This release is scheduled for Monday 6 November 2023.

Pre-Release

• Notify the community on Slack: https://vitess.slack.com/archives/C0PQY0PTK/p1698763715140449
• Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean
• Make sure everyone in the release team meet the pre-requisites for the release
• Make sure all backports are complete
• Do the code freeze and pre release following the instructions.
  • Code freeze PR: Code freeze of release-17.0 #14407
  • Release PR: Release of v17.0.4 #14408
  • Website PR: will be included in the v18 GA docs PR

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
• Fixes to confirm are backported
  • viper: register dynamic config with both disk and live #14453
    • [release-17.0] viper: register dynamic config with both disk and live (#14453) #14454
• Continue with the Java release following these instructions.
• Merge the 17.0.4 release notes on main
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)

Post-Release

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