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Moving forward from beta blog post: clarify 9 month window
The 9 month window can be more explicitly translated to "three releases", which may not always nine month (like for v1.19.0). This should avoid confusion when users try to find out which release should be targeted for the graduation to stable. Signed-off-by: Sascha Grunert <[email protected]>
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## Avoiding permanent beta
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For Kubernetes REST APIs, when a new feature's API reaches beta, that starts a countdown.
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The beta-quality API now has **nine calendar months** to either:
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The beta-quality API now has **three releases** (about nine calendar months) to either:
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- reach GA, and deprecate the beta, or
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- have a new beta version (_and deprecate the previous beta_).
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To be clear, at this point **only REST APIs are affected**. For example, _APIListChunking_ is
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a beta feature but isn't itself a REST API. Right now there are no plans to automatically
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deprecate _APIListChunking_ nor any other features that aren't REST APIs.
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If a REST API reaches the end of that 9 month countdown, then the next Kubernetes release
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will deprecate that API version. There's no option for the REST API to stay at the same
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beta version beyond the first Kubernetes release to come out after the 9 month window.
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If a beta API has not graduated to GA after three Kubernetes releases, then the
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next Kubernetes release will deprecate that API version. There's no option for
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the REST API to stay at the same beta version beyond the first Kubernetes
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release to come out after the release window.
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### What this means for you
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