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# 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=6e41fca3d22f24b2890fdbfc6b17f75dd97885a8d9ed9dab642355bdee598add@group.calendar.google.com), [iCal](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/6e41fca3d22f24b2890fdbfc6b17f75dd97885a8d9ed9dab642355bdee598add%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics)) - [Update contact](mailto:tiger@redhat.com)
- 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

# Apr 28, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.1: GA is planned for 7 May 
1.18.1 RC is released https://github.com/velero-io/velero/releases/tag/v1.18.1-rc.1 
1.19: Feature freeze is planed on late Jun, FC is late Aug. https://github.com/velero-io/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.19 

Beijing team will be on holiday on 1~5 May.

- Shubham
    - Start working on 1.19 issues
        - Velero Server Default Restore Resource Modifier https://github.com/velero-io/velero/issues/9719 
    - PR reviews 
- Tiger
    - {%preview https://github.com/cncf/foundation/pull/1381 %}
        - waiting to confirm w/ maintainers on :
            > [ ] The maintainer(s) also created or updated their LFX Individual Dashboard profile.
 [ ] You've sent an email with the list of email address(es) to cncf-maintainer-changes@cncf.io for invitations to Service Desk and mailing lists. You can just mark this complete if you are only removing people.
     - please review [winget support by adding zip to releases](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9589/)

Discussion Topics:
- CBT Updates as of today:
    - CBT design is merged 
    - CBT interfaces merged 
    - CBT bitmap implementation is ready for review: https://github.com/velero-io/velero/pull/9736


# Apr 22, 2026 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Joseph Antony (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.1: GA is planed on 7 May, RC is at this week.https://github.com/velero-io/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Atarget%2F1.18.1 
1.19: Feature freeze is planed on late Jun, FC is late Aug. https://github.com/velero-io/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.19 

Beijing team will be on holiday on 1~5 May.

- Yonghui
    - Block data mover deisgn is merged
    - Breaking down block data mover tasks
    - Started some of the tasks related to CBT
- Tiger
    - Triaging my 1.19 issues to milestone

- Joseph
    - https://github.com/velero-io/velero/pull/9558
    - https://github.com/velero-io/velero/pull/9684
    - https://github.com/velero-io/velero/pull/9697
    - https://github.com/velero-io/velero/pull/9720

- Shubham
    - Triaging 1.19 candidate issues, moving to milestone if needed


### Discussion Topics



# Apr 14, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Joseph Antony (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
                                                                                                     
### Status
1.18.1: RC.1 is pl                anned to end of Apr. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Atarget%2F1.18.1
1.19: Finished 1st round candidate review. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

Scott
- Custom volume policy PRs merged

Joseph
- [Fix wildcard expansion when includes is empty and excludes has wildcards](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9684)
- [Log warning ](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9558)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9697

Tiger 
- Reviewing candidates for milestone
- Fixed go mod imports via CI job for filepaths
    - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9553 and similar for 1.18

Shubham
- Got Velero 1.18.1 PRs merged
    - VGS fixes 
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9516 
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9695
- PR reviews

### Discussion Topics
- From Wes: keep up to date with upstream CBT

# Apr 7, 2026 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Joseph Antony (Red Hat)
### Status
1.18.1: RC.1 is planned to end of Apr. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Atarget%2F1.18.1
1.19: Finished 1st round candidate review. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Yonghui
    - Block data mover deisgn is ready to merge https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9528
    - Remove restic from data path
- Scott
    - Volume policy 
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9540 (merged on main)
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9678 (release-1.18 cherrypick)
- Shubham
    - Reviews needed
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9516
- Xun
    - Reviews needed
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9670

### Discussion Topics


# Mar 31, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Priyansh Choudhary (Microsoft)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.1: Candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
1.19: Collecting candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Scott
    - Volume policy 
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9540 
- Tiger
    - Reviewed/tested Block Data Mover
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9528

# Mar 23, 2025 (China/US)

Canceled

# Mar 17, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.1: Candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
1.19: Collecting candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Scott
    - Awaiting reviews for volume policy custom action type
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9540 
    - Ongoing discussion on VSS fast polling fix
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9602
        - Current discussion seems to point at different solutions for 1.18.1 and 1.19
        - For 1.18.1, modify current PR to avoid changing CRD. Replace server flag and velero CRD field with env var, keep install flag as-is.
        - For 1.19, use watches instead of polling, although it's not clear how this would be implemented in the plugin process.

