A new version of the data plane for Gateway API is now generally available (GA) as a part of managed Cloud Service Mesh for clusters on GKE Rapid channel

## Announcement A new version of the data plane for Gateway API is now generally available (GA) as a part of managed Cloud Service Mesh for clusters on GKE Rapid channel. The managed data plane helps you to trigger upgrades for data plane proxies. For more information see [Data plan management considerations](https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/gateway/prepare-gateway) . ## Announcement Managed Cloud Service Mesh starts using Envoy.1.33 for Gateway API on GKE clusters with rapid channel.