Release of v19.0.0-RC2

[frouioui]

This release is scheduled for Tue 6 Feb 2024

Prerequisites for Release

• Notify the community on Slack.
• Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean.
• Make sure important Pull Requests are merged, list below.
  • [release-19.0] Bump to v19.0.0-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.0-RC2 release #275
• Make sure release blocker Issues are closed, list below.

Pre-Release

• Code Freeze.
  • [release-19.0] Code Freeze for v19.0.0 #270
• Create Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.0-RC2 #273
• Update vitess-operator Golang version.

Release

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.0-RC2 #273
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/frouioui/vitess/releases/tag/v19.0.0-rc2
• Create vitess-operator Release PR.
  • ps://github.com/[release-2.12] Release of v2.12.0-RC2 vitess-operator#6
  • ps://github.com/frouioui/vitess-operator/releases/tag/v2.12.0-rc2
• Update release notes on main.
  • Copy v19.0.0-RC2 release notes on main #274
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-19.0] Bump to v19.0.0-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.0-RC2 release #275
• Update the website documentation.
• Make sure the release is benchmarked by arewefastyet.
• Docker Images available on DockerHub.

Post-Release

• Notify the community on Slack for the new release.
• Twitter announcement.
• Close this Issue.

[frouioui]

Release completed.