Changelog of Vitess v18.0.7

Bug fixes

Query Serving

[release-18.0] bugfix: don't treat join predicates as filter predicates (#16472) #16473
[release-18.0] Fix RegisterNotifier to use a copy of the tables to prevent data races (#14716) #16490
[release-18.0] fix: reference table join merge (#16488) #16495
[release-18.0] simplify merging logic (#16525) #16531
[release-18.0] Fix query plan cache misses metric (#16562) #16626
[release-18.0] JSON Encoding: Use Type_RAW for marshalling json (#16637) #16680

Throttler

v18 backport: Throttler/vreplication: fix app name used by VPlayer (#16578) #16581

VReplication

[release-18.0] VStream API: validate that last PK has fields defined (#16478) #16485

VTAdmin

[release-18.0] VTAdmin: Upgrade websockets js package (#16504) #16511

VTGate

[release-18.0] Fix RemoveTablet during TabletExternallyReparented causing connection issues (#16371) #16566

VTorc

[release-18.0] FindErrantGTIDs: superset is not an errant GTID situation (#16725) #16727

CI/Build

General

[release-18.0] Upgrade the Golang version to go1.21.13 #16545
[release-18.0] Bump upgrade tests to go1.22.7 #16722

VTAdmin

[release-18.0] Update micromatch to 4.0.8 (#16660) #16665

Enhancement

Build/CI

[release-18.0] Improve the queries upgrade/downgrade CI workflow by using same test code version as binary (#16494) #16500

Online DDL

v18 backport: Online DDL: avoid SQL's CONVERT(...), convert programmatically if needed #16604
[release-18.0] VReplication workflows: retry "wrong tablet type" errors (#16645) #16651

Internal Cleanup

Build/CI

[release-18.0] Move from 4-cores larger runners to ubuntu-latest (#16714) #16716

Regression

Query Serving

[release-18.0] bugfix: Allow cross-keyspace joins (#16520) #16522

Release

General

Testing

Query Serving

[release-18.0] Replace ErrorContains checks with Error checks before running upgrade downgrade #16701