parser type.

For more information, see Unstructured data.

Source: Google Cloud Platform