Google Cloud CLI 501.0.0 is now available

[google-cloud-sdk-announce]

Hi all,

Google Cloud CLI 501.0.0 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

 ## 501.0.0 (2024-11-12)

### Anthos On-Prem

* Added `--version` flag to `gcloud container vmware admin-clusters update` to support admin cluster version upgrade.

### Artifact Registry

* Added an argument group of two flags `allow-vulnerability-scanning` and `disable-vulnerability-scanning` to `gcloud artifacts repositories create`, to set the vulnerability scanning config for the repository.
* Added an argument group of two flags `allow-vulnerability-scanning` and `disable-vulnerability-scanning` to `gcloud artifacts repositories update`, to set the vulnerability scanning config for the repository.

### Cloud Access Context Manager

*   Updated `gcloud access-context-manager cloud-bindings create` to create
    bindings with global session settings. Use `--session-length` and
    `--session-reauth-method` to specify these settings.
*   Updated `gcloud access-context-manager cloud-bindings create --binding-file`
    to support creating scoped access settings that include session settings.
*   Updated `gcloud access-context-manager cloud-bindings update` to update
    bindings with global session settings. Use `--session-length` and
    `--session-reauth-method` to specify these settings.
*   Updated `gcloud access-context-manager cloud-bindings update --binding-file`
    to support updating scoped access settings that include session settings.
*   Updated `gcloud access-context-manager cloud-bindings list` to display
    session settings on listed bindings.
*   Updated `gcloud access-context-manager cloud-bindings describe` to display
    session settings on returned bindings.

### Cloud Managed Kafka

* Promoted `gcloud managed-kafka` to GA.

### Cloud NetApp

* Unhiding hybrid replication commands and fields for OnPrem migration GA.

### Cloud Run

* Promoted volume type `in-memory` to GA in `gcloud run deploy`, `gcloud run jobs deploy`,
`gcloud run jobs update` `gcloud run jobs create`, and `gcloud run services update`.
* Added `--startup-probe` and `--liveness-probe` flags to `gcloud beta run deploy`
and `gcloud beta run services update` to allow configuring health check probes for
a Cloud Run Service.

### Cloud SQL

* Promoted `gcloud sql instances switchover` to the GA track for PostgreSQL.

### Cloud Spanner

* Added `--default-backup-schedule-type` flag to `gcloud spanner instances create` and `gcloud spanner instances update` commands to allow specifying the default backup schedule type while creating or updating instances.

### Colab

* Promote `gcloud beta colab` to GA.

### Colab Enterprise

* Deleted the deprecated `gcloud beta colab_enterprise` surface.

### Compute Engine

* Changed the default value of `--image-family` flag to debian-12 for `gcloud compute instances create`, `gcloud compute instances bulk create`, and `gcloud compute instance-templates create` commands.
* Promoted `--instance-selection` and other corresponding flags of `gcloud compute instance-groups managed <create | update>` to GA.

### Compute Firewall Policy Rules

*   Promote `gcloud compute firewall-policies export-rules` to beta.
*   Promote `gcloud compute firewall-policies import-rules`  to beta.
*   Promote `gcloud compute network-firewall-policies export-rules` to beta.
*   Promote `gcloud compute network-firewall-policies import-rules` to beta.

### Compute OS Config

* Added `--include-locations` flag to `gcloud compute os-config policy-orchestrators create`.
* Added `--include-locations` and `--clear-locations` flags to
  `gcloud compute os-config policy-orchestrators update`.

### Kubernetes Engine

* Added `--autoprovisioning-cgroup-mode` flag to migrate cgroup mode in auto-provisioned node pools.
* Added flag option `--hpa-profile=performance|none` to
  `gcloud container clusters create`, `gcloud container clusters create-auto` and `gcloud container clusters update` commands.
  This flag allows specifying a Horizontal Pod Autoscaling profile for a cluster.
* Updated default kubectl from 1.30.5 to 1.30.6
* Additional kubectl versions:
  * kubectl.1.27 (1.27.16)
  * kubectl.1.28 (1.28.15)
  * kubectl.1.29 (1.29.10)
  * kubectl.1.30 (1.30.6)
  * kubectl.1.30 (1.31.2)

### Network Connectivity

* Added `gcloud network-connectivity hubs query-status` command to allow querying the status of a hub's Private Service Connect propagation.
* Added `--include-export-ranges` flag to VPC spoke and producer VPC spoke update
  CLI to enable/disable exporting IPv6 subnets.

### Network Security

* Bug fix to change `DEFAULT` option for flag `--action` to `DEFAULT_ACTION` for Threat Prevention `add-override` and `update-override` commands.

### Transfer

* Fix a bug related to `--id-prefix` flag in `transfer agents install` command.


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