GCP Release Notes: January 23, 2026

Access Approval

Feature

Automotive AI Agent is generally available (GA).

Access Transparency

Feature

Automotive AI Agent is generally available (GA).

BigQuery

Change

You can now optionally specify which model to use by passing an endpoint argument to the AI.IF, AI.SCORE, and AI.CLASSIFY functions.

Cloud Load Balancing

Feature

Application Load Balancers now support the configuration of a traffic duration setting when you add backends to the backend services. You can configure this setting as SHORT or LONG based on the response time needed by backends to complete HTTP requests.

Application Load Balancers also support the use of a new in-flight balancing mode that lets you configure the load balancer’s traffic distribution to supported backends when requests take more than a second to complete.

This feature is available in Preview.

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Feature

Cloud SQL for MySQL now supports performance capture to help you diagnose transient performance issues with your MySQL database. Performance capture lets you specify configurable thresholds for additional monitoring. If a threshold is reached, then performance capture takes snapshots of the database state, including in-flight transactions, InnoDB status, and, in the case of replication lag, detailed replication status. Performance capture outputs the snapshots in a log format so you can review the state of the instance when the problem occurred.

For more information, see Cloud SQL performance capture overview. Performance capture is in Preview.

Container Optimized OS

Change

cos-125-19216-104-117

Kernel	Docker	Containerd	GPU Drivers
COS-6.12.55	v27.5.1	v2.1.5	See List

Fixed

Fixed a performance issue in TCPX.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71141 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-13837 in dev-lang/python.

Dataproc

Fixed

• Applied patch for SPARK-48292 in Serverless for Apache Spark 1.2 and 2.2 runtimes.

Announcement

New Serverless for Apache Spark runtime versions:

• 1.2.67
• 2.2.67
• 2.3.20
• 3.0.3

Gemini

Other

Bug fixes in VS Code

Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Feature

Virtual Try-On

Virtual Try-On is now generally available (GA). The new endpoint, virtual-try-on-001, replaces the previous endpoint, virtual-try-on-preview-08-04. We recommend changing to the new endpoint as soon as possible.

For more information, see Generate Virtual Try-On Images.

Memorystore for Valkey

Feature

Added support for Valkey version 9.0. As a result, you can now upgrade the version of your Memorystore for Valkey instance to 9.0. For more information, see About upgrading the Valkey version of an instance. This feature is available in Preview.

Source: Google Cloud Platform