Release of v19.0.1

[systay]

This release is scheduled for Wed 13 Mar 2024

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.
  • Fix docs for unmanaged tablets #15437
  • Fix view tracking on sharded keyspace #15436
  • bugfix: Normalizing literals in SELECT is broken #15043
  • [release-19.0] Fix docs for unmanaged tablets (#15437) #15474
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.1 #15482
• Make sure release blocker Issues are closed, list below.

Pre-Release

• Code Freeze.
  • [release-19.0] Code Freeze for v19.0.1 #15481
• Create Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.1 #15482
• Create new GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/55

Release

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.1 #15482
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v19.0.1
• Update release notes on main.
  • Copy v19.0.1 release notes on main #15490
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-19.0] Bump to v19.0.2-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.1 release #15491
• 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/53

Post-Release

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

[shlomi-noach]

Release completed.