Release of v19.0.4

[systay]

This release is scheduled for Mon 6 May 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 regression where inserts into reference tables with a different name on sharded keyspaces were not routed correctly. #15796
  • [VTAdmin API] Replace underscores with dashes in cluster ID #15722
  • Do not load table stats when booting vttablet. #15715
  • Match MySQL's LAST_INSERT_ID behaviour when no rows are inserted / updated #15699
  • Performance improvements for UNION #15497
  • [release-19.0] Fix regression where inserts into reference tables with a different name on sharded keyspaces were not routed correctly. (#15796) #15860
  • [release-19.0] Update VTAdmin build script (#15839) #15850
  • Update env.sh so that is does not error when running on Mac #15835
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.4 #15882
• Make sure release blocker Issues are closed, list below.

Pre-Release

• Code Freeze.
  • [release-19.0] Code Freeze for v19.0.4 #15874
• Create Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.4 #15882
• Create new GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/60

Release

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-19.0] Release of v19.0.4 #15882
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v19.0.4
• Update release notes on main.
  • Copy v19.0.4 release notes on main #15887
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-19.0] Bump to v19.0.5-SNAPSHOT after the v19.0.4 release #15889
• 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/59

Post-Release

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

[systay]

Release completed.