Changelog of Vitess v17.0.2

Bug fixes

Backup and Restore

• [release-17.0] Address vttablet memory usage with backups to Azure Blob Service (#13770) #13775
• [release-17.0] Do not drain tablet in incremental backup (#13773) #13789

Cluster management

• [release-17.0] Flaky tests: Fix race in memory topo (#13559) #13577

Evalengine

• [release-17.0] Fix a number of encoding issues when evaluating expressions with the evalengine (#13509) #13551
• [release-17.0] fastparse: Fix bug in overflow detection (#13702) #13705

Online DDL

• v17 backport: Fix closed channel panic in Online DDL cutover #13731
• v17 backport: Solve RevertMigration.Comment read/write concurrency issue #13734

Query Serving

• [release-17.0] Fix flaky vtgate test TestInconsistentStateDetectedBuffering (#13560) #13575
• [release-17.0] vtgate: fix race condition iterating tables and views from schema tracker (#13673) #13796

CI/Build

Backup and Restore

• [release-17.0] Fixing backup_pitr flaky tests via wait-for loop on topo reads (#13781) #13790

Online DDL

• [release-17.0] CI: fix onlineddl_scheduler flakiness (#13754) #13760

Release

General

• Back to dev mode after v17.0.1 #13663

Testing

Build/CI

• [release-17.0] Flakes: Delete VTDATAROOT files in reparent test teardown within CI (#13793) #13798