Release of v17.0.7

[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.
  • [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
  • [18.x] Fix schemacopy collation issues #15859
  • Update env.sh so that is does not error when running on Mac #15835
  • [release-17.0] Bump to v17.0.8-SNAPSHOT after the v17.0.7 release #15891
• Make sure release blocker Issues are closed, list below.

Pre-Release

• Code Freeze.
  • [release-17.0] Code Freeze for v17.0.7 #15878
• Create Release PR.
  • [release-17.0] Release of v17.0.7 #15884
• Create new GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/62

Release

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-17.0] Release of v17.0.7 #15884
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v17.0.7
• Update release notes on main.
  • Copy v17.0.7 release notes on main #15890
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-17.0] Bump to v17.0.8-SNAPSHOT after the v17.0.7 release #15891
• 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/54

Post-Release

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

[shlomi-noach]

Release completed.