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January 21, 2021
AnthosJanuary 20, 2021
AI Platform PredictionThe VPC Service Controls integration with AI Platform Prediction is now generally available.
Training with a custom service account is now generally available.
Support for VPC Network Peering is now generally available.
1.7.6-asm.1 is now available.
This patch release contains the same bug fixes that are in Istio 1.7.6. For details on upgrading Anthos Service Mesh, refer to the following Anthos Service Mesh upgrade guides:
- Upgrading on GKE using the
install_asmscript - Upgrading on Anthos clusters on VMware
Cloud Run now supports WebSockets, HTTP/2 and gRPC streaming.
You can now troubleshoot conditional role bindings by troubleshooting directly from audit log entries. This feature is available in Preview.
New SAP certifications: For SAP HANA, the following Bare Metal Solution bare-metal machine types are certified by SAP:
- o2-ultramem-672-metal
- o2-ultramem-896-metal
For more information, see Certified machine types for SAP HANA.
New SAP certifications: For SAP NetWeaver, the following Bare Metal Solution bare-metal machine types are certified by SAP:
- o2-standard-32-metal
- o2-standard-48-metal
- o2-standard-112-metal
- o2-highmem-224-metal
For more information, see Bare Metal Solution machine types.
General availability for the following integration:
January 19, 2021
AI Platform (Unified)Preview: Select AI Platform (Unified) resources can now be configured to use Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).
Currently you can only create resources with a CMEK key in the UI; this functionality is not currently available using the client libraries.
BigQuery is now available in the Iowa (us-central1) region.
BigQuery BI Engine is now available in the Iowa (us-central1) region.
The BigQuery Data Transfer Service is now available in the Iowa (us-central1) region.
BigQuery ML is now available in the Iowa (us-central1) region.
Database auditing in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is generally available, through the open-source pgAudit extension. Using this extension, you can selectively record and track SQL operations performed against a given database instance.
The pgAudit extension helps you configure many of the logs often required to comply with government, financial, and ISO certifications.
The Dataproc Metastore Cloud Logging and Monitoring issue has been fixed.
Preview support for the following integration:
January 15, 2021
AI Platform TrainingAI Platform Training now provides pre-built PyTorch containers for PyTorch 1.6.
In addition to training with CPUs or GPUs, you can use one of the PyTorch 1.6 containers to perform PyTorch training with a TPU.
Regionalized builds from Cloud Functions are now visible in the Cloud Build History UI. To learn more, see Viewing build results.
You can now run SQL queries to retrieve lock statistics to investigate lock conflicts in your database.
Announcing the Beta release of Dataproc Service Account Based Secure Multi-tenancy, which allows you to share a cluster with multiple users. With secure multi-tenancy, users can submit interactive workloads to the cluster with isolated user identities.
New sub-minor versions of Dataproc images: 1.3.81-debian10, 1.3.81-ubuntu18, 1.4.52-debian10, 1.4.52-ubuntu18, 1.5.27-centos8, 1.5.27-debian10, 1.5.27-ubuntu18, 2.0.0-RC23-debian10, and 2.0.0-RC23-ubuntu18.
Image 2.0 preview:
The gcloud_dataproc_personal_cluster.py tool for the personal auth beta is no longer supported for new images. It will be replaced by an equivalent set of commands in an upcoming gcloud release.
The Network Topology graph now includes a checkbox, Show connections for child nodes only on focus, to display only the traffic paths between top-level entities, such as regions. When this checkbox is selected, you can still view the traffic paths between lower-level entities by selecting or holding the pointer over the lower-level entities.
Recommendations AI has migrated to the Retail API, which is now generally available.
The Recommendations Engine API (service endpoint https://recommendationengine.googleapis.com) and this documentation set remain available, but they will no longer be updated. We recommend migrating your recommendations to the Retail API (service endpoint https://retail.googleapis.com). See the new documentation:
Recommendations AI is now generally available.
This product has migrated to the Retail API from the Recommendations Engine API.
The previous API (service endpoint https://recommendationengine.googleapis.com) and its documentation set remain available, but they will no longer be updated. If you used the previous API while it was in beta, we recommend migrating your recommendations to the Retail API (service endpoint https://retail.googleapis.com).
See the new documentation:
January 14, 2021
BigQueryBigQuery's Cloud Console UI has been updated with many usability improvements for analyzing data, including multi-tab navigation, a new resource panel, and a new SQL editor. These updates are in Preview. For more information, see Using the Cloud Console.
Cloud Logging now lets you share your saved queries with other users of a project. To learn more, go to the Shared queries section on the Building queries page.
Query statistics now includes information about queries that failed, queries that timed out, and queries that were canceled by the user.
Managed Microsoft AD now supports audit logging. This feature is in the Preview stage.
January 13, 2021
Cloud Composer- Preview: You can now restart the Airflow web server using the command
gcloud beta composer environments restart-web-serveror the Beta API.
Cloud Functions has added support for a new runtime, Node 14, in Preview.
Cloud Functions has added support for a new runtime, Python 3.9, in Preview.
Cloud SQL now exposes the metric database/memory/total_usage. This metric provides visibility into the database working set (including buffer cache). You can find this metric in the Metrics explorer within the Monitoring dashboard.
For more information about database/memory/total_usage, see Cloud SQL Metrics.
Cloud SQL now exposes the metric database/memory/total_usage. This metric provides visibility into the database working set (including buffer cache). You can find this metric in the Metrics explorer within the Monitoring dashboard.
For more information about database/memory/total_usage, see Cloud SQL Metrics.
Cloud SQL now exposes the metric database/memory/total_usage. This metric provides visibility into the database working set (including buffer cache). You can find this metric in the Metrics explorer within the Monitoring dashboard.
