GKE release notes (Rapid channel)

This page documents Google Kubernetes Engine version updates in the Rapid release channel.

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Note: Your clusters might not have the latest released versions. Rollouts begin on the day of the note and take four or more business days to be completed across all Google Cloud zones.

September 03, 2025

(2025-R37) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.33.4-gke.1134000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.14-gke.1130000
  • 1.31.12-gke.1083000
  • 1.32.8-gke.1134000
  • 1.33.4-gke.1172000
  • 1.34.0-gke.1477000
  • 1.34.0-gke.1497000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.14-gke.1036000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1101000
  • 1.32.7-gke.1079000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1136000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.14-gke.1059000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.12-gke.1014000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.8-gke.1026000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.33.4-gke.1036000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.14-gke.1059000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.12-gke.1014000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.8-gke.1026000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.4-gke.1036000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.34 to version 1.34.0-gke.1477000 with this release.

August 27, 2025

(2025-R36) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.14-gke.1108000
  • 1.31.12-gke.1060000
  • 1.32.8-gke.1108000
  • 1.33.4-gke.1134000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.14-gke.1011000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1064000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1135000
  • 1.32.7-gke.1016000
  • 1.32.8-gke.1005000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1392000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.14-gke.1036000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.11-gke.1101000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.7-gke.1079000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.14-gke.1036000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.11-gke.1101000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.7-gke.1079000 with this release.

August 21, 2025

(2025-R35) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.33.3-gke.1136000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.14-gke.1059000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1135000
  • 1.31.12-gke.1014000
  • 1.32.8-gke.1005000
  • 1.32.8-gke.1026000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1392000
  • 1.33.4-gke.1036000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1414000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1036000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1125000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1240000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1250000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1266000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.14-gke.1011000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.11-gke.1064000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.7-gke.1016000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.33.3-gke.1136000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.14-gke.1011000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.11-gke.1064000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.7-gke.1016000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.3-gke.1136000 with this release.

August 14, 2025

(2025-R34) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.14-gke.1036000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1101000
  • 1.32.7-gke.1079000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1250000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1266000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1390000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1002000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1096000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1414000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.11-gke.1036000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.6-gke.1125000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1414000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.11-gke.1036000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.6-gke.1125000 with this release.

August 06, 2025

(2025-R33) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.14-gke.1011000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1064000
  • 1.32.7-gke.1016000
  • 1.33.3-gke.1136000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1372000
  • 1.31.10-gke.1067000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1060000
  • 1.33.2-gke.4780000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1390000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.11-gke.1002000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.6-gke.1096000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1390000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.11-gke.1002000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.6-gke.1096000 with this release.

August 01, 2025

(2025-R32) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1414000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1036000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1125000
  • 1.33.2-gke.4780000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1340000
  • 1.31.10-gke.1034000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1025000
  • 1.33.2-gke.4655000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1372000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.10-gke.1067000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.6-gke.1060000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1372000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.10-gke.1067000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.6-gke.1060000 with this release.

July 25, 2025

(2025-R31) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.33.2-gke.1240000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1390000
  • 1.31.11-gke.1002000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1096000
  • 1.33.2-gke.4655000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1208000
  • 1.30.12-gke.1246000
  • 1.30.12-gke.1279000
  • 1.30.12-gke.1320000
  • 1.30.12-gke.1333000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1119000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1176000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1218000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1287000
  • 1.31.10-gke.1021000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1415000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1603000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1698000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1767000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1013000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1584000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1744000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1959000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1043000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1111000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1384000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1340000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.10-gke.1034000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.6-gke.1025000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.33.2-gke.1240000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1340000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.10-gke.1034000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.6-gke.1025000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.2-gke.1240000 with this release.

July 16, 2025

(2025-R30) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1372000
  • 1.31.10-gke.1067000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1060000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1384000

July 11, 2025

(2025-R29) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1340000
  • 1.31.10-gke.1034000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1025000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1240000

July 02, 2025

(2025-R28) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1333000
  • 1.31.10-gke.1021000
  • 1.32.6-gke.1013000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1111000

June 27, 2025

(2025-R27) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1320000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1287000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1767000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1959000
  • 1.33.2-gke.1043000

June 18, 2025

(2025-R26) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.33.1-gke.1584000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1279000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1218000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1698000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1744000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1168000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1044001
  • 1.33.1-gke.1386000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1545000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1208000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.9-gke.1119000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.33.1-gke.1584000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1208000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.9-gke.1119000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.1-gke.1584000 with this release.

June 12, 2025

(2025-R25) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.33.1-gke.1386000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1246000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1176000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1415000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1603000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1545000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1584000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1151000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1005000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1353001
  • 1.32.4-gke.1415001
  • 1.32.4-gke.1533000
  • 1.33.0-gke.2248000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1107000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1375000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1168000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.9-gke.1044001 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.4-gke.1415000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.33.1-gke.1386000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1168000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.9-gke.1044001 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.4-gke.1415000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.1-gke.1386000 with this release.

June 05, 2025

(2025-R24) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.33.1-gke.1107000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1208000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1005000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1044001
  • 1.31.9-gke.1119000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1353001
  • 1.32.4-gke.1415001
  • 1.32.4-gke.1533000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1375000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1386000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.31.8-gke.1113000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1044000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1236006
  • 1.32.4-gke.1353000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1415000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.9-gke.1005000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.4-gke.1353001 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.9-gke.1005000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.4-gke.1353001 with this release.

(2025-R23) Version updates

There are no version updates for 2025-R23.

May 30, 2025

(2025-R22) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.33.0-gke.2248000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1168000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1044000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1415000
  • 1.33.1-gke.1107000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1086000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1005000
  • 1.33.0-gke.1868000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1151000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1151000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.0-gke.2248000 with this release.

(2025-R21) Version updates

There are no version updates for 2025-R21.

May 23, 2025

(2025-R20) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.4-gke.1236006 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1151000
  • 1.31.9-gke.1005000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1236006
  • 1.32.4-gke.1353000
  • 1.33.0-gke.2248000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1033000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1390000
  • 1.31.8-gke.1045000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1927002
  • 1.32.4-gke.1106000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1236000
  • 1.33.0-gke.1552000
  • 1.33.0-gke.1712000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1086000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.8-gke.1113000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.4-gke.1236006 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1086000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.8-gke.1113000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.4-gke.1236006 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.0-gke.1868000 with this release.

May 16, 2025

(2025-R19) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.4-gke.1106000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1086000
  • 1.31.8-gke.1113000
  • 1.32.4-gke.1236000
  • 1.33.0-gke.1868000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.11-gke.1157000
  • 1.30.11-gke.1217000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1265000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1785003
  • 1.33.0-gke.1582000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.12-gke.1033000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.7-gke.1390000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.3-gke.1927002 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.12-gke.1033000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.7-gke.1390000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.3-gke.1927002 with this release.

May 09, 2025

(2025-R18) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.3-gke.1927002 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.12-gke.1033000
  • 1.31.8-gke.1045000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1785003
  • 1.32.3-gke.1927002
  • 1.32.4-gke.1106000
  • 1.33.0-gke.1552000
  • 1.33.0-gke.1582000
  • 1.33.0-gke.1712000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.11-gke.1131000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1212000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1297002
  • 1.32.3-gke.1785000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1927000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.11-gke.1157000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.7-gke.1265000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.3-gke.1785003 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.11-gke.1157000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.7-gke.1265000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.3-gke.1785003 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.33 to version 1.33.0-gke.1552000 with this release.

May 02, 2025

(2025-R17) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.2-gke.1297002 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.11-gke.1131000
  • 1.30.11-gke.1217000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1212000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1390000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1927000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.10-gke.1070000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1102000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1064001
  • 1.31.6-gke.1099001
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182003
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.11-gke.1131000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.7-gke.1212000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.2-gke.1297002 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.11-gke.1131000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.7-gke.1212000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.2-gke.1297002 with this release.

April 28, 2025

(2025-R16) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.30.11-gke.1157000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1265000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1785000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1067000
  • 1.29.14-gke.1086000
  • 1.29.15-gke.1170000
  • 1.30.11-gke.1131000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1013002
  • 1.31.7-gke.1212000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1717000

April 18, 2025

(2025-R15) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.2-gke.1182003 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.15-gke.1170000
  • 1.30.11-gke.1131000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1099001
  • 1.31.7-gke.1212000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1297002
  • 1.32.3-gke.1717000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1132000
  • 1.29.15-gke.1017000
  • 1.29.15-gke.1058000
  • 1.29.15-gke.1108000
  • 1.29.15-gke.1134000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1145000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1227000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1227001
  • 1.30.11-gke.1008001
  • 1.30.11-gke.1072000
  • 1.30.11-gke.1093000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1169001
  • 1.31.5-gke.1233001
  • 1.31.6-gke.1020001
  • 1.31.6-gke.1064000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1099000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1140000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1221000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1221001
  • 1.31.7-gke.1013001
  • 1.31.7-gke.1112000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1149000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182001
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182002
  • 1.32.2-gke.1297001
  • 1.32.2-gke.1400003
  • 1.32.2-gke.1652000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1652003
  • 1.32.3-gke.1057001
  • 1.32.3-gke.1170000
  • 1.32.3-gke.1440000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.6-gke.1064001 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.2-gke.1182003 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.6-gke.1064001 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.2-gke.1182003 with this release.

April 08, 2025

(2025-R14) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.15-gke.1134000
  • 1.30.11-gke.1093000
  • 1.31.7-gke.1149000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182003
  • 1.32.3-gke.1440000

April 02, 2025

(2025-R13) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.15-gke.1108000
  • 1.30.11-gke.1072000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1169001
  • 1.31.5-gke.1233001
  • 1.31.6-gke.1020001
  • 1.31.6-gke.1064001
  • 1.31.7-gke.1013002
  • 1.31.7-gke.1112000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182002
  • 1.32.3-gke.1170000

March 26, 2025

(2025-R12) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.15-gke.1058000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1227001
  • 1.30.11-gke.1008001
  • 1.31.6-gke.1221001
  • 1.31.7-gke.1013001
  • 1.32.2-gke.1652003
  • 1.32.3-gke.1057001

March 19, 2025

(2025-R11) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.2-gke.1182001 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.15-gke.1017000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1227000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1221000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182001
  • 1.32.2-gke.1400003
  • 1.32.2-gke.1652000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1400001
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.2-gke.1182001 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.2-gke.1182001 with this release.

March 12, 2025

(2025-R10) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.2-gke.1182000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1132000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1145000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1140000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1297001
  • 1.32.2-gke.1400001
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1018000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1022000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1020000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1357001
  • 1.32.1-gke.1729000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1297000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.14-gke.1067000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.10-gke.1070000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.6-gke.1064000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.32.2-gke.1182000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.14-gke.1067000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.10-gke.1070000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.6-gke.1064000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.2-gke.1182000 with this release.

