- Automatic upgrade of Apigee instances to version 1‑18‑0‑apigee‑6 during scheduled maintenance windows, with exclusions for DNS misconfigurations and removed Java libraries.
- Breaking changes in Cloud SDK 590.0.0: removal of gcloud‑man‑pages, app‑engine‑grpc, and cloud‑build‑local components; bundled Python updated with latest pyOpenSSL and cryptography versions.
- Security and stability updates: CVE‑2026‑39820 fixes for Cloud Bigtable and its emulator, bug fixes for Apigee mTLS authentication and GKE Cloud Storage FUSE driver, plus many new flags and GA promotions across services.