For more information about database/memory/total_usage, see Cloud SQL Metrics.
January 12, 2021
Anthos Service Mesh1.6.14-asm.0 is now available.
This patch release contains the same bug fixes that are in Istio 1.6.14. For details on upgrading Anthos Service Mesh, refer to the following upgrade guides:
GA: Network ACL support for the Airflow web server is now generally available.
Preview: Composer can now be configured to use Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).
- New versions of Cloud Composer images:
composer-1.13.4-airflow-1.10.9,composer-1.13.4-airflow-1.10.10, andcomposer-1.13.4-airflow-1.10.12. The default iscomposer-1.13.4-airflow-1.10.10. Upgrade your Cloud SDK to use features in this release. - If environment creation succeeds when the requester did not have the
iam.serviceAccounts.actAspermission on the service account, Composer will now generate a warning in the audit log entry. - Error handling for files synchronization between buckets has been improved.
- Preview: Added support for the Airflow Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) UI for Airflow version 1.10.10 or newer and Python 3. You can enable the Airflow RBAC UI by setting the
[webserver]rbac=TrueAirflow configuration override.
- Fixed an issue where connections were inserted into the Airflow database twice.
- The Airflow UI will now always send requests to HTTPS addresses.
Added support for user configuration of Compute Engine Shielded VMs in a Dataproc Cluster.
#171638373: General stability improvements.
#171638373: Fixed Windows adaptation issue when boot partition and Windows partition were on different volumes.
Performance improvement during detach phase.
#175196444: Fixed Windows adaptation issue with network interface detection.
#174330790: Linux adaptations now archive ifcfg-* scripts to avoid Network Manager conflicts with iSCSI boot.
Security fixes applied.
January 11, 2021
AI Platform (Unified)The default boot disk type for virtual machine instances used for custom training has changed from pd-standard to pd-ssd. Learn more about disk types for custom training and read about pricing for different disk types.
If you previously used the default disk type for custom training and want to continue training with the same disk type, make sure to explicitly specify the pd-standard boot disk type when you perform custom training.
Users can now specify their own service accounts for Cloud Build to run builds. For more information, see User-specified service accounts.
The API for updating ResourceRecordSets in Cloud DNS is now available in Beta.
Cloud Functions has added support for a new runtime, Ruby, in Preview. This runtime supports Ruby 2.6 and Ruby 2.7.
Support for 1500 MTU for Cloud Interconnect is now available in General Availability.
You can now create N2D VM instances in us-east4-c Northern Virginia. See VM instance pricing for details.
Lending processors behavior update
The behavior of the following processors has been updated:
- 1003 parser
- 1040 parser
- 1099-MISC parser
- W2 parser
- W9 parser
Now, if these processors are given a multi-page input file and contains a page that is the correct document type and one of the supported versions the processor performs entity extraction for that page; subsequent applicable pages will not be processed. If the prcoessor doesn't find any applicable documents in the input file it returns an error message.
Configuring an internal load balancer in Service Directory is available in Preview.
Support for 1500 MTU for Cloud Interconnect is now available in General Availability.
January 08, 2021
Anthos Config ManagementConfig Sync unintentionally started using the absolute path in the file system with spec.git.policyDir. This has no effect on Config Sync running on the cluster, but breaks validation when running nomos vet manually against hierarchical repositories. The issue will be corrected in 1.6.1.
Added support for new persistent disk type, pd-balanced.
New sub-minor versions of Dataproc images: 1.3.80-debian10, 1.3.80-ubuntu18, 1.4.51-debian10, 1.4.51-ubuntu18, 1.5.26-centos8, 1.5.26-debian10, 1.5.26-ubuntu18, 2.0.0-RC22-debian10, and 2.0.0-RC22-ubuntu18.
Image 2.0 preview:
Image 2.0 preview:
HIVE-21646: Tez: Prevent TezTasks from escaping thread logging context
Dataproc Metastore Cloud Logging and Monitoring is unavailable. The issue will be fixed shortly.
January 07, 2021
VPC Service ControlsGeneral availability for the following integration:
January 06, 2021
AI Platform (Unified)You can now use a pre-built container to perform custom training with TensorFlow 2.3.
Hybrid Jobs are now available for inspecting external data sources.
Config Connector version 1.34.0 is now available.
Added support for IAM Member References. This allows users to create an IAMPolicyMember that references another resource as the IAM member (e.g. IAMServiceAccount, LoggingLogSink). For more information, see the memberFrom field in the IAMPolicyMember reference documentation. Support for IAM Member References is added only to IAMPolicyMember, not IAMPolicy.
Added support for the GameServicesRealm resource.
Added IAM support for ComputeDisk.
Added cacheMode, clientTtl, defaultTtl, maxTtl, negativeCaching, negativeCachingPolicy, serveWhileStale, and customResponseHeaders fields to ComputeBackendBucket.
Added customTimeBefore, daysSinceCustomTime, daysSinceNoncurrentTime, and noncurrentTimeBefore fields to StorageBucket.
Allow for IAMPolicy, IAMPolicyMember, and IAMAuditConfig to reference resources in other namespaces.
Added support for UpdateFailed, DeleteFailed, DependencyNotFound, and DependencyNotReady events to IAMPolicy, IAMPoicyMember, IAMAuditConfig.
Allow for Project and Folder resources to be migrated across folders and organizations by updating the folder-id/organization-id annotation. Only folder-to-folder or organization-to-organization migrations are allowed; folder-to-organization migrations or vice versa are not yet supported.
January 05, 2021
Cloud ComposerIn an upcoming Cloud Composer version release, DAG Serialization will be enabled by default when creating new Cloud Composer environments.
