The new release of the GKE Gateway controller (2024-R1) is now generally available

## Feature The new release of the [GKE Gateway controller](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/gateway-api#gateway%5Fcontroller) (2024-R1) is now **generally available**. With this release, the GKE Gateway controller will provide the following new capabilities and fixes: **New capabilities:** * Gateway API CRDs v1.0.0 * Cloud Armor backend security policy support for Regional external Gateways * Self-managed certificates with Certificate Manager on Regional internal & external Gateways * Google-managed certificates with Certificate Manager on Regional internal & external Gateways \[**Preview**\] **Bug fixes:** * Fixed missing permissions to MCI service agent role for regional SSL policy To learn more about our GKE Gateway controller capabilities, see the [supported capabilities per GatewayClass](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/gatewayclass-capabilities). ## Feature Starting in GKE 1.30, the metric `scheduler_pod_scheduling_duration_seconds` in [control plane metrics package](http://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/control-plane-metrics#scheduler) will no longer be available, as a result of [deprecation in the upstream OSS](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119049). The replacement metric `scheduler_pod_scheduling_sli_duration_seconds` will be exported as part of the the control plane metrics package instead.