Google Cloud CLI 557.0.0 is now available

[Shyam Mehta]

Hi all,

Google Cloud CLI 557.0.0 is now available for download at:
https://developers.google.com/cloud/sdk/

Release notes can be found here:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/release-notes

 ## 557.0.0 (2026-02-18)

### Google Cloud CLI

* Rebuilt Linux bundled Python for the `gcloud` CLI with setuptools 80.10.2 to
  fix CVE CVE-2026-24049.
* Update `gcloud feedback` to remove Stack Overflow and IRC as communication
  channels.

### App Engine

* Updated the Go SDK to version 1.9.77.
  Please visit the following release notes for details:
  <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/release-notes>.
* Updated the Java SDK to version 4.0.2 build from the open source project
  <https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-java-standard/releases/tag/v4.0.2>.

### Cloud Backup DR

*   Added `--cloudsql-edition` flag to `gcloud backup-dr service-config init` to support initializing Cloud SQL instances.

### Cloud Bigtable

* Rebuilt with Go 1.24.11 to fix CVE-2025-61727 and CVE-2025-61729.

### Cloud DNS

* Enforce version 3 in setIamPolicy managed zone command.

### Cloud Interconnect

* Deprecate `--subzone` flag of `gcloud compute interconnects create`.

### Compute Engine

* Added `--template` flag for `gcloud compute instance-groups managed update` command in GA.
* Promoted `gcloud compute instant-snapshot-groups create` to beta.
* Promoted `gcloud compute instant-snapshot-groups delete` to beta.
* Promoted `gcloud compute instant-snapshot-groups describe` to beta.
* Promoted `gcloud compute instant-snapshot-groups list` to beta.
* Promoted `gcloud compute rollouts describe` to beta.
* Promoted `gcloud compute rollouts list` to beta.
* Promoted `gcloud compute rollouts cancel` to beta.
* Promoted `gcloud compute rollouts delete` to beta.
* Added `min-cpu-platform` field in `--instance-selection` flag of `gcloud compute instance-groups managed create` and `gcloud compute instance-groups managed update` in beta.
* Added `--discard-local-ssd` flag to `gcloud compute instances create` in alpha.
* Updated the network troubleshooting logic within `gcloud compute ssh --troubleshoot` to handle IAP and IPv6 connectivity scenarios.

### Compute Firewall Policies

*   Promoted `--src-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute firewall-policies rules create` to GA.
*   Promoted `--src-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute firewall-policies rules update` to GA.
*   Promoted `--dest-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute firewall-policies rules create` to GA.
*   Promoted `--dest-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute firewall-policies rules update` to GA.
*   Promoted `--src-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute network-firewall-policies rules create` to GA.
*   Promoted `--src-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute network-firewall-policies rules update` to GA.
*   Promoted `--dest-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute network-firewall-policies rules create` to GA.
*   Promoted `--dest-network-context` flag of `gcloud compute network-firewall-policies rules update` to GA.
*   Promoted `--priority` and `--associated-policy-to-be-replaced` flags of
`gcloud compute network-firewall-policies associations create` to beta.
*   Promoted `gcloud compute network-firewall-policies associations update`
command to beta.

### Container Registry

* Fixed an issue where `gcloud container images list-tags` would crash with a
  stack trace when receiving a non-JSON response from the server (e.g. an HTML
  error page). It now displays a user-friendly error message.

### Eventarc

* Added `--clear-max-retry-attempts` to `gcloud eventarc triggers update` to support unsetting a RetryPolicy delivery attempt setting.

### Looker

* Added `--catalog-integration-enabled` flag to `gcloud looker instance create` and `gcloud looker instance update` commands to manage Universal Dataplex Catalog integration with Looker.

### Pubsub Emulator

*   Add support for AI Inference Single Message Transforms (SMTs).
*   Fix race condition in unit tests.

### Workbench

* Promoted `gcloud workbench executions` and `gcloud workbench schedules` to GA.


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