Traffic Director now supports TCP-based services in Preview. This brings service discovery, global load balancing, failover and many other Traffic Director capabilities to your non-HTTP services. See the setup guide to get started and the target proxies documentation for helpful background information.
December 23, 2020
Cloud MonitoringAlerting is now Generally Available for Monitoring Query Language (MQL). For more information, see Alerting policies with MQL.
December 22, 2020
FilestoreIP-based access control is now generally available.
December 21, 2020
BigQueryBigQuery standard SQL now supports the BigNumeric data type for high-precision computations. The BigNumeric data type is in Preview.
IAM database authentication for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is now generally available. To get started using IAM database authentication, see the Overview of Cloud SQL IAM database authentication.
December 18, 2020
Cloud RunCloud Run now allows you to restrict ingress of your Cloud Run services.
You can now allocate up to 8GiB of memory to your Cloud Run services.
December 17, 2020
AI Platform (Unified)AI Platform (Unified) now stores and processes your data only in the region you specify for most features. Learn more.
GKE on AWS 1.6.0-gke.3 is now available.
GKE on AWS 1.6.0-gke.3 clusters run the following Kubernetes versions:
- 1.16.15-gke.5300
- 1.17.9-gke.6400
- 1.18.10-gke.900
To upgrade your clusters, perform the following steps:
- Upgrade your Management service to 1.6.0-gke.1.
- Upgrade your user clusters to a supported Kubernetes version.
GKE on AWS now supports Kubernetes 1.18.
The Kubernetes 1.18 version includes CoreDNS 1.7.1 and Cluster Autoscaler 1.18.
GKE on AWS now supports mounting AWS Elastic File System file systems without having to install a driver.
You can now specify an AWS KMS alias in your anthos-gke.yaml instead of a KMS ARN.
You can now use custom DNS hostnames in your VPC by setting enableDnsHostnames to false
Cluster state synchronizations between the management service and S3 now use HTTPS.
Start using the Reports page and Cost Table in the Cloud Console for product-level cost details or subaccounts
Beginning with your January 2021 invoice or statement (available in February 2021), to simplify the format, we are removing all cost details from your invoice and statement documents, including product-level costs and costs by subaccounts (for Resellers). To view all of the cost details on your invoice or statement, in the Cloud Console, access the downloadable Cost Table report. The Cost Table report includes the product-level cost and cost by subaccounts (for Resellers), along with additional details you may need, such as costs by projects, services, SKU IDs, and labels. You can also analyze your usage costs using the Reports page.
For guidance on using these reports, see:
In Cloud SQL for MySQL, parallel replication is generally available for improving replication performance.
Cloud SQL has expanded support for PostgreSQL extensions. Three additional PostgreSQL extensions are now available:
- dblink
- ip4r
- prefix
For additional information, see PostgreSQL extensions.
The following PostgreSQL minor versions have been upgraded:
- PostgreSQL 9.6.18 is upgraded to 9.6.19.
- PostgreSQL 10.13 is upgraded to 10.14.
- PostgreSQL 11.8 is upgraded to 11.9.
- PostgreSQL 12.3 is upgraded to 12.4.
A new multi-region instance configuration is now available in Europe - eur6 (Netherlands/Frankfurt/Zurich).
A new multi-region instance configuration is now available in North America - nam12 (Iowa/Northern Virginia/Oregon/Oklahoma).
The m1-node-96-1433 sole-tenant node type is now Generally Available.
Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of CentOS 8 based 1.5 images.
New sub-minor versions of Dataproc images: 1.3.79-debian10, 1.3.79-ubuntu18, 1.4.50-debian10, 1.4.50-ubuntu18, 1.5.25-centos8, 1.5.25-debian10, 1.5.25-ubuntu18, 2.0.0-RC21-debian10, and 2.0.0-RC21-ubuntu18.
Image 2.0 preview:
Changed the default value of Spark SQL property spark.sql.autoBroadcastJoinThreshold to 0.75% of executor memory.
Fixed SPARK-32436: Initialize numNonEmptyBlocks in HighlyCompressedMapStatus.readExternal
Image 1.4-1.5:
Fixed a NullPointerException in a primary worker shuffle when the BypassMergeSortShuffleWriter is used when some output partitions are empty.
Images 1.5-2.0 preview:
Fixed ZOOKEEPER-1936: Server exits when unable to create data directory due to race condition.
Fixed a bug where Dataproc agent logs had separate entries for exception stack trace in StackDriver.
You can now attach service accounts to resources in other projects. This feature is available in Preview.
Added support for TLS encryption on Memorystore for Redis.
December 16, 2020
AI Platform Deep Learning ContainersAdded TensorFlow 2.4 Deep Learning Containers images.
M60 release
- Added TensorFlow 2.4 Deep Learning VM Images
You can now configure AI Platform Prediction to automatically scale prediction nodes for model versions that use GPUs for online prediction.
Previously, you could only configure manual scaling for model versions that use GPUs. Now, you can choose between automatic and manual scaling.
Using automatic scaling with GPUs is available in preview.
1.8.1-asm.5 is now available.
Multi-cluster support for GKE on-prem Beta
Anthos Service Mesh now supports multi-cluster meshes when running on GKE on-prem. For more information, see Add clusters to Anthos Service Mesh on-prem.
New flags for the install_asm script
The install_asm script was enhanced to provide you with more granular control
over the changes that the script makes on your project and GKE on Google Cloud
cluster. For more information, see the
Enablement flags
section in the documentation for the script.
Third-party add-ons removed from all profiles
The Prometheus, Grafana, and Kiali add-ons were removed from all Anthos Service
Mesh profiles. For information on why the add-ons were removed, see
Reworking our Addon Integrations. Installation of these third-party add-ons was removed from the 1.8 IstioOperator API, which means that they can't be installed with the istioctl install command.
