Cluster Toolkit release notes

This page documents production updates to Cluster Toolkit. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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August 14, 2025

v1.62.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.62.0 is available. This release adds new blueprints for A4X instances and introduces a community scheduler module for Slinky (Slurm on Kubernetes). For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

August 04, 2025

v1.61.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.61.0 is available. This release adds a namespace for GKE modules and optimizes Cloud Storage FUSE configurations for A3 Ultra and A4 blueprints. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

July 22, 2025

v1.59.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.59.0 is available. This release adds a configurable number of IP addresses per NAT for A-family blueprints and fixes an issue with additional disks for login nodes. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

July 15, 2025

v1.58.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.58.0 is available. This release adds a new blueprint for deploying GKE clusters with H4D instances and deprecates the blueprints for deploying Parallelstore. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

June 30, 2025

v1.57.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.57.0 is available. This release integrates Cluster Health Scripts (CHS) with GKE blueprints for A3 Mega, A3 Ultra, and A4 instances. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

June 23, 2025

v1.56.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.56.0 is available. This release includes improvements to SlurmGCP Resume functionality and several bug fixes. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

June 16, 2025

v1.55.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.55.0 is available. This release adds a new blueprint for a high-throughput AlphaFold 3 execution environment and aligns Cloud Storage FUSE configurations with best practices. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

June 10, 2025

v1.54.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.54.0 is available. This release adds Managed Lustre support for non-default ports in GKE and implements a network blocking script for A3 High instances. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

June 05, 2025

v1.53.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.53.0 is available. This release standardizes the A3 Mega Slurm solution on Ubuntu and adds a new GKE blueprint for A4X instances. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

May 22, 2025

v1.52.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.52.0 is available. This release improves CloudSQL support with database flags and query insights, and includes several bug fixes. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

May 13, 2025

v1.51.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.51.0 is available. This release adds GPU health-check epilogs for A3 High and A3 Mega Slurm blueprints and includes a new GKE TPU v6e example. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

May 05, 2025

v1.50.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.50.0 is available. This release introduces new blueprints for Managed Lustre attached to VMs and Slurm clusters. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

April 24, 2025

v1.49.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.49.0 is available. This release adds TPU support to the GKE nodepool module and introduces support for Managed Lustre. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

April 01, 2025

v1.48.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.48.0 is available. This release updates the GKE nodepool module to support multiple nodepools and adds automatic GPU health checks for Slurm. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

February 27, 2025

v1.47.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.47.0 is available. This release adds support for the A4 machine family in GKE and Slurm blueprints and introduces Dynamic Workload Scheduler Flex support for GKE. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

February 07, 2025

v1.46.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.46.0 is available. This release makes Kueue the officially supported workload scheduler for A3U and adds new blueprints for A3U, H4D VMs, and Slurm. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

January 15, 2025

v1.45.0

Cluster Toolkit version v1.45.0 is available. This release updates A3 Ultra GKE blueprints to use newer versions of Kueue and Jobset, and adds support for cluster deletion protection. For more details, see the Release announcement on GitHub.

For information about previous releases of Cluster Toolkit, see the Announcements page on GitHub.