sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api@v1.7.1/docs/release/releases/release-1.6.md (about) 1 # Cluster API v1.6 2 3 ## Timeline 4 5 The following table shows the preliminary dates for the `v1.6` release cycle. 6 7 | **What** | **Who** | **When** | **Week** | 8 |------------------------------------------------------|--------------|-----------------------------|----------| 9 | Start of Release Cycle | Release Lead | Monday 31st July 2023 | week 1 | 10 | Schedule finalized | Release Lead | Friday 4th August 2023 | week 1 | 11 | Team finalized | Release Lead | Friday 4th August 2023 | week 1 | 12 | *v1.4.x & v1.5.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 29th August 2023 | week 5 | 13 | *v1.4.x & v1.5.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 26th September 2023 | week 9 | 14 | v1.6.0-beta.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 24th October 2023 | week 13 | 15 | Communicate beta to providers | Comms Manager| Tuesday 24th October 2023 | week 13 | 16 | *v1.4.x & v1.5.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 24th October 2023 | week 13 | 17 | v1.6.0-beta.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 31st October 2023 | week 14 | 18 | KubeCon idle week | - | 6th - 10th November 2023 | week 15 | 19 | release-1.6 branch created (**Begin [Code Freeze]**) | Release Lead | Tuesday 21st November 2023 | week 17 | 20 | v1.6.0-rc.0 released | Release Lead | Tuesday 21st November 2023 | week 17 | 21 | release-1.6 jobs created | CI Manager | Tuesday 21st November 2023 | week 17 | 22 | v1.6.0-rc.x released | Release Lead | Tuesday 28th November 2023 | week 18 | 23 | **v1.6.0 released** | Release Lead | Tuesday 5th December 2023 | week 19 | 24 | *v1.4.x & v1.5.x released* | Release Lead | Tuesday 5th December 2023 | week 19 | 25 | Organize release retrospective | Release Lead | TBC | week 19 | 26 27 After the `.0` release monthly patch release will be created. 28 29 ## Release team 30 31 | **Role** | **Lead** (**GitHub / Slack ID**) | **Team member(s) (GitHub / Slack ID)** | 32 |-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------| 33 | Release Lead | Furkat Gofurov ([@furkatgofurov7](https://github.com/furkatgofurov7) ✉️ ️`@Furkat Gofurov`) | Chirayu Kapoor ([@chiukapoor](https://github.com/chiukapoor) ✉️ `@Chirayu Kapoor`) <br> Prajyot Parab ([@Prajyot-Parab](https://github.com/Prajyot-Parab) ✉️ ️`@Prajyot Parab`) <br> Stephen Cahill ([@cahillsf](https://github.com/cahillsf) ✉️ ️`@Stephen Cahill`) | 34 | Communications/Docs/Release Notes Manager | Guillermo Gaston ([@g-gaston](https://github.com/g-gaston) ✉️ ️`@ggaston`) | Michael Shen ([@mjlshen](https://github.com/mjlshen) ✉️ ️`@mishen`) <br> Nikola Prokopić ([@nprokopic](https://github.com/nprokopic) ✉️ ️`@Nikola`) <br> Willie Yao ([@willie-yao](https://github.com/willie-yao) ✉️ ️`@willie`) | 35 | CI Signal/Bug Triage/Automation Manager | Nawaz Hussain Khazielakha ([@nawazkh](https://github.com/nawazkh) ✉️ `@nawazkh`) | Abdur Rehman Shahid ([@razashahid107](https://github.com/razashahid107) ✉️ `@Abdur Rehman Shahid`) <br> Amit Kumar ([@hackeramitkumar](https://github.com/hackeramitkumar) ✉️ `@Amit Kumar`) <br> Anurag ([@kranurag7](https://github.com/kranurag7) ✉️ `@Anurag`) <br> Muhammad Adil Ghaffar ([@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev) ✉️ `@adil`) <br> Sunnat Samadov ([@Sunnatillo](https://github.com/Sunnatillo) ✉️ `@Sunnat`) | 36 | Maintainer | Vince Prignano ([@vincepri](https://github.com/vincepri) ✉️ ️`@vincepri`) |