# Velero Community Meeting and Open Discussion Notes

_This doc is meant to serve as the "one doc to rule them all" for Velero community meetings and open discussions._

_Join our [Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/projectvelero) to get updates on the project and invites to community meetings._

_**Community meeting schedule**:_

- Bi-weekly community meeting alternating every week between Beijing Friendly timezone and EST/Europe Friendly Timezone ([Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=[e-mail]), [iCal](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/6e41fca3d22f24b2890fdbfc6b17f75dd97885a8d9ed9dab642355bdee598add%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics)) - [Update contact](mailto:[e-mail])
- Beijing/US friendly [📞Zoom](https://broadcom.zoom.us/j/98794146767?pwd=1LNCVX15G7UyiVvJs1IlJyEbkDa8tO.1) - we start at 8am Beijing Time(bound to CST) / 8pm EDT(7pm EST) / 5pm PDT(4pm PST) / 2am CEST(1am CET) - [Convert to your time zone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=09:00&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29)
- US/Europe friendly [📞Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/dyr-djtj-sko) - we start at 10am ET(bound to ET) / 7am PDT(7am PST) / 4pm CEST (3pm CET) / 10pm/11pm CST - [Convert to your time zone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=17:00&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29)

_You can find recordings of these meeting [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bmigfV0EqQRysvqvqOtRNk4L5S7uqwM)._

Archives of older meeting notes
* https://hackmd.io/@jonasrosland/SyV22skpL - Archive 2019
* https://hackmd.io/ukRqw4IxRNeXFwoYmp4iJQ - Archive 2020
* [Achived notes 2021](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Velero-Community-Meeting-and-Open-Discussion-Notes--2021)
* https://hackmd.io/or-hIzhbRwaB-vjsxs-qnw - Archive 2022
* https://hackmd.io/Jq6F5zqZR7S80CeDWUklkA - Archive 2023
* https://hackmd.io/bxrvgewUQ5ORH10BKUFpxw - Archive 2025

Add your request, question or suggestion to [our issue list](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues)

_If you have anything you'd like to put on the agenda, please do so below for the next meeting:_

## RoadMap - on-going
Link: https://hackmd.io/iQy7XmPOT0y8lrCuAFL4PQ

# Feb 2, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Daniel Jiang
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Steven Ren (Broadcom)

### Status
1.17.2: Released on Jan 16.
1.18: FC target Jan 16. Two open issues https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18

- Scott
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9505
- Closed initial PR. Instead of a server arg to allow user-defined actions, we will add an action called "custom". The action "parameters" field will need to be looked at to distinguish between different custom actions. I will submit a design PR later today.

- Shubham
- Working on:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9512
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9515

### Discussion Topic
- Daniel
- Velero will be donated to CNCF
- Request will be submitted on Feb 10
- Repository address will be changed
- Yonghui
- 1.18 will cut branch this week
- Fixes need to cherry-pick
- Which Kubernetes version has Redhat tested/verified?

# Jan 28, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Joseph Antony (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18: FC on Jan 16. Post FC test is ongoing.
1.18.1: Some inmportant issues have been identified https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
- Scott
- Backup hangs in queued status
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9493
- Merged today

### Discussion Topic
- Xun
- CLI cannot support the added GLOB wildcard characters https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9495
- Yonghui
- AI generated PR policy

# Jan 20, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.2: Released on Jan 16.
1.18: FC target Jan 16. Two open issues https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18

### Discussion Topics

# Jan 14, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.2: RC.2 is on Jan 13. GA is on Jan 16.
1.18: FC target Jan 16. No open tasks https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18

### Discussion Topics
- Yonghui
- Resource Policy ehancements
- Filter enhancement
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9448
- Job restore policy
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/8884#discussion_r2609292904

# Jan 6, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.2: RC is on 5 Jan. No open issues https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3Atarget%2F1.17.2
1.18: FC target Jan 16. Open tasks https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18

### Discussion Topics

# Dec 31, 2025 (China/US)
Canceled

# Dec 23, 2025 (US/Europe)
Canceled

# Dec 17, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.2: RC is on 5 Jan. No open issues https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3Atarget%2F1.17.2
1.18: FC target Dec 24. Open tasks https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18

- Shubham
- Updated PR for Add PVC-to-Pod cache to improve volume policy performance: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9441

### Discussion Topics
- Yonghui
- Do we need to delay FC?
- Do we need to cancel meeting on 23rd and 31st?
- Policy for AI generated PRs

# Dec 9, 2025 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Priyansh Choudhary (Microsoft)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18: FC is on 24 Dec. Open tasks https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18

Scott's Parallel Backup processing PR was merged ! https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307

- Shubham
- PRs ready for review:
- Sanitize Azure BSL errors: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9321
- Add PVC-to-Pod cache to improve volume policy performance https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9441
- Maint metric PR merged: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9414
- Tiger
- addressing testing comment from Xun for 1.18 PR.
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9141
### Discussion Topics
* priyansh - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9186

# Dec 3, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- wes hayutin (red hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18: FC is on 24 Dec. Opening tasks https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18

