Release of Vitess v14.0.2

Major Changes

Upgrade to go1.18.5

Vitess v14.0.2 now runs on go1.18.5.
The patch release of Go, go1.18.5, was one of the main reasons 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.

End of life of MariadDB 10.2

Since the end-of-life of MariaDB 10.2, its Docker image is unavailable, and we decided to remove the unit tests using this version of MariaDB. The Pull Request doing this change is available here.
You can find more information on the list of supported databases on our documentation website, here.

The entire changelog for this release can be found here.

The release includes 23 commits (excluding merges)

Thanks to all our contributors: @GuptaManan100, @dbussink, @frouioui, @mattlord, @shlomi-noach, @vitess-bot[bot]