Plan to release v3.6.9 #21439
Description
What would you like to be added?
The etcd patch release criteria has been met for our release-3.6 stable branch, so we should release v3.6.9.
Work in progress CHANGELOG is: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-3.6.md#v369-tbc
The list of commits included since the previous release is: v3.6.8...release-3.6:
- [release-3.6] server/etcdserver/api/v3rpc: run metrics interceptors before handlers #21329
- [release-3.6] Bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to v1.40.0 to resolve https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4394 #21340
- [release-3.6] server/etcdmain: fix startup deadlock in grpcproxy #21354
- [release-3.6] Fix race between read index and leader change #21378
- [release-3.6] Fix unit test failure #21381
- [release-3.6] Print the endpoint the grpc request was actually sent to in unary interceptor #21382
- [release-3.6] Bump golangci lint to v2 #21395
- [release-3.6] etcdctl: fix slice bounds trimming single-quoted args #21402
- [release-3.6] bump Go to 1.25.7 #21393
- [release-3.6] Don't reuse same ReadIndex #21417
- [release-3.6] devcontainer: bump Go image to 1.25 for release-3.6 #21408
- [release-3.6] Bump golang.org/x/net@ v0.51.0 fixes GO-2026-4559 #21440
- [release-3.6] Revert "Reuse events between sync loops" #21443
- [release-3.6] devcontainer: remove devcontainer config #21442
- [release-3.6] Bump Go to 1.25.8 #21463
- [release-3.6] build(deps): bump distroless/static-debian12 from 3f2b64e to 20bc6c0 #21449
- [release-3.6] tests/integration: fix flaky testcase #21497
- [release-3.6] Bump google.golang.org/grpc from v1.75.0 to 1.79.3 #21501
Outstanding tasks before releasing this version:
Release team
| GitHub handle | Role |
|---|---|
| @ivanvc | Release Lead |
Why is this needed?
Regular patch releases are vital to ensure our users have bug-free and secure software.