Kubernetes 1.29 Release Information
Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
Kubernetes 1.29
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (members of release-team@ receive meeting invites)
- v1.29 Release Calendar
- Contact: #sig-release on slack, release-team on e-mail
- Internal Contact Info (accessible only to members of release-team@)
Tracking docs
- Enhancements Tracking Board
- Feature blog Tracking Board
- Bug Triage Tracking Board
- CI Signal Project Board & Issue Tracking
- Retrospective Document
- kubernetes/sig-release v1.29 milestone
Guides
Summary
The 1.29 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 4th September 2023: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 28th September 2023: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Friday 6th October 2023 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 5th October 2023: Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 1st November 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 31st October 2023: Week 9 — Code Freeze
- Monday 6th - Thursday 9th November 2023: Week 10 - KubeCon NA
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 15th November 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 14th November 2023: Week 11 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 28th November 2023: Week 13 — Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Tuesday 5th December 2023: Week 14 — Kubernetes v1.29.0 released
Timeline
What | Who | When | Week | CI Signal |
---|---|---|---|---|
Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 4th September 2023 | week 1 | master-blocking |
Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 4th September 2023 | week 1 | |
Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 8th September 2023 | week 1 | |
Team finalized | Lead | Friday 8th September 2023 | week 1 | |
Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 19th September 2023 | week 3 | |
1.29.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Monday 25th September 2023 | Week 4 | |
Production Readiness Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 28th September 2023 | week 4 | |
Begin Enhancements Freeze | Enhancements Lead | 01:00 UTC Friday 6th October 2023 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 5th October 2023 | week 5 | master-blocking, master-informing |
1.29.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 10th October | Week 6 | |
Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 19th October 2023 | week 7 | |
Begin Friday APAC-friendly meetings | Lead | Friday 20th October 2023 | Week 7 | |
Call for Exceptions | Lead | Monday 23rd October 2023 | week 8 | |
Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Monday 23rd October 2023 | week 8 | |
Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 25th October 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 24th October 2023 | week 8 | |
Begin Code Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 1st November 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 31st October 2023 | week 9 | |
1.29.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Thursday 2nd November 2023 | Week 9 | 1.29-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Thursday 2nd November 2023 | week 9 | |
KubeCon NA | Monday 6th - Thursday 9th November 2023 | week 10 | ||
Begin Burndown (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 13th November 2023 | week 11 | |
Test Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 15th November 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 14th November 2023 | week 11 | |
Preparing for Feature blogs review — Initiating outreach | Comms | Monday 13th November 2023 | week 11 | |
Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 14th November 2023 | Week 11 | |
Major Themes deadline | Comms | Tuesday 14th November2023 | week 11 | |
Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 14th November 2023 | week 11 | |
Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 15th November 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 14th November 2023 | week 11 | |
1.29.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Thursday 16th November 2023 | week 11 | |
Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Friday 17th November 2023 | week 11 | |
Burndown Meetings daily (Tuesday & Thursday over Slack) | Lead | Monday 20th November 2023 | Week 12 | |
1.29.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 21st November 2023 | week 12 | |
release-1.29 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 21st November 2023 | week 12 | |
release-1.29 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 21st November 2023 | week 12 | |
Major Themes complete | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 28th November 2023 | week 13 | |
Docs complete — All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Tuesday 28th November 2023 | week 13 | |
1.29.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 28th November 2023 | week 13 | |
Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 5th December, 2023 | week 14 | |
v1.29.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 5th December 2023 | week 14 | |
Release blog published | Comms | Tuesday 5th December 2023 | week 14 | |
Thaw | Branch Manager | Tuesday 5th December 2023 | week 14 |
Phases
Please refer to the release phases document.
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