Release of v17.0.0

[mattlord]

This release is scheduled for: Tuesday 27 June 2023.

Pre-Release

• Update the compatibility page
  • vitessio/website#1480
• Notify the community on Slack.
• Add the Backport to: release-17.0 label
• Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean
  • ...
• Move items in the release notes so that important things are on top
• Clean up deprecated flags
• Draft the blog post
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/18f_p-3AG1RuiKb9nfskgFYLeg0doOYDQvdIrO9FafCc/edit#
• Review blog post
• Create a PR for the blog post on the website repository
• Test the operator examples with the latest version of vitess-operator
• Make sure everyone in the release team has access to the Maven release website
• #13152
  • PlanetScale: https://github.com/planetscale/developer-education/issues/257
  • CNCF
• Backport PRs to verify
  • ...
• Must Fix issues
  • ...
• Vitess Operator backport PRs to verify before release of operator
• Follow code-freeze/pre-release instructions from release documentation.

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
• Continue with the Java release following these instructions.
• On the Vitess website repository, update the current and next version variables.
• Merge the 17.0.0 release notes on main.
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)
• Release the operator, v2.10.0.

Post-Release

• Notify the community on Slack.
• Make sure the Java release is available
• Make sure the blog post is published on:
  • PlanetScale
  • CNCF
  • vitess.io
• Benchmarking results
• Tweet both vitess release and operator release
• archive v14.0.0 ???

[frouioui]

This issue will close:

• #12353
• #12354