Release of v19.0.0

[systay]

This release is scheduled for Wed 6 Mar 2024
The release of vitess-operator v2.12.0 is also planned

Prerequisites for Release

• Notify the community on Slack.
• Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean.
• Make sure backport Pull Requests are merged, list below.
  • [release-19.0] Planner Bug: Joins inside derived table (#14974) #15177
  • VtctldClient Reshard: add e2e tests to confirm CLI options and fix discovered issues. #15353
  • SHOW VITESS_REPLICATION_STATUS: Only use replication tracker when it's enabled #15348
  • prevent vtctld from creating tons of S3 connections #15296
  • bugfix: Normalizing literals in SELECT is broken #15043
  • [release-19.0] [vtctldclient] Add GetShardReplication (#15389) #15390
  • [release-19.0] onlineddl_scheduler test: fix flakiness in artifact cleanup test (#15396) #15399
  • [release-19.0 backport] Mysqld: capture mysqlbinlog std error output (#15278) #15379
  • [release-19.0] CI: Address data races on memorytopo Conn.closed (#15365) #15371
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.0 #15359
  • [release-19.0] Upgrade the Golang version to go1.22.1 #15406
  • [release-19.0] Ensure to use latest golangci-lint (#15413) #15414
  • [release-19.0] Make connection killing resilient to MySQL hangs #15411
  • [release-19.0] Bump to v19.0.1-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.0 release #15418
• Make sure release blocker Issues are closed, list below.
• Draft the release blog post.
• Send requests to cross-post the blog post (CNCF, PlanetScale).

Pre-Release

• Code Freeze.
  • [release-19.0] Code Freeze for v19.0.0 #15358
• Create Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.0 #15359
• Create new GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/53
• Update vitess-operator Golang version.
  • [release-2.12] Update Golang version to v1.22.0 planetscale/vitess-operator#535
• Open a Pull Request on the website repository for the blog post.

Release

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.0 #15359
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v19.0.0
• Java release.
• Create vitess-operator Release PR.
• Manual update of vitess-operator test code.
• Update release notes on main.
  • Copy v19.0.0 release notes on main #15417
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-19.0] Bump to v19.0.1-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.0 release #15418
• Merge the blog post Pull Request on the website repository.
• Update the website documentation.
• Make sure the release is benchmarked by arewefastyet.
• Docker Images available on DockerHub.
• Close current GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/40

Post-Release

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