For information on installing a demo version of the add-ons, see
Integrating with third-party add-ons.
Note that by default, metrics are still exported to Prometheus in the asm-multicloud profile. You can optionally enable metrics export to Prometheus in the asm-gcp-multiproject profile.
Anthos Service Mesh 1.8 isn't supported on Anthos attached clusters and GKE on AWS
Anthos Service Mesh 1.8 currently isn't supported on Anthos attached clusters (Microsoft AKS and Amazon EKS) and GKE on AWS (Amazon EC2). Anthos Service Mesh 1.7 and 1.6 are supported for these environments. For more information, see the following guides:
Reduced permissions required for installation
The permissions required for installation have been scaled back. Testing has shown that the Project Editor role can be replaced with more granular roles. For the complete list, see Permissions required to install Anthos Service Mesh.
BigQuery Data Transfer Service is now fully integrated with VPC Service Controls, and can be protected using a service perimeter. Please refer to VPC-SC supported products page for more info.
Recommendations for Compute Engine committed use discounts are now Generally Available. Recommendations provide you opportunities to optimize your compute costs by analyzing your VM spending trends and recommending committed use discount contracts. For understanding and purchasing committed use discount recommendations, see the documentation.
Preview: A new Logs tab has been added to the Environment details page.
Logs regionalization is now generally available. You can set the region in which you want to store your logs data. For information about this feature, refer to the Regionalization documentation.
The dashboard editor that lets you create and edit all dashboard widget types, including gauges, scorecards, and text boxes, is now Generally Available. With this editor, you can quickly configure dashboard widgets by using Basic Mode, you can access all aggregation options with Advanced Mode, and you can use Monitoring Query Language when you select MQL Mode. When you set the dashboard layout to mosaic mode, you can resize and reposition widgets. For more information, see Custom dashboards.
The ability to enable or disable Endpoint-Independent Mapping for your gateway is available in General Availability.
You can now build and deploy source code to Cloud Run using a single command: gcloud beta run deploy --source .
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supports the effective_cache_size flag.
The relationship between your queues and your App Engine app has changed. If your queues only manage tasks with HTTP Targets, you no longer need to have an enabled App Engine app. For more information, see Managing the Cloud Tasks queue transition.
Compute-optimized (C2) machines are now available in Montréal, in all three zones , northamerica-northeast1-a,b,c. For pricing, see VM instance pricing.
Google Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus tier is now available in public preview.
Access to Google APIs and services using Private Service Connect is now available in Preview.
DNS peering for private services access is now available in General Availability.
December 15, 2020
Cloud BuildUsers can now create manual triggers to run builds at a specified time. To learn more about how to schedule your builds, see Scheduling your build.
Preview: Accelerator-optimized (A2) machine types are now available in the following three regions:
- Iowa, North America:
us-central1-a,c - Netherlands, Europe:
europe-west4-a,b - Singapore, APAC:
asia-southeast1-c
Preview: NVIDIA® A100 GPUs are now available in the following three regions:
- Iowa, North America:
us-central1-a,c - Netherlands, Europe:
europe-west4-a,b Singapore, APAC:
asia-southeast1-cFor more information, see GPUs on Compute Engine.
Announcing the Beta release of the Dataproc cluster Stop/Start.
Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of the Dataproc Workflow Timeout feature, which allows users to set a timeout on their graph of jobs and automatically cancel their workflow after a specified period.
GA (general availability) launch of Dialogflow CX.
CX Regionalization expanded to multiple regions globally.
CX Analytics for agent activity statistics.
CX Prebuilt agents for common agent use cases.
CX Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to manage your own Dialogflow data encryption keys.
CX Security settings to control data redaction and data retention.
CX DTMF input for telephony partner integrations.
CX Parameter redaction to redact end-user parameter data from logs.
Third-party named IP address lists are now in general availability. Note that when Google Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus tier is in general availability, your ability to use third-party named IP address lists will be affected by which Managed Protection tier your projects are in.
The following new WAF rules have been added in public preview:
- Method enforcement
- Scanner detection
- Protocol attack
- PHP injection attack
- Session fixation
The ability to connect VM interfaces other than nic0 to a Shared VPC is now available in Preview. This feature presently only works with individual VM instances, not with instance templates or managed instance groups.
December 14, 2020
Cloud BigtableKey Visualizer diagnostic messages are visible to all Cloud Bigtable customers. Review the message descriptions to learn how diagnostic messages can help you troubleshoot your Cloud Bigtable tables.
Cloud Billing Reports page now allows you to save your report views.
The Cloud Billing Reports in the Google Cloud Console allows you to view and visualize your Google Cloud spend over time. You can filter and break down your usage by different dimensions, including: time range, projects, products, SKUs, labels, and subaccounts. Prior to this update, if you wanted to save your filter settings, your only options were to bookmark or make a copy of your report's URL. To offer a better user experience, you can now save your custom report views and access your saved views.
For information on the saved views feature, refer to Saving and sharing report views in the Cloud Billing documentation.
Cache modes, TTL overrides and custom response headers are now supported on backend buckets and backend services, and are now Generally Available.
Cache modes allow Cloud CDN to automatically cache static content types, including web assets like CSS, JavaScript and fonts, as well as image and video content.
TTL overrides support fine-tuning how long Cloud CDN caches your responses, and custom response headers introduce a new {cdn_cache_status} variable that is populated with the cache status response.
The Google Terraform provider also supports these latest Cloud CDN features, including cache modes, TTL overrides, and custom response headers.
