Release of v17.0.0

[mattlord]

This release is scheduled for: Tuesday 27 June 2023.

Pre-Release

• [x] Update the compatibility page
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/website/issues/1480
• [x] Notify the community on Slack.
• [x] Add the Backport to: release-17.0 label
• [x] Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13363
• [x] Move items in the release notes so that important things are on top
• [x] Clean up deprecated flags
• [x] Draft the blog post
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/18f_p-3AG1RuiKb9nfskgFYLeg0doOYDQvdIrO9FafCc/edit#
• [x] Review blog post
• [x] Create a PR for the blog post on the website repository
  • [x] https://github.com/planetscale/developer-education/issues/257
• [x] Test the operator examples with the latest version of vitess-operator
• [x] Make sure everyone in the release team has access to the Maven release website
• [x] #13152
  • [x] Vitess.io: https://github.com/vitessio/website/issues/1505
  • [x] PlanetScale: https://github.com/planetscale/developer-education/issues/257
  • [x] CNCF
• [x] Backport PRs to verify
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13358
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13357
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13349
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13346
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13335
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13324
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13278
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13364
• [x] Must Fix issues
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13333
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13339
• [x] Vitess Operator backport PRs to verify before release of operator
• [x] Follow code-freeze/pre-release instructions from release documentation
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13368
• [x] Create final release PRs
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13369
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13370

Release

• [x] Follow the release instructions for release: here
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13386
• [x] Continue with the Java release following these instructions.
• [x] On the Vitess website repository, make sure the docs are updates
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/website/pull/1510
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/website/pull/1513
• [x] Merge the 17.0.0 release notes on main
  • [x] https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13370
• [x] Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)
• [x] Release the operator, v2.10.0.
  • [x] https://github.com/planetscale/vitess-operator/pull/437
  • [x] https://github.com/planetscale/vitess-operator/pull/436
• [x] Build and push the k8s images
  • [x] Vitess: https://hub.docker.com/r/vitess/lite/tags
  • [x] Vitess Operator: https://hub.docker.com/r/planetscale/vitess-operator/tags

Post-Release

• [x] Notify the community on Slack.
• [x] Make sure the Java release is available
• [x] Make sure the blog post is published on:
  • [x] PlanetScale: https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-vitess-17
  • [x] CNCF: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/06/27/announcing-vitess-17/
  • [x] vitess.io: https://vitess.io/blog/2023-06-27-announcing-vitess-17/
• [x] Benchmarking results
• [x] Tweet both vitess release and operator release
• [ ] archive v14.0.0 ???

[frouioui]

This issue will close:

• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/12353
• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/12354

[mattlord]

I'm closing this as done! I will create a separate issue for the v14 deprecation.

[mattlord]

Follow-up issue for v14 EOL: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/13418