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# KubeVirt Pre-release Checklist

A KubeVirt release entails a variety of tasks to complete in concert with the release tagging.

| Event or time Before Release (BR) | Tasks to initiate | SIGs responsible |
|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| Beta 0 | Prepare unconference for next version development cycle | All SIGs |
| Feature Freeze | Gather scale & performance data | SIG-scale |
| | Prepare schedule for subsequent version | SIG-release |
| After FF | Unconference | All SIGs |
| RC 0 | Categorise release notes and create User Guide PR with /hold | Docs |
| | Draft release highlights blog | Community |
| | - Check for outstanding feature docs PRs | Docs and relevant SIGs |
| 1 week BR | Collect SIG sign-offs on blog | SIGs-compute, network, storage, scale, etc |
| | Publish scale & performance data | SIG-scale |
| 1 day BR | Ensure docs and blog PRs are approved | Docs and relevant SIGs |
| | Update release notes for any last-minute bugfixes | Docs & SIG-release |
| GA | Email to mailing list | SIG-release |
| | Publish/unhold release notes and blog | Docs and Community |
| | Promote through social media | Community |
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# KubeVirt 1.5 Release Schedule

| **When** | **Milestone** | **KubeVirt** | **KubeVirt CI** | **Kubernetes** |
|--------------|--------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------|
| **November** | | | | |
| 2024-11-05 | | | | Tag 1.32.0-beta.0 |
| 2024-11-19 | | | Start the 1.32 provider | |
| **December** | | | Add on-demand pre-submit | |
| 2024-12-11 | Kubernetes Release | | | 1.32.0 release |
| 2024-12-18 | Alpha 0 (1.5) | Tag v1.5.0-alpha.0 | | |
| **January** | | | | |
| 2025-01-08 | | | CI lanes for provider are voting | |
| 2025-01-15 | Beta 0 | Tag v1.5.0-beta.0 | Mandatory pre-submit | |
| **February** | | | | |
| 2025-02-12 | Feature Freeze | Branch release-1.5 | | |
| 2025-02-19 | RC 0 | Tag v1.5.0-rc.0 on release-1.5 | | |
| 2025-02-26 | RC 1 | Tag v1.5.0-rc.1 on release-1.5 | | |
| **March** | | | | |
| 2025-03-05 | GA | Tag v1.5.0 on release-1.5 | | |
| **When** | **Milestone** | **KubeVirt** | **KubeVirt CI** | **Kubernetes** | **Release Checklist** |
|--------------|--------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------|------------------------------|
| **November** | | | | | |
| 2024-11-05 | | | | Tag 1.32.0-beta.0 | |
| 2024-11-19 | | | Start the 1.32 provider | | |
| **December** | | | Add on-demand pre-submit | | |
| 2024-12-11 | Kubernetes Release | | | 1.32.0 release | |
| 2024-12-18 | Alpha 0 (1.5) | Tag v1.5.0-alpha.0 | | | |
| **January** | | | | | |
| 2025-01-08 | | | CI lanes for provider are voting | | |
| 2025-01-15 | Beta 0 | Tag v1.5.0-beta.0 | Mandatory pre-submit | | Prep unconference |
| **February** | | | | | |
| 2025-02-12 | Feature Freeze | Branch release-1.5 | | | Perf-scale<br>v1.6 schedule |
| 2025-02-19 | RC 0 | Tag v1.5.0-rc.0 on release-1.5 | | | Rel notes & blog |
| 2025-02-26 | RC 1 | Tag v1.5.0-rc.1 on release-1.5 | | | |
| **March** | | | | | |
| 2025-03-05 | GA | Tag v1.5.0 on release-1.5 | | | Publish docs |

[Full release checklist](../release-checklist.md)