# Kubernetes v0.17.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io)
- **Version:** v0.17.0
- **Released:** May 13, 2015
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/kubernetes/updates/v0.17.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Kubernetes v0.17.0. Source highlight: Remove old salt configs #8065 (roberthbailey)

## New Features
- Convert the skydns rc to use v1beta3 and add a health check to it #7619 (a-robinson)
- kubelet: Add container runtime option for rkt. #7952 (yifan-gu)
- kubelet/rkt: Add GetPods() for rkt. #7599 (yifan-gu)
- kubelet/rkt: Add KillPod() and GetPodStatus() for rkt. #7605 (yifan-gu)
- kubelet/dockertools: Add puller interfaces in the containerManager. #6776 (yifan-gu)
- kubelet: Introduce PodInfraContainerChanged(). #6608 (yifan-gu)

## Improvements
- AWS: Improving getting existing VPC and subnet #6606 (gust1n)
- First part of improved rolling update, allow dynamic next replication controller generation. #7268 (brendandburns)
- Improvements to generator of conversion methods. #7354 (wojtek-t)

## Bug Fixes
- Fix YAML parsing for v1beta3 objects in the kubelet for file/http #7515 (brendandburns)
- kubelet: Fix racy kubelet tests. #7980 (yifan-gu)
- Fix the kubelet node watch #6442 (yujuhong)
- pkg/kubelet: Fix logging. #4755 (yifan-gu)
- kubelet/DockerManager: Fix returning empty error from GetPodStatus(). #6609 (yifan-gu)
- Fix kubelet's docker RunInContainer implementation  #7746 (vishh)