March 05, 2025

(2025-R09) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1086000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1102000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1099000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1297000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1020000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1042000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1027000

February 26, 2025

(2025-R08) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.1-gke.1729000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1020000
  • 1.29.14-gke.1067000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1042000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1070000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1027000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1064000
  • 1.32.2-gke.1182000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.13-gke.1109000
  • 1.29.13-gke.1169000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1201000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1231000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1169000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1233000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1489001
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.14-gke.1018000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.10-gke.1022000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.6-gke.1020000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.14-gke.1018000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.10-gke.1022000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.6-gke.1020000 with this release.

February 18, 2025

(2025-R07) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.1-gke.1489001 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.14-gke.1018000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1231000
  • 1.30.10-gke.1022000
  • 1.31.6-gke.1020000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1729000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.13-gke.1038000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1046000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1127000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1068000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1200003
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.13-gke.1109000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.9-gke.1201000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.5-gke.1169000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.13-gke.1109000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.9-gke.1201000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.5-gke.1169000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.1-gke.1357001 with this release.

February 11, 2025

(2025-R06) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.32.1-gke.1200003 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.29.13-gke.1169000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1201000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1233000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1489001
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1641000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1673000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1720000
  • 1.29.13-gke.1006000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1009000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1023000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1448000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.13-gke.1038000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.9-gke.1046000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.5-gke.1068000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.13-gke.1038000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.9-gke.1046000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.5-gke.1068000 with this release.

February 06, 2025

(2025-R05) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.5-gke.1068000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1720000
  • 1.29.13-gke.1109000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1127000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1169000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1200003
  • 1.32.1-gke.1357001
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1612000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1270000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1027000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1372000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1538000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1200000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.15-gke.1641000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.13-gke.1006000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.5-gke.1023000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.15-gke.1641000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.13-gke.1006000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.5-gke.1023000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.1-gke.1200003 with this release.

January 29, 2025

(2025-R04) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.5-gke.1023000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1673000
  • 1.29.13-gke.1038000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1027000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1046000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1068000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1200000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1503000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1143000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1261000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1282000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1256000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1002000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.15-gke.1612000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.12-gke.1270000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.9-gke.1009000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.4-gke.1372000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.15-gke.1612000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.12-gke.1270000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.9-gke.1009000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.4-gke.1372000 with this release.

January 23, 2025

(2025-R03) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.4-gke.1372000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1641000
  • 1.29.13-gke.1006000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1282000
  • 1.30.9-gke.1009000
  • 1.31.5-gke.1023000
  • 1.32.1-gke.1002000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1480000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1120000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1162000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1224000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1183000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1709000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.15-gke.1503000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.12-gke.1143000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.8-gke.1261000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.4-gke.1256000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.15-gke.1503000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.12-gke.1143000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.8-gke.1261000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.4-gke.1256000 with this release.

January 14, 2025

(2025-R02) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1612000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1270000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1224000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1261000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1372000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1709000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1488000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1126000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1128000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1133000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1249000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1577000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.8-gke.1162000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.8-gke.1162000 with this release.

January 07, 2025

(2025-R01) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.4-gke.1183000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1488000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1503000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1126000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1143000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1133000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1162000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1249000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1256000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1538000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1577000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1342000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1362000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1388000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1435000
  • 1.29.10-gke.1280000
  • 1.29.11-gke.1012000
  • 1.29.11-gke.1045000
  • 1.29.12-gke.1055000
  • 1.30.6-gke.1596000
  • 1.30.7-gke.1084000
  • 1.30.7-gke.1136000
  • 1.30.8-gke.1051000
  • 1.31.3-gke.1006000
  • 1.31.3-gke.1056000
  • 1.31.3-gke.1121001
  • 1.31.3-gke.1162000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1072000
  • 1.31.4-gke.1177000
  • 1.32.0-gke.1358000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.15-gke.1480000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.12-gke.1120000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.8-gke.1128000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.4-gke.1183000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.15-gke.1480000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.12-gke.1120000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.8-gke.1128000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.4-gke.1183000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.32 to version 1.32.0-gke.1448000 with this release.

December 12, 2024

(2024-R48) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1388000
  • 1.29.11-gke.1045000
  • 1.30.7-gke.1136000
  • 1.31.3-gke.1121001
  • 1.31.3-gke.1162000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1344000
  • 1.30.7-gke.1077000
  • 1.31.3-gke.1023000

December 10, 2024

(2024-R47) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.3-gke.1006000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1344000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1362000
  • 1.29.11-gke.1012000
  • 1.30.7-gke.1077000
  • 1.30.7-gke.1084000
  • 1.31.3-gke.1023000
  • 1.31.3-gke.1056000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.15-gke.1020000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1041000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1080000
  • 1.28.15-gke.1159000
  • 1.29.10-gke.1054000
  • 1.29.10-gke.1071000
  • 1.29.10-gke.1155000
  • 1.29.10-gke.1227000
  • 1.30.5-gke.1699000
  • 1.30.5-gke.1713000
  • 1.30.6-gke.1059000
  • 1.30.6-gke.1125000
  • 1.31.1-gke.2105000
  • 1.31.2-gke.1354000
  • 1.31.2-gke.1384000
  • 1.31.2-gke.1518000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.15-gke.1342000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.10-gke.1280000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.6-gke.1596000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.3-gke.1006000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.15-gke.1342000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.10-gke.1280000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.6-gke.1596000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.3-gke.1006000 with this release.

October 17, 2024

(2024-R40) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.14-gke.1340000
  • 1.29.9-gke.1496000
  • 1.30.5-gke.1443001
  • 1.31.1-gke.1846000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.14-gke.1175000
  • 1.31.1-gke.1621000

October 11, 2024

(2024-R39) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.1-gke.1146000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.14-gke.1175000
  • 1.28.14-gke.1217000
  • 1.29.9-gke.1341000
  • 1.30.5-gke.1355000
  • 1.31.1-gke.1621000
  • 1.31.1-gke.1678000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1373000
  • 1.27.16-gke.1478000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1278000
  • 1.30.5-gke.1014000
  • 1.31.1-gke.1000000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.9-gke.1177000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.5-gke.1145000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.1-gke.1146000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.9-gke.1177000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.5-gke.1145000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.1-gke.1146000 with this release.

October 03, 2024

(2024-R38) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.1-gke.1000000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1342000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1119000
  • 1.28.14-gke.1004000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1211000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1348000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1577000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1373000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.14-gke.1099000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.8-gke.1278000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.5-gke.1014000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.1-gke.1000000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1373000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.14-gke.1099000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.8-gke.1278000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.5-gke.1014000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.1-gke.1000000 with this release.

September 26, 2024

(2024-R37) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.0-gke.1577000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1478000
  • 1.28.14-gke.1099000
  • 1.29.9-gke.1177000
  • 1.30.5-gke.1145000
  • 1.31.1-gke.1146000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1287000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1049000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1096000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1969001
  • 1.30.4-gke.1476000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1506000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1342000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.13-gke.1119000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.8-gke.1211000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.4-gke.1348000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.0-gke.1577000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1342000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.13-gke.1119000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.8-gke.1211000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.4-gke.1348000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.0-gke.1577000 with this release.

September 19, 2024

(2024-R36) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1373000
  • 1.28.14-gke.1004000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1278000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1969001
  • 1.30.4-gke.1476000
  • 1.30.5-gke.1014000
  • 1.31.1-gke.1000000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1296000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1078000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1157000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1969000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1282000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.3-gke.1969001 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.31.0-gke.1506000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.3-gke.1969001 with this release.

September 11, 2024

(2024-R35) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.0-gke.1506000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1296000
  • 1.27.16-gke.1342000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1078000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1119000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1157000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1211000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1282000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1348000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1577000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1234000
  • 1.27.16-gke.1234001
  • 1.27.16-gke.1258000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1024000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1042000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1031000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1057000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1129000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1213000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1058000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1324000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1287000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.13-gke.1049000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.8-gke.1096000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1287000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.13-gke.1049000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.8-gke.1096000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.0-gke.1506000 with this release.

September 06, 2024

(2024-R34) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Rapid channel.

(2024-R33) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.31.0-gke.1058000 is now the default version for cluster creation in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1234001
  • 1.27.16-gke.1287000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1042000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1049000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1096000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1213000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1506000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1148000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1006000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1274000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1639000
• Auto-upgrade targets are now available for the following minor versions:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1234000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.13-gke.1024000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.8-gke.1031000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.3-gke.1969000 with this release.
• The following patch-only version auto-upgrade targets are now available for clusters with maintenance exclusions or other factors preventing minor version upgrades:
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1234000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.13-gke.1024000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.8-gke.1031000 with this release.
  • Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.3-gke.1969000 with this release.

August 28, 2024

(2024-R32) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.30.3-gke.1639000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1258000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1024000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1057000
  • 1.30.4-gke.1129000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1324000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1082000
  • 1.28.12-gke.1090000
  • 1.28.12-gke.1179000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1174000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1225000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1148000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1148000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.13-gke.1006000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.13-gke.1006000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.7-gke.1274000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.7-gke.1274000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.3-gke.1639000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.3-gke.1639000 with this release.

August 20, 2024

(2024-R31) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1234000
  • 1.28.13-gke.1006000
  • 1.29.8-gke.1031000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1969000
  • 1.31.0-gke.1058000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1051000
  • 1.28.12-gke.1052000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1104000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1082000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1082000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.12-gke.1090000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.12-gke.1090000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.7-gke.1174000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.7-gke.1174000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.31 to version 1.31.0-gke.1058000 with this release.

1.31 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.31 is now available in the Rapid channel. For more information about the content of Kubernetes 1.31, read the Kubernetes 1.31 Release Notes.

New features

The following features are new in Kubernetes 1.31:

• Field selectors for custom resources is beta and enabled by default.
• matchLabelKeys and mismatchLabelKeys for Pod Affinity and Pod Anti Affinity are beta and enabled by default.
• Traffic distribution for Services is beta and enabled by default.
• Transition kubectl from SPDY to WebSockets is beta and enabled by default.
• Recursive Read-only (RRO) mounts is beta and enabled by default.
• Job success/completion policy is beta and enabled by default.
• Always Honor PersistentVolume Reclaim Policy is beta and enabled by default.
• procMount security context option is beta and enabled by default.

Deprecated APIs in 1.31

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs were deprecated in 1.29 in favor of newer versions:
  • flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
    • deprecated since 1.29, will no longer be served in 1.32
    • instead, use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1, available since 1.29
• The status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion field in the Node API is deprecated and will not be populated starting in v1.33. The field is currently populated with the kubelet version, not the kube-proxy version, and might not accurately reflect the kube-proxy version in use. For more information, see KEP-4004.

Deprecated in-tree volume support

• The Ceph CephFS (kubernetes.io/cephfs) and RBD (kubernetes.io/rbd) volume plugins are deprecated since 1.28 and are removed in 1.31.

