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Kubernetes 1.33 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)
- v1.33 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 v1.33 milestone
The 1.33 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 13th January 2025: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 6th February 2025: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
- 02:00 UTC Friday 14th February 2025 / 19:00 PDT Thursday 13th February 2025: Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- 02:00 UTC Wednesday 5th March 2025 / 19:00 PDT Tuesday 4th March 2025: Week 8 — Feature blog freeze
- 02:00 UTC Friday 21st March 2025 / 19:00 PDT Thursday 20th March 2025: Week 10 — Code Freeze and Test Freeze
- Tuesday 1st - Friday 4th April 2025: Week 13 - KubeCon EU
- Tuesday 8th April 2025: Week 13 — Docs Freeze
- Wednesday 23rd April 2025: Week 15 — Kubernetes v1.33.0 released
| What | Who | When | Week | Release Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 13th January 2025 | week 1 | [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 13th January 2025 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 17th January 2025 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday 17th January 2025 | week 1 | |
| Begin APAC-friendly meetings | Lead | Wednesday 22nd January 2025 | week 2 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Docs Lead | Tuesday 28th January 2025 | week 3 | |
| 1.33.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 4th February 2025 | week 4 | |
| Production Readiness Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 6th February 2025 | week 4 | |
| Begin [Enhancements Freeze] | Enhancements Lead | 02:00 UTC Friday 14th February 2025 / 18:00 PST Thursday 13th February 2025 | week 5 | |
| 1.33.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 18th February 2025 | week 6 | |
| Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 27th February 2025 | week 7 | |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Monday 3rd March 2025 | week 8 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Release Signal | Monday 3rd March 2025 | week 8 | |
| 1.33.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 4th March 2025 | week 8 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 02:00 UTC Wednesday 5th March 2025 / 18:00 PST Tuesday 4th March 2025 | week 8 | |
| 1.33.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 11th March 2025 | week 9 | |
| Begin [Code Freeze] and [Test Freeze] | Branch Manager | 02:00 UTC Friday 21st March 2025 / 19:00 PDT Thursday 20th March 2025 | week 10 | |
| Begin [Burndown] (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 24th March 2025 | week 11 | |
| Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Monday 24th March 2025 | week 11 | |
| Preparing for Feature blogs review — Initiating outreach | Comms | Monday 24th March 2025 | week 11 | |
| Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 25th March 2025 | week 11 | |
| Release Highlights deadline | Comms | Tuesday 25th March 2025 | week 11 | |
| KubeCon EU | Tuesday 1st - Friday 4th April 2025 | week 12 | ||
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Monday 7th April 2025 | week 13 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily (Tuesday & Thursday over Slack) | Lead | Monday 7th April 2025 | week 13 | |
| release-1.33 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 8th April 2025 | week 13 | |
| release-1.33 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 8th April 2025 | week 13 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Docs Lead | Tuesday 8th April 2025 | week 13 | |
| Docs Freeze | Docs Lead | Tuesday 8th April 2025 | week 13 | |
| 1.33.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 8th April 2025 | week 13 | [1.33-informing], [1.33-blocking], [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 02:00 UTC Friday 11th April 2025 / 19:00 PDT Thursday 10th April 2025 | week 13 | |
| 1.33.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 15th April 2025 | week 14 | |
| Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes | Docs Lead | Wednesday 23rd April 2025 | week 15 | |
| v1.33.0 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 23rd April 2025 | week 15 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Wednesday 23rd April 2025 | week 15 | |
| [Thaw] | Branch Manager | Wednesday 23rd April 2025 | week 15 |