Plan to release v3.6.0-rc.2

[ivanvc]

What would you like to be added?

We want to release the third release candidate (v3.6.0-rc.2), continuing the plan to release version 3.6.0.

Work in progress CHANGELOG is: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-3.6.md#v360-rc2-tbd

The list of commits included since the previous release is: v3.6.0-rc.1...release-3.6:

• [release-3.6] Add prometheus metric for server feature gate #19495
• [release-3.6] etcdserver: Fixing minor typos in v3election.proto and rpc.proto #19501

Outstanding tasks before releasing this version:

• Backport Add prometheus metric for server feature gate #19452
• Go v1.23.7
• golang.org/x/net v0.36.0(?)

Release team

GitHub handle	Role
@ivanvc	TBD

Why is this needed?

To continue the work towards releasing 3.6.0.

[ivanvc]

@jmhbnz, looks like we will have another day with two releases (#19494). Are you available to help with them next week? We could swap the advisor/lead role. Or, I'm happy to be the lead again.

[ivanvc]

According to the golang mailing list, Go v1.23.7 will be released next Tuesday, March 4th, along with a new golang.org/x/net version to address CVE-2025-22870. It would be great to ship our latest versions with these version bumps. So, tentatively the releases are due on Wednesday, March 5th.