GCP Release Notes: February 24, 2026

GCP Release Notes: February 24, 2026

Apigee X

Announcement

On February 24th, 2026, we released an updated version of Apigee (1-17-0-apigee-3).

Security

Bug ID Description
481735779, 457138941, 471232237 Security fix for Apigee infrastructure.

This addresses the following vulnerabilities:

485543125 Apigee no longer supports the following TLS_RSA cipher suites:
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

Fixed

Bug ID Description
470375542 Fixed a memory leak which could result in a spike in 503 responses with no_healthy_upstream messages.
480997525 Applied a fix for proxy calls failing with The URI contains illegal characters error after Netty upgrade.
485595627 Fixed an issue resulting in TLS handshake errors.

BigQuery

Feature

You can now create and review custom glossary terms in BigQuery for a conversational analytics agent and you can review business glossary terms imported from Dataplex Universal Catalog for an agent. These terms help an agent interpret your prompts.

This feature is now in Preview.

Cloud Asset Inventory

Feature

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

  • Cloud Load Balancing
    • networksecurity.googleapis.com/AuthzPolicy
  • Network Services API
    • networkservices.googleapis.com/AuthzExtension

Cloud Run

Feature

You can use the Cloud Run remote MCP server to let agents and AI applications deploy with Cloud Run (Preview).

Feature

Deploy a highly available, multi-region Cloud Run service with automated failover and failback for external traffic using Cloud Run service health (Preview).

Cloud Run functions

Feature

Support for the ability to configure Direct VPC egress for 2nd gen functions is in General Availability.

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Feature

It now takes less time to create a Cloud SQL instance when point-in-time recovery (PITR) is enabled, as it is by default in the Google Cloud console. During instance creation, PITR now initially uses an instant snapshot instead of a standard backup. and then later converts the snapshot to a standard backup in the background to support restore operations.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

It now takes less time to create a Cloud SQL instance when point-in-time recovery (PITR) is enabled, as it is by default in the Google Cloud console. During instance creation, PITR now initially uses an instant snapshot instead of a standard backup. and then later converts the snapshot to a standard backup in the background to support restore operations.

Cloud Translation

Change

Translation LLM now supports full finetuning with LoRA.

Gemini

Announcement

Finish changes feature in IntelliJ general availability

The finish changes features is now generally available (GA).

Announcement

File outline feature in IntelliJ general availability

The file outline feature is now generally available (GA).

Announcement

Finish changes feature in IntelliJ general availability

The finish changes features is now generally available (GA).

Announcement

File outline feature in IntelliJ general availability

The file outline feature is now generally available (GA).

Google Kubernetes Engine

Feature

You can create a bare metal instance from the C4A machine series with the c4a-highmem-96-metal machine type. This machine type is available in Public Preview for Standard clusters running GKE version 1.35.0-gke.2232000 or later. You can select this machine type by using the --machine-type flag when creating a cluster or node pool. For more information about the requirements and limitations of this machine type, see the Requirements and limitations section of the “Arm workloads on GKE” document.

Feature

The release note for November 11, 2025 has been updated to correct the version requirements for using N4D machine types. Cluster autoscaler was incorrectly included in the list of features requiring GKE version 1.34.1-gke.2037000 or later. You can use any available GKE version to use N4D and Cluster autoscaler.

Change

Expanded coverage for compute flexible committed use discounts (CUDs) is available to all Cloud Billing accounts. All Cloud Billing accounts have been automatically migrated to the new spend-based CUD model and you no longer need to opt in to benefit from the expanded coverage. For the full list of eligible SKUs across Compute Engine, GKE, and Cloud Run, see SKU Groups – Compute Flexible CUD Eligible SKUs.

To learn more about compute flexible CUDs and how they apply to your GKE usage, see the GKE CUDs documentation.

Google SecOps

Feature

New: cross joins in multi-stage queries

You can now use cross joins in YARA-L 2.0 multi-stage queries let you compare individual UDM event data against aggregated statistics calculated in previous YARA-L stages. They are supported in:

  • Search
  • Dashboards

For more information, see Cross joins in multi-stage queries.

Feature

RBAC for ingestion metrics

Administrators can now use RBAC for ingestion metrics to restrict visibility of system health data, such as ingestion volume, errors, and throughput, based on a user’s business scope.

The Data Ingestion and Health dashboard now uses Data Access scopes. When a scoped user loads the dashboard, the system automatically filters metrics to show only data that matches their assigned labels: Namespace, Log Type, and Ingestion Source.

For more information, see Ingestion metrics.

Google SecOps SIEM

Feature

New: cross joins in multi-stage queries

You can now use cross joins in YARA-L 2.0 multi-stage queries let you compare individual UDM event data against aggregated statistics calculated in previous YARA-L stages. They are supported in:

  • Search
  • Dashboards

For more information, see Cross joins in multi-stage queries.

Feature

New: cross joins in multi-stage queries

You can now use cross joins in YARA-L 2.0 multi-stage queries let you compare individual UDM event data against aggregated statistics calculated in previous YARA-L stages. They are supported in:

  • Search
  • Dashboards

For more information, see Cross joins in multi-stage queries.

Feature

RBAC for ingestion metrics

Administrators can now use RBAC for ingestion metrics to restrict visibility of system health data, such as ingestion volume, errors, and throughput, based on a user’s business scope.

The Data Ingestion and Health dashboard now uses Data Access scopes. When a scoped user loads the dashboard, the system automatically filters metrics to show only data that matches their assigned labels: Namespace, Log Type, and Ingestion Source.

For more information, see Ingestion metrics.

Feature

RBAC for ingestion metrics

Administrators can now use RBAC for ingestion metrics to restrict visibility of system health data, such as ingestion volume, errors, and throughput, based on a user’s business scope.

The Data Ingestion and Health dashboard now uses Data Access scopes. When a scoped user loads the dashboard, the system automatically filters metrics to show only data that matches their assigned labels: Namespace, Log Type, and Ingestion Source.

For more information, see Ingestion metrics.

Oracle Database@Google Cloud

Feature

For Autonomous Database Service, Oracle Database@Google Cloud supports the asia-northeast2 (Osaka, Japan) region.

For a list of supported locations, see Supported regions and zones.

Vertex AI Search

Feature

Vertex AI Search: Change the pricing model for a project

There are two pricing models for apps and data stores: the general model (pay-as-you-go consumption-based) and the configurable subscription model (a monthly subscription).

You can switch from configurable pricing to general pricing for a project if all its data stores and apps use the general model. For more information, see Disable configurable pricing for project.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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