Release Notes for v25.3-v25.3.0-beta.1 (#19861)

* Update release notes for v25.3-v25.3.0-beta.1

* Update release notes for v25.3-v25.3.0-beta.1

* Update release notes for v25.3-v25.3.0-beta.1

* Style edits

* Update release date

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Co-authored-by: Automated Release Bot <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Joe Lodin <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

src/current/_data/releases.yml

@@ -9101,3 +9101,31 @@
   source: true
   previous_release: v25.2.1
 
+
+
+- release_name: v25.3.0-beta.1
+  major_version: v25.3
+  release_date: '2025-07-02'
+  release_type: Testing
+  go_version: go1.23.7
+  sha: 0f1b7069d057d671e6ff3ad3b88de0e1ea227f45
+  has_sql_only: true
+  has_sha256sum: true
+  mac:
+    mac_arm: true
+    mac_arm_experimental: true
+    mac_arm_limited_access: false
+  windows: true
+  linux:
+    linux_arm: true
+    linux_arm_experimental: false
+    linux_arm_limited_access: false
+    linux_intel_fips: true
+    linux_arm_fips: false
+  docker:
+    docker_image: cockroachdb/cockroach-unstable
+    docker_arm: true
+    docker_arm_experimental: false
+    docker_arm_limited_access: false
+  source: true
+  previous_release: v25.3.0-alpha.3

src/current/_data/versions.csv

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-v25.3,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,v25.2,master,N/A
+v25.3,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,N/A,v25.2,release-25.3,N/A

src/current/_includes/releases/v25.3/v25.3.0-beta.1.md

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+## v25.3.0-beta.1
+
+Release Date: July 2, 2025
+
+{% include releases/new-release-downloads-docker-image.md release=include.release %}
+
+<h3 id="v25-3-0-beta-1-sql-language-changes">SQL language changes</h3>
+
+- Directionality may no longer be assigned to any vector index column. Prefix columns are not scannable in a vector index, so directionality is not relevant to them.
+ [#147307][#147307]
+- Changed the basic sequence caching option to cache at the per-node level by default. The `PER SESSION CACHE` sequence option is added to provide the previous per-session cache behavior.
+ [#148290][#148290]
+- Removed the 'started' column in `SHOW JOBS`, which was a duplicate of the 'created' column.
+ [#148464][#148464]
+
+<h3 id="v25-3-0-beta-1-operational-changes">Operational changes</h3>
+
+- Introduced the following cluster settings for enabling and configuring value separation in the storage engine: `storage.value_separation.enabled`, `storage.value_separation.minimum_size`, and `storage.value_separation.max_reference_depth`.
+ [#148535][#148535]
+- Non-admin users no longer have access to changefeed jobs they do not own and which are not owned by a role of which they are a member, regardless of whether they have the `CHANGEFEED` privilege on the table or tables those jobs may be watching. Admin users, or those with global `SHOWJOB` / `CONTROLJOB` privileges, can still interact with all jobs, regardless of ownership.
+ [#148537][#148537]
+- In order to selectively capture traces for transactions running in an active workload without having to capture them via statement diagnostic bundles, customers can now use the `sql.trace.txn.sample_rate` cluster setting to enable tracing for a fraction of their workload. The `sql.trace.txn.enable_threshold` will still need to be set to a positive value to provide a filter for how slow a transaction needs to be after being sampled to merit emitting a trace. Traces are emitted to the `SQL_EXEC` logging channel.
+  [#148542][#148542]
+- Added the following cluster settings for configuring blob file rewrite compactions: `storage.value_separation.rewrite_minimum_age` and `storage.value_separation.compaction_garbage_threshold`.
+  [#148837][#148837]
+- Added the `replicas.cpunanospersecond` metric. Notably, when child labels are enabled, this metric exposes evaluation-related Replica CPU usage by tenant.
+  [#146526][#146526]
+- CockroachDB now raises an error when encountering improper inline SSL credentials instead of panicking.
+  [#148242][#148242]
+- Restore will now re-attempt `AdminSplit` KV requests instead of immediately failing and pausing the job.
+  [#148484][#148484]
+- To improve changefeed performance, the session variable `create_table_with_schema_locked` is enabled by default. This means all new tables are created with the `schema_locked` storage parameter. This setting must be explicitly unset for explicit transactions or for schema changes that do not support automatic disabling (e.g., `ALTER TABLE ... SET LOCALITY`).
+ [#148839][#148839]
+
+<h3 id="v25-3-0-beta-1-bug-fixes">Bug fixes</h3>
+
+- Fixed a bug where using column families on tables with vector indexes would cause the index to fail to return results.
+ [#147307][#147307]
+- Large mutation statements (`INSERT`, `UPDATE`, `DELETE`, `UPSERT`) are now less likely to encounter contention with automatic table statistics collection in some cases. The bug was present since v19.1.
+ [#148488][#148488]
+
+<h3 id="v25-3-0-beta-1-performance-improvements">Performance improvements</h3>
+
+- The optimizer will no longer apply a fast-path to deletes cascading to `REGIONAL BY ROW` tables. This prevents the cascading delete from accessing more regions than necessary.
+ [#148105][#148105]
+
+
+[#148535]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148535
+[#148542]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148542
+[#148105]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148105
+[#146526]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/146526
+[#147307]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/147307
+[#148464]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148464
+[#148537]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148537
+[#148837]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148837
+[#148488]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148488
+[#148242]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148242
+[#148484]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148484
+[#148839]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148839
+[#148290]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/148290