Release of v21.0.0-RC2

[rohit-nayak-ps]

Note

This release is scheduled for Wed 23 Oct 2024.
Release team: @vitessio/release

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Prerequisites (~2 weeks before)

• General prerequisites.
  • Be part of the Release team in the vitessio GitHub organization, here.
  • Be an admin of the planetscale/vitess-operator repository.
  • Have access to Vitess' Java repository and have it working locally, guide here.
  • Have vitessio/vitess and planetscale/vitess-operator cloned in the same parent directory.
• Notify the community on Slack.
• Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean.
• Make sure important Pull Requests are merged, list below.
  • [Direct PR] [release-21.0] Revert Errant GTID detection in vttablets #17019
  • Add support for MultiEqual opcode for lookup vindexes. #16975
  • Change the name of the vitess-tester repository #16917
  • [Direct PR][release-21.0] Add RPC changes segment in the summary doc #17034
  • [release-21.0] Change the name of the vitess-tester repository (#16917) #17030
  • Fix flakiness in TestListenerShutdown #17024
  • [release-21.0] Release of v21.0.0-RC2 #17022
• Make sure release blocker items are closed, list below.

Pre-Release (~1-3 days before)

• Create Release PR. _{^{(We do this earlier to catch any issues in the tool and let CI run.)}}
  • [release-21.0] Release of v21.0.0-RC2 #17022
• Update Cobra Docs.

Release (Wed 23 Oct)

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-21.0] Release of v21.0.0-RC2 #17022
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v21.0.0-rc2
• Update release notes on main.
  • [main] Copy v21.0.0-RC2 release notes #17048
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-21.0] Bump to v21.0.0-SNAPSHOT after the v21.0.0-RC2 release #17049
• Update the website documentation.
• Make sure the release is benchmarked by arewefastyet.
• Docker Images available on DockerHub.
• Check that release artifacts were generated.

Post-Release (Wed 23 Oct)

• Notify the community on Slack for the new release.
• Twitter announcement.
• Remove bypass branch protection rules, if required.
• Close this Issue.

[vitess-bot]

Release completed.