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Kubernetes 1.23 Release Information |
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release |
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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 release-team@ to receive meeting invites)
- v1.23 Release Calendar
- Contact: #sig-release on slack, release-team@ on e-mail
- Internal Contact Info (accessible only to members of release-team@)
- Enhancements Tracking Sheet
- Feature blog Tracking Sheet
- Bug Triage Tracking Sheet
- CI Signal Project Board
- CI Signal Tracking Log
- Retrospective Document
- kubernetes/sig-release v1.23 milestone
The 1.23 release cycle is proposed as follows:
- Monday, August 23, 2021: Week 1 - Release cycle begins
- Thursday, September 2, 2021: Week 2 - Production Readiness Soft Freeze
- Thursday, September 9, 2021: Week 3 - Enhancements Freeze
- Wednesday, November 3, 2021: Week 11 - Release Retrospective part 1
- Tuesday, November 16, 2021: Week 13 - Code Freeze
- Tuesday, November 23, 2021: Week 14 - Test Freeze
- Tuesday, November 30, 2021: Week 15 - Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Tuesday, December 7, 2021: Week 16 - Kubernetes v1.23.0 released
- Wednesday, December 15, 2021: Week 17 - Release Retrospective part 2
- Thursday, December 16, 2021: Week 17 - Release Retrospective part 3
| What | Who | When | WEEK | CI SIGNAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Mon August 23, 2021 | week 1 | master-blocking |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Mon August 23, 2021 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Thu August 26, 2021 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Fri August 27, 2021 | week 1 | |
| Production Readiness Soft Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thu September 2, 2021 | week 2 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tue September 7, 2021 | week 3 | |
| Begin Enhancements Freeze (23:59 PDT) | Enhancements Lead | Thu September 9, 2021 | week 3 | master-blocking, master-informing |
| 1.23.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tue September 14, 2021 | Week 4 | |
| 1.23.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Tue September 28, 2021 | Week 6 | |
| KubeCon NA + Co-located events | October 11-15, 2021 | week 8 | ||
| Begin Burndown (MWF meetings) | Lead | Mon November 1, 2021 | week 11 | 1.23-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Mon November 1, 2021 | week 11 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Mon November 1, 2021 | week 11 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze (23:59 PDT) | Comms Lead | Tue November 2, 2021 | week 11 | |
| 1.23.0-alpha.4 released | Branch Manager | Tue November 2, 2021 | Week 11 | |
| Release retrospective part 1 (10:00am PDT) | Community | Wed November 3, 2021 | week 11 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily | Lead | Mon November 15, 2021 | week 13 | |
| Begin Code Freeze (18:00 PST) | Branch Manager | Tue November 16, 2021 | week 13 | |
| 1.23.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Wed November 17, 2021 | week 13 | |
| Docs deadline - Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thu November 18, 2021 | week 13 | |
| Test Freeze (18:00 PST) | Branch Manager | Tue November 23, 2021 | week 14 | |
| Docs deadline - PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tue November 23, 2021 | week 14 | |
| 1.23.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tue November 23, 2021 | week 14 | |
| release-1.23 branch created | Branch Manager | Tue November 23, 2021 | week 14 | |
| release-1.23 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tue November 23, 2021 | week 14 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tue November 23, 2021 | week 14 | |
| Release blog ready to review (23:59 PST) | Comms / Docs | Tue November 23, 2021 | week 14 | |
| Docs complete - All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Tue November 30, 2021 | week 15 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review (23:59 PST) | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Tue November 30, 2021 | week 15 | |
Release Notes complete - reviewed & merged to k/sig-release (23:59 PST) |
Release Notes Lead | Thu December 2, 2021 | week 15 | |
| 1.23.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Fri December 3, 2021 | week 15 | |
| v1.23.0 released | Branch Manager | Tue December 7, 2021 | week 16 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Tue December 7, 2021 | week 16 | |
| Thaw | Branch Manager | Tue December 7, 2021 | week 16 | |
| Release retrospective part 2 (10:00am PST) | Community | Wed December 15, 2021 | week 17 | |
| Release retrospective part 3 (10:00am PST) | Community | Thu December 16, 2021 | week 17 |
Please refer to the release phases document.