## Major Changes

This patch is providing an update regarding the Apache Log4j security vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) (#9357), along with a few bug fixes.

## Known Issues

* A critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the Apache Log4j logging library was disclosed on Dec 9 2021.
  The project provided release `2.15.0` with a patch that mitigates the impact of this CVE. It was quickly found that the initial patch was insufficient, and additional CVEs
  CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-44832 followed.
  These have been fixed in release `2.17.1`. This release of Vitess, `v12.0.1`, uses a version of Log4j below `2.17.1`, for this reason, we encourage you to use version `v12.0.3` instead, to benefit from the vulnerability patches.
