[URGENT] Final call for v1.34 Enhancements

[Vyom Yadav]

Ahoy Everyone!

We are one week away[0] from the v1.34 Enhancements Freeze: 21:00 UTC Friday 20th June 2025 / 14:00 PST Friday 20th June 2025. This email is a FINAL REMINDER for the enhancements freeze.

If you are expecting to enter an enhancement into v1.34 that has not yet been
added to the enhancements project board[1], please reach out to your
sponsoring SIG as a matter of urgency to have them opt it in. 

If you have an enhancement opted-in to the release, please check the project board for the
latest status:

• Tracked: means that the enhancement has met all criteria
• At Risk: means that the enhancement has NOT yet met all criteria
• Pending Inclusion / no status: means that the enhancements team has not yet reviewed it

The release enhancements team is actively reviewing all outstanding
enhancements. Please ping your enhancements coordinator for more specific
updates.

As a reminder: by enhancements freeze, we require that all enhancements in the
release meet the following criteria:

• Have a GitHub Issue in the k/enhancements GitHub repository[2]
• Have a merged KEP in k/enhancements GitHub repository[2] that:

• • Is marked as "implementable" for "latest-milestone: 1.34"
  • Have all relevant sections of the KEP completed
  • Have a test plan
  • Have graduation criteria
  • Have an approved production readiness review[3]

Enhancements missing this deadline will require an exception[4].

As of the time of writing, we have 95 enhancements on the tracking board, of which:

• 27 are "Tracked"
• 62 are "At Risk"
• 6 are "Deferred"

By SIG, these enhancements are (including Deferred):

• api-machinery: 9
• apps: 4
• auth: 12
• autoscaling: 2
• instrumentation: 2
• network: 5
• node: 31
• scheduling: 20
• storage: 7
• windows: 1
• cli: 2

If your SIG is not listed here, then it has not opted in for any enhancements for
the v1.34 release.

If you need any clarification, please don't hesitate to reach out in
#release-enhancements on the Kubernetes Slack workspace[5].

Yours Truly,

Vyom Yadav

Kubernetes v1.34 Release Lead on behalf of the Release Team

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.34/README.md
[1]: https://bit.ly/k8s134-enhancements
[2]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements
[3]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-architecture/production-readiness.md
[4]: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/EXCEPTIONS.md
[5]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C02BY55KV7E