Release of v14.0.0

[frouioui]

Description

This issue list the different actions that need to be taken before/during/after the release of v14.0.0. The release is scheduled for Tuesday June 28.

Pre-Release

• Notify the community on Slack
• Draft the blog post
• Review the blog post
• Create a PR for the blog post on the website repository
• Make sure the release note summary is prepared and clean
• Make sure the Pull Request titles that are included in the release notes are well-written and explicit
• Test the operator examples with the latest version of vitess-operator
• Make sure backports are reviewed and merged onto release-14.0
  • Backport to v14: VReplication: more unrecoverable error codes (#10559) #10562
  • Fail VReplication workflows on errors that persist and unrecoverable errors #10429 (needs to be backported)
  • release-14.0 backport: Fail VReplication workflows on errors that persist and unrecoverable errors #10573
  • Backport to release-14: Fix casing of vitess migration syntax and comments printing #10535 #10570
  • [14.0] Take into account github.ref when doing upgrade-downgrade tests #10522
  • Backport to release-14: Fix panic in VTOrc (#10519) #10564
  • [14.0] Update and prepare the v14.0.0 summary #10569
  • add vtadmin docker image (#10543) #10580
  • add vtadmin web files to all lite images #10581
  • Deploying VTAdmin in Vtop planetscale/vitess-operator#272
  • [Backport 14.0] enable schema tracking by default  #10595
• Access the Maven release website
• Prepare the x-posting of the blog post
  • PlanetScale
  • CNCF

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
• Continue with the Java release following these instructions.
• v14.0.0 is released on GitHub and DockerHub
• vitess-operator release v2.7.1
• On the Vitess website repository, update the current and next version variables.
  • Updated the v13 and v14 metadata website#1075
• Release the blog post before 9 AM PST on the website repo (Announcing Vitess 14 website#1074)
• Merge the 14.0.0 release notes on main
  • Addition of the v14 release notes documents #10602
• Merge the 14.0.0 release notes on release-14.0
  • Post release 14.0.0 updates #10600
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)

Post-Release

• Benchmarking results: https://benchmark.vitess.io/macrobench?ltag=13.0.0&rtag=14.0.0
• Notify the community on:
  • Slack
  • Twitter
• Make sure the blog post is published on:
  • PlanetScale
  • CNCF
  • vitess.io