CI: Add CI check for what's new link (#70046)

* Add whatsnewchecker

* Add whatsnewchecker_test

* Small fixes

* Add step in CI

* Fix lint

* Fix starlark

* t.Cleanup instead of separate func

* Skip check for test tags

scripts/drone/events/release.star

@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ load(
     "scripts/drone/utils/images.star",
     "images",
 )
+load(
+    "scripts/drone/pipelines/whats_new_checker.star",
+    "whats_new_checker_pipeline",
+)
 
 ver_mode = "release"
 release_trigger = {
@@ -210,9 +214,12 @@ def oss_pipelines(ver_mode = ver_mode, trigger = release_trigger):
         memcached_integration_tests_step(),
     ]
 
+    pipelines = []
+
     # We don't need to run integration tests at release time since they have
     # been run multiple times before:
     if ver_mode in ("release"):
+        pipelines.append(whats_new_checker_pipeline(release_trigger))
         integration_test_steps = []
         volumes = []
 
@@ -220,7 +227,7 @@ def oss_pipelines(ver_mode = ver_mode, trigger = release_trigger):
         "{}-oss-build-e2e-publish".format(ver_mode),
         "{}-oss-test-frontend".format(ver_mode),
     ]
-    pipelines = [
+    pipelines.extend([
         pipeline(
             name = "{}-oss-build-e2e-publish".format(ver_mode),
             edition = "oss",
@@ -232,7 +239,7 @@ def oss_pipelines(ver_mode = ver_mode, trigger = release_trigger):
         ),
         test_frontend(trigger, ver_mode),
         test_backend(trigger, ver_mode),
-    ]
+    ])
 
     if ver_mode not in ("release"):
         pipelines.append(pipeline(

scripts/drone/pipelines/whats_new_checker.star

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+"""
+This module contains logic for checking if the package.json whats new url matches with the in-flight tag.
+"""
+
+load(
+    "scripts/drone/utils/images.star",
+    "images",
+)
+load(
+    "scripts/drone/steps/lib.star",
+    "compile_build_cmd",
+)
+load(
+    "scripts/drone/utils/utils.star",
+    "pipeline",
+)
+
+def whats_new_checker_step():
+    return {
+        "name": "whats-new-checker",
+        "image": images["go_image"],
+        "depends_on": [
+            "compile-build-cmd",
+        ],
+        "commands": [
+            "./bin/build whatsnew-checker",
+        ],
+    }
+
+def whats_new_checker_pipeline(trigger):
+    environment = {"EDITION": "oss"}
+    steps = [
+        compile_build_cmd(),
+        whats_new_checker_step(),
+    ]
+    return pipeline(
+        name = "release-whatsnew-checker",
+        edition = "oss",
+        trigger = trigger,
+        services = [],
+        steps = steps,
+        environment = environment,
+    )