Announcing the development cycle of v5.3 kicked off

[tison]

Hi Developers,

I would like to announce that the development cycle of v5.3 (Sprint 5) is kicking off today. The milestones of sprint 5:

• Timeframe: 9.13-11.16
• Code frozen: 11.1
• Sprint end / v5.3.0 Release: 11.16

You can see the following topics for ongoing efforts and participant the work or propose new features / enhancements. Enjoy!

TiDB Improvement Proposals

This page documents all of improvement proposals under discussion, accepted but unreleased, released and discarded. See also how to make a proposal. Accepted but unreleased Name Issue Design Release Links The database-level placement rule in SQL #18030 #26221 TBD Call for contributors: Placement Rules in SQL Restructure Tests #26022 #26024 5.3 Proposal: Restructure TiDB Tests Support temporary table #24169 #24168 5.3 Support GBK #26812 #27325 TBD Heuristic rules enhancement f…

TiKV Improvement Proposals

This page documents all of improvement proposals under discussion, accepted but unreleased, released and discarded. See also how to submit an RFC. Accepted but unreleased Name Issue Design Release Links RaftStore Async IO #10540 TBD 5.3 Region Label #3839 TBD 5.3 Online Recovery When Raft Majority Failure #10843 TBD 5.3 Read-only When Most Of Storage Nodes are Near Full #10537 within issue 5.3 Under discussion Name Links Raft engine https://github.com/tikv/raft-eng…

[zhangyangyu]

Sprint 5 end date has been delayed to Nov 23rd.

[zhangyangyu]

Sprint 5 end date has been delayed to Nov 30th.