The following sections contain version information for Google Distributed Cloud releases.
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal versions
The following Google Distributed Cloud versions are fully supported, offering the latest patches and updates for security vulnerabilities, exposures, and issues affecting Google Distributed Cloud:
| Minor version | Release date | Available patches | Kubernetes version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.31 (latest) | December 18, 2024 | 1.31.0-gke.889 | v1.31.3-gke.100 |
| 1.30 | December 10, 2024 | 1.30.400-gke.133 | v1.30.6-gke.300 |
| November 22, 2024 | 1.30.300-gke.84 | v1.30.5-gke.600 | |
| October 10, 2024 | 1.30.200-gke.101 | v1.30.4-gke.1800 | |
| September 25, 2024 | 1.30.100-gke.96 | v1.30.4-gke.1800 | |
| August 29, 2024 | 1.30.0-gke.1930 | v1.30.3-gke.200 | |
| 1.29 | November 21, 2024 | 1.29.800-gke.111 | v1.29.10-gke.100 |
| October 24, 2024 | 1.29.700-gke.113 | v1.29.8-gke.1800 | |
| October 01, 2024 | 1.29.600-gke.108 | v1.29.8-gke.1800 | |
| September 12, 2024 | 1.29.500-gke.163 | v1.29.7-gke.1200 | |
| August 08, 2024 | 1.29.400-gke.86 | v1.29.6-gke.1800 | |
| July 25, 2024 | 1.29.300-gke.185 | v1.29.6-gke.600 | |
| June 27, 2024 | 1.29.200-gke.243 | v1.29.5-gke.800 | |
| May 15, 2024 | 1.29.100-gke.251 | v1.29.4-gke.200 | |
| April 29, 2024 | 1.29.0-gke.1449 | v1.29.3-gke.600 |
Version 1.16 and all other earlier versions are no longer fully supported. For the latest patches and updates for security vulnerabilities, exposures, and issues impacting Google Distributed Cloud, upgrade to a fully supported version. To learn more about the support period, see the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Enterprise edition Version Support Policy, which Google Distributed Cloud follows.
To determine whether a release version contains security updates, see the release notes and the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security bulletins.
For version information related to cluster upgrades, see Version rules for upgrades.
Versioning scheme
Google Distributed Cloud uses Kubernetes
semantic versioning to refer to supported
Kubernetes versions, but appends a GKE patch version. This
results in a version number of the form: x.y.z-gke.N.
- Kubernetes major version (x)
- Major versions are typically incremented if any backwards
incompatible changes are introduced to the public API. A major version
increments the Kubernetes version from
x.ytox+1.y. - Kubernetes minor version (y)
- Kubernetes releases a new minor version
three times a year.
Each release cycle is approximately 15 weeks long. Deprecated
APIs might
be removed with a new minor version. A minor version increments the
Kubernetes version from
1.yto1.y+1; for example, Kubernetes 1. 29 is the minor release that follows Kubernetes 1.28. - Google Distributed Cloud patch release (z-gke.N)
- A patch release, such as 1.28.300-gke.131,
increments the patch version (z) by 100 and includes a
-gke.Nsuffix, which indicates the build. Patch releases include security updates and bug fixes. A Google Distributed Cloud patch release version doesn't correlate to a Kubernetes patch version.