What would you like to be added?

The etcd patch release criteria has been met for our release-3.5 stable branch, so we should release v3.5.25.

Work in progress CHANGELOG is: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-3.5.md#

The list of commits included since the previous release is: v3.5.24...release-3.5:

• TBD

Outstanding tasks before releasing this version:

• Backport Cannot promote member from follower when auth is enabled #20757 / etcdserver: Fix: cannot promote member from follower when auth is enabled #20792

Release team

Why is this needed?

Regular patch releases are vital to ensure our users have bug-free and secure software.