Changelog of Vitess v18.0.1

Bug fixes

Backup and Restore

[release 18.0]: ReadBinlogFilesTimestamps backwards compatibility #14526

Build/CI

[release-18.0] Update create_release.sh (#14492) #14516

Evalengine

[release-18.0] Fix nullability checks in evalengine (#14556) #14564

Examples

[release-18.0] examples: fix flag syntax for zkctl (#14469) #14487

Observability

[release-18.0] Fix #14414: resilient_server metrics name/prefix logic is inverted, leading to no metrics being recorded (#14415) #14527

Query Serving

[release-18.0] Make column resolution closer to MySQL (#14426) #14430
[release-18.0] Bug fix: Use target tablet from health stats cache when checking replication status (#14436) #14456
[release-18.0] Ensure hexval and int don't share BindVar after Normalization (#14451) #14479
[release-18.0] planbuilder bugfix: expose columns through derived tables (#14501) #14504
[release-18.0] expression rewriting: enable more rewrites and limit CNF rewrites (#14560) #14576

vtctldclient

[release-18.0] vtctldclient: Apply tablet type filtering for keyspace+shard in GetTablets (#14467) #14470

CI/Build

Docker

[release-18.0] Build and push Docker Images from GitHub Actions #14511

Dependabot

General

[release-18.0] Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.55.0-dev to 1.59.0 (#14364) #14498

Documentation

Documentation

[release-18.0] release notes: add FK import to summary (#14518) #14519

Internal Cleanup

Query Serving

[release-18.0] Remove excessive VTGate logging of default planner selection (#14554) #14561

Release

General

[release-18.0] Code Freeze for v18.0.1 #14549

Testing

Query Serving

[release-18.0] vtgate: Allow additional errors in warnings test (#14461) #14465