Cloud Load Balancing - July 19th, 2024 [Feature]

## Feature Regional external Application Load Balancers, cross-region internal Application Load Balancers, regional internal Application Load Balancers, regional internal proxy Network Load Balancers, cross-region internal proxy Network Load Balancers, and regional external proxy Network Load Balancers support IPv4 and IPv6 (dual-stack) backends. Ingress IPv4 traffic can now be proxied over an IPv4 or IPv6 connection to the IPv4 and IPv6 (dual-stack) backends. The following backends support dual stack: * VM instance group * Zonal NEGs (GCE\_VM\_IP\_PORT) You can now convert the load balancers from IPv4 based deployments to dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) deployments. For details, see: * [IPv6](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ipv6) * [Convert Application Load Balancer to IPv6](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/convert-global-ext-https-dualstack) * [Convert proxy Network Load Balancer to IPv6](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/convert-global-ext-proxy-dualstack) This feature is available in **Preview**.