release: v19.1.0-rc.4

[solongordon]

Candidate SHA: 25dd36f

Deployment status: Deployed to roachprod.

• Previous: http://solon-release-v1910-rc3a-0001.roachprod.crdb.io:26258
• Candidate: http://solon-release-v1910-rc4a-0001.roachprod.crdb.io:26258

Release qualification suite: https://teamcity.cockroachdb.com/viewLog.html?buildId=1259055&buildTypeId=Cockroach_ReleaseQualification

Nightly Suite: https://teamcity.cockroachdb.com/viewLog.html?buildId=1259225&buildTypeId=Cockroach_Nightlies_NightlySuite

Release process checklist

Prep date: Wednesday 2019-04-24

• Pick a SHA, fill in Candidate SHA above, notify #release-process of SHA.

• Tag the provisional SHA

• Publish provisional binaries

• Check binaries

• Deploy to test clusters

• Start release qualification suite

• Start nightly suite

• Verify node crash reports

• fill in Deployment status above with clusters and Nightly Suite with the link to Nightly TeamCity Job

• Keep an eye on clusters until release date. Do not proceed below until the release date.

Release date: Thursday 2019-04-25

• Check cluster status

• Tag release

• Bless provisional binaries

• For production or stable releases in the latest major release series

  • Update the Homebrew Formula
  • Update the image tag in our Orchestrator configurations
  • Announce version to the registration cluster
  • Upgrade the registration cluster (reg runs latest stable version)

• Update docs

• External communications for release

[solongordon]

Roachtest failure signoffs:

• clearrange/checks=true passed in the next nightly
• import/tpcc/warehouses=1000/nodes=32 passed in the next nightly
• scrub/all-checks/tpcc/w=100 passed in the next nightly and OKed by @lucy-zhang
• tpccbench/nodes=9/cpu=4/chaos/partition failed due to known test flakiness and OKed by @nvanbenschoten
• acceptance/version-upgrade presumably failed due to a new version being added for 19.2 on master (settings/cluster: Add a version to denote work on v19.2. #37006)
• kv/gracefuldraining/nodes=3 failed due to known test flakiness
• splits/load/uniform/nodes=3 failed due to known test flakiness