* GCE: Fix for internal load balancer management resulting in backend services with outdated instance group links. ([#62887](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62887), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))
* Bugfix allowing use of IP-aliases with custom-mode network in GCE setup scripts. ([#62172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62172), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))



# v1.9.7

* kubeadm: Fix pause image to not use architecture, as it is a manifest list ([#65920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65920), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
* bazel deb package bugfix: The kubeadm deb package now reloads the kubelet after installation ([#65554](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65554), [@rdodev](https://github.com/rdodev))

- Fix local volume directory can't be deleted because of volumeMode error ([#65310](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65310), [@wenlxie](https://github.com/wenlxie))
- bugfix: Do not print feature gates in the generic apiserver code for glog level 0 ([#65584](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65584), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

    * enforces  kubeadm  upgrading kubernetes from the same major and minor versions as the kubeadm binary.
* Bugfix allowing use of IP-aliases with custom-mode network in GCE setup scripts. ([#62172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62172), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

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## Changelog since v1.7.10

### Other notable changes

* Bugfix: master startup script on GCP no longer fails randomly due to concurrent iptables invocations. ([#55945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55945), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

* Fixes issue where subpath readOnly mounts failed ([#63045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63045), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
* Bugfix allowing use of IP-aliases with custom-mode network in GCE setup scripts. ([#62172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62172), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

- Bugfix for Events that fail to be created when the referenced object name is not a valid Event name, using an UUID as name instead of the referenced object name and the timestamp suffix. ([#129790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129790), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Generated `ResourceClaim` names are now more readable because of an additional hyphen before the random suffix (`<pod name>-<claim name>-<random suffix>`). ([#120336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120336), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Bump metrics-server to v0.3.5 ([#83015](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83015), [@olagacek](https://github.com/olagacek))
* Bumps metrics-server version to v0.3.6 with following bugfix: ([#83907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83907), [@olagacek](https://github.com/olagacek))
        *  Don't break metric storage when duplicate pod metrics encountered causing hpa to fail

- Bump version of event-exporter to 0.3.1, to switch it to protobuf. ([#83396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83396), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
- Bumps metrics-server version to v0.3.6 with following bugfix:
  -  Don't break metric storage when duplicate pod metrics encountered causing hpa to fail ([#83907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83907), [@olagacek](https://github.com/olagacek))