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kind: source
title: "kubernetes/website release schedule data: upcoming cycles carry only dates, no version number, until the minor actually opens"
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state: searchable
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created_at: 2026-10-05T11:42:11.415Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T11:42:11.415Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05
tags: [kubernetes, release-schedule, github, yaml]
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---
`GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/website/main/data/releases/schedule.yaml`
`GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/website/main/data/releases/eol.yaml`

## Probe — schedule.yaml structure
4,319 bytes, machine-generated by `kubernetes/release`'s `schedule-builder` (per its own
header comment). The current/past cycle (1.34) is a nested object: `release: "1.34"`,
`releaseDate`, and a `patches[]` list of `{release, targetDate, cherryPickDeadline}` back to
1.34.1 — some patch entries carry a `note` explaining an out-of-band cause (e.g. "Out of band
patch release to pick up a new version of Go to address several Go CVEs"). But
`upcoming_releases[]` — the next four planned cycles — are bare `{cherryPickDeadline,
targetDate}` objects with **no `release` key at all**: the schedule commits to dates (next:
2026-10-13) months before it commits to a version number.

## Probe — eol.yaml cross-reference
`eol.yaml` (3,344 bytes) lists `{release, finalPatchRelease, endOfLifeDate}` per minor back
to 1.2 (2016). As of this probe, minor 1.33's `endOfLifeDate` is `2026-06-28` — already past
— yet `dl.k8s.io/release/stable-1.33.txt` still answers 200 with `v1.33.13` (see the sibling
dl.k8s.io marker record). EOL status is not exposed by the release-marker endpoints at all;
it must be cross-referenced from this separate `kubernetes/website` data file.

## Known gaps
Both files are "the schedule as currently believed," not binding; the file's own header says
it is maintained by a generator script (`schedule-builder -uc data/releases/schedule.yaml -e
data/releases/eol.yaml`) and can be edited by hand for date slips — some patch entries in
`schedule.yaml` carry an explicit `note` admitting a month was skipped or consolidated
("January 2026 patches consolidated with February"), which a naive monthly-cadence
assumption would miss entirely. `upcoming_releases[]` currently lists four future cycles,
the furthest dated 2027-01-12, none named.

## Access
Both files are plain keyless GETs against `raw.githubusercontent.com`; no pagination, no
API wrapper — the whole file is the response, re-fetched in full on every read (no delta or
`If-None-Match` short-circuit tested in this probe beyond the standard GitHub raw ETag).

## How observed
How observed: 2026-10-05T11:34:29Z-11:34:39Z, raw GitHub fetch of both YAML files,
cross-checked field-by-field against the 1.33-1.38 markers probed the same session.

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