Refer the documentation for compute_backend_bucket and compute_backend_service for how to configure and use the new features with Terraform.
- New versions of Cloud Composer images:
composer-1.13.3-airflow-1.10.9,composer-1.13.3-airflow-1.10.10, andcomposer-1.13.3-airflow-1.10.12. The default iscomposer-1.13.3-airflow-1.10.10. Upgrade your Cloud SDK to use features in this release.
- Composer will now fail faster when the network settings in Private IP environments prohibit the download of publicly stored Python packages.
- Composer Agent error messages are now more descriptive.
- Composer will now check whether the Artifact Registry API is enabled during updates (if it is required).
Cloud Run container instances can now process up to 250 concurrent requests, see Configuring maximum concurrency. The default is still 80.
Cloud TPU now supports Shared VPC
Shared VPC allows an organization to connect resources from multiple projects to a common VPC network to communicate with each other securely and efficiently using internal IPs from that network. This release enables connecting to Cloud TPU Nodes from Shared VPC networks.
OCR On-Prem General Availability (GA) release
OCR On-Prem is now generally available for approved customers. OCR On-Prem enables easy integration of Google image text recognition technologies into your on-premises solution.
For more information, refer to the product documentation. Approved customers can also view the marketplace entry .
The public Preview release of Dataproc Metastore is now available.
Legacy Dataproc Metastore services created during private Preview (prior to December 14, 2020 at 12:00 PM Pacific Standard Time) will be automatically deleted on January 29, 2021.
The Thrift endpoints of legacy services will continue to function normally, but certain pre-existing functionality such as metadata imports will cease to work. Furthermore, new features (including those announced on December 14, 2020) and bugfixes will not be available to legacy services.
To ensure you receive the newest features, patches, and stability, we strongly recommend you recreate legacy Dataproc Metastore services. Since the new metadata export feature is not available for legacy services, if you need help migrating metadata from a legacy service, the Dataproc Metastore team will be happy to assist you with a manual migration.
Please contact dataproc-metastore-support@google.com with any questions or to request help migrating metadata.
All new VMware Engine private clouds now deploy with VMware vSphere version 7.0 and NSX-T version 3.0. Existing private clouds will be upgraded to vSphere version 7.0 and NSX-T version 3.0 over a period of time in December 2020 and January 2021.
See Service announcements for more details on the contents of this upgrade.
Increased maximum number of nodes in a private cloud cluster to 32. This change applies to new clusters. Existing clusters can be expanded up to 32 nodes after the upgrade to vSphere 7.0 version.
When VMware Engine replaces a failed node, node customizations now transfer from the failed node to the replacement node. Customizations include vSphere labels, vSphere custom attributes, vSphere tags, and any affinity and anti-affinity rules.
VMware Engine now advertises routes learned from a VPC to your VMware Engine private cloud network, and advertises routes learned from your private cloud to a VPC. This allows network communication between Google Cloud resources and private cloud resources.
You can now use Cloud Monitoring to check when your service accounts and service account keys were used. This feature is generally available.
Preview support for the following integration:
December 11, 2020
DataflowWorkers now use the Java 11 runtime.
December 10, 2020
AnthosAnthos 1.6.0 is now available.
Updated components:
Anthos Policy Controller now includes additional policies covering many of the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark 1.5.1 controls. To learn more, see the Constraint template library.
Anthos Policy Controller has been updated to include a more recent build of OPA Gatekeeper (hash: 1de87b6).
Support for Git submodules has been fixed in this version.
Anthos clusters on VMware 1.6.0-gke.7 is now available. To upgrade, see Upgrading Anthos clusters on VMware. Anthos clusters on VMware 1.6.0-gke.7 clusters run on Kubernetes 1.18.6-gke.6600.
Note: The fully supported versions offering the latest patches and updates for security vulnerabilities, exposures, and issues impacting Anthos clusters on VMware are 1.6, 1.5, and 1.4.
Users can use a credential configuration file with gkeadm (credential.yaml), which is generated during running the gkeadm create config command, to improve security by removing credentials from admin-ws-config.yaml.
Node Problem Detector and Node Auto Repair automatically detect and repair additional failures, such as Kubelet-API server connection loss (an OSS issue) and long-lasting DiskPressure conditions.
Preview: Repair administrator master VM failures by using the new command, gkectl repair admin-master.
Preview: Secrets Encryption for user clusters using Thales Luna Network HSM Devices.
Preview: Service Account Key Rotation in gkectl for Usage Metering, Cloud Audit Logs, and Google Cloud's operations suite service accounts.
Anthos Identity Service enables dynamic configuration changes for OpenID Connect (OIDC) configuration without needing to recreate user clusters.
Added support for CIDR in IP block file for static IP.
Google Cloud's operations suite support for bundled Seesaw load balancing:
Metrics and logs of bundled Seesaw load balancers are now uploaded to Google Cloud through Google Cloud's operations suite to provide the best observability experience.
Cloud Audit Logs
Offline buffer for Cloud Audit Logs: Audit logs are now buffered on disk if not able to reach Cloud Audit Logs and can withstand at least 4 hours of network outage.
CSI volume snapshots
The CSI snapshot controllers are now automatically deployed in user clusters, enabling the users to create snapshots of persistent volumes and restore the volumes' data by provisioning new volumes from these snapshots.
Functionality changes:
Gkectl diagnose cluster and snapshot enhancements:
Added a
--log-sinceflag togkectl diagnose snapshot. Users can use it to collect logs of containers and nodes within a relative time duration in the snapshot.Replaced the
--seed-configflag with the--configflag in thegkectl diagnose clustercommand. Users can use this command with the seed configuration to rule out the VIP issue and provide more debugging information of the cluster.Added more validations in
gkectl diagnose cluster.
