Release of v21.0.1

[frouioui]

Note

This release is scheduled for Thu 20 Jun 2024.
The release of vitess-operator v2.14.1 is also planned.
Release team: @vitessio/release

Important

Please do not edit the content of the Issue's body manually.
The vitess-releaser tool is managing and handling this issue.
You can however click on the check boxes to mark them as done/not done, and write comments.

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-21.0] Bump to v21.0.2-SNAPSHOT after the v21.0.1 release #372
• Make sure release blocker items are closed, list below.

Code Freeze (~1-3 days before)

• Code Freeze.
  • [release-21.0] Code Freeze for v21.0.1 #369
• Create new GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/frouioui/vitess/milestone/14

Pre-Release (~1-3 days before)

• Create Release PR. _{^{(We do this earlier to catch any issues in the tool and let CI run.)}}
  • [release-21.0] Release of v21.0.1 #370
• Update vitess-operator Golang version.
• Update Cobra Docs.

Release (Thu 20 Jun)

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-21.0] Release of v21.0.1 #370
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/frouioui/vitess/releases/tag/v21.0.1
• Create vitess-operator Release PR.
  • [release-2.14] Release of v2.14.1 vitess-operator#27
• Update release notes on main.
  • [main] Copy v21.0.1 release notes #371
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-21.0] Bump to v21.0.2-SNAPSHOT after the v21.0.1 release #372
• Update the website documentation.
• Make sure the release is benchmarked by arewefastyet.
• Docker Images available on DockerHub.
• Close current GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/frouioui/vitess/milestone/15
• Check that release artifacts were generated.
• Merge the vitess-operator Release PR.
  • [release-2.14] Release of v2.14.1 vitess-operator#27
• Tag the vitess-operator release.
• Go back to dev mode on vitess-operator.
• Manual update of vitess-operator test code.

Post-Release (Thu 20 Jun)

• Notify the community on Slack for the new release.
• Twitter announcement.
• Remove bypass branch protection rules, if required.
• Close this Issue.

[frouioui]

Release completed.