GCP Release Notes: October 03, 2025

Capacity Planner

Feature

Preview: Capacity Planner supports the following:

• Usage and forecast data for Hyperdisk volumes
• Usage and forecast data for Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volume IOPS and throughput
• Usage data for Spot VMs

For more information, see View usage and forecast data.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL version 18 in Preview.

PostgreSQL 18 is a newly supported version. We strongly recommend that you review the changes in the release and validate the readiness of your instance thoroughly prior to upgrading your instance to this version.

The following information applies to flags and extensions for PostgreSQL 18:

Flags

The following new flags are available for PostgreSQL 18 only:

• autovacuum_vacuum_max_threshold
• autovacuum_worker_slots
• enable_distinct_reordering
• enable_self_join_elimitation
• io_max_concurrency
• io_method
• io_workers
• log_lock_failures
• max_active_replecation_origins
• track_cost_delay_timing
• vacuum_max_eager_freeze_failure_rate
• vacuum_truncate

For more information, see Configure database flags.

Extensions

The following extensions aren’t available for PostgreSQL 18:

• pgRouting
• plpgsql_check
• pg_hint_plan
• pgrouting
• anonymizer
• pg_wait_sampling
• tds_fdw

For more information, see Configure PostgreSQL extensions.

To create a new instance using PostgreSQL 18, see Create instances.

Dataproc

Announcement

New Dataproc on Compute Engine subminor image versions:

• 2.0.150-debian10, 2.0.150-ubuntu18, 2.0.150-rocky8
• 2.1.99-debian11, 2.1.99-ubuntu20, 2.1.99-ubuntu20-arm, 2.1.99-rocky8
• 2.2.67-debian12, 2.2.67-ubuntu22, 2.2.67-ubuntu22-arm, 2.2.67-rocky9
• 2.3.14-debian12, 2.3.14-ubuntu22, 2.3.14-ubuntu22-arm, 2.3.14-ml-ubuntu22, 2.3.14-rocky9

Google Cloud VMware Engine

Announcement

This is to notify you about upcoming changes in licensing model with Google Cloud VMware Engine following Broadcom’s recent announcement to move to a “bring your own” subscription model for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

You can renew or add additional capacity of VMware Engine nodes with VCF-license included until October 15, 2025. After that, Google Cloud will not be able to sell new VMware Engine VCF license-included nodes. You can buy new VMware Engine BYOL nodes and use them with “bring your own” VCF subscriptions (purchased by you from Broadcom) for new capacity after October 15, 2025.

For any questions, please reach out to your Google Cloud sales team, who can help review your specific scenarios, discuss the implications of these changes for your organization, and help you manage this transition.

For more details, see the October 3, 2025 service announcement.

SAP on Google Cloud

Announcement

New SAP certification for operating system: RHEL for SAP 9.6

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP 9.6.

For more information about SAP-certified operating systems, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

Source: Google Cloud Platform