In preparation for pre-release. Here an initial (incomplete) list of tasks to prepare before pre-releasing:

[x] Draft changelog from commits list (see docs/releasing-workflow-instructions.md)
[x] Check important changes 🚨
[x] Devops check (⚠️ devops)
[x] e2e testing check
[x] Pre-release summary
[x] Pre-release assessment

Motivation

tail features of Athena
new/fixes on e2e
Important fixes ITISFoundation/osparc-simcore#3476 🚨

Devops check (⚠️ devops)

From DK @mrnicegyu11 : Looks good, please feel free to release at your discretion after checking if @Surfict also gives green light

e2e testing check

Tue.: @sanderegg extended timeouts
Wed. @odeimaiz modified e2e scripts
Thu. mostly green
Fri.

Commits (in order)

NOTE: that stating_Athena1 failed and stating_Athena2 is one commit below, therefore ✨ Start/Stop services 2 (#3637) enters in this release.

Draft Changelog


## Added / Changed / Fixed Features

- ♻️ Login: refactoring websever.login plugin (2/3) (#3590)
- ✨ Autoscaling: have only one ec2 client (#3643)
- ♻️ Dy-Services: Refactor dy-sidecar output directories event detection (#3476) 🚨
- ✨ Dy-Services: Start/Stop services 2 (#3637)
- 🐛 UI: Avoid duplicated new buttons (#3648)

## Security / Maintenance Plaform & Infrastructure

- 🔨 e2e: Voila (and TIP) (#3651)
- 🔨 e2e: publications (#3650)
- 🔨 e2e: double timeout when running optimizer (#3641)
- 🔨 e2e: close Preparing Inputs window (#3642)
- 🔨 Fixes public-api tests (#3649)
- ⬆️ Maintenance: Upgrade python-socketio + flakyness (… (#3631)
- ⬆️ Maintenance: upgrades tests and tools of non-``services`` (#3640)

**Legend**

- ✨ New feature
- 🐛 Fixes bugs
- ♻️ Refactors code
- ⬆️ Upgrades dependencies
- 🔒️ Fixes security issues
- 🔨 Adds or updates development scripts or CI.
- 🚨 Important change. REQUIRES target testing before releasing to production. Steps to test appended as ``[TODO:  ... ]``
- 📌 can be cherry-picked to production

Pre-release summary

what: make release-staging name=athena version=3 git_sha=dfa049a29100f120d1a253f9ef8b9303ee923a79
- NOTE that staging_Athena2 was already consumed!
who: @Surfict @mrnicegyu11
when: FRIDAY Dec. 8 Morning.

ITISFoundation / osparc-issues

🚀 Pre-release master -> staging_Athena3 #795