Release of v17.0.2

[mattlord]

This release is scheduled for Friday 18 August 2023.

Pre-Release

• Notify the community on Slack.
• Make sure the release notes summary is prepared and clean
• Make sure everyone in the release team meet the pre-requisites for the release
• Make sure all backports are complete
  • [release-17.0] Fix a number of encoding issues when evaluating expressions with the evalengine (#13509) #13551
  • [release-17.0] Do not drain tablet in incremental backup (#13773) #13789
  • [release-17.0] vtgate: fix race condition iterating tables and views from schema tracker (#13673) #13796
• Do the code freeze and pre release following the instructions.
  • Code freeze PR: Release 17.0.2 code freeze #13806
  • Release PR: Release of v17.0.2 #13809
  • Website PR: Update website docs for v16.0.4 and v17.0.2 releases website#1561

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
• Continue with the Java release following these instructions.
• Merge the 17.0.2 release notes on main
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)
• Release the operator, v2.10.2

Post-Release

• Notify the community on Slack.
• Benchmarking results
• Tweet vitess release