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Kubernetes 1.30 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 (members of [release-team@] receive meeting invites)
- v1.30 Release Calendar
- Contact: #sig-release on slack, release-team on e-mail
- Internal Contact Info (accessible only to members of [release-team@])
- Enhancements Tracking Board
- Feature blog Tracking Board
- Bug Triage Tracking Board
- CI Signal Project Board & Issue Tracking
- Retrospective Document
- kubernetes/sig-release v1.30 milestone
The 1.30 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 8th January 2024: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 1st February 2024: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
- 02:00 UTC Friday 9th February 2024 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 8th February 2024: Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- 02:00 UTC Wednesday 6th March 2024 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 5th March 2024: Week 9 — Code Freeze
- Tuesday 19th - Friday 22nd March 2024: Week 11 - KubeCon EU
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 20th March 2024 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 19th March 2024: Week 11 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 26th March 2024: Week 12 — Docs Freeze
- Wednesday 17th April 2024: Week 15 — Kubernetes v1.30.0 released
| What | Who | When | Week | CI Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 8th January 2024 | week 1 | [master-blocking] |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 8th January 2024 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 12th January 2024 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday 12th January 2024 | week 1 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 23th January 2024 | week 3 | |
| 1.30.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 30th January 2024 | Week 4 | |
| Production Readiness Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 01st February 2024 | week 4 | |
| Begin [Enhancements Freeze] | Enhancements Lead | 02:00 UTC Friday 9th February 2024 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 8th February 2024 | week 5 | [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
| 1.30.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 13th February 2024 | Week 6 | |
| Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 22nd February 2024 | week 7 | |
| Begin Friday APAC-friendly meetings | Lead | Friday 23rd February 2024 | Week 7 | |
| Call for [Exceptions][Exception] | Lead | Monday 26th February 2024 | week 8 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Release Signal | Monday 26th February 2024 | week 8 | |
| 1.30.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 27th February 2024 | Week 8 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 02:00 UTC Wednesday 27th February 2024 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 26th February 2024 | week 8 | |
| Begin [Code Freeze] | Branch Manager | 02:00 UTC Wednesday 6th March 2024 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 5th March 2024 | week 9 | |
| Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Thursday 7th March 2024 | week 9 | |
| Preparing for Feature blogs review — Initiating outreach | Comms | Monday 11th March 2024 | week 10 | |
| 1.30.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 12th March 2024 | week 10 | |
| Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 12th March 2024 | Week 10 | |
| KubeCon EU | Tuesday 19th - Friday 22nd March 2024 | week 11 | ||
| Begin [Burndown] (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 18th March 2024 | week 11 | |
| Major Themes deadline | Comms | Tuesday 19th March 2024 | week 11 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 19th March 2024 | week 11 | |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 20th March 2024 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 19th March 2024 | week 11 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Friday 22nd March 2024 | week 11 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily (Tuesday & Thursday over Slack) | Lead | Monday 25th March 2024 | Week 12 | |
| [Test Freeze] | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 27th March 2024 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 26th March 2024 | week 12 | |
| release-1.30 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 26th March 2024 | week 12 | |
| release-1.30 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 26th March 2024 | week 12 | |
| 1.30.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 26th March 2024 | week 12 | [1.30-blocking], [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
| Docs Freeze | Docs Lead | Tuesday 26th March 2024 | week 12 | |
| Major Themes complete | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 2nd April 2024 | week 13 | |
| 1.30.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 2nd April 2024 | week 13 | |
| 1.30.0-rc.2 released | Branch Manager | Thursday 11th April 2024 | week 14 | [1.30-blocking], [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
| Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes | Release Notes Lead | Wednesday 17th April 2024 | week 15 | |
| v1.30.0 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 17th April 2024 | week 15 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Wednesday 17th April 2024 | week 15 | |
| [Thaw] | Branch Manager | Wednesday 17th April 2024 | week 15 |