Plan to release etcd v3.4.35

[ivanvc]

What would you like to be added?

The etcd patch release criteria has been met for our release-3.4 stable release branch so we should release v3.4.35.

The list of commits included since the previous release is: v3.4.34...release-3.4:

• [3.4] chore(e2e): backport TestNoErrorLogsDuringNormalOperations test #18809
• [3.4] fix(defrag): handle errors during defrag #18843
• [3.4] release: push tag after creating it #18587
• [3.4] Bump go version to 1.22.8 #18670
• [3.4] github/workflows: use ECR mirror for Trivy's DB #18688
• [3.4] [serverWatchStream] terminate recvLoop on sws.close() #18785

Work in progress CHANGELOG is: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-3.4.md#v3435-tbc

List of pull requests we still need to backport from main to release-3.4 before the patch release is issued:

• TBC

Release team

GitHub handle	Role
@jmhbnz	Release Advisor
@ivanvc	Release Lead
@ArkaSaha30	Release Shadow
@henrybear327	Release Shadow

Why is this needed?

Regular patch releases are vital to ensure our users have bug-free and secure software.

[ivanvc]

As discussed on Slack, it would be an excellent opportunity to do the release in person next week at KubeCon.

[ivanvc]

We should update to Go 1.22.9 (#18847)

[ivanvc]

I volunteer to be either the release lead or a shadow.

[ghouscht]

I volunteer to help as a shadow. However I'm not at KubeCon and the timezone difference to central europe might complicate things. If you find someone else to help, I'd be happy to renounce.

[henrybear327]

I volunteer to help as a shadow, too! Same timezone as @ghouscht (Zurich)

[ArkaSaha30]

I want to volunteer as a shadow for the release 🤚

[jmhbnz]

Discussed during sig-etcd triage meeting. We are looking at Tuesday next week MST timezone for the release. Team has been updated above.

Team please confirm if you could make a time for around 09:00 on Tuesday Utah time?

[ivanvc]

9:00 am MT sounds good to me.

Edit: But I think we should release v3.5.17 first (#18846). So, it may be actually more like 10 am MT?