• To determine if you have volumes/pods using RBD or Ceph volumes, run the following commands. If either of them print output, then you are using a deprecated volume type.

  • kubectl describe pv | egrep \-i 'Type: \*(RBD|CephFS)'
  • kubectl describe pod \-A | egrep \-i 'Type: \*(RBD|CephFS)'

• Switch to use an RBD or CephFS CSI driver (like the CSI drivers provided at https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/), or a Google Cloud-managed solution like Filestore.

• For more information, refer to the OSS Kubernetes announcement and https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/

August 14, 2024

(2024-R30) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.30.3-gke.1225000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1148000
  • 1.28.12-gke.1179000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1274000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1639000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1008000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1315000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1008000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1587003
  • 1.30.3-gke.1451000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1051000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1051000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.12-gke.1052000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.12-gke.1052000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.7-gke.1104000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.7-gke.1104000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.3-gke.1225000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.3-gke.1225000 with this release.

August 12, 2024

(2024-R29) Version updates

There are no new releases in the Rapid channel.

August 07, 2024

(2024-R28) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1082000
  • 1.28.12-gke.1090000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1174000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1451000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.15-gke.1252000
  • 1.29.6-gke.1326000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.16-gke.1008000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.16-gke.1008000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.7-gke.1008000 with this release.

July 31, 2024

(2024-R27) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.30.2-gke.1587003 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1051000
  • 1.28.12-gke.1052000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1104000
  • 1.30.3-gke.1225000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.14-gke.1059002
  • 1.27.15-gke.1125000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1260000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1289000
  • 1.29.6-gke.1038001
  • 1.29.6-gke.1137000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1329003
  • 1.30.2-gke.1394003
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.15-gke.1252000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.15-gke.1252000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.11-gke.1315000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.6-gke.1326000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.30.2-gke.1587003 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.2-gke.1587003 with this release.

July 23, 2024

(2024-R26) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.16-gke.1008000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1289000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1315000
  • 1.29.7-gke.1008000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1394003
  • 1.30.2-gke.1587003
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.11-gke.1172000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1394000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1587000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.11-gke.1260000 with this release.

July 17, 2024

(2024-R25) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.15-gke.1252000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1260000
  • 1.29.6-gke.1326000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1587000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.15-gke.1154000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1019001
  • 1.28.11-gke.1170000
  • 1.29.6-gke.1254000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1447000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.11-gke.1172000 with this release.

July 10, 2024

(2024-R24) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.15-gke.1125000
  • 1.27.15-gke.1154000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1170000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1172000
  • 1.29.6-gke.1137000
  • 1.29.6-gke.1254000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1394000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1447000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1404000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1404002
  • 1.26.15-gke.1469000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1469001
  • 1.27.14-gke.1059000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1100000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1100002
  • 1.27.15-gke.1012000
  • 1.27.15-gke.1012003
  • 1.28.10-gke.1089000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1089002
  • 1.28.10-gke.1148000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1148001
  • 1.28.11-gke.1019000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1091000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1091002
  • 1.29.6-gke.1038000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1329000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1023000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1023004
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.11-gke.1019001 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.6-gke.1038001 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.6-gke.1038001 with this release.

July 08, 2024

(2024-R23) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.30.1-gke.1329003 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1404002 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.15-gke.1404002 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.14-gke.1059002 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.10-gke.1089002 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.5-gke.1091002 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.5-gke.1091002 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.1-gke.1329003 with this release.

July 03, 2024

(2024-R22) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1404002
  • 1.26.15-gke.1469001
  • 1.27.14-gke.1059002
  • 1.27.14-gke.1100002
  • 1.27.15-gke.1012003
  • 1.28.10-gke.1089002
  • 1.28.10-gke.1148001
  • 1.28.11-gke.1019001
  • 1.29.5-gke.1091002
  • 1.29.6-gke.1038001
  • 1.30.1-gke.1329003
  • 1.30.2-gke.1023004

June 26, 2024

(2024-R21) Version updates

• Version 1.30.1-gke.1329000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1469000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1100000
  • 1.27.15-gke.1012000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1148000
  • 1.28.11-gke.1019000
  • 1.29.6-gke.1038000
  • 1.30.2-gke.1023000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1390000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1436000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1042000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1093000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1075000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1141000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1121000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1192000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1156000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1500000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1404000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.15-gke.1404000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.14-gke.1059000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.10-gke.1089000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.1-gke.1329000 with this release.

June 18, 2024

(2024-R20) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1436000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1093000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1141000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1192000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1500000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1381000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1022000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1058000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1060000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1390000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.15-gke.1390000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.14-gke.1042000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.10-gke.1075000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.5-gke.1091000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.5-gke.1091000 with this release.

June 12, 2024

(2024-R19) Version updates

• Version 1.30.1-gke.1156000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1404000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1059000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1089000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1121000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1329000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1320000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1201000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1289000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1670000
  • 1.30.0-gke.1167000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1261000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1381000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.15-gke.1381000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.14-gke.1022000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.10-gke.1058000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.5-gke.1060000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.5-gke.1060000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.1-gke.1156000 with this release.

June 06, 2024

(2024-R18) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1390000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1042000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1075000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1091000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1261000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1372001
  • 1.30.1-gke.1139000

May 28, 2024

(2024-R17) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1372001
  • 1.26.15-gke.1381000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1022000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1058000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1060000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1139000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1156000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1300000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1360000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1166000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1011000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1209000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1012000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1165000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1010000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1015000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1320000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.13-gke.1201000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.9-gke.1289000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.4-gke.1670000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.4-gke.1670000 with this release.

May 21, 2024

(2024-R16) Version updates

• Version 1.30.0-gke.1167000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1360000
  • 1.27.14-gke.1011000
  • 1.28.10-gke.1012000
  • 1.29.5-gke.1010000
  • 1.30.1-gke.1015000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.28.9-gke.1250000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282001
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282005
  • 1.29.4-gke.1447001
  • 1.29.4-gke.1542000
  • 1.30.0-gke.1457000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.4-gke.1165000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.4-gke.1165000 with this release.

May 17, 2024

(2024-R14) Version updates

There are no version updates for 2024-R14.

(2024-R15) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1320000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1201000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1250000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1289000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282005
  • 1.29.4-gke.1165000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1447001
  • 1.29.4-gke.1542000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1670000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1191000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1000000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1000000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1043000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1447000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1300000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.13-gke.1166000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.9-gke.1209000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.9-gke.1209000 with this release.

May 08, 2024

(2024-R13) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.29.3-gke.1282001 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1300000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1166000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1209000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1447000
  • 1.30.0-gke.1457000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1158000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1243000
  • 1.27.12-gke.1190000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1070000
  • 1.28.8-gke.1175000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1069000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1093006
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282000
  • 1.29.4-gke.1165000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.3-gke.1282001 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.3-gke.1282001 with this release.

May 01, 2024

(2024-R12) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.29.3-gke.1282000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1243000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1070000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1069000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282001
  • 1.29.4-gke.1165000
  • 1.30.0-gke.1167000
• Version 1.29.3-gke.1093000 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1191000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.13-gke.1000000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.9-gke.1000000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.3-gke.1282000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.3-gke.1282000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.30 to version 1.30.0-gke.1167000 with this release.

New features in 1.30

The following features are new in Kubernetes 1.30:

• ValidatingAdmissionPolicy is GA and now enabled by default.
• Validation Ratcheting is beta and enabled by default, and makes CustomResourceDefinitions even safer and easier to manage.

New APIs in 1.30

The following APIs are new in Kubernetes 1.30:

• admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1 ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy

Deprecated APIs in 1.30

The following Beta versions of graduated APIs were previously deprecated in 1.29 in favor of newer versions:

• flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration: Deprecated since 1.29, will no longer be served in 1.32. Instead, use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1, which is available since Kubernetes 1.29
• The status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion field in the Node API is deprecated and will not be populated starting in v1.33. The field is currently populated with the kubelet version, not the kube-proxy version, and might not accurately reflect the kube-proxy version in use. For more information, see KEP-4004.

Deprecated features in 1.30

The Ceph CephFS (kubernetes.io/cephfs) and RBD (kubernetes.io/rbd) volume plugins are deprecated since 1.28 and will be removed in a future release.

To determine if you have volumes/pods using RBD or Ceph volumes, run the following commands. If either of them print output, then you are using a deprecated volume type:

• kubectl describe pv | egrep -i 'Type: *(RBD|CephFS)'
• kubectl describe pod -A | egrep -i 'Type: *(RBD|CephFS)'

Switch to use an RBD or CephFS CSI driver (like the CSI drivers provided in the Ceph CSI driver project), or a Google Cloud-managed solution like Filestore. For more information, refer to the OSS Kubernetes announcement and to the Ceph CSI driver project.

1.30 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.30 is now available in the Rapid channel. For more information about the content of Kubernetes 1.30, read the Kubernetes 1.30 Release Notes.

April 30, 2024

(2024-R11) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.26.15-gke.1191000
  • 1.27.13-gke.1000000
  • 1.28.9-gke.1000000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1093006
  • 1.29.4-gke.1043000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1711000
  • 1.25.16-gke.1759000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1090000
  • 1.27.12-gke.1115000
  • 1.28.8-gke.1095000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1158000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.12-gke.1190000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.8-gke.1175000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.8-gke.1175000 with this release.

April 18, 2024

(2024-R10) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.29.3-gke.1093000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1759000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1158000
  • 1.27.12-gke.1190000
  • 1.28.8-gke.1175000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1282000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1596000
  • 1.25.16-gke.1648000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1076000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1133000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1118000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1202000
  • 1.28.7-gke.1026000
  • 1.28.7-gke.1226000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1589017
  • 1.29.2-gke.1521000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1711000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.15-gke.1090000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.12-gke.1115000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.8-gke.1095000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.29.3-gke.1093000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.3-gke.1093000 with this release.

April 08, 2024

(2024-R09) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1711000
  • 1.26.15-gke.1090000
  • 1.27.12-gke.1115000
  • 1.28.8-gke.1095000
  • 1.29.3-gke.1093000

March 20, 2024

(2024-R08) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1648000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1133000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1202000
  • 1.28.7-gke.1226000
  • 1.29.2-gke.1521000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1570000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1044000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1062000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1286000
  • 1.28.7-gke.1100000
  • 1.29.2-gke.1217000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1596000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1076000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.11-gke.1118000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.7-gke.1026000 with this release.

March 07, 2024

(2024-R07) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.29.1-gke.1589017 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1596000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1076000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1118000
  • 1.28.7-gke.1100000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1589017
  • 1.29.2-gke.1217000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1537000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1006000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1018000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1456000
  • 1.29.0-gke.1381000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1589000
  • 1.29.2-gke.1060000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1570000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1044000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.11-gke.1062000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.11-gke.1062000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.1-gke.1589017 with this release.

