Announcing Vitess 23

This post announces Vitess 23.0.0, detailing its new defaults (MySQL 8.4), improved operational tooling (VTOrc, topology controls), and refined metrics (VTGate's TransactionsProcessed, VTOrc's SkippedRecoveries). It also covers deprecations of legacy metrics and API endpoints, updates to VTTablet and CLI/Docker, and specific upgrade instructions for operator users migrating from MySQL 8.0 to 8.4. Future plans include deeper MySQL 8.4 compatibility and expanded observability for VReplication, MoveTables, and Resharding.