metrics gathering and debug information dumping must be imported by specific e2e test suites. Init packages are provided which can be imported to re-enable the functionality that traditionally was in the core framework. If you have code that no longer compiles because of this PR, you can use the script [from a commit message](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112043/commits/dfdf88d4faafa6fd39988832ea0ef6d668f490e9) to update that code. ([#112043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112043),...

* etcd version 3.0.17

* Go version: 1.8.3. [Link to announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-dev/0XRRz6UhhTM/YODWVnuDBQAJ)

    * Kubernetes can only be compiled with Go 1.8. Support for all other versions is dropped.


### Previous Releases Included in v1.7.0
- [v1.7.0-rc.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v170-rc1)