failures and now perform a more rigorous reconciliation to ensure static pods (especially those that use fixed UIDs) are restarted.  As a side effect of these changes static pods will be restarted with lower latency than before (2s vs 4s, on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics...

* GCE: Bump GLBC version to 0.9.6 ([#50096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50096), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))
* Remove 0,1,3 from rand.String, to avoid 'bad words' ([#50070](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50070), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))