Added iscsid support: Qualified storage drivers that previously required additional steps benefit from the default iscsi service deployment on the worker nodes.
Breaking changes:
kubernetes.io/anthos/apiserver_request_total is deprecated; instead, use kubernetes.io/anthos/apiserver_aggregated_request_total.
All metrics collected by kube-state-metrics (full list in link):
Alerts based on these metrics are now limited to use 1 hour of data, instead of 1 day.
Dashboards and graphs continue to show up to 7 weeks of history.
Fixes:
Security fix: Resolve credential file references when only a subset of credentials are specified by reference.
Fixed vSphere credential update when CSI storage is not enabled.
Fixed a bug in Fluent Bit in which the buffer for logs might fill up node disk space.
Known issues:
gkectl updatereverts your edits onclientconfigCR in 1.6.0. We strongly suggest that customers back up theclientconfigCR after every manual change.Kubectl describe CSINodeandgkectl diagnose snapshotmight sometimes fail due to the OSS Kubernetes issue on dereferencing nil pointer fields.The OIDC provider doesn't use the common CA by default. You must explicitly supply the CA certificate.
Updated version of Magnitude Simba ODBC driver includes bug fixes and enhancements such as support for BigNumeric data and improved driver logic.
Updated version of Magnitude Simba JDBC driver includes bug and security fixes and enhancements such as support for Java 11, SSL trust store, BigNumeric data, and version-agnostic fully-qualified class names.
Filestore resource type now available
The following Filestore resource type is now publicly available through the Cloud Asset APIs.
file.googleapis.com/Instance
Preview: You can configure how your regional managed instance group distributes instances across zones by using capacity-aware distribution shapes, which can automatically deploy instances to zones where capacity is available and optionally prioritize the use of reservations.
You can migrate a VM instance from one network to another. This feature is Generally available.
Dataflow now supports custom containers as a Preview offering.
Workflows launched a visualization feature. The Google Cloud Console now displays a visualization of the workflow during editing.
December 09, 2020
AI Platform PredictionRuntime version 2.3 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.3 to serve online predictions with TensorFlow 2.3.1, scikit-learn 0.23.2, or XGBoost 1.2.1. Runtime version 2.3 does not support batch prediction.
See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.3.
Runtime version 2.3 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.3 to train with TensorFlow 2.3.1, scikit-learn 0.23.2, or XGBoost 1.2.1. Runtime version 2.3 supports training with CPUs, GPUs, or TPUs.
See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.3.
OS inventory management resource type now available
The following OS inventory management resource type is now publicly available through the Cloud Asset APIs.
compute.googleapis.com/Instance
This resource type provides information on the operating system, installed packages, and available package updates for a Compute Engine VM instance.
- Support for VPC Security Controls is now generally available (GA).
Health check logging is now available in General Availability.
Preview: Schedule-based autoscaling for managed instance groups lets you improve the availability of your workloads by scheduling capacity ahead of anticipated load.
GA: You can now access OS inventory data from Cloud Asset Inventory. For more information, see OS inventory and Cloud Asset Inventory integration.
GA: Per-group metrics let you autoscale a zonal managed instance group based on any Cloud Monitoring metric—for example, a Pub/Sub queue size or custom metrics from your application.
Config Connector version 1.33.0 is now available.
Added support for the ComputeProjectMetadata resource
Added resourceID field to ServiceUsageService and StorageNotification
Added computeResponseHeaders field to ComputeBackendService
Added maintenancePolicy.maintenanceExclusion field to ContainerCluster
Added description and disabled fields to LoggingLogSink
DataflowJobs can now be acquired via name
Added IAM support to BigtableTable
December 08, 2020
Cloud CDNThe Google Terraform provider now supports the latest Cloud CDN features, including cache modes, TTL overrides, and custom response headers.
Refer to the documentation for the compute_backend_bucket and compute_backend_service for how to configure and use the new features with Terraform.
Cloud Logging calculates the system logs-based metrics byte_count and log_entry_count on stored logs only, unlike user-defined logs-based metrics which are calculated on both stored and excluded logs. For more information, see System logs-based metrics.
This change is currently rolling out and affects all users after December 11, 2020.
Events for Cloud Run for Anthos version 0.17.5-gke.103 is now available for the following GKE minor version:
- 1.18
- 1.19
Restartable jobs: Added the ability for users to specify the maximum number of total failures when a job is submitted.
Image 2.0 preview
Using the n1-standard-1 machine type is no longer supported.
Changed default values of Spark SQL properties:
spark.sql.adaptive.enabled=truespark.sql.autoBroadcastJoinThreshold=< 2% of executor memory.
The Dataproc Metastore Service is now available in the us-east4, europe-west2, asia-northeast1, and australia-southeast1 regions in addition to the existing us-central1 region.
New sub-minor versions of Dataproc images: 1.3.78-debian10, 1.3.78-ubuntu18, 1.4.49-debian10, 1.4.49-ubuntu18, 1.5.24-debian10, 1.5.24-ubuntu18, 2.0.0-RC20-debian10, and 2.0.0-RC20-ubuntu18.
Image 1.5:
- Upgraded Hadoop to version 2.10.1.
Support for Redis AUTH on Memorystore for Redis is now Generally Available.
Private Catalog launches an updated Cloud Console experience for cloud admins. The updates include more options for managing access control, sharing catalogs, and bulk editing solutions.
Preview support for the following integration:
Workflows is now available in the following regions:
asia-southeast1(Singapore)europe-west4(Netherlands)
December 07, 2020
App Engine standard environment Java- Updated Java SDK to version 1.9.84.
