Release of Vitess v14.0.1

Known Issues

• VTOrc doesn't discover the tablets of a keyspace if the durability policy doesn't exist in the topo server when it comes up. This can be resolved by restarting VTOrc.

Major Changes

Upgrade to go1.18.4

Vitess v14.0.1 now runs on go1.18.4.
The patch release of Go, go1.18.4, was one of main motivations for this release as it includes important security fixes to packages used by Vitess.
Below is a summary of this patch release. You can learn more here.

go1.18.4 (released 2022-07-12) includes security fixes to the compress/gzip, encoding/gob, encoding/xml, go/parser, io/fs, net/http, and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the linker, the runtime, and the runtime/metrics package. See the Go 1.18.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

The entire changelog for this release can be found here.

The release includes 25 commits (excluding merges)

Thanks to all our contributors: @GuptaManan100, @deepthi, @frouioui, @harshit-gangal, @mattlord, @rohit-nayak-ps, @shlomi-noach, @vitess-bot[bot]