# Percona Everest 1.7.0 is here! 🚀

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**Created:** [June 2, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-everest-1-7-0-is-here/38186 "2025-06-02T14:36:15Z")\
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🎉 **Percona Everest v1.7.0** is here!

**What’s New?**

- ☁ **GKE Autopilot Support**  
Percona Everest can now be deployed on GKE Autopilot for fully managed, secure, and auto-scaled Kubernetes database workloads.

- ⚙ **Pod Scheduling Policies**  
Database administrators can now control pod placement using Kubernetes built-in affinity rules (pod affinity, anti-affinity, and node affinity) for higher workload resilience and performance.

- 🔐 **TLS Support for the API Server**  
Everest 1.7.0 introduces full TLS support to secure communication between clients and the Everest API server, protecting your data from interception or tampering.

Upgrade now to **Percona Everest 1.7.0** and take your cloud-native database management to the next level 🚀

📚 [Upgrade Guide](https://docs.percona.com/everest/upgrade/upgrade_with_helm.html#upgrade-crds)

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💬 We’d love to hear what you think!

- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/percona/everest)
- [Percona Forum](https://forums.percona.com/)
- [Everest Documentation](https://docs.percona.com/everest/index.html)