GCP Release Notes: August 29, 2025

Anthos clusters on Azure

Issue

The following Kubernetes versions are retired and are no longer available for creating new clusters:

• 1.31.4-gke.500
• 1.30.8-gke.100
• 1.29.12-gke.100

To create a cluster, use another available Kubernetes version.

Artifact Registry

Changed

The Container Analysis API now supports the option of returning partial results during region-down failure conditions when listing notes, listing occurrences, or generating vulnerability summaries. For more information, view the returnPartialSuccess parameter for the following requests:

• v1.projects.locations.notes.list
• v1.projects.locations.occurrences.getVulnerabilitySummary
• v1.projects.locations.occurrences.list
• v1.projects.notes.list
• v1.projects.occurrences.getVulnerabilitySummary
• v1.projects.occurrences.list
• v1beta1.projects.locations.notes.list
• v1beta1.projects.locations.occurrences.getVulnerabilitySummary
• v1beta1.projects.locations.occurrences.list
• v1beta1.projects.notes.list
• v1beta1.projects.occurrences.getVulnerabilitySummary
• v1beta1.projects.occurrences.list

Capacity Planner

Announcement

Capacity Planner is available in Preview!

Feature

Reference documentation has been added for the REST Capacity Planner API. For more information, see Authenticate to Capacity Planner and the REST API reference overview.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Feature

Max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) is a Microsoft database flag available for use in Cloud SQL for SQL Server. This flag lets you limit the maximum number of threads used when running a single query in a parallel plan.

Gemini Code Assist

Feature

Full Remote Codebase Awareness

Comprehensive understanding of your entire remote codebase directly within the chat interface. This new capability improves the quality of suggestions and answers to general questions about your project. To use it, ask an abstract question about your remote context, such as "What does this repository do?" and Gemini uses its deep knowledge of the codebase to provide a detailed and accurate response. For more information, see Code customization overview.

Feature

Get suggestions from your documentation stored in Markdown files

Gemini Code Assist code customization can now index and understand your organization's internal documentation, stored in Markdown files. This means that when you ask a question or request a code snippet, Gemini will use the context available in your team's documentation to provide more accurate and tailored responses, improving both the quality of the suggestions and the overall relevance of the information you receive. To take advantage of this, ask a question that is related to the context available in your remote Markdown files, and Gemini will use that knowledge to assist you. For more information, see Code customization overview.

Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service

Announcement

Mobile SDK 2.14 pre-release notes

Here are the pre-release notes for Mobile SDK 2.14. When we release version 2.14, we expect the new capabilities to be as shown here.

• Android SDK and iOS SDK:

  • Support for virtual agent to virtual agent chat transfers by queue.

  • Support for hiding the download transcript button in the options menu, the post-chat screen, or both.

  • Improved accessibility, including better navigation and screen reader support.

• Android SDK:

  • Support for hiding the SDK using the Ujet.hideSDK() method.

  • New event types: MessageLinkClicked and QuickReplyClicked.

To support the new virtual agent chat transfer capabilities of this release, we've added a new configuration setting in the Google Cloud CCaaS portal. You can use this setting to hide transfer system messages in chat sessions with virtual agent to virtual agent transfers.

Administrators: In the Settings > Chat > Web & Mobile Chat Settings pane, there's a new Transfers checkbox.

Fixed

Fixed an issue where the Android SDK wouldn't minimize when an end-user clicked a deep link.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Fixed

A fix is available for an issue with Cloud Storage FUSE CSI driver that could cause Pod to be stuck during startup after a node restart event. Cloud Storage FUSE CSI driver now gracefully handles a node restart behavior.

The fix is available in the following GKE versions:

• 1.32.6-gke.1125000 and later
• 1.33.1-gke.1959000 and later

Manufacturing Data Engine

Announcement

Release 1.5.1

This release is a critical update if you have an existing deployment of MDE version 1.5.0. This release resolves a bug regarding materialization of metadata instances created prior to MDE 1.5.0. This release also includes other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Libraries

Release signature

b0fc163
1.5.1
ffb87d39d343c20abebd2f52df74a2d3

Fixed

• Fix (417666631): Fixed an issue with metadata materialization for metadata instances that had been created prior to migrating to MDE 1.5.0.
• Fix (420921890): Fixed an error when attempting to update an instance tag metadata and saved it for instances that had been created prior to migrating to MDE 1.5.0.
• Fix (423535516): Fixed inconsistent API response codes when trying to delete non-existing entities.
• Fix (383519276): Fixed missing fields in MDE logging and added more details to make troubleshooting easier.
• Fix (424077359): Fixed instance bucket creation through API. It now adds default createdTime as the time when the API call was received.
• Fix (422991109 and 424084607): Fixed ghost deletion of Types and Metadata Buckets after removing a configuration package.
• Fix (423859259): Fixed removal of BigQuery views when a Type is manually deleted.
• Fix (406803212): Fixed wrong version materialization on MDE system tables.
• Fix (407015039): Fixed Delete button in MDE UI when the system is in PROD mode (Production mode).
• Fix (435653743): Fixed missing Grafana Terraform module.

Security

• Improvement (427447932): Brought Docker images to versions without vulnerabilities reported at the time of the release.
• Improvement (361290775): Modified Terraform deployment scripts to enforce TLS v1.2 for an external MDE UI Load Balancer.

Changed

• Improvement (407009198): Improved the error handling when upload and parsing configuration packages.
• Improvement (423531705): Improved MDE logging for BigQuery sink related operations.
• Improvement (423530033): Improved manifest validation on configuration package uploads.
• Improvement (423554635): Added CreatedAt column with default sorting on the MDE UI configuration packages page.
• Improvement (430962108): Added more sorting options on the MDE UI Configurations and Metadata Instances pages.
• Improvement (423531714): Various improvements on Helm charts, including image tag management, and k8s secrets/configmaps.
• Improvement (407037164): More descriptive message added to MDE UI to confirm Type deletion.

Network Connectivity Center

Feature

Static routes for Network Connectivity Center are available in GA.

You can use static routes to define the next hop along the path that network traffic takes to reach a given destination. For more information about using static routes with Network Connectivity Center, see the Static routes overview.

Sensitive Data Protection

Announcement

The August 25 release note announcing the release of the DOCUMENT_TYPE/FINANCE/INVOICE and DOCUMENT_TYPE/MEDICAL/RECORD infoType detectors was published in error. These infotypes are not available.

Spanner

Libraries

A monthly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Vertex AI Workbench

Feature

M132 release

The M132 release of Vertex AI Workbench instances includes the following:

• The new scheduler Jupyter plugin (scheduler-jupyter-plugin) is now preinstalled in the Jupyterlab 4 environment, with support for both the Cloud Composer and Vertex AI notebook schedulers.

• Updated the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin (dataproc-jupyter-plugin) to version 0.1.90.

• Patched bugs related to the managed end user credentials feature (Preview), resolving an incompatibility with listing Dataproc remote kernels.

• Patched a bug that caused instances with disabled proxy access to get stuck in provisioning.

• Removed the archived Debian 11 backports repository, resolving an issue with running apt update within the instance.

Source: Google Cloud Platform