GCP Release Notes: February 13, 2026

Apigee UI

Change

Updated the route for Operations Anomalies from apigee/analytics/operations-anomalies to apigee/aapi-ops/operations-anomalies.

Announcement

On February 13, 2026, we released an updated version of the Apigee UI.

Apigee X

Announcement

On February 13, 2026, we published a security bulletin for Apigee.

Security

A vulnerability was identified in the Apigee platform (CVE-2025-13292) that could have allowed a malicious actor with administrative or developer-level permissions in their own Apigee environment to elevate privileges and access cross-tenant data.

Security bulletin published: GCP-2026-010

Bigtable

Feature

You can use the Flink Bigtable connector version 0.3.2 to connect to Bigtable from Apache Flink version 2.1.0. Additionally, this version of the connector lets you specify the number of mutations to include in each batch sent to Bigtable. This feature is generally available (GA).

Dataproc

Announcement

New Serverless for Apache Spark runtime versions:

• 1.2.70
• 2.2.70
• 2.3.23
• 3.0.7

Google Cloud VMware Engine

Announcement

The VMware Engine ve2 node type is now available in the following additional region:

• Osaka, Japan, Asia Pacific (asia-northeast2)

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware

Feature

The following feature was added in 1.34.100-gke.93:

You can deploy vsphere-csi-controller in the advanced cluster on the user cluster control plane nodes.

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.34.100-gke.93 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade a cluster. Google Distributed Cloud 1.34.100-gke.93 runs on Kubernetes v1.34.1-gke.4700.

If you are using a third-party storage vendor, check the Google Distributed Cloud-ready storage partners document to make sure the storage vendor has already passed the qualification for this release.

After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for use with GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform.

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal

Feature

The following feature was added in 1.34.100-gke.93:

The spec.taints field in the NodePoolClaim resource is mutable. You can add or remove taints on existing node pools without recreating the NodePoolClaim. You can use this field to manage GPU nodes.

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal 1.34.100-gke.93 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.34.100-gke.93 runs on Kubernetes v1.34.1-gke.4700.

After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for installations or upgrades with the GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform.

If you use a third-party storage vendor, check the Google Distributed Cloud-ready storage partners document to make sure the storage vendor has already passed the qualification for this release of Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Feature

You can now determine the status and health of a TPU slice and partition by monitoring these new beta system metrics:

• kubernetes.io/accelerator/slice/state: Indicates the current status of the slice.
• kubernetes.io/accelerator/partition/state: Indicates the health of the partition.

For more information, see the GKE system metrics documentation.

Network Intelligence Center

Feature

Flow Analyzer supports latency mode, allowing you to analyze round-trip time in your traffic flows. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Display flows in latency mode.

Source: Google Cloud Platform