GCP Release Notes: March 18, 2026

GCP Release Notes: March 18, 2026

Cloud Database Migration Service

Announcement

Database Migration Service for heterogeneous SQL Server migrations now supports failback migration jobs in Preview. Failback migrations let you push CDC updates back to the original SQL Server source from the destination PostgreSQL database after you complete the standard migration. This feature keeps your original source database alive and up to date in case you need to switch your application back to the source SQL Server database. For more information, see the page relevant for your migration scenario:

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.34.200-gke.68 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud 1.34.200-gke.68 runs on Kubernetes v1.34.3-gke.400.

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.

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware V2 (Advanced Clusters) versions 1.31 and earlier were missing a configuration step in the node startup script that defined the Docker default bridge IP range. As a result, Docker defaulted to using the 172.17.0.0/16 (and in some cases 172.16.0.0/16) address range.

Announcement

Fixed an issue where an admin cluster upgrade appeared to be stuck indefinitely and users would see the VSphereMachine remaining in the Creating phase without actionable an error messages.

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal

Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal 1.34.200-gke.68 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.34.200-gke.68 runs on Kubernetes v1.34.3-gke.400.

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.

Memorystore for Memcached

Feature

You can deploy instances in the asia-southeast3 (Bangkok) region.

Memorystore for Redis

Feature

You can deploy instances in the asia-southeast3 (Bangkok) region.

Memorystore for Valkey

Feature

You can use the Google Cloud console to find and set maintenance windows and perform self-service maintenance on instances. This feature is Generally Available.

Virtual Private Cloud

Feature

You can update a service attachment’s target service without recreating the service attachment. Consumer connections are preserved during the update, but traffic is briefly disrupted. This feature is available in General Availability.

For more information, including a list of supported configurations, see Service mutability.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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