workbench-instances image family
(Debian 11) of Agent Platform Workbench. Each entry lists the image
version that was released and the changes it contains.
For the versioning scheme and lifecycle dates, see Image versioning and lifecycle. For product-level updates that aren't specific to an image, see Agent Platform Workbench release notes.
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August 16, 2026
Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.
Fixed the Git panel's grayed out buttons, which were disabled due to an issue with the Jupyter Lab's Git plugin introduced in version 0.54.0.
20260816-2030-rc0 Release
July 30, 2026
M145 Release
Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.
Fixed the JupyterLab Git extension's Pull and Push buttons being disabled by pinning jupyterlab-git to 0.53.0.
Fixed an error that could prevent creating new micromamba environments at runtime due to package cache permissions.
Workbench internal agents now trust custom and enterprise CA certificates installed on the host operating system, fixing TLS certificate verification failures for connections routed through the instance proxy.
Files created by the post-startup script are now owned by the jupyter user, and git safe.directory is configured so that root-owned repositories continue to work.
Fixed issue with JupyterLab UI silently reverting file changes and interrupting kernels due to Gemini CLI's auto reload extension.
The JupyterLab last-active and auto-reload extensions are now enabled only when Gemini CLI is configured, preventing them from affecting the native JupyterLab UI otherwise.
July 13, 2026
M144 Release
Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.
Fixed a race condition that could cause JupyterLab to be unreachable (HTTP 524) on GPU instances.
June 23, 2026
M143 Release
Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.
May 28, 2026
M142 Release
Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.
Fixed pip availability in the base environment.
Hardened JupyterLab authentication configuration.
April 20, 2026
M141 Release
Installed latest packages from upstream dependencies.
Fixed intermittent connectivity failures caused by proxy TLS certificate rotation.
The post-startup script now re-runs after an instance auto-upgrade.
March 30, 2026
M140 Release
Gemini CLI Update: Minor updates to Gemini CLI's dependencies.
January 29, 2026
M139 Release
Removed a startup script dependency on gs://dl-platform-public-configs.
January 14, 2026
M138 Release
Fixed an issue where daemon processes launched by post-startup scripts, such as gcsfuse mounts, did not persist after the script finished executing.
December 10, 2025
M137 Release
Patched an issue where sudo prompts for a password when a custom Jupyter user
name is specified.
November 21, 2025
M136 Release
Patched an issue where image outputs aren't displayed properly.
November 17, 2025
M135 Release
Patched an issue where user-triggered OS shutdowns aren't reported to the Notebooks API.
October 09, 2025
M134 Release
Patched a regression with custom notebook metrics reporting (for example,
jupyterlab_kernels and docker_status metrics).
Updated the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin (dataproc-jupyter-plugin) to version
0.1.92.
When using Google Cloud CLI commands, the project and region properties are
preset.
September 17, 2025
M133 Release
Patched an incompatibility with the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin
(dataproc-jupyter-plugin) and instances with end-user credentials enabled.
August 29, 2025
M132 Release
The new scheduler Jupyter plugin (scheduler-jupyter-plugin) is now
preinstalled in the Jupyterlab 4 environment, with support for both the Cloud
Composer and Vertex AI notebook schedulers.
Updated the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin (dataproc-jupyter-plugin) to version
0.1.90.
Patched bugs related to the managed end user credentials feature (Preview), resolving an incompatibility with listing Dataproc remote kernels.
Patched a bug that caused instances with disabled proxy access to get stuck in provisioning.
Removed the archived Debian 11 backports repository, resolving an issue with
running apt update within the instance.
July 10, 2025
M131 Release
Updated the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin to version 0.1.89.
June 26, 2025
M130 Release
Updated the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin to version 0.1.87.
Added the BigQuery JupyterLab plugin, version 0.0.1.
The GOOGLE_CLOUD_REGION environment variable is now set by default.
April 16, 2025
M129 Release
Updated the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin to version 0.1.85.
March 12, 2025
M128 Release
Miscellaneous package updates.
January 16, 2025
M127 Release
Fixed an issue related to ownership of the home directory when using authorized ssh keys.
November 20, 2024
M126 Release
Preview: JupyterLab 4+ is available on new Vertex AI Workbench instances. To try it, select JupyterLab 4 when you create your instance.
Upgraded JupyterLab to 3.6.8.
September 26, 2024
M125 Release
bigframes 1.9.0 is now available in all environments except TensorFlow.
Fixed a regression introduced in M124 where Conda was getting downgraded to an older version.
Patched a vulnerability with adm and docker permissions when the instance's
root access isn't enabled.
August 08, 2024
M124 Release
Fixed a bug that prevented kernels from appearing when the Cloud Resource Manager API is turned off and Dataproc is enabled.
Spark notebooks on Dataproc: The Serverless Spark runtime template creation screen now has an easy-to-use UI for configuring resource allocation, autoscaling, and GPU settings.
July 16, 2024
M123 Release
Fixed a bug that caused conflicting permissions with the Jupyter user and google-sudoers.
June 21, 2024
M122 Release
Updated Nvidia drivers to version 550.90.07 to fix vulnerabilities.
May 17, 2024
M121 Release
Updated Nvidia drivers to 550.54.15 to fix an issue where Nvidia drivers failed
to install on startup after Debian 11 images upgraded kernel to
linux-image-5.10.0-29-cloud-amd64.
The linux-headers-cloud-amd64 metapackage is now installed for faster driver
recompiling on kernel upgrades.
April 25, 2024
M120 Release
Minor bug fixes for the libcurl package.
March 18, 2024
M118 Release
Updated Nvidia drivers to R535.
February 28, 2024
M117 Release
Removed the Cloud Storage browser in the left side pane in favor of the existing Mount shared storage button.
January 19, 2024
M115 Release
Added support for venv kernels.
November 16, 2023
M113 Release
Added the Dataproc JupyterLab plugin to Vertex AI Workbench instances. To get started, see Create a Dataproc-enabled instance.
When using an instance's Google Cloud CLI, gcloud config is preset with the
following defaults: * project is set to your instance's project. * Your
compute region is set to your instance's region. * Your Dataproc region is set
to your instance's region.
Fixed an issue that prevented Dataproc kernels from working.
Fixed a CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) error.
September 14, 2023
M111 Release
Miscellaneous software updates.