- Fixed missing
com.google.appengine.repackaged.com.google.api.client.googleapis.extensions.appengine.auth.oauth2.AppIdentityCredential$AppEngineCredentialWrapperclass in theappengine-remote-api.jar.
Cloud Bigtable resource type now available
The following Cloud Bigtable resource types are now publicly available through the Cloud Asset APIs.
bigtableadmin.googleapis.com/Clusterbigtableadmin.googleapis.com/Instancebigtableadmin.googleapis.com/Table
Added whole document classification support with the following infoType detectors:
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/FINANCE/REGULATORY
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/FINANCE/SEC_FILING
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/HR/RESUME
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/LEGAL/BLANK_FORM
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/LEGAL/BRIEF
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/LEGAL/COURT_ORDER
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/LEGAL/LAW
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/LEGAL/PLEADING
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/R&D/PATENT
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/R&D/SOURCE_CODE
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/R&D/SYSTEM_LOG
- DOCUMENT_TYPE/R&D/DATABASE_BACKUP
In the Logs Explorer, you can now stream your log entries in real time as Cloud Logging ingests them. To learn more, see Streaming logs.
Cloud Spanner supports a new statement hint, LOCK_SCANNED_RANGES, allowing you to request an exclusive lock on a set of ranges scanned by a transaction.
Confidence score field addition for TEXT_DETECTION
You can now provide the flag TextDetectionParams.enable_text_detection_confidence_score to a TEXT_DETECTION request to get a confidence score for response information.
Packet Mirroring direction control is now available in General Availability.
DNS peering for private services access is now available in Preview.
December 04, 2020
Cloud MonitoringSlack notification channels: All notification channels created before November 20 have been fixed, and new notification channels will be created correctly. Notification channels created between November 21 and December 3 need to be manually updated, as described in Adding the Monitoring app to a Slack channel.
LABEL_DETECTION model upgrade
The latest LABEL_DETECTION model announced on October 16, 2020 has been promoted to the default model. The original model will still be available for another 60 days using "builtin/legacy".
December 03, 2020
Cloud Asset InventoryCloud TPU resource type now available
The following Cloud TPU resource type is now publicly available through the Cloud Asset APIs.
tpu.googleapis.com/Node
- New versions of Cloud Composer images:
composer-1.13.2-airflow-1.10.9,composer-1.13.2-airflow-1.10.10, andcomposer-1.13.2-airflow-1.10.12. The default iscomposer-1.13.2-airflow-1.10.10. Upgrade your Cloud SDK to use features in this release.
- You can now set web server network access control using the v1 Composer API.
- New metrics have been added to monitor web server CPU and memory usage:
- CPU usage time
- CPU reserved cores
- Memory bytes used
- Memory quota
- During environment creation and updates, Composer will now verify whether you have chosen a region compliant with any location restriction organization policies. Error reporting has also been improved in cases where location restrictions cause environment updates to fail.
- Composer versions 1.8.1 and 1.8.2 have been deprecated.
The Google Cloud Armor documentation set has been reorganized. Key updates include:
- Creation of Cloud Armor overview page
- Creation of Integrating with other Google products page
- Creation of Security policies for common use cases page
- Reorganization of Security policy concepts page
December 01, 2020
Config ConnectorConfig Connector version 1.32.0 is now available.
Added the resourceID field to Folder, BigQueryTable, BigQueryJob, and BigQueryDataset. (Issue #147 and #128)
Added the customResponseHeaders field to ComputeBackendService.
Added the maintenancePolicy.maintenanceExclusion field to ContainerCluster.
Added the description and disabled fields to LoggingLogSink.
Added "ORC" as a new available value to the CRD description of externalDataConfiguration.sourceFormat field in BigQueryTable.
Fixed the bug that the Bigtable Garbage Collection Policy can't be created via the Config Connector BigQueryGCPolicy resource. (Issue #300)
Container Threat Detection, a built-in service of Security Command Center Premium, is now in general availability. Read these notes to learn about updates, usability improvements, and new features. See our blog post, Monitor and secure your containers with new Container Threat Detection, to learn more.
Container Threat Detection now supports Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) versions on the Stable channel. There are currently no plans to add support for GKE version 1.14.
Activation latency for newly created clusters has been improved.
A bug that blocked some information from appearing in the the process section of Added Library Loaded findings is fixed.
A bug that blocked the proper display of the resource name for regional clusters in Added Library Loaded findings is fixed.
Container Threat Detection documentation includes updated information about compatibility with GKE and Virtual Private Cloud.
Read Using Container Threat Detection for more information.
November 30, 2020
Anthos on bare metalAnthos on bare metal is generally available
Anthos on bare metal is a deployment option to run Anthos on physical or virtual servers, deployed on an operating system provided by you, without a hypervisor layer. Anthos on bare metal ships with built-in networking, lifecycle management, diagnostics, health checks, logging, and monitoring. Anthos on bare metal supports CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Ubuntu—all validated by Google. With Anthos on bare metal, you can use your company's standard hardware and operating system images, taking advantage of existing investments, which are automatically checked and validated against Anthos infrastructure requirements.
Anthos on bare metal is available today, with either subscription or pay-as-you-go pricing. Anthos on bare metal lets you leverage existing investments in hardware, OS, and networking infrastructure. The minimum system requirement to run Anthos on bare metal is 2 nodes with a minimum total of 4 cores, 32 GB RAM, and 128 GB of disk space with no specialized hardware. The setup lets you run Anthos on bare metal on almost any infrastructure.
Anthos on bare metal uses a "bring your own operating system" model. It runs atop physical or virtual instances, and supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1/8.2, CentOS 8.1/8.2, or Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 LTS. Anthos provides overlay networking and L4/L7 load balancing. You can also integrate with your own load balancer such as F5 and Citrix. For storage, you can deploy persistent workloads using CSI integration with your existing infrastructure.
