2.6.0 (September 8, 2026)

Bug Fixes

IAM: Removed the Error return if an user is found as an ACTIVE member (#6962)
Cloud Databases: use placeholder constants for passwords in tests and docs (#6965)
Backup/Recovery: correct subcategory from 'IBM Backup Recovery API' to 'IBM Backup Recovery' in docs (#6971)
IAM: update API key code (#6836)
General: fixed go.sum entries (#6987)
VPC Infrastructure: treat unhealthy as a pending state when waiting for instance group health (#6936)
Cloud Internet Services: resolve perpetual diff, apply crash, and schema mismatches (#6958)
Cloud Databases: Support scale beyond one shard for MongoDB EES Gen2 (#6978)
VPC Infrastructure: added support for vpc instance reinitialization (#6938)
VPC Infrastructure: prevent ibm_is_share data source panic on missing share id (#6984)

Privileged Access Gateway: Increased provisioning timout (#6968)
Cloud Databases: Feat 3817: Validate S2S authorization for Gen2 Services (#6980)
Cloud Databases: Feat 2857:Implement Gen2 Support for ibm_database_backup and ibm_database_backups Data Sources (#6951)
VPC Infrastructure: BM-capacity, zones in profiles (#6961)
VPC Infrastructure: add minimum_provisioned_size to ibm_is_image (#6972)
VPC Infrastructure: added tag support for private path services gateway (#6948)
Cloud Databases: allow Classic backup restore into Gen2 instances (#6974)
Cloud Databases: support 'configuration' attribute in Gen2 (#6954)
VPC Infrastructure: added asymmetric routing for nlb (#6977)
General: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.79.3 to 1.83.1 (#6981)
Partner Center Sell: add new parameters to Global Catalog metada (#6957)
Secrets Manager: SM instance management service (#6966)
VPC Infrastructure: remove supported vcpu count with backward support (#6986)
Kubernetes: added cluster name support in container cluster (#6988)