Release Management

This section describes the release processes for tracking, preparing, and creating new Cilium releases. This includes information around the release cycles and guides for developers responsible for backporting fixes or preparing upcoming stable releases.

• Organization
  • Release tracking
  • Release Cadence
• Backporting process
  • Backport Criteria
  • Backporting Guide for the Backporter
  • Backporting Guide for Others
• Generic Release Process
  • GitHub template process
  • Reference steps for the template
• Release Candidate Process
  • GitHub template process
  • Reference steps for the template
• Feature Release Process
  • On Freeze date
  • For the final release

The best way to get help if you get stuck is to ask a question on the Cilium Slack channel. With Cilium contributors across the globe, there is almost always someone available to help.