The following sections contain version information for Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal releases.
Supported 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:
Version 1.34
For information about the initial release of version 1.34, see December 11, 2025 in the release notes.
| Release date | Available patches | Kubernetes version |
|---|---|---|
|
December 11, 2025
|
1.34.0-gke.566 | v1.34.1-gke.2900 |
Version 1.33
For information about the initial release of version 1.33, see September 02, 2025 in the release notes.
| Release date | Available patches | Kubernetes version |
|---|---|---|
|
December 05, 2025
|
1.33.300-gke.60 | v1.33.5-gke.900 |
|
November 12, 2025
|
1.33.200-gke.70 | v1.33.5-gke.600 |
|
October 02, 2025
|
1.33.100-gke.89 | v1.33.4-gke.900 |
|
September 02, 2025
|
1.33.0-gke.799 | v1.33.2-gke.700 |
Version 1.32
For information about the initial release of version 1.32, see May 06, 2025 in the release notes.
| Release date | Available patches | Kubernetes version |
|---|---|---|
|
December 02, 2025
|
1.32.700-gke.64 | v1.32.9-gke.700 |
|
October 29, 2025
|
1.32.600-gke.53 | v1.32.9-gke.200 |
|
September 24, 2025
|
1.32.500-gke.48 | v1.32.8-gke.500 |
|
August 28, 2025
|
1.32.400-gke.68 | v1.32.7-gke.200 |
|
August 08, 2025
|
1.32.300-gke.85 | v1.32.6-gke.200 |
|
July 17, 2025
|
1.32.200-gke.104 | v1.32.4-gke.1000 |
|
June 04, 2025
|
1.32.100-gke.106 | v1.32.4-gke.200 |
|
May 06, 2025
|
1.32.0-gke.1087 | v1.32.3-gke.1000 |
To determine whether a release version contains security updates, see the release notes , Vulnerability fixes , and the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security bulletins .
For version information related to cluster upgrades, see Version rules .
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. 29is 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.
