GCP Release Notes: January 28, 2026

GCP Release Notes: January 28, 2026

BigQuery

Change

The BigQuery change data capture feature has been renamed to BigQuery change data capture ingestion.

Feature

The BigQuery Data Transfer Service can now transfer data from Shopify to BigQuery. This feature is in Preview.

Cloud Load Balancing

Feature

To enhance security and help meet stringent compliance requirements like FedRAMP, you can now apply a FIPS-compliant SSL policy to your Application Load Balancers and proxy Network Load Balancers. This update also introduces the ability to enforce TLS 1.3 as the minimum protocol version.

New FIPS_202205 profile

The new FIPS_202205 profile, available as a predefined SSL policy, restricts the load balancer to use only FIPS 140-2/140-3 validated cryptographic modules and ciphers.

When this profile is selected, the load balancer:

  • Enforces strict TLS settings, negotiating connections only using TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3.
  • Uses a limited set of approved cipher suites for TLS 1.2, such as the cipher suites in ECDHE-RSA-AES-GCM and ECDHE-ECDSA-AES-GCM families.
  • Excludes non-FIPS ciphers for TLS 1.3, such as TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256.

Minimum TLS 1.3 Enforcement

You can now specify TLS 1.3 as the minimum version for your SSL policy, which must be paired with the RESTRICTED profile. If you mandate TLS 1.3 as the minimum version, any clients attempting to connect via TLS 1.2 or lower will be rejected. Ensure your client ecosystem supports TLS 1.3 before enforcing this minimum TLS version.

For more information, see the following:

This feature is in General availability.

Cloud Storage

Feature

Previously, when listing buckets by using the client libraries, JSON API, or RPC API, the request returned an error if some buckets couldn’t be reached because a location was temporarily unavailable. You can now use a partial success option to return a list of buckets that are available, as well as the names of any buckets that can’t be reached.

Container Optimized OS

Change

cos-117-18613-439-108

Kernel Docker Containerd GPU Drivers
COS-6.6.111 v24.0.9 v1.7.29 See List

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-22111 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Updated dev-libs/openssl to v3.0.19. This resolves CVE-2025-15467.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71084 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68259 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71118 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68261 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71131 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-13836 in dev-lang/python.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68814 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68816 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-38129 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71077 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71125 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-38022 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68821 in the Linux kernel.

Fixed

Upgraded sys-apps/less to v691.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68744 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2026-21441 in dev-python/urllib3.

Security

Fixed CVE-2024-57982 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71068 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71098 in the Linux kernel.

Security

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

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71113 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68794 in the Linux kernel.

Fixed

Installed app-misc/c_rehash, which was unintentionally removed after the dev-libs/openssl update.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71104 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68798 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68788 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68813 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68780 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68265 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68764 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68756 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68803 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68795 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68264 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71089 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68349 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71123 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68740 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71096 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71102 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2024-49968 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71120 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68820 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68363 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68782 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68724 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68775 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68337 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71097 in the Linux kernel.

Change

cos-121-18867-294-100

Kernel Docker Containerd GPU Drivers
COS-6.6.113 v27.5.1 v2.0.7 See List

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68814 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68740 in the Linux kernel.

Fixed

Upgraded sys-apps/less to v691.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68337 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71068 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71120 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68780 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68821 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71097 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68259 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68363 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Updated dev-libs/openssl to v3.0.19. This resolves CVE-2025-15467.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71118 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68775 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68820 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68724 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68756 in the Linux kernel.

Security

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

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68744 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71104 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71077 in the Linux kernel.

Fixed

Installed app-misc/c_rehash, which was unintentionally removed after the dev-libs/openssl update.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68816 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-13836 in dev-lang/python.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71125 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71102 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68349 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71084 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68264 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68798 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71123 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68795 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71131 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-38022 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2026-21441 in dev-python/urllib3.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68782 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71098 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68265 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68794 in the Linux kernel.

Fixed

Upgraded app-admin/sosreport to v4.10.2.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68261 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71089 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68788 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-38129 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71096 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71113 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68764 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68813 in the Linux kernel.

Change

cos-113-18244-521-88

Kernel Docker Containerd GPU Drivers
COS-6.1.155 v24.0.9 v1.7.27 See List

Security

Fixed CVE-2026-21441 in dev-python/urllib3.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68816 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-68795 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71125 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-13836 in dev-lang/python.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71113 in the Linux kernel.

Security

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

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71118 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71102 in the Linux kernel.

Fixed

Installed app-misc/c_rehash, which was unintentionally removed after the dev-libs/openssl update.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71131 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71123 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Updated dev-libs/openssl to v3.0.19. This resolves CVE-2025-15467.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71120 in the Linux kernel.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-71104 in the Linux kernel.

Change

cos-125-19216-104-126

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

Fixed

Upgraded sys-apps/less to v691.

Security

Fixed CVE-2025-13836 in dev-lang/python.

Security

Updated dev-libs/openssl to v3.5.5. This resolves CVE-2025-15467.

Security

Fixed CVE-2026-21441 in dev-python/urllib3.

Fixed

Upgraded app-admin/sosreport to v4.10.2.

Dataform

Feature

You can organize your code assets into a hierarchical structure with folders and repositories using the Dataform API. This feature is in preview.

Datastream

Feature

Datastream now supports Spanner as a source. For more information, see the Datastream documentation.

Looker

Feature

You can now view the public egress IP addresses for Looker (Google Cloud core) instances that use Private Service Connect and controlled native egress. These IP addresses may be used when setting up outbound connections.

Spanner

Feature

Spanner supports the following compression functions:

These functions use the Zstandard (Zstd) lossless data compression algorithm to compress and decompress STRING or BYTES values. For more information, see Compression functions.

Source: Google Cloud Platform

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