GCP Release Notes: April 13, 2026

GCP Release Notes: April 13, 2026

BigQuery

Feature

Support for the AI.AGG function preview has been temporarily disabled. We are working to restore this feature as soon as possible.

Feature

To reduce LLM token consumption and query latency when processing large datasets, enable optimized mode using the following managed AI functions:

This feature is in Preview.

Feature

The following managed AI functions use Gemini to help you filter, join, rank, and classify your data:

  • AI.IF: Filter and join text and unstructured data (such as images, PDFs, audio, or video) based on a condition described in natural language.
  • AI.SCORE: Rate text and unstructured data (such as images, PDFs, audio, or video) to rank your data by quality, similarity, or other criteria.
  • AI.CLASSIFY: Classify text and unstructured data (such as images, PDFs, audio, or video) into user-defined categories.

These functions are generally available (GA).

Feature

You can use visualization cells to automatically generate a visualization of any DataFrame in your notebook. You can customize the columns, chart type, aggregations, colors, labels, and title.

This feature is generally available (GA).

Bigtable

Feature

You can now use GoogleSQL geography functions to work with geospatial data in Bigtable. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Work with geospatial data and Geography functions reference.

Feature

Bigtable supports pipe syntax, an extension to GoogleSQL that lets you build simpler and more concise queries. This feature is generally available (GA).

Cloud CDN

Feature

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Gateway supports Cloud CDN to help you cache content closer to your users, improve application latency, and reduce origin load. Using GKE Gateway APIs, you can configure, manage, and fine-tune caching configurations for different segments of your traffic. This feature is in Preview.

For more information, see Configure Cloud CDN for Gateway.

Cloud Logging

Libraries

Go

{: track-name=’go’} #### v1.15.0 (2026-04-09)

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

Application Monitoring can display a single, dynamic topology map showing your App Hub applications and your registered and discovered services and workloads. This interactive map identifies services and workloads that have open incidents. It also displays the error rates and P95 latency between your services and workloads.

To learn more, see the following:

Cloud NAT

Feature

General Availability: Cloud NAT gateways for Public NAT support source-based NAT rules for IPv4 addresses.

Cloud Run

Feature

Support for NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU is in General Availability. For more information, see GPU support for services, jobs, and worker pools.

Cloud Service Mesh

Announcement

1.28.5-asm.12 is now available for in-cluster Cloud Service Mesh.

This patch release contains fixes for the following platform CVEs:

CVE Proxy Control Plane Distroless CNI Severity
CVE-2026-33186 Yes Yes Yes Yes Critical (9.1)
CVE-2026-3731 Yes Yes No Yes High (7.5)
CVE-2026-3784 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (6.5)
CVE-2026-1965 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (6.5)
CVE-2026-29111 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (5.5)
CVE-2026-3783 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (5.3)
CVE-2025-0167 Yes Yes No Yes Low (3.4)

For details on upgrading Cloud Service Mesh, see Upgrade Cloud Service Mesh. Cloud Service Mesh 1.28.5-asm.12 uses Envoy 1.36.5-dev.

Announcement

1.27.8-asm.9 is now available for in-cluster Cloud Service Mesh.

This patch release contains fixes for the following platform CVEs:

CVE Proxy Control Plane Distroless CNI Severity
CVE-2026-33186 Yes Yes Yes Yes Critical (9.1)
CVE-2026-3731 Yes Yes No Yes High (7.5)
CVE-2026-3784 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (6.5)
CVE-2026-1965 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (6.5)
CVE-2026-29111 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (5.5)
CVE-2026-3783 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (5.3)
CVE-2025-0167 Yes Yes No Yes Low (3.4)

For details on upgrading Cloud Service Mesh, see Upgrade Cloud Service Mesh. Cloud Service Mesh 1.27.8-asm.9 uses Envoy 1.35.10-dev.

Announcement

The following images are now rolling out for managed Cloud Service Mesh:

  • 1.21.6-asm.19 is rolling out to the rapid release channel.
  • 1.20.8-asm.73 is rolling out to the regular release channel.
  • 1.19.10-asm.66 is rolling out to the stable release channel.

