* Metadata Agent Improvements ([#66485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66485), [@bmoyles0117](https://github.com/bmoyles0117))
    * Bump metadata agent version to 0.2-0.0.21-1.
    * Expand the metadata agent's access to all API groups.
    * Remove metadata agent config maps in favor of command line flags.
    * Update the metadata agent's liveness probe to a new /healthz handler.

* addon-resizer flapping behavior was removed. ([#46850](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46850), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))
* Change default `httpGet` probe `User-Agent` to `kube-probe/<version major.minor>` if none specified, overriding the default Go `User-Agent`. ([#47729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47729), [@paultyng](https://github.com/paultyng))

- Bind kube-dns containers to linux nodes to avoid Windows scheduling ([#83358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83358), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Windows]

    * Remove metadata agent config maps in favor of command line flags.
    * Update the metadata agent's liveness probe to a new /healthz handler.
    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.

* Bump ip-masq-agent to v2.1.1 ([#67916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67916), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
    * - Update debian-iptables image for CVEs.
    * - Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the
    * pre-injected masquerade rules.

### Other notable changes

* Metadata Agent Improvements ([#66485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66485), [@bmoyles0117](https://github.com/bmoyles0117))
    * Bump metadata agent version to 0.2-0.0.21-1.
    * Expand the metadata agent's access to all API groups.
    * Remove metadata agent config maps in favor of command line flags.
    * Update the metadata agent's liveness probe to a new /healthz handler.

* Bump ip-masq-agent version to v2.3.0 to fix vulnerabilities ([#77833](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77833), [@anfernee](https://github.com/anfernee))

- GCE/Windows: added support for the stackdriver logging agent ([#76850](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76850), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

## Changelog since v1.6.1

### Other notable changes

* Fix for [Windows kubectl sending full path to binary in User Agent](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44419). ([#44622](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44622), [@monopole](https://github.com/monopole))

	* ip-masq-agent is now on by default for GCE ([#47794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47794), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))