GCP Release Notes: March 13, 2026

Apigee UI

Feature

Manage environment-scoped Key Value Maps in the Apigee UI

You can now view, add, edit, and delete environment-scoped Key Value Map (KVM) entries in the Apigee UI. For more information, see Using key value maps.

Announcement

On March 13, 2026, we released an updated version of the Apigee UI.

Buildpacks

Feature

The Node.js buildpack supports the Bun package manager in Preview. For more information, see Building a Node.js application.

Cloud Run

Feature

Configuring Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) directly on Cloud Run to secure your services without the need for load balancers is in General Availability (GA).

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Feature

You can now enable automatic server certificate rotation for your Cloud SQL instance. This feature is specifically designed for instances utilizing the Certificate Authority Service (CAS). Automatic server certificate rotation helps you maintain high security standards while removing the operational burden of manual rotation.

For more information about enabling automatic server certificate rotation for your instance, see Enable automatic server certificate rotation.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Feature

You can now enable automatic server certificate rotation for your Cloud SQL instance. This feature is specifically designed for instances utilizing the Certificate Authority Service (CAS). Automatic server certificate rotation helps you maintain high security standards while removing the operational burden of manual rotation.

For more information about enabling automatic server certificate rotation for your instance, see Enable automatic server certificate rotation.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Feature

You can now enable automatic server certificate rotation for your Cloud SQL instance. This feature is specifically designed for instances utilizing the Certificate Authority Service (CAS). Automatic server certificate rotation helps you maintain high security standards while removing the operational burden of manual rotation.

For more information about enabling automatic server certificate rotation for your instance, see Enable automatic server certificate rotation.

Dataproc Metastore

Deprecated

The Hive Metastore versions 1.2.2 and 2.2.0 are deprecated. You can no longer create services with these versions. Existing services will continue to function.

Document AI

Feature

Custom splitter model pretrained-splitter-v1.5-2025-07-14 is available in General Availability (GA).

Gemini

Announcement

Gemini 3.1 Pro and 3.0 Flash are available (Preview)

Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.0 Flash are now available to Gemini Code Assist users in VS Code and IntelliJ, in Preview. You can use these models for agent mode, chat, and code generation.

Other

Bug fixes in VS Code

Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.

Announcement

Gemini 3.1 Pro and 3.0 Flash are available (Preview)

Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.0 Flash are now available to Gemini Code Assist users in VS Code and IntelliJ, in Preview. You can use these models for agent mode, chat, and code generation.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Feature

In GKE version 1.35 and later, all organization and cluster administrators can granularly control which privileged Autopilot partner workloads can run in GKE clusters. Additionally, approved customers can authorize and run their own privileged workloads in Autopilot mode by using custom allowlists.

For more information, see About Autopilot privileged workloads.

Pub/Sub

Feature

You can now use the Pub/Sub remote MCP server to manage Pub/Sub resources. You can create, list, get, update, and delete Pub/Sub topics, subscriptions, and snapshots, as well as publish messages to topics.

This feature is in Preview.

Source: Google Cloud Platform