AI Hypercomputer
Feature
Generally available: You can use future reservations in AI Hypercomputer to request to reserve capacity starting on a specific date up to one year in the future. For more information, see Reserve capacity.
BigQuery
Feature
BigQuery now supports TransUnion for entity resolution. This feature is generally available (GA).
Cloud NAT
Feature
Private NAT supports Cloud Run in General Availability. For more information, see Supported resources.
Cloud Run
Feature
Support for configuring GPU for your Cloud Run job is in General Availability (GA).
Feature
Direct VPC egress now supports Private NAT (GA).
Compute Engine
Fixed
Version 20251009.01 of the guest agent, announced in the October 20, 2025 release notes, has been rolled back. This version introduced the plugin-based architecture to Windows but contained a bug in the WSFC module.
To resolve this issue, guest agent version 20251011.00 is now available for Windows, which excludes the new plugin-based architecture.
Feature
Generally available: You can use future reservations to request to reserve capacity starting on a specific date up to one year in the future. For more information, see About future reservation requests.
Changed
The kernel dist-tag that supports the Rocky Linux Optimized and Accelerator images on Compute Engine is being updated from elX_ycld_next to elX_y_ciq as part of the consolidation of CIQ’s kernel trees. There are no changes to Secure Boot or GPG signing keys.
For example, 6.12.0-55.32.1.el10_0cld_next.2.1 to 6.12.0-55.39.1.el10_0_ciq.2.1, where the cld_next tag is swapped with ciq.
This change affects the Rocky Linux 8, 9, and 10 optimized and accelerator images in an upcoming kernel update over the next month. The major version 8 and 9 kernels now include FIPS 140-3 patches as part of CIQ’s ongoing FIPS 140-3 validation efforts for Rocky Linux. These patches have no effect if FIPS mode is not enabled. There are no code changes to the major version 10 kernel.
The kernel source tree is available at CIQ’s kernel-src-tree GitHub repository.
Generative AI on Vertex AI
Security
On September 23, 2025, we discovered a technical issue in the Vertex AI API that resulted in a limited amount of responses being misrouted between recipients for certain third-party models when using streaming requests. This issue is now resolved. Google models, e.g. Gemini, were not impacted.
Some internal proxies did not properly handle HTTP requests that
have an Expect: 100-continue header, resulting in
a desynchronization in a streaming response connection, where
a response intended for one request was instead delivered as
the response for a subsequent request.
For more information, see Security bulletins.
Google Kubernetes Engine
Feature
The G4 VM, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with the AMD EPYC Turin CPU platform, is generally available on GKE. G4 instances have up to 384 vCPUs, 1,440 GB of memory, 12 TiB of Titanium SSD disks attached, and up to 400 Gbps of standard network performance. The G4 VM offers a leap in performance with up to 9 times the throughput of G2 instances for workloads such as AI development, and graphics rendering. G4 VMs are currently available with 1, 2, 4, or 8 GPUs.
- For GKE Standard, use GKE version 1.34.0-gke.1662000 or later. To get started, see Run GPUs in GKE Standard node pools.
Google SecOps
Announcement
Premium Fortinet Firewall parser now available as Release Candidate
This enhanced parser is available as a Release Candidate for the next 2 months. To opt in and begin testing it, go to SIEM Settings > Parsers. We encourage you to try it out and evaluate the improvements before it becomes the default.
Google SecOps SIEM
Announcement
Premium Fortinet Firewall parser now available as Release Candidate
This enhanced parser is available as a Release Candidate for the next 2 months. To opt in and begin testing it, go to SIEM Settings > Parsers. We encourage you to try it out and evaluate the improvements before it becomes the default.
Announcement
Premium Fortinet Firewall parser now available as Release Candidate
This enhanced parser is available as a Release Candidate for the next 2 months. To opt in and begin testing it, go to SIEM Settings > Parsers. We encourage you to try it out and evaluate the improvements before it becomes the default.
Guest Environment
Fixed
Version 20251009.01 of the guest agent, announced in the October 20, 2025 release notes, has been rolled back. This version introduced the plugin-based architecture to Windows but contained a bug in the WSFC module.
To resolve this issue, guest agent version 20251011.00 is now available for Windows, which excludes the new plugin-based architecture.
Looker
Feature
The new Looker Status Dashboard provides real-time updates about service availability or disruptions for Looker-hosted instances. For more information, see the Monitor Looker status documentation page.
Memorystore for Valkey
Feature
You can now use self-service maintenance to update your instance to a newer version. This feature is Generally Available.
Security Command Center
Changed
The release note for Security Command Center and attack path simulations, published on October 16, 2025, was updated to clarify that attack path simulations use Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine OS and software vulnerability findings to detect toxic combinations and chokepoints.
Text-to-Speech
Changed
Chirp 3: instant custom voice now supports voice cloning key generation in the eu and us regions. For more information, see the Chirp 3: instant custom voice page.
Source: Google Cloud Platform