March 04, 2024

(2024-R06) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1570000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1044000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1062000
  • 1.28.7-gke.1026000
  • 1.29.2-gke.1060000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1460000
  • 1.26.13-gke.1144000
  • 1.27.10-gke.1207000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1369000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1575000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1537000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.14-gke.1006000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.11-gke.1018000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.11-gke.1018000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.1-gke.1589000 with this release.

February 23, 2024

(2024-R05) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1537000
  • 1.26.14-gke.1006000
  • 1.27.11-gke.1018000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1456000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1589000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1497000
  • 1.26.13-gke.1189000
  • 1.27.10-gke.1152000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.10-gke.1207000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.10-gke.1207000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.1-gke.1575000 with this release.

February 13, 2024

(2024-R04) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1497000
  • 1.26.13-gke.1189000
  • 1.27.10-gke.1207000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1369000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1575000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1360000
  • 1.26.13-gke.1052000
  • 1.27.10-gke.1055000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1095000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1289000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1016000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1425000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1460000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.13-gke.1144000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.10-gke.1152000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.10-gke.1152000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.0-gke.1381000 with this release.

February 08, 2024

(2024-R03) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1460000
  • 1.26.13-gke.1144000
  • 1.27.10-gke.1152000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1289000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1425000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1268000
  • 1.26.12-gke.1111000
  • 1.27.9-gke.1092000
  • 1.28.5-gke.1217000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1360000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.13-gke.1052000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.10-gke.1055000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.29 to version 1.29.1-gke.1016000 with this release.

January 26, 2024

(2024-R02) Version updates

Note: Your clusters might not have these versions available. Rollouts are already in progress when we publish the release notes, and can take multiple days to complete across all Google Cloud zones.

• Version 1.29.0-gke.1381000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.16-gke.1360000
  • 1.26.13-gke.1052000
  • 1.27.10-gke.1055000
  • 1.28.6-gke.1095000
  • 1.29.1-gke.1016000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2364000
  • 1.24.17-gke.2472000
  • 1.25.16-gke.1041000
  • 1.26.11-gke.1055000
  • 1.27.8-gke.1067000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1203001
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1268000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.12-gke.1111000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.9-gke.1092000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.3-gke.1286000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.3-gke.1286000 with this release.

January 11, 2024

(2024-R01) Version updates

• Version 1.28.3-gke.1286000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2472000
  • 1.25.16-gke.1268000
  • 1.26.12-gke.1111000
  • 1.27.9-gke.1092000
  • 1.28.5-gke.1217000
  • 1.29.0-gke.1381000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2347000
  • 1.25.16-gke.1020000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1235000
  • 1.27.5-gke.200
  • 1.27.7-gke.1293000
  • 1.28.4-gke.1083000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.17-gke.2364000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1041000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.11-gke.1055000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.8-gke.1067000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.28.3-gke.1203001 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.3-gke.1203001 with this release.

1.29 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.29 is now available in the Rapid channel. For more information about the content of Kubernetes 1.29, read the Kubernetes 1.29 Release Notes.

New APIs

• flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
  • Notable changes in flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1:
    • The PriorityLevelConfiguration spec.limited.nominalConcurrencyShares field only defaults to 30 when unspecified, and an explicit value of 0 is not changed to 30.

Deprecated APIs

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs are deprecated in 1.29 in favor of newer versions:
  • flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
    • Deprecated since 1.29
    • Instead, use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1, available since 1.29
• The status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion field in the Node API is deprecated and will not be populated starting in version 1.33. The field is currently populated with the kubelet version, not the kube-proxy version, and might not accurately reflect the kube-proxy version in use. For more information, see KEP-4004.

Removed APIs

The following Beta versions of graduated APIs are removed in 1.29 in favor of newer versions:

• flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
  • Deprecated since 1.26
  • Instead, use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3 available since 1.26, or flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1, available since 1.29

Removed SHA-1 certificate support

• Starting from version 1.29, GKE no longer supports webhook backends that use TLS certificates signed with the insecure SHA-1 algorithm. To prevent impact on your clusters, you must replace incompatible certificates of webhook servers and extension API servers before upgrading your clusters to version 1.29.
• GKE will not auto-upgrade clusters with webhook backends using incompatible certificates to 1.29 until you replace the certificates or until version 1.28 reaches end of life. For more information, refer to Ensure compatibility of TLS certificates before upgrading to GKE 1.29.

Deprecated in-tree volume support

• The Ceph CephFS (kubernetes.io/cephfs) and RBD (kubernetes.io/rbd) volume plugins are deprecated in 1.28 and will be removed in a future release.
• To determine if you have volumes or Pods using RBD or Ceph volumes, run the following commands. If either of them print output, then you are using a deprecated volume type.
  • kubectl describe pv | egrep -i 'Type: *(RBD|CephFS)'
  • kubectl describe pod -A | egrep -i 'Type: *(RBD|CephFS)'
• Switch to use an RBD or CephFS CSI driver, such as the drivers provided in the Ceph CSI GitHub repo, or use a Google-managed solution such as Filestore.
• For more information, refer to the OSS Kubernetes announcement and the Ceph CSI GitHub repo.

New Features

• The beta ValidatingAdmissionPolicy feature can be opted into by enabling the beta APIs.
• initContainers can now be configured as sidecar containers and kept running alongside normal containers in a Pod. This is only supported by nodes running version 1.29 or later, so avoid using this feature in Pods if there are nodes running earlier versions in the cluster.

December 12, 2023

(2023-R26) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2364000
  • 1.25.16-gke.1041000
  • 1.26.11-gke.1055000
  • 1.27.8-gke.1067000
  • 1.28.4-gke.1083000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2266000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1115000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1101000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1121000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.17-gke.2347000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.16-gke.1020000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.10-gke.1235000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.10-gke.1235000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.3-gke.1286000 with this release.

December 04, 2023

(2023-R25) Version updates

• Version 1.28.3-gke.1203001 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2347000
  • 1.25.16-gke.1020000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1235000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1293000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1203001
  • 1.28.3-gke.1286000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.200
  • 1.24.17-gke.2113000
  • 1.24.17-gke.2155000
  • 1.24.17-gke.2230000
  • 1.25.13-gke.200
  • 1.25.14-gke.1421000
  • 1.25.14-gke.1474000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1083000
  • 1.26.8-gke.200
  • 1.26.9-gke.1437000
  • 1.26.9-gke.1507000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1073000
  • 1.27.4-gke.900
  • 1.27.6-gke.1248000
  • 1.27.6-gke.1445000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1088000
  • 1.28.2-gke.1157000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1090000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1118000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1203000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.17-gke.2266000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.17-gke.2266000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.10-gke.1101000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.5-gke.200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.5-gke.200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.3-gke.1203001 with this release.

November 17, 2023

(2023-R24) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2230000
  • 1.24.17-gke.2266000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1083000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1115000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1073000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1101000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1088000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1121000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1118000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1203000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2198000
  • 1.24.17-gke.2211000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1033000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1049000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1024000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1038000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1038000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1056000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1098000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.17-gke.2230000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.15-gke.1115000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.10-gke.1073000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.10-gke.1073000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.3-gke.1118000 with this release.

November 09, 2023

(2023-R23) Version updates

• Version 1.27.5-gke.200 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2198000
  • 1.24.17-gke.2211000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1033000
  • 1.25.15-gke.1049000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1024000
  • 1.26.10-gke.1038000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1038000
  • 1.27.7-gke.1056000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1090000
  • 1.28.3-gke.1098000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.25.12-gke.500
  • 1.26.7-gke.500
  • 1.27.6-gke.1506000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.24.17-gke.2198000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to 1.25.15-gke.1033000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to 1.26.10-gke.1024000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to 1.27.4-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to 1.28.3-gke.1090000 with this release.

October 19, 2023

(2023-R22) Version updates

There are no version updates for 2023-R21.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2155000
  • 1.25.14-gke.1474000
  • 1.26.9-gke.1507000
  • 1.27.6-gke.1506000
  • 1.28.2-gke.1157000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel: 1.28.1-gke.201, 1.28.1-gke.1066000

October 13, 2023

(2023-R20) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.2113000
  • 1.25.14-gke.1421000
  • 1.26.9-gke.1437000
  • 1.27.6-gke.1445000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel: 1.24.17-gke.1963000, 1.25.14-gke.1256000, 1.26.9-gke.1256000

October 05, 2023

(2023-R19) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.27.6-gke.1248000
  • 1.28.1-gke.1066000

September 07, 2023

With the recently released version of GKE, version 1.28, you cannot yet use the SidecarContainer feature with alpha clusters. Pods defining restartable Init containers will not start. This is a known issue that will be resolved in a future release.

September 05, 2023

(2023-R18) Version updates

• Version 1.27.4-gke.900 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.24.17-gke.200
  • 1.25.13-gke.200
  • 1.26.8-gke.200
  • 1.27.5-gke.200
  • 1.28.1-gke.200
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel: 1.23.17-gke.10000, 1.23.17-gke.10700, 1.24.16-gke.500, 1.25.11-gke.1700, 1.26.6-gke.1700, 1.27.3-gke.1700
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.17-gke.200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.12-gke.500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.7-gke.500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.4-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.4-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.28 to version 1.28.1-gke.200 with this release.

1.28 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.28 is now available in the Rapid channel. For more information about the content of Kubernetes 1.28, read the Kubernetes 1.28 Release Notes.

New APIs

• The kubectl auth whoami command and the authentication.k8s.io/v1 SelfSubjectReview API enables checking the authenticated user information as seen by the server.

Deprecated API versions

These APIs are still served in version 1.28 but are in a deprecation period:

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.29 in favor of newer versions:
  • flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
    • deprecated since 1.26
    • use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3 instead, available since 1.26.

Deprecated in-tree volume support

• The Ceph CephFS (kubernetes.io/cephfs) and RBD (kubernetes.io/rbd) volume plugins are deprecated in 1.28 and will be removed in a future release.
• To determine if you have volumes or Pods using RBD or Ceph volumes, run the following commands. If either of them print output, then you are using a deprecated volume type.
  • kubectl describe pv | egrep -i 'Type: *(RBD|CephFS)'
  • kubectl describe pod -A | egrep -i 'Type: *(RBD|CephFS)'
• Switch to use an RBD or CephFS CSI driver, such as the drivers provided in the Ceph CSI GitHub repo, or use a Google-managed solution such as Filestore. For more information, refer to the OSS Kubernetes announcement and the Ceph CSI GitHub repo.

