release: v21.2.6

[bananabrick]

Candidate SHA: c7cfac57476f06e3154b2fc38e77982a8bbc64c2 Deployment status: Awaiting Qualification (SREOPS-4236) Make and Publish Build: #1637 Qualify Build: #1321 Publish Cockroach Release: WIP EDIT ME WIP.

Working Tags:

• Build ID: v21.2.5-53-gc7cfac5747
• staging-* tag: WIP EDIT ME WIP. (alpha/beta only)

Release process checklist

Prep date: Tuesday, Feb 15

• [x] 2. Pick a SHA

• [x] fill in Candidate SHA above

• [ ] fill in staging-* Tag above (alpha/beta only)

• [x] fill in Build ID above

• [x] fill in Make and Publish Build above

• [x] fill in Qualify Build above

• [x] 3. Announce the release to releases@

• [x] 4. Ask SRE to run the build on some CC clusters

5-8: Qualify the Release. See Release Qualification

• Short-running Checks:
• [x] 5-8. Verify node crash reports

Do not proceed below until the release date.

Release date: Tuesday, Feb 22

• [x] 9. Publish Cockroach Release
• [x] Acked security@ and release-engineering-team@ on the generated AWS S3 bucket write alert to confirm these writes were part of a planned release
• [x] 10. Check binaries
• [ ] 11. Remove staging branch / tags from repository
• [x] 12. Announce the release is cut to releases@
• [x] 13. Update version numbers
• For production or stable releases in the latest major release series only (in August 2020, this is the v20.1 series):
• [x] Update Brew Recipe
• [x] Update Orchestrator configurations:CRDB
• [x] Update Orchestrator configurations:Helm Charts
• For all production or stable releases:
• [x] Create a ticket in the Dev Inf tracker to update the Red Hat Container Image Repository
• [x] After docs are updated Announce version to registration cluster
• [x] Update version map in bin/roachtest (all stable releases) and regenerate test fixtures (only major release)
• [ ] 14. Update docs (handled by Docs team)
• [ ] 15. External communications for release (handled by Marketing team)

Cleanup:

• [ ] Remove staging branch / tags from repository

Jira issue: CRDB-13185

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