======================================== In Progress: Salt 2017.7.9 Release Notes ======================================== Version 2017.7.9 is an **unreleased** bugfix release for :ref:`2017.7.0 `. This release is still in progress and has not been released yet. Salt Cloud Features =================== GCE Driver ---------- The GCE salt cloud driver can now be used with GCE instance credentials by setting the configuration paramaters ``service_account_private_key`` and ``service_account_private_email`` to an empty string.