August 08, 2023

(2023-R17) Version updates

• Version 1.27.3-gke.1700 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.23.17-gke.10700
  • 1.24.16-gke.500
  • 1.25.12-gke.500
  • 1.26.7-gke.500
  • 1.27.4-gke.900
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.14100
  • 1.23.17-gke.8400
  • 1.24.15-gke.1700
  • 1.25.10-gke.2700
  • 1.26.5-gke.2700
  • 1.27.3-gke.100
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.10000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.16-gke.500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.11-gke.1700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.6-gke.1700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.3-gke.1700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.3-gke.1700 with this release.

July 26, 2023

(2023-R16) Version updates

• Version 1.27.3-gke.100 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.23.17-gke.10000
  • 1.24.15-gke.1700
  • 1.25.11-gke.1700
  • 1.26.6-gke.1700
  • 1.27.3-gke.1700
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.18800
  • 1.23.17-gke.7700
  • 1.24.14-gke.2700
  • 1.25.10-gke.2100
  • 1.26.5-gke.2100
  • 1.27.2-gke.2100
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.8400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.15-gke.1700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.10-gke.2700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.5-gke.2700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.5-gke.2700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.3-gke.100 with this release.

July 07, 2023

(2023-R15) Version updates

• Version 1.27.2-gke.2100 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.14100
  • 1.23.17-gke.8400
  • 1.24.14-gke.2700
  • 1.25.10-gke.2700
  • 1.26.5-gke.2700
  • 1.27.3-gke.100
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.12700
  • 1.23.17-gke.7000
  • 1.24.14-gke.2100
  • 1.25.10-gke.1400
  • 1.26.5-gke.1400
  • 1.27.2-gke.1200
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.17-gke.14100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.7700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.14-gke.2700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.10-gke.2100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.5-gke.2100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.5-gke.2100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.2-gke.2100 with this release.

June 27, 2023

(2023-R14) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.23.17-gke.7700
  • 1.24.14-gke.2100
  • 1.25.10-gke.2100
  • 1.26.5-gke.2100
  • 1.27.2-gke.2100
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.23.17-gke.6800
  • 1.24.14-gke.1400
  • 1.25.10-gke.1200
  • 1.26.5-gke.1200
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.7000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.14-gke.2100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.10-gke.1400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.5-gke.1400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.5-gke.1400 with this release.

June 15, 2023

(2023-R13) Version updates

• Version 1.27.2-gke.1200 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.12700
  • 1.23.17-gke.7000
  • 1.24.14-gke.1400
  • 1.25.10-gke.1400
  • 1.26.5-gke.1400
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.11400
  • 1.23.17-gke.5600
  • 1.24.14-gke.1200
  • 1.25.9-gke.2300
  • 1.26.3-gke.1000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.17-gke.12700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.6800 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.14-gke.1400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.10-gke.1200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.26.5-gke.1200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.5-gke.1200 with this release.

June 07, 2023

(2023-R12) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.23.17-gke.6800
  • 1.24.14-gke.1200
  • 1.25.10-gke.1200
  • 1.26.5-gke.1200
  • 1.27.2-gke.1200
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.8000
  • 1.23.17-gke.2000
  • 1.23.17-gke.3600
  • 1.24.13-gke.2500
  • 1.25.8-gke.1000
  • 1.26.4-gke.500
  • 1.26.4-gke.1400
  • 1.27.1-gke.400
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.17-gke.11400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.5600 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.14-gke.1200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.9-gke.2300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.9-gke.2300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.2-gke.1200 with this release.

June 05, 2023

(2023-R11) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.11400
  • 1.23.17-gke.5600
  • 1.24.13-gke.2500
  • 1.25.9-gke.2300
  • 1.26.4-gke.1400
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.9400
  • 1.23.17-gke.1700
  • 1.24.13-gke.500
  • 1.25.9-gke.400
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.17-gke.8000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.2000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.13-gke.2500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.13-gke.2500 with this release.

May 16, 2023

1.27 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.27 is now available in the Rapid channel. For more information about the content of Kubernetes 1.27, read the Kubernetes 1.27 Release Notes.

Deprecated API versions

These APIs are still served in version 1.27 but are in a deprecation period:

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.29 in favor of newer versions:

  • flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration

    • deprecated since 1.26
    • use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3 instead, available since 1.26

Removed API versions

The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.27 in favor of newer versions:

• storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSIStorageCapacity

  • deprecated since 1.24
  • use storage.k8s.io/v1 instead, available since 1.24

May 09, 2023

(2023-R10) Version updates

• Version 1.26.3-gke.1000 is now the default version.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.9400
  • 1.23.17-gke.3600
  • 1.24.13-gke.500
  • 1.25.9-gke.400
  • 1.26.4-gke.500
  • 1.27.1-gke.400
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.7500
  • 1.23.17-gke.300
  • 1.24.12-gke.1000
  • 1.25.8-gke.500
  • 1.26.3-gke.400
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.17-gke.8000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.1700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.13-gke.500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.8-gke.1000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.8-gke.1000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.3-gke.1000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.27.1-gke.400 with this release.

April 19, 2023

(2023-R09) Version updates

• Version 1.26.3-gke.400 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.8000
  • 1.23.17-gke.2000
  • 1.24.12-gke.1000
  • 1.25.8-gke.1000
  • 1.26.3-gke.1000
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.17-gke.6100
  • 1.23.16-gke.2500
  • 1.24.12-gke.500
  • 1.25.7-gke.1000
  • 1.26.2-gke.1000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.17-gke.7500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.17-gke.300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.12-gke.1000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.25.8-gke.500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.8-gke.500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.26.3-gke.400 with this release.

December 14, 2022

(2022-R28) Version updates

• Version 1.25.4-gke.1600 is now the default version in the Rapid channel
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.16-gke.2000
  • 1.23.14-gke.1800
  • 1.24.8-gke.2000
  • 1.25.4-gke.2100
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.15-gke.100
  • 1.23.12-gke.1600
  • 1.24.5-gke.600
  • 1.25.3-gke.800
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.15-gke.1000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.13-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.23.13-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.4-gke.1600 with this release.

December 05, 2022

(2022-R27) Version updates

• Version 1.25.3-gke.800 is now the default version in the Rapid channel
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.22.16-gke.1300
  • 1.23.14-gke.401
  • 1.24.8-gke.401
  • 1.25.4-gke.1600
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.7100
  • 1.21.14-gke.9500
  • 1.22.14-gke.300
  • 1.23.12-gke.100
  • 1.24.4-gke.800
  • 1.25.2-gke.1700
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.14-gke.8500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.15-gke.100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.12-gke.1600 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.6-gke.1500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.6-gke.1500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.3-gke.800 with this release.

November 04, 2022

(2022-R26) Version updates

• Version 1.24.5-gke.600 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.9500
  • 1.22.15-gke.2500
  • 1.23.13-gke.900
  • 1.24.7-gke.900
  • 1.25.3-gke.800
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.5300
  • 1.22.13-gke.1000
  • 1.23.11-gke.300
  • 1.24.3-gke.2100
  • 1.25.1-gke.500
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.14-gke.7100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.22.14-gke.300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.23.12-gke.100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.24.5-gke.600 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to 1.24.5-gke.600 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to 1.25.2-gke.1700 with this release.

October 19, 2022

(2022-R25) Version updates

• Version 1.24.4-gke.800 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.8500
  • 1.22.15-gke.1000
  • 1.23.12-gke.1600
  • 1.24.6-gke.1500
  • 1.25.2-gke.1700
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.4300
  • 1.22.12-gke.2300
  • 1.23.10-gke.1000
  • 1.24.3-gke.900
  • 1.25.0-gke.1100
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.14-gke.5300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.22.13-gke.1000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.23.11-gke.300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.24.4-gke.800 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to 1.24.4-gke.800 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to 1.25.1-gke.500 with this release.

October 05, 2022

(2022-R24) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.14-gke.7100
  • 1.22.15-gke.100
  • 1.23.12-gke.100
  • 1.24.5-gke.600
  • 1.25.1-gke.500

September 23, 2022

(2022-R23) Version updates

• Version 1.24.3-gke.2100 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.22.14-gke.300
  • 1.23.11-gke.300

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.12-gke.2300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.3-gke.2100 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.3-gke.2100 with this release.

September 14, 2022

1.25 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.25 is now available in the Rapid channel. Before upgrading, read the Kubernetes 1.25 Release Notes, especially the action required and deprecation sections.

Notable changes

Support for the deprecated quobyte and storageOS volume types is removed in 1.25.

Deprecated API versions

These APIs are still served in version 1.25 but are in a deprecation period:

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.26 in favor of newer versions:
  • flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta1 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
    • deprecated since 1.23
    • use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 instead, available since 1.23
  • autoscaling/v2beta2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler
    • deprecated since 1.23
    • use autoscaling/v2 instead, available since 1.23 (or autoscaling/v1)
• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.27 in favor of newer versions:
  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSIStorageCapacity, deprecated since 1.24

Removed API versions

• PodSecurityPolicy
  • policy/v1beta1 PodSecurityPolicy
  • Deprecated in 1.21 and removed in 1.25.
  • 1.24 is the last version supporting the beta PodSecurityPolicy feature. Use of this feature must be discontinued before clusters will upgrade to 1.25. See PodSecurityPolicy deprecation for more information.
• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs are removed in 1.25 in favor of their newer versions:
  • discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1 EndpointSlice, deprecated since 1.21
  • policy/v1beta1 PodDisruptionBudget, deprecated since 1.21
  • batch/v1beta1 CronJob, deprecated since 1.21
  • node.k8s.io/v1beta1 RuntimeClass
  • autoscaling/v2beta1 HorizontalPodAutoscaler

September 13, 2022

(2022-R22) Version updates

• Version 1.24.3-gke.900 is now the default version in the Rapid channel

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.14-gke.5300
  • 1.22.13-gke.1000
  • 1.23.10-gke.1000
  • 1.24.4-gke.800
  • 1.25.0-gke.1100

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.20.15-gke.13700
  • 1.21.14-gke.3000
  • 1.22.12-gke.1200
  • 1.23.9-gke.2100
  • 1.24.3-gke.200

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.14-gke.4300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.12-gke.2300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.10-gke.1000 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.3-gke.900 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.3-gke.900 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.25.0-gke.1100 with this release.

September 02, 2022

(2022-R21) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.14-gke.4300
  • 1.22.12-gke.2300
  • 1.23.9-gke.2100
  • 1.24.3-gke.2100

• Version 1.24.3-gke.200 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.14-gke.2700
  • 1.22.12-gke.500
  • 1.23.9-gke.900
  • 1.24.2-gke.1900

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.14-gke.3000 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.12-gke.1200 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.9-gke.2100 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.3-gke.200 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.3-gke.200 with this release.

August 18, 2022

(2022-R20) Version updates

• Version 1.24.2-gke.1900 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.20.15-gke.13700
  • 1.21.14-gke.3000
  • 1.22.12-gke.1200
  • 1.23.9-gke.900
  • 1.24.3-gke.900
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.20.15-gke.13400
  • 1.21.14-gke.2100
  • 1.22.12-gke.300
  • 1.23.8-gke.1900
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.20.15-gke.13700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.14-gke.2700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.21.14-gke.2700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.9-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.2-gke.1900 with this release.

