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
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (members of release-team@ receive meeting invites)
- v1.28 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 v1.28 milestone
Guides
Summary
The 1.28 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 15th May 2023: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 8th June 2023: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Friday 16th June 2023 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 15th June 2023(https://everytimezone.com/s/cc15bd3a): Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 19th July 2023 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 18th July 2023: Week 10 — Code Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 26nd July 2023 / 17:00 PDT Tuesday 25th July 2023: Week 11 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 8th August 2023: Week 13 — Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Tuesday 15th August 2023: Week 14 — Kubernetes v1.28.0 released
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.
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