Kubernetes 1.25 Release Information
Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
Kubernetes 1.25: Combiner
Kubernetes 1.25 is named Combiner, to the combined force capable of changing the world!
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (members of release-team@ receive meeting invites)
- v1.25 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 v1.25 milestone
Guides
Summary
The 1.25 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 23rd May 2022: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 16th June 2022: Week 4 — Production Readiness Soft Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Friday 24th June 2022 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 23rd June 2022 : Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- Wednesday 27th July 2022: Week 10 — Release Retrospective part 1
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 3rd August 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 2nd August 2022: Week 11 — Code Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 10th August 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 9th August 2022: Week 12 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 16th August 2022: Week 13 — Docs must be completed and reviewed
- Tuesday 23rd August 2022: Week 14 — Kubernetes v1.25.0 released
- TBC: Week 16 — Release Retrospective part 2
Timeline
| What | Who | When | Week | CI Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KubeCon EU | May 16-20 2022 | week 0 | ||
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 23rd May 2022 | week 1 | master-blocking |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 23rd May 2022 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 27th May 2022 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday 27th May 2022 | week 1 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 7th June 2022 | week 3 | |
| 1.25.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 15th June 2022 | Week 4 | |
| Production Readiness Soft Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 16th June 2022 | week 4 | |
| Begin Enhancements Freeze | Enhancements Lead | 01:00 UTC Friday 24th June 2022 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 23rd June 2022 | week 5 | master-blocking, master-informing |
| 1.25.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 28th June 2022 | Week 6 | |
| Begin Friday APAC-friendly meetings | Lead | Friday 8th July 2022 | Week 7 | |
| 1.25.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 19th July 2022 | Week 9 | |
| Begin Burndown (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 25th July 2022 | week 10 | 1.25-blocking, master-blocking, master-informing |
| Call for Exceptions | Lead | Monday 25th July 2022 | week 10 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | Monday 25th July 2022 | week 10 | |
| Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 27th July 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 26th July 2022 | week 10 | |
| Release retrospective part 1 | Community | 17:00 UTC Wednesday 27th July 2022 / 10:00 PDT Wednesday 27th July 2022 | week 10 | |
| Burndown Meetings daily | Lead | Monday 1st August 2022 | week 11 | |
| Begin Code Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 3rd August 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 2nd August 2022 | week 11 | |
| 1.25.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Thursday 4th August 2022 | week 11 | |
| Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 4th August 2022 | week 11 | |
| Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Thursday 4th August 2022 | week 11 | |
| Test Freeze | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 10th August 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 9th August 2022 | week 12 | |
| Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 9th August 2022 | week 12 | |
| 1.25.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 9th August 2022 | week 12 | |
| release-1.25 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 9th August 2022 | week 12 | |
| release-1.25 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 9th August 2022 | week 12 | |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 9th August 2022 | week 12 | |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 10th August 2022 / 02:00 BST Wednesday 10th August 2022 / 18:00 PDT Tuesday 9th August 2022 | week 12 | |
| Major Themes complete | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 16th August 2022 | week 13 | |
| Docs complete — All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | Tuesday 16th August 2022 | week 13 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Tuesday 16th August 2022 | week 13 | |
| 1.25.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 16th August 2022 | week 13 | |
Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to k/k | Release Notes Lead | 01:00 UTC Friday 19th August 2022 / 02:00 BST Friday 19th August 2022 / 18:00 PDT Thursday 18th August 2022 | week 13 | |
| v1.25.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 23rd August 2022 | week 14 | |
| Release blog published | Comms | Tuesday 23rd August 2022 | week 14 | |
| Thaw | Branch Manager | Tuesday 23rd August 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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