Knative release

This project is for Knative release leads who need to track and perform a series of steps necessary to release each of the knative.dev components.

Release schedule

The Knative project releases quarterly, on Tuesday of the 4th week of January, April, July, October, represented by the following Crontab expression:

# minute   hour   day      month        weekday
0          0      22-28    1,4,7,10     2

NOTE: Minor deviances from above schedule are possible, but they must be accepted by the TOC committee. Exact dates will always be updated in table(s) below.

Release schedule for 2025

Release	Release Date	Release Leads	PKG cut	Unpin repos
v1.19	2025-07-22	TBD	2025-07-15	2025-07-23
v1.20	2025-10-21	TBD	2025-10-14	2025-10-22

Release schedule for 2026

Release	Release Date	Release Leads	PKG cut	Unpin repos
v1.21	2026-01-20	TBD	2026-01-13	2026-01-27

Release leads

The current pool of Knative release lead volunteers are listed in the release roster. If you would like to be a Knative release lead, please open a PR to add your name to the list! Please note: Before volunteering to lead a specific release, please look over the release timeline to ensure your availability during the various checkpoints for that release is going to be a match.

Contributing

If you would like to make contributions towards a future Knative release, you can take a look at all of the help wanted issue across Knative by looking at CLOTRIBUTOR.