August 04, 2022

(2022-R19) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.20.15-gke.13400
  • 1.21.14-gke.2700
  • 1.22.12-gke.500
  • 1.24.3-gke.200

• Version 1.23.8-gke.1900 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.14-gke.700
  • 1.22.10-gke.600
  • 1.22.11-gke.400
  • 1.23.6-gke.2200
  • 1.23.7-gke.1400
  • 1.23.8-gke.400
  • 1.24.2-gke.300

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.20.15-gke.13400 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.14-gke.2100 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.12-gke.300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.8-gke.1900 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.23.8-gke.1900 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.2-gke.1900 with this release.

July 26, 2022

(2022-R18) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.2100
  • 1.22.12-gke.300
  • 1.23.8-gke.1900
  • 1.24.2-gke.1900
• Version 1.23.8-gke.400 is now the default version in the Rapid channel
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.13-gke.900
  • 1.22.9-gke.2000
  • 1.23.6-gke.1700
  • 1.24.1-gke.1800
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.20.15-gke.9900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.14-gke.700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.21.14-gke.700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.8-gke.400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.23.8-gke.400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.2-gke.300 with this release.

July 19, 2022

(2022-R17) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.14-gke.700
  • 1.22.11-gke.400
  • 1.23.8-gke.400
  • 1.24.2-gke.300
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.12-gke.2200
  • 1.22.9-gke.1500
  • 1.23.6-gke.1501
  • 1.24.1-gke.1400
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.13-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.21.13-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.1-gke.1800 with this release.

June 30, 2022

(2022-R16) Version updates

• Version 1.23.7-gke.1400 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.24.1-gke.1800 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.20.15-gke.9900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.7-gke.1400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.23.7-gke.1400 with this release.

June 23, 2022

(2022-R15) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.13-gke.900
  • 1.22.10-gke.600
  • 1.23.7-gke.1400
  • 1.24.1-gke.1400
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.12-gke.1700
  • 1.22.9-gke.1300
  • 1.23.6-gke.1500
  • 1.24.0-gke.1801
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.19.16-gke.11800 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.12-gke.2200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.10-gke.600 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.22.10-gke.600 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.1-gke.1400 with this release.

June 13, 2022

(2022-R14) Version updates

• Version 1.23.6-gke.1501 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.12-gke.2200
  • 1.22.9-gke.2000
  • 1.23.6-gke.1501
  • 1.23.6-gke.2200
  • 1.24.0-gke.1801
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.12-gke.1500
  • 1.22.8-gke.2200
  • 1.23.5-gke.2400
  • 1.24.0-gke.1000
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.19.16-gke.11000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.12-gke.1700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.9-gke.1300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.6-gke.1501 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.23.6-gke.1501 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to version 1.24.0-gke.1801 with this release.

May 26, 2022

(2022-R13) Version updates

• Version 1.23.5-gke.2400 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.12-gke.1700
  • 1.22.9-gke.1500
  • 1.23.6-gke.1700
  • 1.24.0-gke.1000

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.11-gke.1900
  • 1.22.8-gke.201

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20.15-gke.6000 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.12-gke.1500 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.12-gke.1500 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.23.5-gke.2400 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.24 to 1.24.0-gke.1000 with this release.

1.24 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.24 is now available in the Rapid channel. Before upgrading, read the Kubernetes 1.24 Release Notes, especially the action required and deprecation sections.

New API versions

• storage.k8s.io/v1 CSIStorageCapacity

Notable changes

• GKE does not support node images that use Docker as the runtime in GKE version 1.24 and later. For more information, see migrating from Docker to containerd.
• Secret API objects containing service account tokens are not automatically created in 1.24.
  • This change improves security by reducing readable, permanent, Secret-based tokens to ones that have been explicitly requested, and improves performance by reducing the amount of persisted Secret data and avoiding unnecessary utilization of application-layer secrets encryption.
  • Existing Secret-based tokens from previous versions remain valid on upgrade.
  • Secret-based tokens are not used by nodes or pods on version 1.21 and later.
  • Only node versions 1.22 and later are supported running against 1.24 clusters.
  • Clients retrieving tokens directly from the API can still obtain a token using these methods supported in all available GKE versions:
    • Preferred: Use the TokenRequest API to obtain time-bound tokens that are not readable by other API clients. The kubectl create token command is available in kubectl 1.24+ to simplify use of this API from the command line.
    • Secret-based tokens can still be obtained by creating a Secret object and waiting for it to be populated with a token.
  • Examples of incorrect ways to obtain Secret-based tokens from the API include:
    • Scanning the secrets[*].name field of a ServiceAccount object; this field lists secrets usable by pods running as that service account, not for other purposes, and secrets in that list have never been guaranteed to be service account token secrets.
    • Looking for existing Secret objects of type kubernetes.io/service-account-token created by other clients; a Secret created by another client is owned by that client, and cannot be assumed to be stable for use by other clients.

• Kubernetes 1.24 deprecates support for insecure serving certificates signed with a SHA-1 hash. Aggregated API servers, admission webhooks, and custom resource conversion webhooks using TLS certificates that are signed by SHA-1 should replace the serving certificates as soon as possible.

  • At cluster version 1.24.0 and later, GKE provides a Cloud Audit log to check if your cluster contains an affected service. You can use the following filter to search for the logs of a 1.24+ cluster:

    logName: "projects/$PROJECT/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity"
    resource.type = "k8s_cluster"
    operation.producer = "k8s.io"
    "invalid-cert.kubernetes.io"
    ```
    

  • If you are not affected you won't see any logs. If you do see such an audit log, it will include the name of the service (whether webhook or aggregated API).

Deprecated API versions

These APIs are still served in version 1.24 but are in a deprecation period:

• PodSecurityPolicy

  • policy/v1beta1 PodSecurityPolicy
  • Deprecated in 1.21 with removal targeted for version 1.25.
  • 1.24 is the last version supporting the beta PodSecurityPolicy feature. Use of this feature must be discontinued before clusters will upgrade to 1.25. For more information, see PodSecurityPolicy deprecation.

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.25 in favor of their newer versions:

  • discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1 EndpointSlice, deprecated since 1.21
  • policy/v1beta1 PodDisruptionBudget, deprecated since 1.21
  • batch/v1beta1 CronJob, deprecated since 1.21
  • node.k8s.io/v1beta1 RuntimeClass
  • autoscaling/v2beta1 HorizontalPodAutoscaler

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.26 in favor of newer versions:

  • flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta1 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
    • deprecated since 1.23
    • use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 instead, available since 1.23
  • autoscaling/v2beta2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler
    • deprecated since 1.23
    • use autoscaling/v2 instead, available since 1.23 (or autoscaling/v1)

• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.27 in favor of new versions:

  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSIStorageCapacity, deprecated since 1.24

Nodes on version 1.24.0-gke.1000 with more than 80GB of memory will fail to start successfully due to a known bug, which will be resolved in future 1.24 versions.

May 19, 2022

(2022-R12) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.12-gke.1500
  • 1.22.8-gke.201
  • 1.22.9-gke.1300
  • 1.23.6-gke.1500

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.11-gke.1100
  • 1.22.7-gke.1500
  • 1.22.8-gke.200
  • 1.23.5-gke.1500

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.11-gke.1900 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.11-gke.1900 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.5-gke.2400 with this release.

May 11, 2022

(2022-R11) Version updates

• Version 1.22.8-gke.2200 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.22.8-gke.2200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.8-gke.2200 with this release.

May 03, 2022

(2022-R10) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.11-gke.1900
  • 1.22.8-gke.2200
  • 1.23.5-gke.2400

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.11-gke.900
  • 1.22.7-gke.1300
  • 1.23.5-gke.200

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.18 to 1.19.16-gke.9400 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20.15-gke.4100 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.11-gke.1100 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.11-gke.1100 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.5-gke.1500 with this release.

April 21, 2022

(2022-R9) Version updates

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.11-gke.1100
  • 1.23.5-gke.1500
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.10-gke.2000
  • 1.22.7-gke.900
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.18 to version 1.19.16-gke.9200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.20.15-gke.2500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.11-gke.900 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.21.11-gke.900 with this release.

April 11, 2022

(2022-R8) Version updates

• Version 1.22.8-gke.200 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.11-gke.900 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.10-gke.1500
  • 1.22.7-gke.300
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.18 to version 1.19.16-gke.8300 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.20.15-gke.1000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.10-gke.2000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.8-gke.200 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.22.8-gke.200 with this release.

March 31, 2022

(2022-R07) Version updates

• Version 1.22.7-gke.1500 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.10-gke.2000.
  • 1.22.8-gke.200.
  • 1.23.5-gke.200.
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.10-gke.1300
  • 1.23.4-gke.1600
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.10-gke.1500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.10-gke.1500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.5-gke.200 with this release.

March 21, 2022

(2022-R6) Version updates

• Version 1.22.7-gke.900 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.10-gke.1500
  • 1.22.7-gke.1500
  • 1.23.4-gke.1600

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.10-gke.400
  • 1.22.6-gke.1500
  • 1.23.4-gke.1300

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.10-gke.1300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.10-gke.1300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.7-gke.300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.4-gke.1600 with this release.

March 14, 2022

(2022-R5) Version updates

• Version 1.22.7-gke.300 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.10-gke.1300
  • 1.22.7-gke.1300
  • 1.23.4-gke.1300

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.9-gke.1002
  • 1.22.6-gke.1000
  • 1.23.4-gke.300

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.10-gke.400 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.10-gke.400 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.6-gke.1500 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Regular channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.4-gke.1300 with this release.

If you specify --enable-dataplane-v2 in a Windows LTSC node pool running GKE version 1.22.7-gke.1300, Windows nodes cannot join the cluster.

March 07, 2022

(2022-R4) Version updates

• Version 1.22.6-gke.1500 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.9-gke.1002.
  • 1.21.10-gke.400.
  • 1.22.7-gke.300.
  • 1.22.7-gke.900.
  • 1.23.4-gke.300.

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.9-gke.300
  • 1.21.9-gke.1001
  • 1.22.4-gke.1501
  • 1.22.6-gke.300
  • 1.23.3-gke.1100

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.9-gke.1002 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.9-gke.1002 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.6-gke.1000 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.4-gke.300 with this release.

February 24, 2022

(2022-R03) Version updates

• Version 1.22.6-gke.300 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.9-gke.1001 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.22.6-gke.1000 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.22.6-gke.1500 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.23.3-gke.1100 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.6-gke.1500
  • 1.22.3-gke.700
  • 1.22.3-gke.1500
  • 1.23.2-gke.300
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.9-gke.1001 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.9-gke.1001 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.3-gke.1100 with this release.

