Stackable Release 24.11

Release checklists

Replace the items in the task lists below with the applicable Pull Requests / Issues

General Prerequisites (before Feature Freeze)

Early Pre-release tasks

• Find out what is left before updating operator-rs across repos
• chore: Update and release workspace members for SDP 24.11 operator-rs#898
• chore: Pre-release Rust toolchain and pre-commit updates operator-templating#450
• chore(tracking): Update Rust dependencies of operators for SDP 24.11 #652
• chore: Update Container Images for Stackable Release 24.11 docker-images#831

Pre-release

• chore(template): Niv updates operator-templating#457
• Run all of the test suites in Jenkins (with all product versions, not just "nightly")
• chore(tracking): Check and update getting-started scripts for 24.11 #657
• chore(tracking): Test demos on nightly versions for 24.11 #658
• chore(tracking): Ensure integration tests are successful on OpenShift for 24.11 #664
• Check stackable-utils scripts in dry-run mode work

Other Pre-Requisites (before Feature Freeze)

Search for open issues labeleded with scheduled-for/2024-11

Other release-specific pre-requisites

• Fix the data-lakehouse-iceberg-trino-spark demo demos#62 (comment)
• chore: Bump Helm charts demos#119
• JMX Exporter Fix #649
• Broken link crddocs#44
• fix: Use dev release for stacks demos#122
• Handle updates for demos stackable-utils#84
• Extend post-release script to update docker-images Changelog stackable-utils#83
• Template getting_started with make instead of adding instructions to the comments #611
• fix: Adjust Go version in go.mod file crddocs-generator#25

Feature freeze

This will not be so crucial with release branches, but is nonetheless sensible as it will make it easier to cherry-pick any release-related bugfixes from main into the release branch.

End of the release cycle (Release day)

Technical tasks

• Temporarily remove branch protection before pushing the release branches/tags
• Create release branches for docker-images (see stackable-utils for script to create branches)
• Create release tag(s) for docker-images (see stackable-utils for scripts to create tags)
• Create release branches for operators (see stackable-utils for script to create branches)
• Create release tag(s) for operators (see stackable-utils for scripts to create tags)
• Create release branch for demos (see stackable-utils for scripts to create branch)
• Create release tag for stackable-cockpit (optional, highly experimental, requires manual tag creation)
• Update release version in changelogs on main branches (see stackable-utils for script to do this)
• Merge changelog PRs for operators @NickLarsenNZ
• chore: Add release 24.11.0 crddocs#45
• Check (selected) integration tests on the new release branches @NickLarsenNZ
• chore(tracking): Check and update getting-started scripts for 24.11 #672
• feat: Update demos for Release 24.11 demos#116
• Run/Check demos with dev release and main branch and create draft PR for release-related changes
• chore: Release stackablectl-24.11.0 stackable-cockpit#334
• Test stackablectl with locally updated (to new release number) releases.yaml @Techassi
• chore: Add 24.11 release release#33
• ARM testing @Maleware
• Check that an upgrade can be performed on an existing cluster without data loss. (cycling-data)
• Run all of the test suites @NickLarsenNZ
• OpenShift Testing @razvan
• Fixes accidentally deleted serviceaccount and rolebinding objects operator-rs#909
• fix!: Correctly construct OIDC endpoints operator-rs#910

Documentation tasks

• Check the Changelog and/or issue labels to compile Release Highlights Add to draft PR below
• Compile list of new product versions that are supported and compile a list of new product features to include in the Release Highlights Add to draft PR below
• Upgrade guide: Document how to use stackablectl to uninstall all and install new release
• Upgrade guide: Document how to use helm to uninstall all and install new release
• Upgrade guide: Every breaking change of all our operators
• Upgrade guide: List dropped supported product versions (if there are some)
• Upgrade guide: List dropped supported operators (if there are some)
• Upgrade guide: List supported k8s versions
• Add 24.11 Release Notes documentation#679
• Update SDP release version in documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/getting-started.adoc
• Update the getting-started page in the main docs and check it works with this release: https://github.com/stackabletech/documentation/blob/main/modules/ROOT/pages/getting-started.adoc
• docs(getting-started): Update version references documentation#685
• docs(getting-started): Update version references documentation#686
• chore: Change docs version from nightly to 24.11 demos#134
• Cut a release branch (see scripts/make-release-branch.sh)
• Update releases in the playbook (see scripts/publish-new-version.sh)
• chore(docs): Remove superfluous page-aliases demos#135
• chore: Add release branches to the playbooks for release 24.11 documentation#684
• Update version of main demos repo (antora.yml on the release branch) - manually done by @Techassi - needs scripting
• Set the release to "Released" in the Feature Tracker and create a new release
• If not already done, check the demos work for the new release
• OpenShift 4.16 certification (update the release notes on main and cherry pick to the release branch) defering to SDP 24.11.1

Marketing tasks can now reference published documentation.

Marketing tasks

• Write marketing / customer oriented release summary to be published in the marketing channels
• Update the homepage banner (as long as we have it) to point to the new release
• Write a blogpost / news article announcing the new release (optional)
• Announce Release on LinkedIn
• Announce Release in Newsletter (optional)
• Post an announcement in the GitHub Discussions Announcement forum and make it a pinned discussion while at the same time removing the old pinned thread
• Post an announcement in Discord
• Post an announcement on DOK Community in the #be-shameless Channel (Ping Lars or Jim)
• Send announcement to Heise
• Ping the stackable-ionos-tech channel or anyone responsible once all tags are created

Post-release tasks

• Update the list of supported SDP releases in Jira (ping Jim)
• Openshift certification. Create an issue from this template for the OLM manifests Deferring to 24.11.1
• Update antora.yml to mark 23.7 as EoL documentation#672
• Release Retro 24.11.0 #669
• Release templates updates post 24.11.0 #680
• Create a release-notes PR template to be used by the release tracking ticket documentation#693
• Create the next release tracking task chore(tracking): SDP Release 24.11.1 #683
• Fix the e2e security demo (fix(stack/end-to-end-security): Skip DB restore if the DB exists demos#139 and fix(stack/end-to-end-security): Skip DB restore if the DB exists demos#140)