Release of v14.0.5

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This release is scheduled for Thursday 30 March 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
  • https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/main/doc/internal/ReleaseInstructions.md#pre-requisites
• Make sure all backports are complete
  • [planner bugfix 14] add expressions to HAVING (#12668) #12700
  • [release-14.0] Always add columns in the Derived operator #12681
  • [release-14.0] ApplyVSchemaDDL: escape Sequence names when writing the VSchema (#12519) #12597
  • [release-14.0] Auto upgrade the Golang version (#12585) #12707
  • [release-14.0] Reset the current lag when closing the replication lag reader. (#12683) #12743
• Do the code freeze and pre release following the instructions.
  • Code freeze of release-14.0 for v14.0.5 #12763
  • Release of v14.0.5 #12766
  • Changes for new patch releases (v14.0.5, v15.0.3, v16.0.1) website#1426
  • Copy release notes for v16.0.1, v15.0.3, and v14.0.5 #12768

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
  • Back to dev mode after v14.0.5 #12784
• Continue with the Java release following these instructions.
• Merge the 14.0.5 release notes on main.
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)
• Release the operator, v2.7.4.

Post-Release

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