February 10, 2022

Versions 1.21.9-gke.300, 1.22.6-gke.300, and 1.23.2-gke.300 contain a fix for a race condition which could result in erroneously detaching all endpoints from network endpoint groups for a short period.

February 03, 2022

(2022-R02) Version updates

• Version 1.22.4-gke.1501 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.9-gke.300 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.22.6-gke.300 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.23.2-gke.300 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.5-gke.1802 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.23.1-gke.500 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.6-gke.1500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.6-gke.1500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.4-gke.1501 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.2-gke.300 with this release.

January 21, 2022

(2022-R01) Version updates

• Version 1.22.3-gke.1500 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.22.4-gke.1501 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.23.1-gke.500 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.5-gke.1802 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.5-gke.1802 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.3-gke.1500 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.23.1-gke.500 with this release.

Notable changes and bug fixes

Kubernetes 1.23 is built with go1.17, which requires aggregated API servers, admission webhooks, and custom resource conversion webhooks to use TLS certificates that include the service DNS name as a subjectAltName.

• Before upgrading to 1.23, ensure any non-local aggregated API servers, admission webhooks, and custom resource conversion webhooks in your cluster are served using valid TLS certificates.

• At cluster version 1.22.3-gke.700 or higher, GKE provides a Cloud Audit log to check if your cluster contains an affected service. You can use the following filter to search for the logs:

  logName: "projects/$PROJECT/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity"
  resource.type = "k8s_cluster"
  operation.producer = "k8s.io"
  "invalid-cert.webhook.gke.io"
  

• If you are not affected you won't see any logs. If you do see such an audit log, it will include the name of the service (whether webhook or aggregated API).

New API versions

• flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
• autoscaling/v2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler

Deprecated API versions

These APIs are still served in version 1.23 but are in a deprecation period:

• PodSecurityPolicy
  • policy/v1beta1 PodSecurityPolicy
  • Deprecated in 1.21 with removal targeted for version 1.25.
• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.25 in favor of their GA versions:
  • discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1 EndpointSlice, deprecated since 1.21
  • policy/v1beta1 PodDisruptionBudget, deprecated since 1.21
  • batch/v1beta1 CronJob, deprecated since 1.21
  • node.k8s.io/v1beta RuntimeClass
  • autoscaling/v2beta1 HorizontalPodAutoscaler
• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.26 in favor of newer versions:
  • flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta1 FlowSchema, PriorityLevelConfiguration
    • deprecated since 1.23
    • use flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2 instead, available since 1.23
  • autoscaling/v2beta2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler
    • deprecated since 1.23
  • use autoscaling/v2 instead, available since 1.23 (or autoscaling/v1)

1.23 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.23 is now available in the Rapid channel. Before upgrading, read the Kubernetes 1.23 Release Notes, especially the action required and deprecation sections.

Notable features

Beta: PodSecurity admission

PodSecurity replaces the deprecated PodSecurityPolicy admission controller (which will be removed in 1.25). PodSecurity is an admission controller that enforces Pod Security Standards on Pods in a Namespace based on specific namespace labels that set the enforcement level. In 1.23, the PodSecurity feature is enabled by default, and applies to namespaces that opt into enforcement. Refer to the PodSecurity documentation and PodSecurityPolicy migration guide for more information.

December 06, 2021

(2021-R34) Version updates

• Version 1.22.3-gke.700 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following control plane and node versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.6-gke.1500
  • 1.22.3-gke.1500
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.5-gke.1302, 1.22.2-gke.1901

November 15, 2021

(2021-R33) Version updates

• Version 1.21.5-gke.1802 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.22.3-gke.700 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• The following control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded with this release:
  • From version 1.20 to 1.21.5-gke.1802
  • From version 1.21 to 1.21.5-gke.1802
  • From version 1.22 to 1.22.3-gke.700

October 29, 2021

Revisions for 2021-R32

2021-12-03 update: Revised upgrade versions. Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled will be upgraded:

• From version 1.20 to 1.21.5-gke.1302.

(2021-R32) Version updates

• Version 1.21.5-gke.1302 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.5-gke.1302
  • 1.21.5-gke.1802
  • 1.22.2-gke.1901
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.4-gke.2300
  • 1.21.5-gke.1300
  • 1.22.2-gke.1300
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21.5-gke.1302 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.5-gke.1302 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.2-gke.1901 with this release.

October 15, 2021

(2021-R31) Version updates

• Version 1.21.4-gke.2300 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.

• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.5-gke.1300
  • 1.22.2-gke.1300

• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:

  • 1.21.4-gke.1801
  • 1.22.1-gke.1602

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.4-gke.2300 with this release.

• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.2-gke.1300 with this release.

GKE Windows clusters using the persistent disk CSI driver ​might experience volume mount issues with existing PersistentVolumeClaim or PersistentVolume resources if upgraded to one the following versions. Please do not upgrade your Windows node pools to the following versions in the Rapid channel:

• 1.22.1-gke.1602 or later

The fix will be available in a future GKE 1.22 release.

October 01, 2021

(2021-R30) Version updates

• Version 1.21.4-gke.1801 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• The following control plane and node versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.21.4-gke.2300
  • 1.22.1-gke.1602
• Version 1.21.4-gke.301 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.4-gke.1801 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.22.1-gke.1602 with this release.

Notable features in 1.22

GA: Server-side Apply

Server-side Apply is a new object merge algorithm, as well as tracking of field ownership, running on the Kubernetes API server. Server-side Apply helps users and controllers create and modify their resources via declarative configurations by sending their fully specified intent. Refer to server-side apply documentation for more information. Improvements in 1.22 include:

• scale subresource ownership is tracked correctly (#98377)
• label selector fields are applied atomically (#97989)

Beta: DaemonSet maxSurge

DaemonSet objects now support a maxSurge rollout parameter, which allows running updated pods for the DaemonSet on nodes before removing old pods. Refer to the DaemonSet API documentation for more information.

Beta: Suspended jobs

Job objects can now be created or placed in a suspended state, to allow higher-level control over ordering and scheduling of batch workloads. Refer to the Job documentation for more information.

Beta: podAffinity namespace selection

Pod affinity rules can now specify namespaced using a label selector, in addition to a fixed list of namespace names. Refer to the pod affinity documentation for more information.

Notable changes and bug fixes in 1.22

• The terminationGracePeriodSeconds field on pod specs and container probes should not be negative. Negative values of terminationGracePeriodSeconds will be treated as the value 1 on the delete path. Immutable field validation will be relaxed in order to update negative values. In a future release, negative values will not be permitted. (#98866)

• As a mitigation for CVE-2021-25740, newly created Kubernetes 1.22 clusters no longer include write access to the Endpoints API in the edit and admin roles by default. Existing clusters upgraded to Kubernetes 1.22 retain previous permissions in those roles. For instructions to re-add Endpoints write access to the edit and admin roles in newly created 1.22 clusters, refer to the RBAC documentation.

1.22 is now available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes 1.22 is now available in the Rapid channel. Before upgrading, read the Kubernetes 1.22 Release Notes, especially the action required and deprecation sections.

Removed API versions in 1.22

The following Beta versions of previously graduated APIs are removed in 1.22 in favor of the GA versions. All existing objects can be interacted with via the stable APIs. Update API clients and manifests to use the GA APIs before upgrading. For more information, see the Kubernetes 1.22 deprecated APIs guide.

• admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1, MutatingWebhookConfiguration
• admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1, ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
• apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1, CustomResourceDefinition
• apiregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1, APIService
• authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1, TokenReview
• authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, LocalSubjectAccessReview
• authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, SelfSubjectAccessReview
• authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, SubjectAccessReview
• certificates.k8s.io/v1beta1, CertificateSigningRequest
• coordination.k8s.io/v1beta1, Lease
• extensions/v1beta1, Ingress
• networking.k8s.io/v1beta1, Ingress
• networking.k8s.io/v1beta1, IngressClass
• rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, ClusterRole
• rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, ClusterRoleBinding
• rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, Role
• rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, RoleBinding
• scheduling.k8s.io/v1beta1, PriorityClass
• storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, CSIDriver
• storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, CSINode
• storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, StorageClass
• storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, VolumeAttachment

Deprecated API versions

These APIs are still served in version 1.22 but are in a deprecation period, and will be removed in 1.25:

• PodSecurityPolicy
  • policy/v1beta1 PodSecurityPolicy
  • Deprecated in 1.21 with removal targeted for version 1.25.
• The following Beta versions of graduated APIs will be removed in 1.25 in favor of their GA versions:
  • discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1 EndpointSlice, deprecated since 1.21
  • policy/v1beta1 PodDisruptionBudget, deprecated since 1.21
  • batch/v1beta1 CronJob, deprecated since 1.21

New API versions in 1.22

The pods/eviction subresource now accepts policy/v1 eviction requests in addition to policy/v1beta1 eviction requests (#100724)

June 25, 2021

(2021-R21) Version updates

• Version 1.20.7-gke.2200 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.1-gke.2200 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.1-gke.1800 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20.7-gke.1800 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.20.7-gke.1800 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.1-gke.2200 with this release.

June 16, 2021

(2021-R20) Version updates

• Version 1.20.7-gke.1800 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.1-gke.1800 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.1-gke.400 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.1-gke.1800 with this release.

June 09, 2021

(2021-R19) Version updates

• Version 1.20.6-gke.1400 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.1-gke.400 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.6-gke.1000 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.1-gke.100 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.20.6-gke.1400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.1-gke.400 with this release.

May 28, 2021

(2021-R18) Version updates

• Version 1.20.6-gke.1400 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.21.1-gke.100 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.21.1-gke.100 with this release.

1.21 available in the Rapid channel

Kubernetes version 1.21 is now available in the Rapid channel. Before upgrading, read the Kubernetes 1.21 Release Notes, especially the action required and deprecation sections.

1.21 Features

The following features are introduced in version 1.21:

CronJob (GA)

The CronJob API has graduated to General Availability (GA), bringing performance improvements and allowing scheduled jobs to be run using a stable API.

• This resource is now available in the batch/v1 group/version.
• The batch/v1beta1 group/version is deprecated, and will be removed in version 1.25. See the migration guide for details.

PodDisruptionBudget (GA)

The PodDisruptionBudget has graduated to GA, allowing pod evictions to be controlled using a stable API.

• This resource is now available in the policy/v1 group/version.
• The policy/v1beta1 group/version is deprecated, and will be removed in version 1.25. See the migration guide for details.

EndpointSlice (GA)

The EndpointSlice API has graduated to GA, bringing performance improvements over the v1 Endpoints API.

• This more scalable API for service discovery is now enabled on all clusters and is promoted to discovery.k8s.io/v1.
• The discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1 group/version is deprecated, and will be removed in version 1.25. See the migration guide for details.

