The following issues were fixed in 1.36.100-gke.144:

The following issues were fixed in 1.36.100-gke.144:

• Link to Vulnerability fixes for the list of security vulnerabilities addressed in this release.
• Fixed an issue where user clusters repeatedly alternated between reconciling and running states if the management cluster had a different pod density configuration than the user cluster.
• Updated etcd to v3.5.33-0-gke.3 to address security vulnerabilities CVE-2026-46595 and CVE-2026-39821.
• Fixed an issue where cluster diagnostics (gkectl diagnose) and pre-upgrade validations failed with false-positive datastore '<name>' not found errors. After the fix, validation correctly resolves datastores across all configured vSphere data centers in split-data center architectures where control plane nodes reside in the admin datacenter.
• Fixed an issue where deleting a cluster could stall indefinitely in the terminating state due to orphaned machine resources.