Cloud SDK 576.0.0: BigLake, GKE, Compute Engine updates
Cloud SDK version 576.0.0 introduces several feature promotions to GA, including BigLake Delta sharing commands and GKE rollbackable upgrades, alongside numerous enhancements across Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, and other services. A breaking change updates gcloud storage rsync to decompress gzip files by default, impacting users who previously relied on the default behavior. Linux bundled Python was updated to address a security vulnerability, and a performance regression in Artifact Registry was fixed. Most changes are applicable to engineers and architects managing Google Cloud resources.
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576.0.0 (2026-07-14)
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(Cloud Storage) Updated gcloud storage rsync to default decompresses downloaded gzip files to match the behavior of gcloud storage cp . To retain the previous behavior, use the new --do-not-decompress flag. Updated Linux bundled Python for the gcloud CLI to 3.14.6 to resolve CVE-2026-34182. Fixed a performance regression in gcloud artifacts docker images list when listing a large number of image versions. Promoted gcloud biglake delta-sharing <catalogs|shares|schemas|tables> to GA. Promoted gcloud biglake data-product-sharing publish to GA. Added lakehouse option to --catalog=type flag t
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#July_14_2026
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