2024 Annual Report: WG LTS

Current initiatives and Project Health

What work did the WG do this year that should be highlighted?
- Kubernetes Upgrade Survey
  - Kubernetes Upgrade Survey responses
  - Analysis
- Kubecon presentations / discussions
  - Kubernetes Contributor Summit EU 2024 - Viability of Kubernetes community LTS
- Success stories / cautionary tales from upgrades
- Compatibility / Emulation version
  - KEP-4330
- Kubernetes regressions / backports
  - Strengthened Kubernetes backport requirements
  - Tracked data on Kubernetes regressions
- Ecosystem support / compatibility
  - Monitored and engaged in discussions around containerd 2.0 / 1.7 support
    - https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/9833
    - https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/9879
  - Engaged with the Go project on runtime compatibility
    - 1.21: added Go compatibility version support for 2 years
      - https://go.dev/doc/godebug
      - GODEBUG settings added for compatibility will be maintained for a minimum of two years (four Go releases).
    - 1.23: separated compatibility defaults from language version
      - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65573
Are there any areas and/or subprojects that your group needs help with (e.g. fewer than 2 active OWNERS)?

Not currently

Operational tasks in wg-governance.md:

README.md reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
WG leaders in sigs.yaml are accurate and active, and updated if needed
Meeting notes and recordings for 2024 are linked from README.md and updated/uploaded if needed
Updates provided to sponsoring SIGs in 2024
- SIG Architecture
  - Success stories / cautionary tales broadcast
  - Compatibility mode broadcast
- SIG Cluster Lifecycle
  - no specific updates
- SIG K8s Infra
  - no specific updates
- SIG Release
  - no specific updates
- SIG Security
  - no specific updates
- SIG Testing
  - no specific updates