Release of v15.0.1

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Description

This release is scheduled for: Tuesday 29 November 2022.

This issue lists the actions that need to be taken before/during/after the v15.0.1 release.

Pre-Release

• Make sure the release note summary is prepared and clean
  • Tracking issue: Prepare v15.0.1 release notes #11747
• Make sure the Pull Request titles that are included in the release notes are well-written and explicit
• Make sure backports are reviewed and merged onto release-15.0
  • [planner bugfix] make sure queries with more than 64 tables work #11817
  • [release-15.0] Accept no more data in session state change as ok (#11796) #11800
  • [release-15.0] Update test runners to run all tests including outside package (#11787) #11792
  • Add more codeowners to the /test directory #11762
  • Fix files changes filtering in CI #11714
  • [release-15.0] Add automation to change vitess version in the docker-release script (#11682) #11816
  • codeowners: have at least two for almost every package #11639
  • collations: fix coercion semantics according to 8.0.31 changes #11487
  • Fix files changes filtering in CI (#11714) #11778

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
• v15.0.1 is released on GitHub and DockerHub
  • DockerHub
  • GitHub
• Release the version 2.8.1 of the vitess-operator
• Merge the 15.0.1 release notes on main
• Merge the 15.0.1 release notes on release-15.0
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)

Post-Release

• Notify the community on:
  • Slack
  • Twitter