Hi All, Draft of the release notes can be found on GitHub now [1] Feel free to append and update the page, or make suggestions.
Cheers, Hans [1] https://github.com/apache/hop-website/blob/main/content/blog/2026/02/index.adoc On Jan 21, 2026 at 12:12 +0100, Matt Casters <[email protected]>, wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > I think this is a great idea. I'll be filing small UI bugs that I think > still need addressing, like issue #6438 (in apache/hop). It would be great > if you all could file others. I'll do my best to fix them. > Let's spend the next couple of weeks ironing out the smaller kinks. > All in all though... 2.17 looks amazing. > > Cheers, > > Matt > > > Op wo 21 jan 2026 om 10:39 schreef Hans Van Akelyen > <[email protected]>: > > Hi All, > > > > Our next release, 2.17 is coming up soon, and it is looking to be one of > > our largest releases since joining the ASF [1]. > > I would like to thank everyone that has worked on this release. > > > > With the release approaching I propose we slow down the phase where we > > merge new code. > > Except for very annoying bugs, regressions, CVE's we should consider our > > current codebase as the next release. > > This will give everyone the time to give it some final tests before we > > start building the Release Candidate. > > > > As this is a massive release with many changes I will start drafting the > > release blog post and give everyone time to review this and add their own > > changes they want to highlight. > > > > The final cutoff date for this release will be 30/01 and the release will > > be created and voted on in the first week of February. > > > > Cheers, > > Hans > > > > [1] > > https://github.com/apache/hop/issues?q=state%3Aclosed%20milestone%3A%222.17%22 > > > >
