Release of v19.0.0-RC1

[systay]

This release is scheduled for Wed 7 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.
  • Add release-19.0 to the auto go upgrade #15157
  • [release-19.0] Correctly set log_dir default in vtcombo (#15153) #15155
  • [release-19.0] Revert unwanted logging change to vttestserver (#15148) #15150
  • [release-19.0] vtadmin onlineddl endpoints (#15114) #15144
  • [release-19.0] make sure to handle unsupported collations well #15143
• Make sure release blocker Issues are closed, list below.

Pre-Release

• Code Freeze.
  • [release-19.0] Code Freeze for v19.0.0-RC1 #15137
• Copy branch protection rules.
• Update the SNAPSHOT version on main.
  • Bump to v20.0.0-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.0-RC1 release #15138
• Create Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.0-RC1 #15139
• Create new GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/52

Release

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.0-RC1 #15139
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v19.0.0-rc1
• Update release notes on main.
  • Copy v19.0.0-RC1 release notes on main #15164
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-19.0] Bump to v19.0.0-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.0-RC1 release #15165
• 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.

[systay]

The vitess operator PR that updates the compatibility version list is here: planetscale/vitess-operator#528

[systay]

Release completed.