This project is for Knative release leads who need to track and perform a series of steps necessary to release each of the knative.dev components.
The Knative project releases quarterly, on Tuesday of the 4th week of January, April, July, October, represented by the following Crontab expression:
# minute hour day month weekday
0 0 22-28 1,4,7,10 2
NOTE: Minor deviances from above schedule are possible, but they must be accepted by the TOC committee. Exact dates will always be updated in table(s) below.
| Release | Release Date | Release Leads | PKG cut | Unpin repos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.18 | 2025-04-22 | TBD | 2025-04-15 | 2025-04-23 |
| v1.19 | 2025-07-22 | TBD | 2025-07-15 | 2025-07-23 |
| v1.20 | 2025-10-21 | TBD | 2025-10-14 | 2025-10-22 |
The current pool of Knative release lead volunteers are listed in the release roster. If you would like to be a Knative release lead, please open a PR to add your name to the list! Please note: Before volunteering to lead a specific release, please look over the release timeline to ensure your availability during the various checkpoints for that release is going to be a match.
If you would like to make contributions towards a future Knative release, you can take a look at all of the help wanted issue across Knative by looking at CLOTRIBUTOR.
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