Istio Release 1.8

Timeline

All dates are tentative

• Branch Cut/Feature Freeze: October 20th, 2020. Branched off SHA 600d5b5fa294ed2db681479021be00f7e95d6a5e
• Community Test Week #1: October 21st, 2020
• Community Test Week #2: October 28th, 2020
• Code Freeze: November 2nd, 2020
• Release Date: November 10th, 2020

Release Managers

• Greg Hanson (IBM): @GregHanson
• Peter Bian (Google): @bianpengyuan

Release Notes

Release Notes are now generated automatically as part of the release process. When submitting a PR with new, user facing changes, the PR should include a Release Note following the steps here.

How do I get my changes into the release?

On October 20th, the release-1.8 branch will be created, based on master. Any changes on master before this date will be included in the release. Any changes after will have to be cherry picked.

To get a PR merged into the release branch, it must first be merged into the master branch. PRs can automatically be cherrypicked by typing by adding the cherrypick/release-1.8 label to the PR.

A PR on the release branch will only be approved if:

• The change is already on master.
  • exception: if a change only applies to the release branch, and should not go to master, a change can be submitted directly to the release branch, but please note this in the PR description.
• The change is a bug fix, documentation enhancement, or testing enhancement.
  • Changes that are risky may require a feature flag, especially after the 1.8.0 release.
  • Any change not meeting the above, such as a new feature or API, may require TOC approval.

Note: on the istio.io repo, changes should go directly to master until after the 1.8.0 launch. The changes will appear on preliminary istio.io.

Useful links to release managers

• Release Management wiki
• 1.8 original timeline document