Google Cloud release notes

Support for migrating from the App Engine Images service to Cloud Run is in General Availability (GA).

Support for migrating from the App Engine Images service to Cloud Run is in General Availability (GA).

581.0.0 (2026-08-18)

Breaking Changes

• (Cloud Services) Removed gcloud beta services mcp enable, gcloud beta services mcp disable, and gcloud beta services mcp list as MCP enablement is no longer required and they have been functioning as no-ops.

AI Platform

• Added gcloud beta ai semantic-governance-policy-engine deprovision command to tear down a semantic governance policy engine, including its tenant project, GKE cluster, and PSC service attachments.

• Promoted gcloud ai semantic-governance-policies (create, describe, update, delete, list) and gcloud ai semantic-governance-policy-engine (describe, update, deprovision) commands from beta to GA.

BigQuery

• Added fields precedence and condition to the commands bq ls --reservation_assignment and bq show --reservation_assignment output.
• Added the new AUTOMATIC_MATERIALIZED_VIEW_REFRESH job type for users to create reservation assignments with.

Cloud Auth

• Enabled Enterprise Certificate Proxy (ECP) HTTP Proxy by default for context-aware mTLS requests.

Cloud Bigtable

• Rebuilt cbt cli with newer version of bigtable client for CVE-2026-39883.

Cloud IAM

• Updated gcloud iam workforce-pools create-cred-config and gcloud iam workforce-pools create-login-config to accept short-format provider audiences (<pool>/<provider>).
• Added gcloud beta iam workforce-pools providers create-saml and gcloud beta iam workforce-pools providers update-saml commands.

Cloud Services

• API Keys: Added --append flag to gcloud services api-keys update command to merge new application and API target restrictions with existing key restrictions instead of replacing them.

Cluster Director

• Fixed gcloud cluster-director clusters create to not create default compute resources when they are overridden by the user.
• Updated gcloud cluster-director clusters create to default to hyperdisk-balanced boot disks and restrict persistent disks (PD) for non-N2 and non-CT5P machine types.
• Fixed a validation error during cluster updates that concurrently modified storage resources and Slurm node sets.

Compute Engine

• Added gcloud compute target-ssl-proxies test-iam-permissions command to test IAM permissions on a Compute Engine target SSL proxy in beta, preview, and GA.
• Added --max-stream-duration flag to gcloud compute backend-services create and update commands in beta, preview, and GA.
• Added gcloud compute packet-mirrorings test-iam-permissions command for beta, preview and GA tracks.

Container

• Fixed issue where gcloud CLI would crash on corrupted ~/.kube/config. Now you will now get a more detailed explanation about which section and line is wrong, to make troubleshooting easier. Corrupted kubeconfig will be backed up for further troubleshooting.

Database Migration

• Added --reserved-public-ip and --reserved-public-ip-nat-ips-count flags to gcloud database-migration private-connections create.
• Added --fetch-reserved-public-ips flag to gcloud database-migration connection-profiles fetch-static-ips.

Kubernetes Engine

• Add --enable-slice-controller flag in gcloud container clusters create and gcloud container clusters update.

Oracle Database

• Added --total-vm-storage-size-gb flag to gcloud oracle-database cloud-exadata-infrastructures configure-exascale and --properties-vm-backup-storage-type, --properties-vm-file-system-storage-type flags to gcloud oracle-database cloud-vm-clusters create to support Exascale VM storage options.

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Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions

Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available in the us and eu multi-regions, and an allowlist is no longer required to use Gemini 3.6 Flash in the us multi-region. To make Gemini 3.6 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.6 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console.

If an administrator previously turned on the Gemini 3.6 Flash toggle for an app in the us or eu multi-region and accepted the out-of-region routing warning, traffic for that app automatically routes to the app's location (us or eu). No action is required.

In regions where the model is not supported, administrators can still enable the model by acknowledging a warning that traffic routes to the global endpoint, which does not support regional data residency.

For more information, see:

• Manage features on the web app
• Data residency for Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus Editions and Gemini Notebook Enterprise

Gemini Enterprise: Access and configure AI developer tools

AI developer tools is generally available (GA) for Gemini Enterprise Standard, Plus, and Pay-as-you-go editions with an invoiced Cloud Billing account. This launch includes access to Antigravity 2.0, Antigravity CLI, and Android Studio.

Key capabilities of AI developer tools include the following:

• Administrative controls: Turn on or turn off AI developer tools, configure security policies (such as file access and terminal command execution), and manage model availability in the Google Cloud console.
• Usage metrics dashboard: Monitor developer adoption, active users, token consumption, and API call volumes with integrated Cloud Monitoring and logging.

You can manage access to AI developer tools using a custom IAM role.

For more information, see the following:

• AI developer tools overview