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| 1 | +# Cluster API v1.9 |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## Timeline |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +The following table shows the preliminary dates for the `v1.9` release cycle. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +| **What** | **Who** | **When** | **Week** | |
| 8 | +|------------------------------------------------------|--------------|-----------------------------|----------| |
| 9 | +| Start of Release Cycle | Release Lead | Monday 19th August 2024 | week 1 | |
| 10 | +| Schedule finalized | Release Lead | Friday 23rd August 2024 | week 1 | |
| 11 | +| Team finalized | Release Lead | Friday 23rd August 2024 | week 1 | |
| 12 | +| *v1.7.x & v1.8.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 10th September 2024 | week 4 | |
| 13 | +| *v1.7.x & v1.8.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 8th October 2024 | week 8 | |
| 14 | +| *v1.7.x & v1.8.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 5th November 2024 | week 12 | |
| 15 | +| v1.9.0-beta.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 5th November 2024 | week 12 | |
| 16 | +| Communicate beta to providers | Comms Lead | Tuesday 5th November 2024 | week 12 | |
| 17 | +| Communicate upcoming code freeze to the community | Comms Lead | Tuesday 5th November 2024 | week 12 | |
| 18 | +| KubeCon idle week | --- | --- | week 13 | |
| 19 | +| v1.9.0-beta.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 19th November 2024 | week 14 | |
| 20 | +| release-1.9 branch created (**Begin Code Freeze**) | Release Lead | Tuesday 26th November 2024 | week 15 | |
| 21 | +| v1.9.0-rc.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 26th November 2024 | week 15 | |
| 22 | +| release-1.9 jobs created | Release Lead | Tuesday 26th November 2024 | week 15 | |
| 23 | +| v1.9.0-rc.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 3rd December 2024 | week 16 | |
| 24 | +| **v1.9.0 released** | Release Lead | Tuesday 10th December 2024 | week 17 | |
| 25 | +| *v1.7.x & v1.8.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 10th December 2024 | week 17 | |
| 26 | +| Organize release retrospective | Release Lead | TBC | week 17 | |
| 27 | +| *v1.9.1 released (tentative)* | Release Lead | Tuesday 17th December 2024 | week 18 | |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +After the .0 the .1 release will be created to ensure faster Kubernetes support after K8s 1.32.0 will be available. After the .1 we expect to release monthly patch release (more details will be provided in the 1.10 release schedule). |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +## Release team |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +| **Role** | **Lead** (**GitHub / Slack ID**) | **Team member(s) (GitHub / Slack ID)** | |
| 34 | +|-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------| |
| 35 | +| Release Lead | TBD | TBD | |
| 36 | +| Communications/Docs/Release Notes Manager | TBD | TBD | |
| 37 | +| CI Signal/Bug Triage/Automation Manager | TBD | TBD | |
| 38 | +| Maintainer | TBD | TBD | |
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