Policy Controller - Release notes

February 23, 2026

2026-02-23T00:00:00-08:00

1.23.0

Change

Policy Controller version 1.23.0 is now available.

February 11, 2026

2026-02-11T00:00:00-08:00

1.22.1

Change

Policy Controller version 1.22.1 is now available.

November 24, 2025

2025-11-24T00:00:00-08:00

1.22.0

Change

Policy Controller version 1.22.0 is now available.

September 02, 2025

2025-09-02T00:00:00-07:00

1.21.0

Announcement

Policy Controller is now available as part of the standard GKE offering and no longer requires GKE Enterprise. For more details on the removal of GKE Enterprise, see the GKE release notes.

August 10, 2025

2025-08-10T00:00:00-07:00

1.21.0

Change

Policy Controller version 1.21.0 is now available.

June 02, 2025

2025-06-02T00:00:00-07:00

1.20.4

Change

Policy Controller version 1.20.4 is now available.

May 27, 2025

2025-05-27T00:00:00-07:00

1.20.3

Change

Policy Controller version 1.20.3 is now available.

April 22, 2025

2025-04-22T00:00:00-07:00

1.20.2

Change

Policy Controller version 1.20.2 is now available.

March 03, 2025

2025-03-03T00:00:00-08:00

1.20.1

Change

Policy Controller version 1.20.1 is now available.

December 05, 2024

2024-12-05T00:00:00-08:00

1.20.0

Change

Policy Controller version 1.20.0 is now available.

October 17, 2024

2024-10-17T00:00:00-07:00

1.19.2

Change

Policy Controller version 1.19.2 is now available.

September 26, 2024

2024-09-26T00:00:00-07:00

1.19.1

Change

Policy Controller version 1.19.1 is now available.

August 29, 2024

2024-08-29T00:00:00-07:00

1.19.0

Change

Policy Controller version 1.19.0 is now available.

July 25, 2024

2024-07-25T00:00:00-07:00

1.18.3

Change

Policy Controller version 1.18.3 is now available.

June 27, 2024

2024-06-27T00:00:00-07:00

1.18.2

Change

Policy Controller version 1.18.2 is now available.

May 30, 2024

2024-05-30T00:00:00-07:00

1.18.1

Change

Policy Controller bundles have been updated to use cis-gke-v1.5.0: 202405.0. For reference, see Policy Controller bundles overview.

May 03, 2024

2024-05-03T00:00:00-07:00

1.18.0

Breaking

Installing Policy Controller 1.18.0 or newer will fail unless you first enable the anthospolicycontroller.googleapis.com API. For more information on directly installing and managing Policy Controller, see Install Policy Controller.

Change

Policy Controller bundles have been updated to the following versions: cis-gke-v1.5.0: 202403.0, nist-sp-800-190: 202403.0, nist-sp-800-53-r5: 202403.0, pci-dss-v3.2.1: 202403.0, pci-dss-v4.0: 202403.0, policy-essentials-v2022: 202403.0, pss-baseline-v2022: 202403.1, pss-restricted-v2022: 202403.1. For reference, see Policy Controller bundles overview.