GCP Release Notes: August 08, 2025

Gemini Code Assist

Feature

Quick Preview of chat code suggestions across multiple files

VS Code Gemini Code Assist 2.44.0

Gemini Code Assist chat provides a quick preview of the collective code suggestions across multiple files in the chat. Selecting a particular file opens the corresponding file in the editor with the first suggestion selected by default.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Feature

You can now customize a node system configuration with the following new Kubelet, Sysctl, and Linux config options:

• kubeletConfig flags:

  • topologyManager (on GKE versions 1.32.3-gke.1785000 and later)
  • memoryManager (on GKE versions 1.32.3-gke.1785000 and later)
  • maxParallelImagePulls (on GKE versions 1.33.1-gke.1918000 and later)
  • singleProcessOomKill (on GKE versions 1.32.4-gke.1132000, 1.33.0-gke.1748000 and later)
  • evictionSoft
  • evictionSoftGracePeriod
  • evictionMinimumReclaim
  • evictionMaxPodGracePeriodSeconds

• sysctl flags:

  • vm.overcommit_memory
  • vm.overcommit_ratio
  • vm.vfs_cache_pressure
  • vm.dirty_ratio
  • vm.dirty_background_ratio
  • vm.dirty_expire_centisecs
  • vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs
  • vm.watermark_scale_factor
  • vm.min_free_kbytes
  • vm.swappiness
  • fs.nr_open
  • fs.file-max
  • fs.inotify.max_user_watches
  • fs.inotify.max_user_instances
  • fs.aio-max-nr
  • net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans

• linuxConfig flags:

  • transparentHugepageEnabled (on GKE versions 1.33.2-gke.4655000 and later)
  • transparentHugepageDefrag (on GKE versions 1.33.2-gke.4655000 and later)

    Feature

    The C4 machine series now has General Availability machine types that support Local SSD storage options. These machine types are available in all GKE versions for Standard mode, and in GKE version 1.33.1-gke.1545000 and later for Autopilot mode. For more information about these machine types, see the "C4 standard with Local SSD" and "C4 highmem with Local SSD" tabs in C4 machine types.

    Feature

    You can now customize a node system configuration with the following new Kubelet, Sysctl, and Linux config options:

    • kubeletConfig flags:

      • topologyManager (on GKE versions 1.32.3-gke.1785000 and later)
      • memoryManager (on GKE versions 1.32.3-gke.1785000 and later)
      • maxParallelImagePulls (on GKE versions 1.33.1-gke.1918000 and later)
      • singleProcessOomKill (on GKE versions 1.32.4-gke.1132000, 1.33.0-gke.1748000 and later)
      • evictionSoft
      • evictionSoftGracePeriod
      • evictionMinimumReclaim
      • evictionMaxPodGracePeriodSeconds

    • sysctl flags:

      • vm.overcommit_memory
      • vm.overcommit_ratio
      • vm.vfs_cache_pressure
      • vm.dirty_ratio
      • vm.dirty_background_ratio
      • vm.dirty_expire_centisecs
      • vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs
      • vm.watermark_scale_factor
      • vm.min_free_kbytes
      • vm.swappiness
      • fs.nr_open
      • fs.file-max
      • fs.inotify.max_user_watches
      • fs.inotify.max_user_instances
      • fs.aio-max-nr
      • net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans

    • linuxConfig flags:

      • transparentHugepageEnabled (on GKE versions 1.33.2-gke.4655000 and later)
      • transparentHugepageDefrag (on GKE versions 1.33.2-gke.4655000 and later)

        Feature

        The C4 machine series now has General Availability machine types that support Local SSD storage options. These machine types are available in all GKE versions for Standard mode, and in GKE version 1.33.1-gke.1545000 and later for Autopilot mode. For more information about these machine types, see the "C4 standard with Local SSD" and "C4 highmem with Local SSD" tabs in C4 machine types.

Source: Google Cloud Platform