[ANNOUNCEMENT] ❄️ v1.34 Enhancements Freeze ❄️ in Effect / Upcoming Key Dates

[Jenny Shu]

Hi, Kubernetes community!

🧊 Enhancements Freeze 🧊 began at 21:00 UTC Friday 20th June 2025

Enhancements stats for v1.34: 

▶️ Enhancements opted-in for v1.34: 97

▶️ Enhancements tracked for v1.34: 71

⏹️ Enhancements removed from milestone after freeze: 9

Any KEPs that wish to join the v1.34 release must now have an approved Exception. Once approved, Enhancements will be entered into the tracking board by the Enhancements team. If you plan to submit an Exception request, please submit it as soon as possible.

For those with accepted Enhancements, please continue linking all k/k and k/website PRs to your k/enhancements tracking issue.

Upcoming Key Dates:

- Thursday 3rd July 2025: Week 7 - Docs deadline - Open placeholder PRs

- 02:00 UTC Friday 11th July 2025 / 19:00 PST Thursday 10th July 2025: Week 8 -  Feature blog freeze

- 02:00 UTC Friday 25th July 2025 / 19:00 PDT Thursday 24th July 2025: Week 10 -  Code Freeze and Test Freeze

- Tuesday 29th July 2025: Week 11 - Docs deadline - PRs ready for review

- Tuesday 29th July 2025: Week 11 - Release Highlights deadline

- Wednesday 6th August 2025: Week 12 - Docs Freeze

- Wednesday 27th August 2025: Week 15 - Kubernetes v1.34.0 Release Date

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Enhancements team at #enhancements or Release Team at #sig-release

Thank you! 

Jenny Shu,

v1.34 Enhancements Lead