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August 26, 2026
Cloud Workstations supports an agent-optimized development experience.
August 12, 2026
Cloud Workstations supports Compute Engine suspend and resume in Preview. You can configure workstation VMs to suspend when they reach their idle timeouts, referred to as auto-sleep in the Google Cloud Console, rather than shutting down and deleting the VM, by using the IdleAction workstation configuration setting.
August 03, 2026
Updated the following JetBrains preconfigured base images to version 2026.x:
July 08, 2026
The base VM for your workstation includes the Content-Addressable Storage File System (CASFS) kernel module, which lets you run the Android Build File System (ABFS). For more information about the introduction of this module, see the Container-Optimized OS Milestone 129 LTS release notes.
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