This release is scheduled for Friday 28 July 2023.

Pre-Release

• Notify the community on Slack.
• Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean
• Add Bug Report: upgrade to v16 from v15 blocks on semi-sync #13426 to known issues @frouioui
  • Update known issues in v16.x and v17.0.0 #13618
• Make sure everyone in the release team meet the pre-requisites for the release
• Make sure all backports are complete
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/34
  • [release-17.0] Examples: only terminate vtadmin if it was started (#13433) #13443
  • [release-17.0] Fix a number of encoding issues when evaluating expressions with the evalengine (#13509) #13551
  • [release-17.0] Fix flaky vtgate test TestInconsistentStateDetectedBuffering (#13560) #13575
  • [release-17.0] Flaky tests: Fix race in memory topo (#13559) #13577
  • [release-17.0] fix TestQueryTimeoutWithTables flaky test (#13579) #13586
  • [release-17.0] ignore all error for views in engine reload (#13590) #13594
  • Backport v17: Replace deprecated github.com/golang/mock with go.uber.org/mock #13512 #13601
  • [release-17.0] fix: error.as method usage to send pointer to the reference type expected (#13496) #13610
  • check keyspace snapshot time if none specified for backup restores #13557 (still on main)
  • [release-17.0] Optimize release notes generation to use GitHub Milestones (#13398) #13622
  • [release-17.0] Ensure to call servenv.Init when needed (#13638) #13643
• Do the code freeze and pre release following the instructions.
  • Release PR: Release of v17.0.1 #13653

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
• Continue with the Java release following these instructions.
• Merge the 17.0.1 release notes on main
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)
• Release the operator, v2.10.1.

Post-Release

• Notify the community on Slack.
• Benchmarking results
• Tweet both vitess release and operator release