Release of Vitess v11.0.2

Announcement

This patch is providing an update regarding the Apache Log4j security vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) (#9364), along with a few bug fixes.

Known Issues

• A critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the Apache Log4j logging library was disclosed on Dec 9 2021. The project provided release 2.15.0 with a patch that mitigates the impact of this CVE. It was quickly found that the initial patch was insufficient, and additional CVEs CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-44832 followed. These have been fixed in release 2.17.1. This release of Vitess, v11.0.2, uses a version of Log4j below 2.17.1, for this reason, we encourage you to use version v11.0.4 instead, to benefit from the vulnerability patches.

• An issue where the value of the -force flag is used instead of -keep_data flag's value in v2 vreplication workflows (#9174) is known to be present in this release. A workaround is available in the description of issue #9174.

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Changelog

Bug fixes

VReplication

• Fix how we identify MySQL generated columns #8796

CI/Build

Build/CI

• CI: ubuntu-latest now has MySQL 8.0.26, let us override it with latest 8.0.x #9374

Internal Cleanup

Java

• build(deps): bump log4j-api from 2.13.3 to 2.15.0 in /java #9364

The release includes 7 commits (excluding merges)

Thanks to all our contributors: @askdba, @deepthi, @systay, @tokikanno