release: v 22.1.0-alpha-3

[e-mbrown]

Candidate SHA: c6a5a395cbecbbd5ba77c2c14e3bf68eb59eeb19 Deployment status: Awaiting Qualification (SREOPS-4325) Make and Publish Build: #1679 Qualify Build: #1363 Publish Cockroach Release: WIP EDIT ME WIP.

Working Tags:

• Build ID: v22.1.0-alpha.2-186-gc6a5a395cb
• staging-* tag: staging-v22.1.0-alpha.3. (alpha/beta only)

Release process checklist

Prep date: Tuesday, Mar 8

• [x] 2. Pick a SHA

• [x] fill in Candidate SHA above

• [x] 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

• [ ] 3. Announce the release to releases@

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

5-8: Qualify the Release. See Release Qualification

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

Do not proceed below until the release date.

Release date: Monday, Mar 14

• [ ] 9. Publish Cockroach Release
• [ ] Acked security@ and release-engineering-team@ on the generated AWS S3 bucket write alert to confirm these writes were part of a planned release
• [ ] 10. Check binaries
• [ ] 11. Remove staging branch / tags from repository
• [ ] 12. Announce the release is cut to releases@
• [ ] 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):
• [ ] Update Brew Recipe
• [ ] Update Orchestrator configurations:CRDB
• [ ] Update Orchestrator configurations:Helm Charts
• For all production or stable releases:
• [ ] Create a ticket in the Dev Inf tracker to update the Red Hat Container Image Repository
• [ ] After docs are updated Announce version to registration cluster
• [ ] 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-13622

[blathers-crl[bot]]

Hi @e-mbrown, please add a C-ategory label to your issue. Check out the label system docs.

While you're here, please consider adding an A- label to help keep our repository tidy.

_{:owl: Hoot! I am a Blathers, a bot for CockroachDB. My owner is otan.}

[github-actions[bot]]

We have marked this issue as stale because it has been inactive for 18 months. If this issue is still relevant, removing the stale label or adding a comment will keep it active. Otherwise, we'll close it in 10 days to keep the issue queue tidy. Thank you for your contribution to CockroachDB!