[RELEASE] Release version 1.2.5

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Release OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards 1.2.5

I noticed that a manifest was automatically created in manifests/1.2.5. Please follow the following checklist to make a release.

How to use this issue

This Release Issue

This issue captures the state of the OpenSearch release, its assignee is responsible for driving the release. Please contact them or @mention them on this issue for help. There are linked issues on components of the release where individual components can be tracked. More details are included in the Maintainers Release owner section.

Release Steps

There are several steps to the release process, these steps are completed as the whole release and components that are behind present risk to the release. The release owner completes the tasks in this ticket, whereas component owners resolve tasks on their ticket in their repositories.

Steps have completion dates for coordinating efforts between the components of a release; components can start as soon as they are ready far in advance of a future release.

Component List

To aid in understanding the state of the release there is a table with status indicating each component state. This is updated based on the status of the component issues.

Preparation

• Assign this issue to a release owner.
• Declare a pencils down date for new features to be merged. _REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-14-days is pencils down.
• Update the Campaigns section to include monitoring campaigns during this release.
• Update this issue so all __REPLACE_RELEASE-__ placeholders have actual dates.
• Document any new quality requirements or changes.
• Declare a pencils down date for new features to be merged.
• Finalize scope and feature set and update the Public Roadmap.
• Create a version label in each component repo for this, and the next minor release.
• Create a release issue in every component repo that links back to this issue, update Components section with these links.
• Ensure that all release issues created above are assigned to an owner in the component team.

CI/CD - Ends REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-14-days

• Create Jenkins workflows that run daily snapshot builds for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.
• Increment each component version to 1.2.5 and ensure working CI in component repositories.
• Make pull requests to add each component to manifests/1.2.5/opensearch-1.2.5.yml and manifests/1.2.5/opensearch-dashboards-1.2.5.yml with the corresponding checks.

Campaigns

REPLACE with OpenSearch wide initiatives to improve quality and consistency.

Release testing - Ends REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-6-days

• Code Complete (REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-14-days - REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-11-days): Teams test their component within the distribution, ensuring integration, backwards compatibility, and perf tests pass.
• Sanity Testing (REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-8-days - REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-6-days): Sanity testing and fixing of critical issues found by teams.

Release - _Ends {_REPLACE_RELEASE-day}

• Declare a release candidate build, and publish all test results.
• Verify all issues labeled v1.2.5 in all projects have been resolved.
• Complete documentation for this release.
• Author blog post for this release.
• Gather, review and publish release notes. git-release-notes may be used to generate release notes from your commit history.
• __REPLACE_RELEASE-minus-1-day - Publish this release on opensearch.org.
• __REPLACE_RELEASE-day - Publish a blog post - release is launched!

Post Release

• Create release tags for each component.
• Replace refs in manifests/1.2.5 with tags and remove checks.
• Prepare for next patch release by incrementing patch versions for each component.
• Lower the frequency of builds for this version of OpenSearch and/or OpenSearch Dashboards.
• Update this template with any new or missed steps.
• Create an issue for a retrospective, solicit feedback, and publish a summary.

Components

Replace with links to all component tracking issues.

Component	On track	Notes
{COMPONENT_ISSUE_LINK}	{INDICATOR}}	{STATUS}

Legend

Symbol	Meaning
🟢	On track with overall release
🟡	Missed last milestone
🔴	Missed multiple milestones