* vSphere cloud provider: vSphere cloud provider code refactoring ([#49164](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49164), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))
* `cluster/gke` has been removed. GKE end-to-end testing should be done using `kubetest --deployment=gke` ([#50338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50338), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))

volumes that were created by Kubernetes v1.6.0-v1.6.5, you should change the permissions on them manually. ([#47605](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47605), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* GKE/GCE: New and upgraded 1.7 GCE/GKE clusters no longer have an RBAC ClusterRoleBinding that grants the cluster-admin ClusterRole to the default service account in the kube-system Namespace. ([#46750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46750), [@cjcullen](h...

* corrects a race condition in bootstrapping aggregated cluster roles in new HA clusters ([#63761](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63761), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

comma-separated string in the "users[*].config.scopes" field in the KUBECONFIG file.) This way, users can now  set a Google Service Account JSON key in the  GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable, craft a kubeconfig file with GKE master IP+CA cert, and authenticate to GKE in headless mode without requiring gcloud CLI. ([#58141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58141), [@ahmetb](https://github.com/ahmetb))

* kubectl port-forward no longer supports the deprecated -p <pod-name>...

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- In GKE alpha clusters it will be possible to use the service annotation `cloud.google.com/network-tier: Standard` ([#88487](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88487), [@zioproto](https://github.com/zioproto)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- `Get-kube.sh` uses the gcloud's current local GCP service account for auth when the provider is GCE or GKE instead of the metadata server default ([#88383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88383), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Node-Problem-Detector configuration is now decoupled from the Kubernetes release on GKE/GCE. ([#73288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73288), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

* Node-Problem-Detector configuration is now decoupled from the Kubernetes release on GKE/GCE. ([#73288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73288), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

    *  - Created new GCE_SSH_KEY allowing specification of SSH keys for gce, gke, and kubemark.
    *  - AWS_SSH_KEY, previously assumed to be an absolute path can now be either relative or absolute

    * [metatada-proxy addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
* Node-Problem-Detector configuration is now decoupled from the Kubernetes release on GKE/GCE. ([#73288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73288), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))