These patch releases contain the fixes for the following CVEs:

CVE Proxy Control Plane Distroless CNI MDPC Severity
CVE-2022-27943 Yes Yes Yes No No Medium (5.5)
CVE-2023-4039 Yes Yes Yes No No Medium (4.8)
CVE-2023-4527 Yes Yes Yes No No Medium (6.5)
CVE-2023-4806 Yes Yes Yes No No Medium (5.9)
CVE-2023-4911 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.8)
CVE-2023-5156 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.5)
CVE-2023-6246 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.8)
CVE-2024-2961 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.3)
CVE-2024-33599 Yes Yes Yes No No High (8.1)
CVE-2024-33600 Yes Yes Yes No No Medium (5.9)
CVE-2024-33601 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.3)
CVE-2024-33602 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.4)
CVE-2025-0167 Yes Yes No No No Low (3.4)
CVE-2025-0395 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Medium (6.2)
CVE-2025-15281 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.5)
CVE-2025-4802 Yes Yes Yes Yes No High (7.8)
CVE-2025-68972 Yes Yes No No No Medium (4.7)
CVE-2025-8058 Yes Yes Yes No No Low (0.0)
CVE-2025-8941 Yes Yes No No No Low (0.0)
CVE-2026-0861 Yes Yes Yes No No High (8.4)
CVE-2026-0915 Yes Yes Yes No No High (7.5)
CVE-2026-1965 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Medium (6.5)
CVE-2026-29111 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Medium (5.5)
CVE-2026-33186 Yes Yes Yes No No Critical (9.1)
CVE-2026-3731 Yes Yes No Yes Yes High (7.5)
CVE-2026-3783 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Medium (5.3)
CVE-2026-3784 Yes Yes No No No Medium (6.5)

Announcement

1.26.8-asm.5 is now available for in-cluster Cloud Service Mesh.

This patch release contains fixes for the following platform CVEs:

CVE Proxy Control Plane Distroless CNI Severity
CVE-2026-33186 Yes Yes Yes Yes Critical (9.1)
CVE-2026-3731 Yes Yes No Yes High (7.5)
CVE-2026-3784 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (6.5)
CVE-2026-1965 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (6.5)
CVE-2026-29111 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (5.5)
CVE-2026-3783 Yes Yes No Yes Medium (5.3)
CVE-2025-68972 Yes No No Yes Medium (4.7)
CVE-2025-0167 Yes Yes No Yes Low (3.4)
CVE-2025-8941 Yes No No Yes Low (0.0)

For details on upgrading Cloud Service Mesh, see Upgrade Cloud Service Mesh. Cloud Service Mesh 1.26.8-asm.5 uses Envoy 1.34.14-dev.

Colab Enterprise

Feature

Visualization cells

Generally available: You can use visualization cells to generate interactive and editable visualizations from within a Colab Enterprise notebook. You can configure the chart type, aggregation, colors, labels, and other aspects of the visualization to help you explore data and discover insights. For more information, see Use visualization cells.

Gemini

Fixed

Quota issues fixed in VS Code

Various bug fixes related to quota issues.

Fixed

Quota issues fixed in VS Code

Various bug fixes related to quota issues.

Gemini Enterprise

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Enhanced filtering for Google Chat data stores (Preview)

You can configure filters for your Google Chat data stores using either the Google Cloud console or the API. These filters allow you to define exactly which Google Chat data is accessible to the Assistant by including or excluding specific content.

This feature is in Public Preview and is applicable for federated search only. For more information, see Set up a Google Chat data store and Add filters to a Google Chat data store.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Change

The validation of the HealthCheckPolicy custom resource from the GKE Gateway API is more rigorous in GKE version 1.34 and later. Existing HealthCheckPolicy resources that already contain mismatched type fields in the config are exempted and continue to function. However, updates to any existing policy must not introduce a mismatched type field in the config or change currently mismatched fields to new invalid values.

When the HealthCheckPolicy custom resource is validated, the type field is now verified against the specified health check. For example, if type: TCP is specified but httpHealthCheck is configured, then the fields are mismatched and kubectl rejects the policy. However, for this same example, if type: TCP is specified and tcpHealthCheck is configured, then the fields are valid.

Earlier versions of GKE accept custom resources that don’t have matching fields. If you use an earlier version, the type field is used and the configuration in the health check field is ignored.

For more details, see Configure health checks.

Identity and Access Management

Feature

Requesters can schedule grant requests in Privileged Access Manager up to seven days in advance. This lets requesters align access with scheduled maintenance or on-call shifts.

This feature is in preview.

For more information, see Privileged Access Manager overview.

Memorystore for Valkey

Feature

Version 1.0 of Bloom filters and JSON documents is Generally Available.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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