# In Progress: Salt 2017.7.9 Release Notes

Version 2017.7.9 is an unreleased bugfix release for 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 parameters `service_account_private_key` and `service_account_private_email` to an empty string.