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📖 Amend 1.8 release planning
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The following table shows the preliminary dates for the `v1.8` release cycle.
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| **What** | **Who** | **When** | **Week** |
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| Start of Release Cycle | Release Lead | Monday 22nd April 2024 | week 1 |
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| *v1.7.x released* <sup>[1]</sup> | Release Lead | Tuesday 23rd April 2024 | week 1 |
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| Schedule finalized | Release Lead | Friday 26th April 2024 | week 1 |
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| Team finalized | Release Lead | Friday 26th April 2024 | week 1 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 14th May 2024 | week 4 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 11th June 2024 | week 8 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 9th July 2024 | week 12 |
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| v1.8.0-beta.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 16th July 2024 | week 13 |
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| Communicate beta to providers | Release Lead | Tuesday 16th July 2024 | week 13 |
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| v1.8.0-beta.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 23rd July 2024 | week 14 |
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| release-1.8 branch created (**Begin [Code Freeze]**) | Release Lead | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 15 |
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| v1.8.0-rc.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 15 |
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| release-1.8 jobs created | Release Lead | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 15 |
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| v1.8.0-rc.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 6th August 2024 | week 16 |
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| **v1.8.0 released** | Release Lead | Tuesday 13th August 2024 | week 17 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 13th August 2024 | week 17 |
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| Organize release retrospective | Release Lead | TBC | week 17 |
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| **What** | **Who** | **When** | **Week** |
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| Start of Release Cycle | Release Lead | Monday 22nd April 2024 | week 1 |
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| *v1.7.x released* <sup>[1]</sup> | Release Lead | Tuesday 23rd April 2024 | week 1 |
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| Schedule finalized | Release Lead | Friday 26th April 2024 | week 1 |
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| Team finalized | Release Lead | Friday 26th April 2024 | week 1 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 14th May 2024 | week 4 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 11th June 2024 | week 8 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 9th July 2024 | week 12 |
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| v1.8.0-beta.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 16th July 2024 | week 13 |
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| Communicate beta to providers | Release Lead | Tuesday 16th July 2024 | week 13 |
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| v1.8.0-beta.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 23rd July 2024 | week 14 |
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| release-1.8 branch created (**Begin [Code Freeze]**) | Release Lead | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 15 |
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| v1.8.0-rc.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 15 |
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| release-1.8 jobs created | Release Lead | Tuesday 30th July 2024 | week 15 |
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| v1.8.0-rc.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 6th August 2024 | week 16 |
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| **v1.8.0 released** | Release Lead | Monday 12th August 2024 | week 17 |
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| *v1.6.x & v1.7.x released* | Release Lead | Monday 12th August 2024 | week 17 |
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| *v1.8.1 released (tentative)* | Release Lead | Thursday 15th August 2024 | week 17 |
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| Organize release retrospective | Release Lead | TBC | week 17 |
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After the `.0` release monthly patch release will be created.
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After the `.0` the .1 release will be created to ensure faster Kubernetes support after K8s 1.31.0 will be available.
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After the `.1` we expect to release monthly patch release (more details will be provided in the 1.9 release schedule).
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<sup>[1]</sup> Pending Kubernetes `v1.30` release [scheduled for April 17th](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/tree/master/releases/release-1.30). This will be the first release cycle implementing faster Kubernetes support as introduced in [this PR](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/9971/files#diff-2bf0df29da8afa5540cf65166b0b876393482bedef71d023d87835bb1b3ecbcb).
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Note: This release cycle there are some additional constraints for the .1 release due to planned test infra activities;
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as a consequence .1 timeline has been compressed (from 1 week / 10 days delay of the last release cycle down to 2/3 days)
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and maintainers might change plans also last second to adapt to latest info about infrastructure availability.
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## Release team
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