Exception Request for PRR Freeze

[Yuan Wang]

Hi all,

I would like to request an exception for PRR freeze for the enhancement of RestartAllContainers. Sorry I forgot to update the target stage for 1.36 in the PR, I already patched it to track for beta for 1.36. The enhancement PR is already open and has an LGTM. 

• Enhancement name: Restart all containers on container exits
• Enhancement status (alpha/beta/stable): Beta
• SIG: node 
• k/enhancements repo issue #: 5532 
• PR #’s: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/5821
• Additional time needed (in calendar days, due end of day AoE): 1
• Reason this enhancement is critical for this milestone: We'd like to graduate this feature to beta and the JobSet API team depends on this for more benchmarking and user intake. 
• Risks from adding code late: n/a
• Risks from cutting enhancement: n/a

Best regards,

Yuan

[Sergey Kanzhelev]

lgtm from SIG Node perspective.

/Sergey

[Ryota]

Hi all,

The release team is APPROVING this exception request for KEP-5532 based on the discussion in the Slack thread[0]. We see all the PRR requirements are met with the open PR.

Thanks,
Ryota Sawada
v1.35 Release Team Lead

[0] https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C2C40FMNF/p1770332257613679

[Ryota]

Hi all,

The release team is APPROVING this exception request for KEP-5823 based on the discussion in the Slack thread[0]. We see all the PRR requirements are met with the open PR.

Thanks,
Ryota Sawada
v1.36 Release Team Lead

[0] https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C2C40FMNF/p1770375628584429

On Friday, 6 February 2026 at 10:02:12 UTC Radostin Stoyanov wrote:

Hi all,

We would like to request an exception to the PRR freeze for KEP-5823 Pod-level Checkpoint/Restore. A few hours before the deadline, we were missing a PRR approver. Kevin has confirmed that he is happy to help us with the review, and we have updated the KEP.

• Enhancement name: Pod-Level Checkpoint/Restore
• Enhancement status (alpha/beta/stable): alpha
• WG: wg-checkpoint-restore
• k/enhancements repo issue #: 5823
• PR #’s: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/5851

• Additional time needed (in calendar days, due end of day AoE): 1

• Reason this enhancement is critical for this milestone: We would like to provide the minimal set of CRI interfaces for the Pod-level Checkpoint/Restore functionality. These CRI changes would enable the development of the Pod checkpoint/restore functionality in runtimes such as CRI-O and containerd.

• Risks from adding code late: n/a
• Risks from cutting enhancement: n/a

Many thanks,

Radostin

[Radostin Stoyanov]