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19 changes: 10 additions & 9 deletions OWNERS_ALIASES
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# Release Team subproject
release-team-approvers:
- fsmunoz # Release Team Subproject Lead
- katcosgrove # Release Team Subproject Lead
release-team-lead:
- rytswd # v1.36
- dipesh-rawat # v1.37
release-team-lead-shadows:
- aibarbetta # v1.36
- dipesh-rawat # v1.36
- jenshu # v1.36
- rayandas # v1.36
- aibarbetta # v1.37
- Prajyot-Parab # v1.37
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- rayandas # v1.37
- sayanchowdhury # v1.37
communications-subteam-approvers:
- chadmcrowell # v1.36
- SwathiR03 # v1.37
docs-subteam-approvers:
- sayanchowdhury # v1.36
- kernel-kun # v1.37
enhancements-subteam-approvers:
- jmickey #v1.36
- whtssub # v1.37
release-signal-subteam-approvers:
- Prajyot-Parab # v1.36
- adilGhaffarDev # v1.37
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# See the OWNERS docs at https://go.k8s.io/owners

approvers:
- release-team-lead
- release-team-lead-shadows

reviewers:
- communications-subteam-approvers
- docs-subteam-approvers
- enhancements-subteam-approvers
- release-signal-subteam-approvers
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---
title: "Kubernetes v1.37 Release Information"
weight: 98
slug: "release"
aliases: [ "/release" ]
description: |
Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
---

# Kubernetes v1.37

#### Links

* [This document](https://git.k8s.io/sig-release/releases/release-1.37/README.md)
* [Release Team](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.37/release-team.md)
* [Release Links](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.37/links.md)
* [v1.37 Release Calendar](https://rel.k8s.io/release-team-cal)
* [kubernetes/kubernetes v1.37 milestone](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/milestone/70)
* Contact: [#sig-release](https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C2C40FMNF) on
slack, [release-team](mailto:release-team@kubernetes.io) on e-mail

#### Guides

* [Targeting Issues and PRs to This Milestone](https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-release/release.md)
* [Triaging and Escalating Test Failures](https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-testing/testing.md#troubleshooting-a-failure)

## Summary

The v1.37 release cycle is proposed as follows:

- **Monday 18th May 2026**: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
- **Tuesday 9th June 2026 (AoE) / Wednesday 10th June 2026, 12:00 UTC**: Week 4 — [Production Readiness Freeze][Production Readiness Freeze]
- **Tuesday 16th June 2026 (AoE) / Wednesday 17th June 2026, 12:00 UTC**: Week 5 — [Enhancements Freeze][Enhancements Freeze]
- **Thursday 18th - Friday 19th June 2026**: Week 5 — KubeCon India
- **Thursday 9th July 2026 (AoE) / Friday 10th July 2026, 12:00 UTC**: Week 8 — [Feature blog freeze][Feature blog freeze]
- **Wednesday 22nd July 2026 (AoE) / Thursday 23rd July 2026, 12:00 UTC**: Week 10 — [Code Freeze][Code Freeze] and [Test Freeze][Test Freeze]
- **Wednesday 29th - Thursday 30th July 2026**: Week 11 — KubeCon Japan
- **Wednesday 5th August 2026 (AoE) / Thursday 6th August 2026, 12:00 UTC**: Week 12 — [Docs Freeze][Docs Freeze]
- **Wednesday 26th August 2026**: Week 15 — Kubernetes v1.37.0 released

> [!NOTE]
> Deadlines are expressed in "Anywhere on Earth" (AoE) time. This means the date ends when the calendar day finishes in the last timezone on Earth (UTC-12).
> Example: A deadline of Thursday, Oct 16 (AoE) gives contributors their full Thursday everywhere in the world. The cutoff therefore would be Friday, Oct 17 at 12:00 UTC.

