Kubernetes 1.24 Release Information
Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
Kubernetes 1.24
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (members of release-team@ receive meeting invites)
- v1.24 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 v1.24 milestone
Guides
Summary
The 1.24 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 10th January 2022: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 27th January 2022: Week 3 — Production Readiness Soft Freeze
- 02:00 UTC Friday 4th February 2022 / 18:00 PST Thursday 3rd February 2022 : Week 4 — Enhancements Freeze
- Wednesday 23rd March 2022: Week 11 — Release Retrospective part 1
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 30th March 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 30th March 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 29th March 2022: Week 12 — Code Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 6th April 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 6th April 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 5th April 2022: Week 13 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 12th April 2022: Week 14 — Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Tuesday 19th April 2022: Week 15 — Kubernetes v1.24.0 released
- Wednesday 27th April 2022: Week 16 — Release Retrospective part 2
- Thursday 28th April 2022: Week 16 — Release Retrospective part 3
Timeline
| What | Who | When | Week | CI Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 10th January 2022 | week 1 | master-blocking |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 10th January 2022 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 14th January 2022 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday 14th January 2022 | week 1 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 25th January 2022 | week 3 | |
| Production Readiness Soft Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 27th January 2022 | week 3 | |
| 1.24.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 1st February 2022 | Week 4 | |
| Begin Enhancements Freeze | Enhancements Lead | 02:00 UTC Friday 4th February 2022 / 18:00 PST Thursday 3rd February 2022 | week 4 | master-blocking, master-informing |
| 1.24.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 15th February 2022 | Week 6 | |
| (most of) North America enters Daylight Savings Time | Sunday 13th March 2022 | |||
| Begin Burndown (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 21st March 2022 | week 11 | 1.24-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Monday 21st March 2022 | week 11 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Monday 21st March 2022 | week 11 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 23rd March 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 22nd March 2022 | week 11 | |
| 1.24.0-alpha.4 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 22nd March 2022 | Week 11 | |
| Release retrospective part 1 | Community | 17:00 UTC Wednesday 23rd March 2022 / 10:00 PDT Wednesday 23rd March 2022 | week 11 | |
| (most of) Europe enters Daylight Savings Time | Sunday 27th March 2022 | |||
| Burndown Meetings daily | Lead | Monday 28th March 2022 | week 12 | |
| Begin Code Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 30th March 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 30th March 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 29th March 2022 | week 12 | |
| 1.24.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 30th March 2022 | week 12 | |
| Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 31st March 2022 | week 12 | |
| Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Thursday 31st March 2022 | week 12 | |
| Test Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 6th April 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 6th April 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 5th April 2022 | week 13 | |
| Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 5th April 2022 | week 13 | |
| 1.24.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 5th April 2022 | week 13 | |
| release-1.24 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 5th April 2022 | week 13 | |
| release-1.24 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 5th April 2022 | week 13 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 5th April 2022 | week 13 | |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 6th April 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 6th April 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 5th April 2022 | week 13 | |
| Docs complete — All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Tuesday 12th April 2022 | week 14 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Tuesday 12th April 2022 | week 14 | |
Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to k/sig-release | Release Notes Lead | 01:00 UTC Friday 15th April 2022 / 02:00 BST Friday 15th April 2022 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 14th April 2022 | week 14 | |
| 1.24.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Friday 15th April 2022 | week 14 | |
| v1.24.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 19th April 2022 | week 15 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Tuesday 19th April 2022 | week 15 | |
| Thaw | Branch Manager | Tuesday 19th April 2022 | week 15 | |
| Release retrospective part 2 (Time TBC) | Community | Wednesday 27th April 2022 | week 16 | |
| Release retrospective part 3 (Time TBC) | Community | Thursday 28th April 2022 | week 16 |
Phases
Please refer to the release phases document.
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