Kubernetes 1.26 Release Information
Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
Kubernetes 1.26
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (members of release-team@ receive meeting invites)
- v1.26 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 Sheet
- Feature blog Tracking Sheet
- Bug Triage Tracking Sheet
- CI Signal Project Board & Issue Tracking
- Retrospective Document
- kubernetes/sig-release v1.26 milestone
Guides
Summary
The 1.26 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 5th September 2022: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 29th September 2022: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Friday 7th October 2022 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 6th October 2022: Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- Monday 24th - Friday 28th October 2022: Week 8 - KubeCon NA
- 17:00 UTC Wednesday 2nd November 2022 / 10:00 PDT Wednesday 2nd November 2022: Week 10 — Release Retrospective part 1
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2022 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 8th November 2022: Week 10 — Code Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2022 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 15th November 2022: Week 11 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 29th November 2022: Week 13 — Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Tuesday 6th December 2022: Week 14 — Kubernetes v1.26.0 released
- TBC: Week 15 — Release Retrospective part 2
Timeline
| What | Who | When | Week | CI Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 5th September 2022 | week 1 | master-blocking |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 5th September 2022 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 9th September 2022 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday 9th September 2022 | week 1 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 20th September 2022 | week 3 | |
| 1.26.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 28th September 2022 | Week 4 | |
| Production Readiness Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 29th September 2022 | week 4 | |
| Begin Enhancements Freeze | Enhancements Lead | 01:00 UTC Friday 7th October 2022 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 6th October 2022 | week 5 | master-blocking, master-informing |
| 1.26.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 11th October 2022 | Week 6 | |
| Begin Friday APAC-friendly meetings | Lead | Friday 21th October 2022 | Week 7 | |
| KubeCon NA | October 24-28 2022 | week 8 | ||
| 1.26.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 1st November 2022 | Week 9 | |
| Begin Burndown (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 31st October 2022 | week 9 | 1.26-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Monday 31st October 2022 | week 9 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Monday 31st October 2022 | week 9 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 2nd November 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 1st November 2022 | week 9 | |
| Release retrospective part 1 | Community | 17:00 UTC Wednesday 2nd November 2022 / 10:00 PDT Wednesday 2nd November 2022 | week 9 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily | Lead | Monday 7th November 2022 | week 10 | |
| Begin Code Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 9th November 2022 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 8th November 2022 | week 10 | |
| 1.26.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Thursday 10th November 2022 | week 10 | |
| Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 10th November 2022 | week 10 | |
| Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Thursday 10th November 2022 | week 10 | |
| Test Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2022 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 15th November 2022 | week 11 | |
| Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 15th November 2022 | week 11 | |
| 1.26.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 15th November 2022 | week 11 | |
| release-1.26 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 15th November 2022 | week 11 | |
| release-1.26 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 15th November 2022 | week 11 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 15th November 2022 | week 11 | |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2022 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 15th November 2022 | week 11 | |
| Major Themes complete | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 29th November 2022 | week 13 | |
| Docs complete — All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Tuesday 29th November 2022 | week 13 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Tuesday 29th November 2022 | week 13 | |
| 1.26.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 29th November 2022 | week 13 | |
Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to k/k | Release Notes Lead | 01:00 UTC Friday 2nd December 2022 / 17:00 PDT Thursday 1st December 2022 | week 13 | |
| v1.26.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 6th December 2022 | week 14 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Tuesday 6th December 2022 | week 14 | |
| Thaw | Branch Manager | Tuesday 6th December 2022 | week 14 | |
| Release retrospective part 2 (Time TBC) | Community | TBC | week 15 |
Phases
Please refer to the release phases document.
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