Default namespace label (Beta)

Namespace API objects now have a kubernetes.io/metadata.name label matching their metadata.name field to allow selecting any namespace by its name using a label selector. This can be used for objects which select namespaces by label, such as admission webhooks and network policies.

Bound service account token volumes (Beta)

• The API credentials injected into containers at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token are now time-limited, auto-refreshed, and invalidated when the containing pod is deleted.
• By default, injected tokens are given an extended lifetime so they remain valid even after a new refreshed token is provided. The metric serviceaccount_stale_tokens_total and the audit annotation authentication.k8s.io/stale-token can be used to monitor for workloads that depend on the extended lifetime and are continuing to use tokens even after a refreshed token is provided to the container.
• Clients should reload the token from disk periodically (once per minute is recommended) to ensure they use the refreshed token. k8s.io/client-go version 11.0.0+ and 0.15.0+ reload tokens automatically.

In Kubernetes 1.21, newly provisioned PersistentVolumes by gce-pd will use the topology.kubernetes.io/zone GA label instead of the failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone beta label.

1.21 New Beta and Stable APIs

The following Stable APIs are new in 1.21:

• batch/v1 CronJob
• policy/v1 PodDisruptionBudget
• discovery.k8s.io/v1 EndpointSlice

The following Beta APIs are new in 1.21:

• storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSIStorageCapacity

1.21 Deprecated APIs

The following APIs are deprecated in the 1.21 release:

• PodSecurityPolicy
  • policy/v1beta1 PodSecurityPolicy
  • Deprecated in 1.21 with removal targeted for version 1.25.
• The following Beta versions of newly graduated APIs will be removed in 1.25 in favor of GA versions:
  • discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1 EndpointSlice
  • policy/v1beta1 PodDisruptionBudget
  • batch/v1beta1 CronJob
• The following Beta versions of previously graduated APIs will be removed in 1.22 in favor of GA versions:
  • admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1, MutatingWebhookConfiguration
  • admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1, ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
  • apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1, CustomResourceDefinition
  • apiregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1, APIService
  • authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1, TokenReview
  • authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, LocalSubjectAccessReview
  • authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, SelfSubjectAccessReview
  • authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, SubjectAccessReview
  • certificates.k8s.io/v1beta1, CertificateSigningRequest
  • coordination.k8s.io/v1beta1, Lease
  • extensions/v1beta1, Ingress
  • networking.k8s.io/v1beta1, Ingress
  • networking.k8s.io/v1beta1, IngressClass
  • rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, ClusterRole
  • rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, ClusterRoleBinding
  • rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, Role
  • rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1, RoleBinding
  • scheduling.k8s.io/v1beta1, PriorityClass
  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, CSIDriver
  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, CSINode
  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, StorageClass
  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1, VolumeAttachment

May 20, 2021

In GKE version 1.20 and later, audit logging does not occur for Binary Authorization fail open events.

May 19, 2021

(2021-R17) Version updates

• Version 1.20.6-gke.1000 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.9-gke.1900 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.10-gke.1000 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• The following control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded with this release:
  • From version 1.18 to 1.19.9-gke.1900.
  • From version 1.19 to 1.20.6-gke.1000.
  • From version 1.20 to 1.20.6-gke.1000.

May 12, 2021

(2021-R16) Version updates

• Version 1.19.10-gke.1000 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.6-gke.1000 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.5-gke.2000 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• The following control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded with this release:
  • From version 1.18 to 1.19.9-gke.1900.
  • From version 1.19 to 1.19.9-gke.1900.
  • From version 1.20 to 1.20.6-gke.1000.

May 04, 2021

(2021-R15) Version updates

• Version 1.19.9-gke.1900 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.9-gke.1400 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• The following control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded with this release:
  • From version 1.18 to 1.19.9-gke.1900.
  • From version 1.19 to 1.19.9-gke.1900.

April 29, 2021

Fixes for the following GKE Autopilot clusters issues are rolling out to the Rapid release channel:

• Pods with a priority lower than -10 would not trigger scale up.
• Pod anti-affinity might cause overscaling.

April 27, 2021

(2021-R14) Version updates

• Version 1.19.9-gke.1400 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.9-gke.1900 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.5-gke.2000 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.9-gke.700 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.5-gke.1300 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.18 to version 1.19.9-gke.1400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.19.9-gke.1400 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.20.5-gke.2000 with this release.

April 20, 2021

(2021-R13) Version updates

• Version 1.19.9-gke.700 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.9-gke.1400 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.5-gke.1300 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.9-gke.100 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.5-gke.800 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.18 to version 1.19.9-gke.700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.19.9-gke.700 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.20.5-gke.1300 with this release.

April 14, 2021

(2021-R12) Version updates

• Version 1.19.9-gke.100 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.9-gke.700 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.5-gke.800 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.19.8-gke.2000 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.20.5-gke.101 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.18 to version 1.19.9-gke.100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.19.9-gke.100 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.20.5-gke.800 with this release.

April 06, 2021

(2021-R11) Version updates

• Version 1.19.8-gke.2000 is now the default version.
• The following versions are now available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.19.9-gke.100
  • 1.20.5-gke.100
• The following versions are no longer available in the Rapid channel:
  • 1.19.8-gke.1600
  • 1.20.4-gke.2200
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.18 to version 1.19.8-gke.2000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.19 to version 1.19.8-gke.2000 with this release.
• Control planes and nodes with auto-upgrade enabled in the Rapid channel will be upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.20.5-gke.100 with this release.

December 14, 2020

(R41) Version updates

• Version 1.18.12-gke.1201 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Auto-upgrading nodes in the Rapid channel automatically upgrade from version 1.18 to version 1.18.12-gke.1200 with this release.

December 07, 2020

(R40) Version updates

• Version 1.18.12-gke.1200 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.18.12-gke.300 is now the default in the Rapid channel.
• Auto-upgrading nodes in the Rapid channel automatically upgrade from version 1.18 to version 1.18.12-gke.300 with this release.
• Version 1.18.10-gke.2701 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.

December 01, 2020

(R39) Version updates

• Version 1.18.12-gke.300 is now available in the Rapid channel. This version is now the default.
• 1.18.10-gke.2701 is now the default version in the Rapid channel.
• Auto-upgrading nodes in the Rapid channel automatically upgrade from version 1.18 to version 1.18.10-gke.2701 with this release.
• Version 1.18.10-gke.2101 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.

November 25, 2020

Auto-upgrade status

GKE Auto-Upgrade is currently suspended for control planes, and nodes. Manual upgrades are available.

November 24, 2020

The November 17, 2020 release removed the following GKE version:

• Version 1.18.10-gke.1500 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.

November 12, 2020

(R38) Version updates

This note was updated on November 24, 2020.

• Version 1.18.10-gke.2701 is now available in the Rapid channel. This version is now the default.
• Auto-upgrading nodes in the Rapid channel automatically upgrade from version 1.18 to version 1.18.10-gke.2101 with this release.
• The issue from September 28, 2020 with Container Threat Detection on GKE 1.18 is resolved in GKE versions versions 1.18.9-gke.1300 and later and 1.19.2-gke.2000 and later.

The issue from September 28, 2020 with Container Threat Detection on GKE 1.18 is resolved in GKE versions versions 1.18.9-gke.1300 and later and 1.19.2-gke.2000 and later.

(R37) Version updates

• Version 1.18.10-gke.2101 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Auto-upgrading nodes in the Rapid channel automatically upgrade from version 1.18 to version 1.18.10-gke.1500 with this release.
• Version 1.18.10-gke.1500 is the new default version in the Rapid channel.

November 04, 2020

(R36) Version updates

• Version 1.18.10-gke.1500 is now available in the Rapid channel.

  This release sets sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal=1 on the node image. This discourages netfilter from resetting TCP connections.

• Auto-upgrading nodes in the Rapid channel automatically upgrade from version 1.18 to version 1.18.10-gke.601 with this release.

October 28, 2020

(R35) Version updates

• Version 1.18.10-gke.601 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.18.9-gke.1501 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.

October 20, 2020

(R34) Version updates

• Version 1.18.9-gke.2501 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.18.9-gke.2501 is the new default version for clusters in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.18.9-gke.801 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.

October 12, 2020

(R33) Version updates

• Version 1.18.9-gke.1501 is now available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.18.9-gke.801 is the new default version for clusters in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.17.9-gke.1504 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Version 1.18.6-gke.4801 is no longer available in the Rapid channel.
• Auto-upgrading control planes upgrade from versions 1.17, 1.18 to version 1.18.9-gke.801 during this release.

October 02, 2020

(R32) Version updates

• Version 1.18.9-gke.801 is now available in the Rapid channel.

June 29, 2020

1.17.6-gke.11 is now available.

June 23, 2020

1.17.6-gke.7 is now available.

June 08, 2020

1.17.6-gke.4 is now available.

June 01, 2020

1.17.5-gke.9 is now available.

May 27, 2020

Due to a newly discovered issue, version 1.17.5-gke.6 is no longer available.

May 19, 2020

1.17.5-gke.6 is now available in the Rapid release channel.

All GKE clusters running 1.17.3-gke.3 and up will have etcd upgraded to 3.4.7-0-gke.1. All new GKE clusters with 1.17.3-gke.3 and up will be created with etcd 3.4.7-0-gke.1.

May 13, 2020

1.17.5-gke.0 is now available in the Rapid release channel.

April 27, 2020

The RuntimeClass scheduler simplifies scheduling Windows Pods to appropriate nodes

The following node labels are deprecated:

Cluster Versions	Deprecated Label	New Label
1.14+	beta.kubernetes.io/os	kubernetes.io/os
1.14+	beta.kubernetes.io/arch	kubernetes.io/arch
1.17+	beta.kubernetes.io/instance-type	node.kubernetes.io/instance-type
1.17+	failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone	topology.kubernetes.io/zone
1.17+	failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region	topology.kubernetes.io/region

You must identify any node selectors using beta labels and modify them to use GA labels.

RBAC in the apps/v1alpha1 and apps/v1beta1 API versions are deprecated in 1.17 and will no longer be served in 1.20. Update your manifests and API clients to use the rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 APIs before 1.20 to avoid any issues.

1.17.4-gke.10 is now available in the Rapid release channel.

Although clusters in the Rapid channel upgrade automatically, you should still review:

• Known issues
• Urgent upgrade notes

The RunAsUsername feature is now beta and allows specifying the username when running a Windows container.

April 15, 2020

1.16.8-gke.9 is now available in the Rapid release channel.

April 07, 2020

1.16.8-gke.8 is now available in the Rapid release channel. The node image for Container-Optimized OS is updated to cos-77-12371-208-0.

April 01, 2020

1.16.8-gke.4 is now available in the Rapid release channel.

Important: Existing clusters enrolled in the Rapid release channel will be auto-upgraded to this version.