[RELEASE] Release version 2.13.0

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Release OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards 2.13.0

I noticed that a manifest was automatically created in manifests/2.13.0. Please follow the following checklist to make a release.

How to use this issue

This Release Issue

This issue captures the state of the OpenSearch release, its assignee (Release Manager) is responsible for driving the release. Please contact them or @mention them on this issue for help. There are linked issues on components of the release where individual components can be tracked. For more information check the the Release Process OpenSearch Guide.

Please refer to the following link for the release version dates: Release Schedule and Maintenance Policy.

Entrance Criteria

Criteria	Status	Description	Comments
Documentation draft PRs are up and in tech review for all component changes	🟢
Sanity testing is done for all components	🟢
Code coverage has not decreased (all new code has tests)			We do not have automated checker for this check yet
Release notes are ready and available for all components	🟢
Roadmap is up-to-date (information is available to create release highlights)	🟢
Release ticket is cut, and there's a forum post announcing the start of the window	🟢
Any necessary security reviews are complete	🟢

OpenSearch 2.13.0 exit criteria status:

Criteria	Status	Description	Comments
Performance tests are run, results are posted to the release ticket and there no unexpected regressions	🟢		#4433 (comment)
No unpatched vulnerabilities of medium or higher severity that have been publicly known for more than 60 days	🟢		We do have one medium and high CVE but waiting fix from upstream and yet to reach 60days mark.
Documentation has been fully reviewed and signed off by the documentation community.	🟢
All integration tests are passing	🟢
Release blog is ready	🟢

OpenSearch-Dashboards 2.13.0 exit criteria status:

Criteria	Status	Description	Comments
Documentation has been fully reviewed and signed off by the documentation community	🟢
No unpatched vulnerabilities of medium or higher severity that have been publicly known for more than 60 days	🟢
All integration tests are passing	🟢
Release blog is ready	🟢

Preparation

• Release manager assigned.
• Existence of label in each component repo. For more information check the release-label section.
• Increase the build frequency.
• Release Issue.

Campaigns

• Component Release Issue.
• Release Campaigns.

Release Branch and Version Increment - 19th March, 2024

• Core Release Branch.
• Core Version Increment.
• Components Release Branch.
• Components Version Increment.

Feature Freeze - 19th March, 2024

• OpenSearch / OpenSearch-Dashboards core and components teams finalize their features.

Code Complete - March 19th, 2024

• Mark this as done once the Code Complete is reviewed.
• Create/Verify pull requests to add each component to relase input manifests/2.13.0/opensearch-2.13.0.yml and manifests/2.13.0/opensearch-dashboards-2.13.0.yml.

Release Candidate Creation and Testing - March 27th, 2024

• Generate Release Candidate.
• Integ Test TAR.
• Integ Test RPM.
• Docker Build and Scan.
• Backwards Compatibility Tests.
• Windows Integration Test.
• Broadcast and Communication.
• Release Candidate Lock.

Performance testing validation - March 27th, 2024

• Post the benchmark-tests
• Longevity tests do not show any issues.

Pre Release - April 1st, 2024

• Release Labeled Issues.
• Go or No-Go.
• Promote Repos.
• Promote artifacts.
• Release Notes.

Release - April 2nd, 2024

• Maven Promotion.
• Docker Promotion.
• Release Validation.
• Collaboration with the Project Management Team.

Release Checklist.

Release Checklist

Pre-Release activities

• Promote Repos.
  • • OS
  • • OSD
• Promote Artifacts.
  • • Windows
  • • Linux Debian
  • • Linux RPM
  • • Linux TAR
• Consolidated Release Notes.

Release activities

• Docker Promotion.
• Release Validation part 1.
  • • OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboard Validation.
  • • Validate the native plugin installation.
• Merge consolidated release notes PR.
• Website and Documentation Changes.
  • • Merge staging website PR.
  • • Promote the website changes to prod.
  • • Add website alert.
• Release Validation part 2.
  • • Validate the artifact download URL's and signatures.
• Release Validation part 3.
  • • Trigger the validation build (Search for Completed validation for <> in the logs).
• Maven Promotion.
• Publish blog posts.
• Advertise on Social Media.
• Post on public slack and Github Release issue.

Post-Release activities

• Release Tags.
• Input Manifest Update.
• Decrease the Build Frequency.
• OpenSearch Build Release notes.
• Retrospective Issue.
• Helm and Ansible Playbook release.
• Upcoming Release Preparation.

Post Release

• Release Tags.
• Input Manifest Update.
• OpenSearch Build Release notes.
• Decrease the Build Frequency.
• Retrospective Issue.
• Helm and Ansible Playbook release.
• Upcoming Release Preparation.

Components

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OpenSearch

Component	Issues tagged with 2.13.0
opensearch-project/OpenSearch#12264
opensearch-project/common-utils#594
opensearch-project/k-NN#1473
opensearch-project/geospatial#627
opensearch-project/security#4032
opensearch-project/cross-cluster-replication#1326
opensearch-project/ml-commons#2057
opensearch-project/neural-search#599
opensearch-project/notifications#856
opensearch-project/observability#1799
opensearch-project/reporting#964
opensearch-project/sql#2518
opensearch-project/asynchronous-search#535
opensearch-project/anomaly-detection#1160
opensearch-project/alerting#1417
opensearch-project/security-analytics#849
opensearch-project/index-management#1104
opensearch-project/performance-analyzer#625
opensearch-project/flow-framework#507
opensearch-project/skills#218
opensearch-project/job-scheduler#580
opensearch-project/custom-codecs#114

OpenSearch Dashboards

Component	Issues tagged with 2.13.0
opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards#5853
opensearch-project/opensearch-dashboards-functional-test#1084
opensearch-project/dashboards-observability#1425
opensearch-project/dashboards-reporting#285
opensearch-project/dashboards-visualizations#331
opensearch-project/dashboards-query-workbench#263
opensearch-project/dashboards-maps#583
opensearch-project/anomaly-detection-dashboards-plugin#682
opensearch-project/ml-commons-dashboards#303
opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin#975
opensearch-project/dashboards-notifications#155
opensearch-project/alerting-dashboards-plugin#875
opensearch-project/security-analytics-dashboards-plugin#876
opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin#1774
opensearch-project/dashboards-search-relevance#370
opensearch-project/dashboards-assistant#142

Documentation

Component	Issues tagged with 2.13.0
https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/

Legend

Symbol	Meaning
🟢	On track with overall release
🟡	Missed last milestone
🔴	Missed multiple milestones

[gaiksaya]

Centralize release workflow run: https://build.ci.opensearch.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/central-release-promotion/detail/central-release-promotion/4/pipeline/714

Validation: https://build.ci.opensearch.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/distribution-validation/detail/distribution-validation/304/pipeline/48/

[gaiksaya]

2.13.0 is released to the community now. 🎉
Please use #4602 for feedback/retrospective.

Thank you!