You can deploy Anthos on bare metal using one of the following deployment models:
- A standalone model lets you manage every cluster independently. This is a good choice when running in an edge location or if you want your clusters to be administered independent of one another.
- The multiple-cluster model lets central IT teams manage a fleet of clusters from a centralized cluster, called the admin cluster. This is more suitable if you want to build automation or tooling, or if you want to delegate the lifecycle of clusters to individual teams without sharing sensitive credentials such as SSH keys or Google Cloud service account details.
Like with all Anthos environments, a bare metal cluster has a thin, secure connection back to Google Cloud called Connect. After it's installed in your clusters, you can centrally view, configure, and monitor your clusters from the Google Cloud Console.
Anthos on bare metal, which is part of the Anthos 1.6 release, provides the following features and capabilities:
- Kubernetes 1.18
- Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS support
- Standalone and multiple-cluster architecture
- In-place upgrades (minor and major)
- Overlay networking, Ingress (L7), integrated load balancing (L4, L2-Mode)
- Manual load balancing (F5, Citrix)
- Installs behind proxy support
- Preflight and health checks
- Node maintenance mode
- Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging
- ACM, ASM, identity, hub or connect, billing, and pay-as-you-go
- NVIDIA GPU support
- Scales to 500 nodes
- Virtual machine management (Kubevirt) preview
November 29, 2020
Config ConnectorConfig Connector version 1.31.1 is now available
Miscellaneous fixes and improvements
November 25, 2020
Cloud MonitoringIf you created Slack notification channels after November 20, 2020, your channels are not receiving notifications. For information about resolving this issue, see Adding the Monitoring app to a Slack channel.
Upgrading the cluster to GKE versions 1.17 and higher causes the built-in ingress gateway to be unavailable for approximately 5 minutes during the upgrade process. We recommend installing and managing separate user-defined gateways to avoid this issue, as described in Adding gateways.
New SAP certifications: For SAP NetWeaver, the following Compute Engine virtual machine types that use the AMD CPU platform are certified by SAP:
- n2d-highmem-48
- n2d-highmem-64
- n2d-highmem-80
- n2d-highmem-96
- n2d-standard-48
- n2d-standard-64
- n2d-standard-80
- n2d-standard-96
For more information, see N2D general-purpose machine types.
You can now automate the deployment of SAP HANA in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server high-availability (HA) cluster that uses the recommended TCP internal load balancer implementation for the virtual IP address.
For more information, see Automated deployment of Linux high-availability clusters for SAP HANA.
The sap_hana_ha/template.yaml file that is provided by Google Cloud to deploy SAP HANA in a SLES high-availability cluster that uses a virtual IP address (VIP) with an alias-IP implementation is deprecated.
As a replacement, use the new sap_hana_ha_ilb/template.yaml file that uses a TCP internal load balancer for the VIP, as described in Automated SAP HANA HA deployment on SLES with load-balancer VIP implementation.
The deprecated template and the corresponding documentation, Automated SAP HANA SLES HA deployment with alias-IP VIP implementation, will continue to be available for at least 12 months from today.
November 24, 2020
Cloud Run for AnthosStarting in Jan 2021, Cloud Run for Anthos will support only the v1 version of the API: serving.knative.dev/v1
The following v1alpha1 and v1beta1 API versions have been deprecated in Knative v0.19.0 and no longer supported:
Service versions
serving.knative.dev/v1alpha1andserving.knative.dev/v1beta1.Route versions
serving.knative.dev/v1alpha1andserving.knative.dev/v1beta1.Revision versions
serving.knative.dev/v1alpha1andserving.knative.dev/v1beta1.Configuration versions
serving.knative.dev/v1alpha1andserving.knative.dev/v1beta1.
If you use YAML to deploy your services, you should migrate to the serving.knative.dev/v1 API before Jan 2021.
If you use the gcloud command-line tool, make sure you have the latest version by running: gcloud components update
GA:
c2-node-60-240m1-node-160-3844m2-node-416-11776n2-node-80-640n2d-node-224-896
Beta:
m1-node-96-1433
The Dialogflow CX test cases feature is now launched and documented.
IAM Conditions: Starting on February 26, 2021, if a permission check encounters an unsupported attribute in a conditional role binding, it will never interpret that part of the condition as granting access.
To prevent access issues, limit the scope of conditions when necessary, especially if a condition checks the resource.name attribute.
November 23, 2020
BigQuery MLBigQuery ML integration with AI Platform for Boosted Tree models is now generally available (GA). For more information, see the following documentation:
BigQuery ML integration with AI Platform for Deep Neural Network (DNN) models is now generally available (GA). For more information, see CREATE MODEL statement for Deep Neural Network (DNN) models.
Exporting BigQuery ML models to Cloud Storage and using them for online prediction is now generally available (GA). For more information, see Exporting models and the EXPORT MODEL statement.
Cloud Composer is now available in Los Angeles (us-west2).
Config Connector version 1.31.0 is now available
Added support for the ComputeTargetGRPCProxy resource
Added support for the ResourceManagerLien resource
Fixed issue where IAMPolicyMember and IAMPolicy resources cannot be deleted if an invalid
configuration is applied (such as referencing a non-existent resource)
Fixed issue where notificationConfig.pubsub.topicRef was not usable
Beginning in the middle of December 2020, VMware Engine will upgrade the VMware stack from version 6.7 to 7.0 and the NSX-T stack from version 2.5 to 3.0. Users affected by this upgrade will receive an email with planned maintenance dates and times.
For details about the upgrade and steps to prepare, see Service announcements.