Release of `v24.0.0`

[mattlord]

Note

This release is scheduled for Thu 30 Apr 2026.
The release of vitess-operator v2.17.0 is also planned.
Release team: @vitessio/release

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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-24.0] vtgate: prevent buffer restart after shutdown (#19954) #19962
  • vtgate: extract VT_SPAN_CONTEXT for prepared statements #19958
  • VTOrc: fix ReplicationStopped + PrimarySemiSyncBlocked recovery deadlock #19925
  • vtbackup: handle MySQL termination during CLONE restart #19808
  • [release-24.0] go/mysql, vreplication: fix flaky unit tests with shared root cause (#19990) #19998
  • planner: substitute merged DML IN/NOT IN subqueries via ListArg placeholder #19973
• Make sure release blocker items are closed, list below.

Code Freeze (~1-3 days before)

• Code Freeze.
• Create new GitHub Milestone.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/milestone/102

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-24.0] Release of v24.0.0 #19987
• Update vitess-operator Golang version.
• Update Cobra Docs.

Release (Thu 30 Apr)

• Merge the Release PR.
  • [release-24.0] Release of v24.0.0 #19987
• Tag the release.
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v24.0.0
• Create vitess-operator Release PR.
  • [release-2.17] Release of v2.17.0 planetscale/vitess-operator#782
• Update release notes on main.
  • [main] Copy v24.0.0 release notes #19999
• Go back to dev mode on the release branch.
  • [release-24.0] Bump to v24.0.1-SNAPSHOT after the v24.0.0 release #20000
• 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/86
• Check that release artifacts were generated.
• Merge the vitess-operator Release PR.
  • [release-2.17] Release of v2.17.0 planetscale/vitess-operator#782
• Tag the vitess-operator release.
  • https://github.com/planetscale/vitess-operator/releases/tag/v2.17.0
• Go back to dev mode on vitess-operator.
  • [release-2.17] Back to dev mode after the release of v2.17.0 planetscale/vitess-operator#783
• Manual update of vitess-operator test code.

Post-Release (Thu 30 Apr)

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

[mattlord]

Release completed.