- Yonghui
- Tasks for cache volume are all completed. Running function testing
- Review parallel backup PR and have one opening comment https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307#discussion_r2579907160, see if we can further improve the reconcile logics
- Review wildcard ns PR, approved
- Review maitenance metrics PR and have one opening comment https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9414#discussion_r2544241164
- Scott
- Parallel backup
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307
- Responded to feedback
- In the process of resolving conflicts with the wildcard namespace merge, will re-test tomorrow and update the PR
- Xun
- Reviewed wildcarc ns PR.
- Review BSL with secret-based CA
- Review velero install support kubectl apply
- Work on removing VolumeSnapshotClass from backup

- Shubham
- PRs ready for review:
- Add maint metrics: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9414
- Sanitize Azure BSL errors: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9321
- Draft PR up for Add PVC-to-Pod cache to improve volume policy performance https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9441

### Discussion Topics
* wes - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9097

# Nov 25, 2025 (US/Europe)

### Attendees
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Priyansh Choudhary (Microsoft)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
Shubham:
- Working on Velero 1.18 issues:
- Add maint metrics: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9414
- Sanitize Azure BSL errors: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9321
Tiger: pr reviews

### Discussion Topics

Priyansh
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9377

# Nov 19, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
- Parallel backup processing
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307
- Review and revision ongoing

- Shubham
- Ready for Review:
- Add Prometheus metrics for maintenance jobs: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9414
- Apply volume policies to VolumeGroupSnapshot PVC filtering: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9419
- Sanitize Azure HTTP responses in BSL status messages: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9321
- Tiger
- R4Review
- [Design proposal for handling restoration of Kubernetes Jobs #8884
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/8884)
- [feat: add apply flag to install command #9132
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9132)
- [Design: namespace selection by label selector #9223
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9223)
- [Add VolumePolicy support for Pending PVC Phase conditions #9166
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9166)
### Discussion Topics

# Nov 11, 2025 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Joseph Antony (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago
- Priyansh Choudhary (Microsoft)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin(Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.1: GA is on Nov 7.
1.18: Feature Freeze on Oct 29.

Joseph
- Wildcard namespaces design merged, thank you
- Wildcard namespaces implementation ready to [review](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9255)

Scott
- PodVolumeRestore configmap broken
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9372
- Fix merged on main and release-1.17
- Parallel backup processing
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307
- Awaiting further review

Shubham:
- Merged fixes on main for [Velero fails to handle resources with generateName added by RestoreItemAction plugins](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9392)
- CP for 1.17.2 remains
- Working on fix for [VolumeGroupSnaphosts don't respect VolumePolicies](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9344)

Tiger:
- new velero:main bug [RepoService.Open should not be called during PrepareRepo for existing repo. #9400
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9400)
- fix pr from lyndon: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9407/
### Discussion Topics

Priyansh
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9377

Wes
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9350

# Nov 5, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.1: RC.1 created on Nov 4, and GA is on Nov 7.
1.18: Feature Freeze on Oct 29.

Yonghui
- 1.18 work items
- PR review
Scott
- PodVolumeRestore configmap broken
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9372
- fix posted: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9389
- Parallel backup processing
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307
- Awaiting further review
- Tiger
- Ready for Review: Wildcard namespaces design [Link](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9057)
- Triaged issues/cleared 1.18-candidates
- fixed velero-dev reminders
- Shubham
- Need reviews on
- Fix managed fields patch for resources using GenerateName: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9367
- Track actual resource names for GenerateName in restore status: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9368

### Discussion Topics

# Nov 1, 2025 (US/Europe)
### Attendees

### Status
1.17.1: GA on Nov 7.
1.18: Feature Freeze on Oct 29.

### Discussion Topics

# Oct 28, 2025 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.1: FC on Oct 24, and GA is on Nov 7. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue label%3Atarget%2Fv1.17.1.

1.18: Feature Freeze on Oct 29. Last turn review on candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18-candidate.

Scott
- Parallel backup processing
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307
- Under review. Responded to first round of comments
- Incremental DU/PVB upload size reporting
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9357
- Merged this morning

Shubham:
- Fix managed fields patch for resources using GenerateName: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9367
- Track actual resource names for GenerateName in restore status: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9368

### Discussion Topics

# Oct 22, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Joseph A (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Wes Hayutin(Red Hat)

### Status
1.17.1: FC on Oct 24, and GA is on Nov 7. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue label%3Atarget%2Fv1.17.1.

1.18: Feature Freeze on Oct 29. Last turn review on candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18-candidate.

Yonghui
- 1.18 work items
- PR review

Joseph
- Design PR for Wildcard namespaces: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9057
- Label cleanup issue PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9206
- Backup Cancellation: Not 1.18?

Scott
- Parallel backup processing
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9307
- Under review. Responded to first round of comments
- Incremental DU/PVB upload size reporting
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9357

Shubham:

- Working on Sanitize Azure HTTP responses in BSL status messages: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9321
- Which option to go with for the VGS with VolumePolicy issue:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9344

Tiger:
- Need review [Design proposal for handling restoration of Kubernetes Jobs #8884
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/8884)
- [Select namespace to include by its labelSelector #7492
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7492) has new comments to use --resourcepolicy, will update design

### Discussion Topics
Yonghui
- Any 1.18-candidate issues need to highlight?
- Tiger, mpryc PR needs review [Fix #8132: managed fields failure during Restore #8133
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/8133)

https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9012