Kubernetes v1.35 Release Information

Kubernetes v1.35

Links

• This document
• Release Team
• Meeting Minutes (members of release-team@ receive meeting invites)
• v1.35 Release Calendar
• Contact: #sig-release on slack, release-team on e-mail
• Internal Contact Info (accessible only to members of release-team@)

Tracking docs

• Enhancements Tracking Board
• Feature blog Tracking Board
• Bug Triage Tracking Board
• CI Signal Project Board & Issue Tracking
• Retrospective Document
• kubernetes/kubernetes v1.35 milestone

Guides

• Targeting Issues and PRs to This Milestone
• Triaging and Escalating Test Failures

Summary

The v1.35 release cycle is as follows:

• Monday 15th September 2025: Week 1 — Release cycle begins
• Thursday 9th October 2025 (AoE) / Friday 10th October 2025, 12:00 UTC: Week 4 — Production Readiness Freeze
• Thursday 16th October 2025 (AoE) / Friday 17th October 2025, 12:00 UTC: Week 5 — Enhancements Freeze
• Thursday 30th October 2025 (AoE) / Friday 31st October 2025, 12:00 UTC: Week 7 — Feature blog freeze
• Thursday 6th November 2025 (AoE) / Friday 7th November 2025, 12:00 UTC: Week 8 — Code Freeze and Test Freeze
• Monday 10th - Thursday 13th November 2025: Week 9 - KubeCon NA
• Tuesday 2nd December 2025 (AoE) / Wednesday 3rd December 2025, 12:00 UTC: Week 12 — Docs Freeze
• Wednesday 17th December 2025: Week 14 — Kubernetes v1.35.0 released

Note on AoE deadlines:

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

Phases

Please refer to the release phases document.