Greetings all! We're going to give this another go. Apologies for the confusion that sprang out of our last attempt. It appears that the Nexus staging repository for the 4.18.1 release was accidentally released shortly after it was created. As a result Maven artifacts for this release are already out in the wild <https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.apache.cassandra/java-driver-core/4.18.1/bundle>, so this vote will be a little unusual. We'll be voting normally, but if the vote is successful we'll simply leave the Maven artifacts exactly where they are. If the vote is unsuccessful these artifacts will be removed from Maven Central and we'll try again with 4.18.2.
Big thanks to mck and driftx for their help in untangling these issues. With all of that said let's get to it. I’m proposing the test build of Cassandra Java Driver 4.18.1 for release. sha1: cbdde2878786fa6c4077a21352cbe738875f2106 Git: <https://github.com/apache/cassandra-java-driver/tree/4.18.0> https://github.com/apache/cassandra-java-driver/tree/4.18.1 Maven Artifacts: <https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-1330>As discussed above The Source release and Binary convenience artifacts are available here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cassandra/cassandra-java-driver/4.18.1/ The vote will be open for 72 hours (longer if needed). Everyone who has tested the build is invited to vote. Votes by PMC members are considered binding. A vote passes if there are at least three binding +1s and no -1's. One additional note: this is my first time doing a release of the Java driver so if you're so inclined you can find my PGP key information in the KEYS <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/cassandra/KEYS> file. Thanks all! - Bret -