Google Cloud CLI 554.0.0 is now available

[google-cloud-sdk-announce]

Hi all,

Google Cloud CLI 554.0.0 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

 ## 554.0.0 (2026-01-27)

### Breaking Changes

*   **(Google Cloud CLI)** Deprecated Python 3.9. The minimum supported Python version is Python 3.10.
*   **(Dataproc Metastore)** Deprecated `--read-write-regions` and `--read-only-regions` flags of `gcloud
    metastore services create`. Use single region metastore instead.


### Cloud Code

* Promoted `gcloud biglake iceberg` to beta.

### Cloud Dataflow

*   Added support for various flags `--additional-experiments`,
    `--additional-pipeline-options`, `--additional-user-labels`,
    `--disable-public-ips`, `--temp-location`,
    `--staging-location`, `--num-workers`, `--max-workers`,
    `--worker-machine-type`, `--launcher-machine-type`, `--dataflow-kms-key`,
    `--enable-streaming-engine`, `--update`,
    `--transform-name-mappings` to `gcloud dataflow yaml run` command.

### Cloud Managed Kafka

* Added `--view` flag to `gcloud managed-kafka consumer-groups list` to allow for full and basic views of consumer groups.

### Cloud Resource Manager

*   Added Dynamic tags support to `gcloud resource-manager tags bindings delete ` command. This command can be used to detach a tag from a resource.

### Cloud SQL

* Updated 'cloud-sql-proxy' packaged component to use 2.21.0 of the Cloud SQL Proxy.
*   Modified `gcloud sql connect` command to use Cloud SQL Proxy V2 API.
    * Added support for `--auto-iam-authn`, `--private-ip`, `--psc`, `--auto-ip`, `--run-connection-test` and `--debug-logs` flags.

### Compute Engine

* Added `400g` as an additional option for `--bandwidth` of
  `gcloud compute interconnects attachments dedicated create` and
  `gcloud compute interconnects attachments dedicated update`.
* Added `--resource-manager-tags` flag for alpha to
  `gcloud compute storage-pools create` to allow users to add Resource Manager
  tags to the storage pool resource during creation.
* Added support to update graceful shutdown configuration in `gcloud beta compute instances update-from-file` command.

### Kubernetes Engine

* Added support for setting kernel module signature enforcement in node pools
  via system config file using `--system-config-from-file` flag in
  `gcloud container cluster create` and
  `gcloud container node-pools create|update` commands.

### Network Connectivity

*   Fix flags for `gcloud beta network-connectivity transports create`.

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