* Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.
  * Verification against Kubernetes 1.8 is planned soon after the release.

* [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): CRI implementation for hypervisor-based runtimes is now v1.1. [[@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)]

- Simple script based hyperkube image that bundles all the necessary binaries. This is an equivalent replacement for the image based on the go based hyperkube command + image. ([#84662](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84662), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- `Kubectl set resources` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. `kubectl set subject` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. ([#85490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85490), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom)) [SIG CLI]

- With this new stable feature, Kubernetes supports the scaling of containerized applications with Azure VMSS, including the ability to integrate it with cluster-autoscaler to automatically adjust the size of the Kubernetes clusters based on the same conditions.

### SIG-cli

- `kube-controller-manager` and `cloud-controller-manager` have changed the
  name of controllers that can be turned on/off that are passed to the `--controllers`
  flag (e.g., `pod-garbage-collector-controller`). The old names (eg `podgc`) are

  - The disk-cached discovery client is moved from k8s.io/client-go/discovery to k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/disk.
The memory-cached discovery client is moved from k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached to k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/memory.
([#72214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72214), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

* [beta] [CRI-O](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o) v1.0.0-alpha.0. It has passed all e2e tests. ([release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.0))

* [beta] [Frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti) v1.0. It has passed all node conformance tests. ([release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti/releases/tag/v1.0))



### **Scheduling**

- client-go and kubectl no longer write cached discovery files with world-accessible file permissions. ([#77874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77874), [@yuchengwu](https://github.com/yuchengwu))

    *   Minikube integration
*   [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): CRI implementation for hypervisor-based runtimes is now v1.9. [[@resouer](https://github.com/resouer)]
    *   Added ARM64 release. Upgraded to CNI 0.6.0, added block device as Pod volume mode. Fixed CNI plugin compatibility.
    *   Passed all CRI validation conformance tests and node end-to-end conformance tests.

### Bug or Regression

- Adding (dry run) and (server dry run) suffixes to kubectl scale command when dry-run is passed ([#114252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114252), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]