Not to get into a discussion regarding what constitutes a "Release" for any specific project, whether it's tagging, pushing, announcing[0], updating documentation, creating release notes, publish a release blog post and so on.

A final build of 1.3 was tagged with an accompanying changelog and announcement post. I found it weird that it had no more ceremony, nor any prior submission on hn, and as it had been announced through the kubernetes-announce mailing list for 17 hours, I figured its existence would be interesting to the community, so I submitted it in good faith.

In any case, kudos to everybody working on it and congratulations on the release, whether it's this week or the next.

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-announce/...