[Retrospective] Release 2.9.0

[prudhvigodithi]

This is Retrospective for the release 2.9.0

• [RELEASE] Release version 2.9.0 #3616

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[MaxKsyunz]

@AMoo-Miki during the release meeting you mentioned that the ODBC 1.5.0.0 artifact file prevented a script from completing successfully. Could you explain what happened? Is there something that needs to be done during ODBC release process to make this script pass?

[bbarani]

@MaxKsyunz It looks like ODBC 1.5.x artifacts were already released but the website changes didn't make it to production so the changes were in staging area. Website team had to cherry pick the changes during 2.9.0 release since they were not sure if ODBC changes can be migrated to production. @AMoo-Miki and @krisfreedain can add more details.

[MaxKsyunz]

Thank you @bbarani.

How does one go about updating the website next time there is a new version of JDBC or ODBC drivers?

cc @acarbonetto

[prudhvigodithi]

Details of all major event points for release 2.9.0, along with their dates and short descriptions.

July 11 2023 — Initial Planned Code Freeze date for 2.9.0

July 11 2023 -- Initial Planned Code Complete date for 2.9.0

Jul 14, 2023 — 1st RC generated

PR's after the 1st RC

•  Re-apply the integrations kibana backend PR dashboards-observability#680
• [Vis Augmenter] Fix bug of undefined tooltip when all plugin layers are empty OpenSearch-Dashboards#4577
• Fix monitor parse and alerts table alerting-dashboards-plugin#645
• Bumped tough-cookie, and semver versions. alerting-dashboards-plugin#649
• Bumped tough-cookie, and semver versions. alerting-dashboards-plugin#649
• Bumped tough-cookie, and semver versions. index-management-dashboards-plugin#813
• Bumped tough-cookie, and semver versions. security-analytics-dashboards-plugin#656
• [Backport 2.9] Move index management from plugin section to management section (#741) index-management-dashboards-plugin#818
• Remove SEARCH_PIPELINE feature flag OpenSearch#8513
• Fix test for single node cross-cluster-replication#1078
• Remove SEARCH_PIPELINE feature flag (#8513) OpenSearch#8738

Jul 14, 2023 — 1st RC Integration tests.

Jul 14, 2023 - 1st RC manual sign off.

Jul 17, 2023 — 2nd RC generated.

Jul 18, 2023 -- 2nd RC Integration tests.

July 18, 2023 — 2nd RC manual sign off.

PR's after the 2nd RC

• Optimize fetching of augment-vis saved objects alerting-dashboards-plugin#659 
[Backport 2.9] Optimize fetching of augment-vis saved objects alerting-dashboards-plugin#661
• [Backport 2.9] Optimize augment-vis saved obj searching by adding arg to saved obj client OpenSearch-Dashboards#4599
• feat: sync cypress test from notifications-dashboards opensearch-dashboards-functional-test#776
• [2.9] Updates common-utils version in integ test script security#3018

Jul 18, 2023 — Go/No-Go call, move the release to July 20, 2023. This is mainly with the issue related to the k-NN plugin.

July 19, 2023 (1:07 pm) - Called out in the “feature-anywhere” channel of the saved object limit issue on OSD

July 19, 2023 (5:04 pm) - Called out in the “opensearch-releases” channel of the saved object limit issue on OSD and the need to get the fix in after discussing amongst the team if this is required for the 2.9 release.

July 19, 2023 - Got the OSD change for 2.9 related to the saved object limit issue merged.

Related PR: opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards#4595

July 19, 2023 - Got the Alerting dashboard change for 2.9 related to the saved object limit issue merged.

Related PR: opensearch-project/alerting-dashboards-plugin#659

July 19, 2023 - Got the AD dashboard change for 2.9 related to the saved object limit issue merged.

Related PR: opensearch-project/anomaly-detection-dashboards-plugin#562

July 20, 2023 — Move the release to July 24, 2023.

As its not recommended to do the release on Friday's, the release date was adjusted to Monday (July 24, 2023).

July 20, 2023 — 3rd RC generated(Only for OSD)

**July 20, 2023 - July 24, 2023 — 3rd RC manual sign off.

July 24, 2023 — Release.

July 24, 2023. - Post Release

[prudhvigodithi]

Following in the link to Retro Board:

https://github.com/orgs/opensearch-project/projects/140/views/1

[Divyaasm]

Closing the issue as the Retrospective Meet was completed