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GKE 1.37 end of support date and extended support

GKE ends standard support for Kubernetes 1.37 in 2027-Q4. Extended support runs until 2028-Q4. Only clusters in the Extended channel get extended support. Extended support costs $0.60 per cluster per hour.

GKE 1.37

Days counted on

Supported Next: End of standard support, 2027-Q4. A month gets no day count.

End of standard support: 2027-Q4, no day count

Available in Rapid channel
End of standard support
2027-Q4
End of extended support
2028-Q4

What happens at the end

What Google Cloud says, as printed on its pages:

Auto-upgrade at end of support
If a cluster runs a patch version of a minor version that has reached its end of support date, GKE auto-upgrades the cluster Source
Extended support availability
Only clusters enrolled in the Extended channel keep a minor version and its patches until end of extended support; other channels lose it at end of standard support Source
Extended period fee
$0.50 per cluster per hour, in addition to the $0.10 per cluster per hour cluster management fee, for a total of $0.60 per cluster per hour; no extra charge for the Extended channel during standard support Source
Extended support length
Up to 24 months on a GKE minor release Source
Date certainty
Best-effort predictions updated periodically; month-only or quarter dates are approximations; italicized day-level dates are also approximations. Page last updated 2026-10-15 UTC Source

Upgrade to

The table has no newer GKE version in standard support.

Check your version

Run this command with the gcloud CLI. It lists each cluster with its control plane version.

gcloud CLI
gcloud container clusters list --format="table(name,location,currentMasterVersion)"

Same version elsewhere

Questions

When is the GKE 1.37 end of support date?
GKE ends standard support for Kubernetes 1.37 in 2027-Q4. Extended support runs until 2028-Q4. Only clusters in the Extended channel get extended support. Extended support costs $0.60 per cluster per hour.
How do I check my Kubernetes version on GKE?
Run this command with the gcloud CLI. It lists each cluster with its control plane version. gcloud container clusters list --format="table(name,location,currentMasterVersion)"

Sources

How we checked
  1. Each table comes from the vendor's own page. We copy the dates as the vendor prints them.
  2. Some dates are only a month or a part of a year. We show that text as it is. We never turn it into a day, and we do not count days to it.
  3. Ending soon means the next key date is in the next 90 days. We count days from today.
  4. What to do opens our page about that change, when we have one.
  5. If a vendor moves a date, we fix the table after we check the vendor page.

What the dates mean, in short, from Google Cloud's pages: Clusters in the Rapid, Regular and Stable channels (and no channel) get features, security patches and bug fixes until end of standard support (formerly called end of life), after which GKE auto-upgrades them; only clusters in the Extended channel keep the minor version until end of extended support, and during that extended period they pay an extra $0.50 per cluster per hour on top of the $0.10 cluster management fee, $0.60 in total (s2). Dates are Google's best-effort predictions, the release date shown is when the version first became available in the Rapid channel (Regular, Stable and Extended get it later), and month or quarter values such as 2027-Q4 are approximations.