[ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.28 Enhancements Freeze in Effect

[Atharva Shinde]

Hello Kubernetes Community!

The Enhancements freeze for Kubernetes v1.28 release is now in effect from 01:00 UTC Friday, 16th June 2023.

The Enhancements team is currently tracking 55 enhancements for this release.
We had a total of 67 enhancements opted-in to the release, 7 of them are removed from the milestone at the enhancements freeze for missing KEP requirements, 1 deferred to next release and remaining 4 enhancements are waiting to be tracked or removed from the milestone because of minor improvements or have an exception request.

Please see the Enhancements tracking board[1] for more details.

Next Steps for enhancements owners that have their enhancements tracked for the v1.28 release, please continue to link all kubernetes/kubernetes[2] and kubernetes/website[3] pull requests to your kubernetes/enhancements[4] issue for visibility.

Exceptions:

• If your enhancement is removed from the milestone and want it to be included in the tracking process for this release again then please file an exception request[5].
• Any additional enhancements that wish to join the release now must need an exception request[5] as well.

If you plan to submit an exception request, please submit it as soon as possible.

Upcoming dates for the v1.28 release are:

• Code Freeze – 01:00 UTC Friday, 19th July 2023
• Test Freeze – 01:00 UTC Wednesday, 26th July, 2023
• Release Day – Tuesday, 15th August 2023

The full timeline for the v1.28 release cycle can be found here[6].

If you have any questions, please reach out to the enhancements team in #sig-release[7] or #release-enhancements[8] on Slack :)

Cheerio,
Atharva Shinde, v1.28 Enhancements Lead

[1]: https://bit.ly/k8s128-enhancements

[2]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes

[3]: https://github.com/kubernetes/website

[4]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements

[5]: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/EXCEPTIONS.md

[6]: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/tree/master/releases/release-1.28#timeline

[7]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C2C40FMNF

[8]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C02BY55KV7E