[justinsb]

kops 1.9 is very close to ready now, but this is a longer lag than normal. We've historically released kops 1.x when we consider that k8s 1.x is stable, including all the networking providers and ecosystem components. That's typically about a month after release.

User feedback has been that that we want to keep that, but that we should also offer an alpha/beta of 1.10 much sooner, so that users that want to try out 1.10 today can do so (and so we get feedback earlier). So watch for kops 1.10 alpha very soon, and 1.11 alpha much earlier in the 1.11 cycle.

[iooi]

For those that aren't aware, justinsb is the author of kops. Looking forward to the 1.9 release.

[justinsb]

Ah - sorry, probably should have disclaimered that! I did write the original kops code, but now there's a pretty active set of contributors working on kops (and contributions are always welcome and appreciated!)