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Kubernetes 1.27 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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Kubernetes 1.27
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (members of release-team@ receive meeting invites)
- v1.27 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 v1.27 milestone
Guides
Summary
The 1.27 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 9th January 2023: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 2nd February 2023: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Friday 10th February 2023 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 9th February 2023: Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 15th March 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 14th March 2023: Week 10 — Code Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 22nd March 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 21st March 2023: Week 11 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 4th April 2023: Week 13 — Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Tuesday 11th April 2023: Week 14 — Kubernetes v1.27.0 released
- Monday 17th April 2023: Week 15 - KubeCon EU
Timeline
| What | Who | When | Week | CI Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 9th January 2023 | week 1 | master-blocking |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 9th January 2023 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 13th January 2023 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday 13th January 2023 | week 1 | |
| 1.27.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 24th January 2023 | Week 3 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 24th January 2023 | week 3 | |
| Production Readiness Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 2nd February 2023 | week 4 | |
| Begin Enhancements Freeze | Enhancements Lead | 01:00 UTC Friday 10th February 2023 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 9th February 2023 | week 5 | master-blocking, master-informing |
| 1.27.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 14th February 2023 | Week 6 | |
| Begin Friday APAC-friendly meetings | Lead | Friday 24th February 2023 | Week 7 | |
| 1.27.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Thursday 2nd March 2023 | week 8 | 1.27-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Monday 6th March 2023 | week 9 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Monday 6th March 2023 | week 9 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 8th March 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 7th March 2023 | week 9 | |
| Begin Code Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 15th March 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 14th March 2023 | week 10 | |
| 1.27.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Thursday 16th March 2023 | week 10 | |
| Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 16th March 2023 | week 10 | |
| Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Thursday 16th March 2023 | week 10 | |
| Begin Burndown (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 20th March 2023 | Week 11 | |
| Test Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 22nd March 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 21st March 2023 | week 11 | |
| Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 21st March 2023 | Week 11 | |
| 1.27.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 21st March 2023 | week 11 | |
| release-1.27 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 21st March 2023 | week 11 | |
| release-1.27 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 21st March 2023 | week 11 | |
| Major Themes deadline | Comms | Tuesday 21st March 2023 | week 11 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 21st March 2023 | week 11 | |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 22nd March 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 21st March 2023 | week 11 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily (Tuesday & Thursday over Slack) | Lead | Monday 27th March 2023 | week 12 | |
| Major Themes complete | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 4th April 2023 | week 13 | |
| Docs complete — All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Tuesday 4th April 2023 | week 13 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Tuesday 4th April 2023 | week 13 | |
| 1.27.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 4th April 2023 | week 13 | |
| Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 11th April 2023 | week 14 | |
| v1.27.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 11th April 2023 | week 14 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Tueday 11th April 2023 | week 14 | |
| Thaw | Branch Manager | Tuesday 11th April 2023 | week 14 | |
| KubeCon EU | April 17-21 2023 | week 15 |
Phases
Please refer to the release phases document.