Release of v20.0.0-RC2

[shlomi-noach]

Note

This release is scheduled for Thu 20 Jun 2024.
The release of vitess-operator v2.13.0-RC2 is also planned.
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.
  • [release-20.0-rc] Handle Nullability for Columns from Outer Tables (#16174) #16186
  • [release-20.0-rc] fix: rows affected count for multi table update for non-literal column value (#16181) #16182
  • VDiff CLI: Fix VDiff show bug #16177
  • feat: add a LIMIT 1 on EXISTS subqueries to limit network overhead #16153
  • [release-20.0-rc] feat: add a LIMIT 1 on EXISTS subqueries to limit network overhead (#16153) #16192
  • VReplication Workflow: set state correctly when restarting workflow streams in the copy phase #16217
  • [release-20.0-rc] VDiff CLI: Fix VDiff show bug (#16177) #16199
  • VReplication: handle escaped identifiers in vschema when initializing sequence tables #16169
  • [release-20.0-rc] VReplication Workflow: set state correctly when restarting workflow streams in the copy phase (#16217) #16223
  • [release-20.0-rc] VReplication: handle escaped identifiers in vschema when initializing sequence tables (#16169) #16218
  • Use new way of specifying test files to the vitess-tester #16233
  • [release-20.0-rc] Release of v20.0.0-RC2 #16225
• Make sure release blocker items are closed, list below.

Pre-Release (~1-3 days before)

• Create Release PR.
  • [release-20.0-rc] Release of v20.0.0-RC2 #16225
• Update vitess-operator Golang version.

Release (Thu 20 Jun)

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-20.0-rc] Release of v20.0.0-RC2 #16225
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v20.0.0-rc2
• Create vitess-operator Release PR.
  • [release-2.13] Release of v2.13.0-RC2 planetscale/vitess-operator#565
  • https://github.com/planetscale/vitess-operator/releases/tag/v2.13.0-rc2
• Manual update of vitess-operator test code.
• Update release notes on main.
  • [main] Copy v20.0.0-RC2 release notes #16234
• Update release notes on the release branch.
  • [release-20.0] Copy v20.0.0-RC2 release notes #16235
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-20.0-rc] Bump to v20.0.0-SNAPSHOT after the v20.0.0-RC2 release #16236
• Update the website documentation.
• Make sure the release is benchmarked by arewefastyet.
• Docker Images available on DockerHub.

Post-Release (Thu 20 Jun)

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

[shlomi-noach]

Release completed.