- Shubham 
    - Reviews needed
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9516

### Discussion Topics

# Mar 11, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Joseph Antony (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.0: GA on Mar 6.
1.18.1: Candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
1.19: Collecting candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Yonghui
    - 1.18.0 release
    - PR for 1.18.1 tasks
    - Block data mover design
- Scott
    - CSI issue with Microsoft VSS
        - With VSS, there's an automatic fs unfreeze after 5 seconds. With 5-second SnapHandle polling, this means if a workload has 2 volumes, the unfreeze could happen while taking snapshot rather than in the post hook. Fix is to poll every one second for the first 10 seconds, then every 5 seconds (as before) until timeout
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9601
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9602
- Shubham
    - Reviews needed
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9516
- Tiger
    - opened [deprecation discussion for bsl.cacert](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/9600) per deprecation policy + migration to bsl.cacertRef using secret
        - discussion to continue offline
    - opened PR to discuss [toleration whitelist removal](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9575)
        - tiger to check/reuse nodeagent configuration doable

### Discussion Topic
- Xun
    - Security issue with Algolia
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9595

# Mar 3, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.0: RC.2 was released on Mar 3.
1.18.1: Candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
1.19: Collecting candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Scott
    - Custom volume policy actions
        - Design PR has 3 approvals, so it should be good to merge: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9520
        - Draft PR for implementation is posted, will test it today and move to ready for review: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9540
- Tiger
    - CBT, still working on getting test environment up. Sent design PR feedback, we would like to mention tested vendors for phase 1 (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9528/changes)

### Discussion Topic


# Feb 25, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)

### Status
1.18.0: RC.1 was released on Feb 11. Checking if RC.2 is required.
1.18.1: Candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
1.19: Collecting candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Yonghui
    - 1.18.0 RC.1 release
    - PR for 1.18.1 tasks
    - Block data mover design
- Scott
    - Custom volume policy actions
        - Design PR still under review, but I think I've addressed all the comments: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9520
        - Draft PR for implementation is posted: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9540

### Discussion Topic
- Yonghui
    - Block data mover supports CBT of volume snapshot retention
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9528#issuecomment-3952903981
            - Red Hat will check Ceph/Public cloud requirements. want 2 CBT storage support (vSphere Data Center, Ceph) in 1.19.0


# Feb 17, 2026 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.0: RC.1 was released on Feb 11.
1.18.1: Candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
1.19: Collecting candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Scott
    - Custom volume policy actions
        - Design PR still under review: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9520
        - Draft PR for implementation is posted: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9540
- Shubham
    - Ready for review: Fix VolumeGroupSnapshot restore failure with Ceph RBD CSI driver https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9516
- Tiger
    - Reviewed changed block tracking design
    - Looking to k8s repos to unblock CBT
### Discussion Topic


# Feb 10, 2025 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Joseph Antony (Red Hat)

### Status
1.18.0: RC.1 is targeted on Feb 11. One open issues https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3Av1.18
1.18.1: Candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.18.1-candidate
1.19: Collecting candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A1.19-candidate

- Yonghui
    - 1.18.1 issues
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9532
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9533
    - Block data mover design
        - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9528
- Scott
    - custom volume policy action
        - Design PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9520
        - I've started working on implementation based on the design PR
- Tiger
    - cherrypick 1.18 volumepolicy pvc phase: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9537

- Joseph
    - Wildcard bug fix: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9502

- Shubham
    - Ready for review: Fix VolumeGroupSnapshot restore failure with Ceph RBD CSI driver https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/9516

### Discussion Topic
- Yonghui
    - Block data mover and 1.19 plan


# 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