Kubernetes 1.31 Release Information
Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
Kubernetes 1.31
Links
- This document
- Release Team
- Meeting Minutes (members of [release-team@] receive meeting invites)
- v1.31 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 v1.31 milestone
Guides
Summary
The 1.31 release cycle is as follows:
- Monday 13th May 2024: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- Thursday 6th June 2024: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
- 02:00 UTC Friday 14th June 2024 / 19:00 PDT Thursday 13th June 2024: Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
- 02:00 UTC Wednesday 10th July 2024 / 19:00 PDT Tuesday 9th July 2024: Week 9 — Code Freeze
- 01:00 UTC Wednesday 31st July 2024 / 19:00 PDT Tuesday 30th July 2024: Week 12 — Test Freeze
- Tuesday 30th July 2024: Week 12 — Docs Freeze
- Tuesday 13th August 2024: Week 14 — Kubernetes v1.31.0 released
Timeline
What | Who | When | Week | CI Signal |
---|---|---|---|---|
Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 13th May 2024 | week 1 | [master-blocking] |
Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 13th May 2024 | week 1 | |
Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 17th May 2024 | week 1 | |
Team finalized | Lead | Friday 17th May 2024 | week 1 | |
Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 28th May 2024 | week 3 | |
1.31.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 4th June 2024 | week 4 | |
Production Readiness Freeze | Enhancements Lead | Thursday 6th June 2024 | week 4 | |
Begin [Enhancements Freeze] | Enhancements Lead | 02:00 UTC Friday 14th June 2024 / 19:00 PDT Thursday 13th June 2024 | week 5 | [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
1.31.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 18th June 2024 | week 6 | |
Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 27th June 2024 | week 7 | |
Begin Friday APAC-friendly meetings | Lead | Friday 28th June 2024 | week 7 | |
Call for [Exceptions][Exception] | Lead | Monday 1st July 2024 | week 8 | |
Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Release Signal | Monday 1st July 2024 | week 8 | |
1.31.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 2nd July 2024 | week 8 | |
Begin Feature blog freeze | Comms Lead | 02:00 UTC Wednesday 3rd July 2024 / 19:00 PDT Tuesday 2nd July 2024 | week 8 | |
Begin [Code Freeze] | Branch Manager | 02:00 UTC Wednesday 10th July 2024 / 19:00 PDT Tuesday 9th July 2024 | week 9 | |
Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms | Thursday 11th July 2024 | week 9 | |
Preparing for Feature blogs review — Initiating outreach | Comms | Monday 15th July 2024 | week 10 | |
1.31.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 16th July 2024 | week 10 | |
Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 16th July 2024 | week 10 | |
Begin [Burndown] (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | Monday 22nd July 2024 | week 11 | |
Major Themes deadline | Comms | Tuesday 23rd July 2024 | week 11 | |
Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 23rd July 2024 | week 11 | |
Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | 02:00 UTC Wednesday 24th July 2024 / 19:00 PDT Tuesday 23rd July 2024 | week 11 | |
Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Friday 26th July 2024 | week 11 | |
Burndown Meetings daily (Tuesday & Thursday over Slack) | Lead | Monday 29th July 2024 | week 12 | |
[Test Freeze] | Branch Manager | 01:00 UTC Wednesday 31st July 2024 / 19:00 PDT Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 12 | |
release-1.31 branch created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 12 | |
release-1.31 jobs created | Branch Manager | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 12 | |
1.31.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 12 | [1.31-blocking], [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
Docs Freeze | Docs Lead | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 12 | |
Major Themes complete | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 6th August 2024 | week 13 | |
1.31.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 6th August 2024 | week 13 | |
Release Notes complete — reviewed & merged to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes | Release Notes Lead | Tuesday 13th August 2024 | week 14 | |
v1.31.0 released | Branch Manager | Tuesday 13th August 2024 | week 14 | [1.31-blocking], [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
Release blog published | Comms | Tuesday 13th August 2024 | week 14 | |
[Thaw] | Branch Manager | Tuesday 13th August 2024 | week 14 |
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