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Kubernetes 1.22 Release Information |
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Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
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- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (join kubernetes-sig-release@ to receive meeting invites)
- v1.22 Release Calendar
- Contact: #sig-release on slack, kubernetes-release-team@ on e-mail
- Internal Contact Info (accessible only to members of kubernetes-release-team@)
- Enhancements Tracking Sheet
- Feature blog Tracking Sheet
- Bug Triage Tracking Sheet
- CI Signal Report
- Retrospective Document
- kubernetes/sig-release v1.22 milestone
The 1.22 release cycle is proposed as follows:
- Monday, April 26th: Week 1 - Release cycle begins
- Thursday, May 13th: Week 3 - Enhancements Freeze
- Thursday, July 8th: Week 11 - Code Freeze
- Thursday, July 15th: Week 12 - Test Freeze
- Tuesday, July 27th: Week 14 - Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Wednesday, August 4th: Week 15 - Kubernetes v1.22.0 released
- Thursday August 19: Week 16 - Release Retrospective at 10:00 AM (PDT) at the Kubernetes Community Meeting
| What | Who | When | WEEK | CI SIGNAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Mon April 26 | week 1 | master-blocking |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Mon April 26 | week 1 | |
| 1.22.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager (@puerco) | Wed April 28 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Thur April 29 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Fri April 30 | week 1 | |
| KubeCon EU + Co-located events | May 3-7 | |||
| Begin Enhancements Freeze (23:59 PDT) | Enhancements Lead | Thur May 13 | week 3 | master-blocking, master-informing |
| 1.22.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager (@Verolop) | Tue May 18 | week 4 | @mkorbi |
| 1.22.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager (@wilsonehusin) | Tue June 8 | week 7 | @lambdanis |
| 1.22.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager (@onlydole) | Tue June 22 | week 9 | @ramrodo |
| Begin Burndown (MWF meetings) | Lead | Mon June 28 | week 10 | 1.22-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Mon June 28 | week 10 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Mon June 28 | week 10 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze (23:59 PDT) | Comms Lead | Mon June 28 | week 10 | |
| 1.22.0-beta.1 released | Branch Manager (@ameukam) | Thu July 8 | week 11 | @encodeflush |
| Begin Code Freeze (18:00 PDT) | Branch Manager | Thur July 8 | week 11 | |
| Docs deadline - Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Fri July 9 | week 11 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily | Lead | Mon July 12 | week 12 | |
| 1.22.0-beta.2 released | Branch Manager (@jimangel) | Tue Jul 13 | week 12 | @soniasingla |
| Test Freeze (18:00 PDT) | Branch Manager | Thur July 15 | week 12 | |
| Docs deadline - PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tue July 20 | week 13 | |
| 1.22.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager (@puerco) | Tue July 20 | week 13 | @mkorbi |
| release-1.22 branch created | Branch Manager | Tue July 20 | week 13 | |
| release-1.22 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tue July 20 | week 13 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tue July 20 | week 13 | |
| Release blog ready to review (23:59 PDT) | Comms / Docs | Wed July 21 | Week 13 | |
| Docs complete - All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Tue July 27 | week 14 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review (23:59 PDT) | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Tue July 27 | week 14 | |
Release Notes complete - reviewed & merged to k/sig-release (23:59 PDT) |
Release Notes Lead | Thur July 29 | week 14 | |
| v1.22.0 released | Branch Manager (@puerco) | Wed August 4 | week 15 | @mkorbi |
| Release blog published | Comms | Wed August 4 | week 15 | |
| Thaw | Branch Manager | Wed August 4 | week 15 | |
| Release retrospective 10:00am PDT | Community Meeting | Thu August 19 | Week 17 |
Please refer to the release phases document.