## Timeline

| **What** | **Who** | **When** | **Week** | **Release Signal** |
|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | Monday 18th May 2026 | week 1 | [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | Monday 18th May 2026 | week 1 | |
| Schedule finalized | Lead | Friday 22nd May 2026 | week 1 | |
| Team finalized | Lead | Friday 22nd May 2026 | week 1 | |
| Begin APAC-friendly meetings | ALL | Wednesday 27th May 2026 | week 2 | |
| Start Release Notes Draft | Docs Lead | Wednesday 3rd June 2026 | week 3 | |
| Call for PRR and Enhancement Freeze [Exceptions] | Lead | Thursday 4th June 2026 | week 3 | |
| v1.37.0-alpha.1 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 10th June 2026 | week 4 | |
| **Begin [Production Readiness Freeze]** | Enhancements Lead | Tuesday 9th June 2026 (AoE) / Wednesday 10th June 2026, 12:00 UTC | week 4 | |
| **Begin [Enhancements Freeze]** | Enhancements Lead | Tuesday 16th June 2026 (AoE) / Wednesday 17th June 2026, 12:00 UTC | week 5 | |
| **KubeCon India** | | Thursday 18th - Friday 19th June 2026 | week 5 | |
| v1.37.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 24th June 2026 | week 6 | |
| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Release Signal | Monday 29th June 2026 | week 7 | |
| Docs deadline — Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | Thursday 2nd July 2026 (AoE) / Friday 3rd July 2026, 12:00 UTC | week 7 | |
| v1.37.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 8th July 2026 | week 8 | |
| Begin [Feature blog freeze] - Open placeholder PRs | Comms Lead | Thursday 9th July 2026 (AoE) / Friday 10th July 2026, 12:00 UTC | week 8 | |
| Call for Code Freeze [Exceptions] | Lead | Monday 13th July 2026 | week 9 | |
| v1.37.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 15th July 2026 | week 9 | |
| **Begin [Code Freeze] and [Test Freeze]** | Branch Manager | Wednesday 22nd July 2026 (AoE) / Thursday 23rd July 2026, 12:00 UTC | week 10 | |
| **Begin [Burndown]** (Meetings on Mon / Wed / Fri) | ALL | Monday 27th July 2026 | week 11 | |
| Deprecations and Removals blog published | Comms Lead | Monday 27th July 2026 | week 11 | |
| Docs deadline — PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | Tuesday 28th July 2026 | week 11 | |
| Release Highlights deadline | Comms Lead | Tuesday 28th July 2026 | week 11 | |
| **KubeCon Japan** | | Wednesday 29th - Thursday 30th July 2026 | week 11 | |
| Feature blogs ready to review | Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | Monday 3rd August 2026 | week 12 | |
| **Burndown Meetings daily (Tue & Thu over Slack)** | ALL | Monday 3rd August 2026 | week 12 | |
| release-1.37 branch created | Branch Manager | Wednesday 5th August 2026 | week 12 | |
| release-1.37 jobs created | Branch Manager | Wednesday 5th August 2026 | week 12 | |
| v1.37.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 5th August 2026 | week 12 | [1.37-informing], [1.37-blocking], [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
| Start final draft of Release Notes | Docs Lead | Wednesday 5th August 2026 | week 12 | |
| **[Docs Freeze]** | Docs Lead | Wednesday 5th August 2026 (AoE) / Thursday 6th August 2026, 12:00 UTC | week 12 | |
| Release blog ready to review | Comms / Docs | Thursday 13th August 2026 (AoE) / Friday 14th August 2026, 12:00 UTC | week 13 | |
| v1.37.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | Wednesday 19th August 2026 | week 14 | |
| Release Notes complete | Docs Lead | Wednesday 26th August 2026 | week 15 | |
| **v1.37.0 released** | Branch Manager | Wednesday 26th August 2026 | week 15 | |
| Release blog published | Comms Lead | Wednesday 26th August 2026 | week 15 | |
| [Thaw] | Branch Manager | Wednesday 26th August 2026 | week 15 | |
| Feature blog publication starts | Comms Lead | Thursday 27th August 2026 | week 15 | |

## Phases

Please refer to the [release phases document](../release_phases.md).

[Production Readiness Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#prr-freeze

[Enhancements Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#enhancements-freeze

[Burndown]: ../release_phases.md#burndown

[Code Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#code-freeze

[Exceptions]: ../release_phases.md#exceptions

[Thaw]: ../release_phases.md#thaw

[Test Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#test-freeze

[Docs Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#docs-freeze

[Feature blog freeze]: ../release_phases.md#feature-blog-freeze

[master-blocking]: https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-release-master-blocking#Summary

[master-informing]: https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-release-master-informing#Summary

[1.37-blocking]: https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-release-1.37-blocking#Summary

[1.37-informing]: https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-release-1.37-informing#Summary

[release-team@]: https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/release-team

[k/k]: https://code.k8s.io
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# Links

Each header below (and their hidden ID tagging) creates the `rel.k8s.io/v137` navigation.

## <a id="releasemtg"></a> Release Meeting

_To be updated_

## <a id="enhancements"></a> Enhancements Tracking

_To be updated_

## <a id="bugtriage"></a> Bug Triage

_To be updated_

## <a id="cisignal"></a> CI Signal

_To be updated_

## <a id="retro"></a> Release Retrospective

_To be updated_

## <a id="contacts"></a> Contacts

_To be updated_
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# Kubernetes v1.37 Release Team

| **Team/Role** | **Lead Name** (**GitHub / Slack ID**) | **Shadow Name(s) (GitHub / Slack ID)** |
|-------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Release Team Lead | Dipesh Rawat ([@dipesh-rawat](https://github.com/dipesh-rawat) / Slack: `@Dipesh`) | Agustina Barbetta ([@aibarbetta](https://github.com/aibarbetta) / Slack: `@aibarbetta`), Prajyot Parab ([@Prajyot-Parab](https://github.com/Prajyot-Parab) / Slack: `@Prajyot Parab`), Rayan Das ([@rayandas](https://github.com/rayandas) / Slack: `@rayandas`), Sayan Chowdhury ([@sayanchowdhury](https://github.com/sayanchowdhury) / Slack: `@yudocaa`) |
| Enhancements | Subhasmita Swain ([@whtssub](https://github.com/whtssub) / Slack: `@subhasmita`) | |
| Communications | Swathi Rao ([@SwathiR03](https://github.com/SwathiR03) / Slack: `@Swathi Rao`) | |
| Release Signal | Muhammad Adil Ghaffar ([@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev) / Slack: `@muhammad adil ghaffar`) | |
| Docs | Tushar Mittal ([@kernel-kun](https://github.com/kernel-kun) / Slack: `@kernel-kun`) | |
| Branch Manager | Agustina Barbetta ([@aibarbetta](https://github.com/aibarbetta) / Slack: `@aibarbetta`) | |

Review the [Release Managers page](https://github.com/kubernetes/website/blob/main/content/en/releases/release-managers.md) for up-to-date contact information on Release Engineering personnel.

The schedule for all patch releases can be found at [Patch Releases page](https://github.com/kubernetes/website/blob/main/content/en/releases/patch-releases.md). It will be updated to include v1.37, once the v1.37 release cycle concludes.