Stay organized with collections
Save and categorize content based on your preferences.
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:
The following 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.
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.y to x+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.y to 1.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.N suffix, 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.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-02-05 UTC."],[],[]]
