Google Cloud CLI 472.0.0 is now available

[google-cloud-sdk-announce]

Hi all,

Google Cloud CLI 472.0.0 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

 ## 472.0.0 (2024-04-16)

### AI

*   Promoted `gcloud ai persistent-resources` to GA.
*   Added `gcloud ai persistent-resources reboot` which allows a user to reboot
    a Persistent Resource.
*   Promoted `--persistent-resource-id` flag of `gcloud ai custom-jobs create`
    to GA.

### AlloyDB

* Added flag `--enable-private-service-connect` to enable Private Service Connect for a cluster to the following commands in the GA track:
  * `gcloud alloydb clusters create`
  * `gcloud alloydb clusters restore`

* Added flag `--allowed-psc-projects` to set a list of allowed consumer projects on an instance in a cluster with Private Service Connect enabled to the following commands in the GA track:
  * `gcloud alloydb instances create`
  * `gcloud alloydb instances update`

### App Engine

* Updated dependencies to latest versions.
* Removed obsolete python2 support code fragments.
* Fixed an issue with local images API emulator in devappserver.

### Artifact Registry

* Added support for domain-scoped projects to `gcloud artifacts docker upgrade migrate`.

### BigQuery

* Fixed incorrect help text of `mk` and `update`.
* Added `--null_marker` flag for creating external tables.
* Fixed a bug when using `--use_google_auth` on Windows.
* Switched to using Google Auth by default for users authenticating with P12 service account keys. To revert to the old behavior, run the command with `--nouse_google_auth`. Note that the P12 key format has been deprecated and the new JSON key format is recommended. For more information, see <https://cloud.google.com/sdk/crypto>.

### Certificate Manager

* Added `--allowlisted-certificates` flag to `gcloud certificate-manager trust-configs create`.
* Added `--add-allowlisted-certificates`, `--remove-allowlisted-certificates` and `--clear-allowlisted-certificates` flags to `gcloud certificate-manager trust-configs update`.

### Cloud Build

* Added `--polling-interval` argument to `gcloud builds submit`.

### Cloud Datastream

* Fix list connection profiles to show all connection profile types.
* Updated `BigQueryDestinationConfig` with new fields (currently experimental).
* Updated schemas.

### Cloud Firestore Emulator

* Release Cloud Firestore emulator v1.19.5
  * Import and export entities now supported in gCloud CLI for Datastore Mode.

### Cloud Infrastructure Manager

*   Added `--file` flag to `gcloud infra-manager deployments import-statefile`
    to upload statefile for a deployment.

### Cloud NetApp

* Fixed bug during `gcloud netapp volumes update --backup-config=enable-scheduled-backups=false` that wasn't correctly updating update mask.

### Cloud SQL

* Published Cloud SQL Auth Proxy v2 binary as new `cloud-sql-proxy` Cloud SDK
component. `cloud-sql-proxy` contains utilities for connecting securely to
your Cloud SQL instances. It may be installed with
`gcloud components install cloud-sql-proxy` and is recommended over
`cloud_sql_proxy` (v1) which will be removed at a later date. See
<https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-sql-proxy/blob/main/migration-guide.md>
for help migrating.

### Cloud Spanner

* Added flag `target-config` to support moving instance to a different instance config in `gcloud` CLI and introduced `gcloud spanner instances move` command. Promoted the same to GA.

### Compute Engine

* Modified `location` flag from `gcloud compute connect-to-serial-port` command to use region from `zone` flag as location if `location` is unspecified.
* Added `target-service` argument when creating PSC service attachments and treated as a mutually exclusive group with the existing argument `producer-forwarding-rule`.
* Promoted `--gateway-ip-version` flag of `gcloud compute vpn-gateways create` to GA.
* Promoted `--interface` to use IPv6 address flag of `gcloud compute external-vpn-gateways create` to GA.
* Now all `gcloud compute` commands allow regions down and return the partial results by default when sending an AggregatedList requests. Users can turn off this feature by setting `compute/allow_partial_error` property to false.

### Database Migration

* Added `--skip-validation` param to `gcloud database-migration migration-jobs resume`
  to allow resuming migration jobs without running validations.

### Dataproc Metastore

* Added `gcloud metastore services migrations` command group to manage the migration to a Dataproc Metastore service.
  * `gcloud metastore services migrations start`
  * `gcloud metastore services migrations complete`
  * `gcloud metastore services migrations cancel`
  * `gcloud metastore services migrations describe`
  * `gcloud metastore services migrations list`
  * `gcloud metastore services migrations delete`

* Added `--min-scaling-factor`, `--max-scaling-factor`, and `--autoscaling-enabled` flags to `gcloud metastore services create` and `gcloud metastore services update` alpha and beta release track to allow updating the autoscaling configuration of a Dataproc Metastore instance.

* Updated `--scaling-factor` help text.

### Eventarc

*  Removed `gcloud beta eventarc`. User are expected to use `gcloud eventarc` instead.

### Workbench

* Added `NVIDIA_L4` option to `--accelerator-type` flag of `workbench instances`.


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