Kubernetes 1.28 Release Information

Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates, Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!

Kubernetes 1.28

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Summary

The 1.28 release cycle is as follows:

Timeline

What Who When Week CI Signal
Start of Release Cycle Lead Monday 15th May 2023 week 1 master-blocking
Start Enhancements Tracking Enhancements Lead Monday 15th May 2023 week 1
Schedule finalized Lead Friday 19th May 2023 week 1
Team finalized Lead Friday 19th May 2023 week 1
1.28.0-alpha.1 released Branch Manager Tuesday 30th May 2023 Week 3
Start Release Notes Draft Release Notes Lead Tuesday 30th May 2023 week 3
Production Readiness Freeze Enhancements Lead Thursday 8th June 2023 week 4
Begin Enhancements Freeze Enhancements Lead 01:00 UTC Friday 16th June 2023 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 15th June 2023 week 5 master-blocking, master-informing
1.28.0-alpha.2 released Branch Manager Tuesday 20th June 2023 Week 6
Begin Friday APAC-friendly meetings Lead Friday 30th June 2023 Week 7
1.28.0-alpha.3 released Branch Manager Thursday 6th July 2023 week 8 1.28-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing
Call for Exceptions Lead Monday 10th July 2023 week 9
Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming Comms / Bug Triage Monday 10th July 2023 week 9
Begin Feature blog freeze Comms Lead 01:00 UTC Wednesday 12th July 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 11th July 2023 week 9
Begin Code Freeze Branch Manager 01:00 UTC Wednesday 19th July 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 18th July 2023 week 10
1.28.0-beta.0 released Branch Manager Thursday 20th July 2023 week 10
Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs Docs Lead Thursday 20th July 2023 week 10
Deprecations and Removals blog published Comms Thursday 20th July 2023 week 10
Begin Burndown (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) Lead Monday 24th July 2023 Week 11
Test Freeze Branch Manager 01:00 UTC Wednesday 26nd July 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 25th July 2023 week 11
Docs deadline — PRs ready for review Docs Lead Tuesday 25th July 2023 Week 11
1.28.0-rc.0 released Branch Manager Tuesday 25th July 2023 week 11
release-1.28 branch created Branch Manager Tuesday 25th July 2023 week 11
release-1.28 jobs created Branch Manager Tuesday 25th July 2023 week 11
Major Themes deadline Comms Tuesday 25th July 2023 week 11
Start final draft of Release Notes Release Notes Lead Tuesday 25th July 2023 week 11
Release blog ready to review Comms / Docs 01:00 UTC Wednesday 26nd July 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 25th July 2023 week 11
Burndown Meetings daily (Tuesday & Thursday over Slack) Lead Monday 31st July 2023 week 12
Major Themes complete Release Notes Lead Tuesday 8th August 2023 week 13
Docs complete — All PRs reviewed and ready to merge Docs Lead Tuesday 8th August 2023 week 13
Feature blogs ready to review Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads Tuesday 8th August 2023 week 13
1.28.0-rc.1 released Branch Manager Thursday 10th August 2023 week 13
Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes Release Notes Lead Tuesday 15th August 2023 week 14
v1.28.0 released Branch Manager Tuesday 15th August 2023 week 14
Release blog published Comms Tuesday 15th August 2023 week 14
Thaw Branch Manager Tuesday 15th August 2023 week 14

Phases

Please refer to the release phases document.