Anthos GKE - March 27th, 2026 [Announcement, Fix]

## Fix Fixed The following issues were fixed in 1.33.600-gke.40: * Fixed an issue where if updates or upgrades to advanced admin clusters failed and the external bootstrap cluster was deleted, you could lose critical data. ## Fix Fixed The following issues were fixed in 1.32.1000-gke.57: * Fixed an issue where the node-problem-detector was incorrectly deployed onto non-Advanced (V1) VMware clusters, causing the containerd runtime to continuously restart on affected nodes, leading to ETCD/CRI failures and unsuccessful cluster upgrades. * Fixed an issue where setting the deprecated stackdriver.enableVPC field to true in a cluster configuration file would block upgrades to an Advanced Cluster. The stackdriver.enableVPC field has been deprecated and its setting is now ignored during the upgrade validation process. * Fixes an issue where Advanced Clusters incorrectly deployed the node problem detector onto non-Advanced clusters, which caused containerd to continuously restart and led to cluster upgrade failures. * Fixed an issue where the system certificate pool was ignored when a custom CA certificate was configured for a registry mirror. * Fixed an issue where retrying the `gkectl upgrade admin` command after a previous failure could fail with "AlreadyExists" errors in the bootstrap cluster. * Fixed an issue where cluster creation or upgrade failed if the proxy or noProxy configuration fields contained extraneous whitespaces. These spaces interfered with internal command-line argument parsing, causing the control plane load balancer initialization to fail. * Fixed an issue where if updates or upgrades to advanced admin clusters failed and the external bootstrap cluster was deleted, you could lose critical data. ## Announcement Announcement Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.32.1000-gke.57 is now available for download. To upgrade, see [Upgrade clusters](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/distributed-cloud/vmware/docs/how-to/upgrading). Google Distributed Cloud 1.32.1000-gke.57 runs on Kubernetes v1.32.13-gke.1000. If you are using a third-party storage vendor, check the Google Distributed Cloud-ready storage partners document to make sure the storage vendor has already passed the qualification for this release. After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for use with GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform. ## Announcement Announcement Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.33.600-gke.40 is now available for download. To upgrade, see [Upgrade clusters](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/distributed-cloud/vmware/docs/how-to/upgrading). Google Distributed Cloud 1.33.600-gke.40 runs on Kubernetes 1.33.5-gke.2200. If you are using a third-party storage vendor, check the Google Distributed Cloud-ready storage partners document to make sure the storage vendor has already passed the qualification for this release. After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for use with GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform.