Hello all, The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the third release candidate for Apache Kudu 1.17.1.
Apache Kudu 1.17.1 is a maintenance release that offers many bug fixes and few other issues. This is a source-only release. The artifacts have been staged here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kudu/1.17.1-RC3/ Java convenience binaries in the form of a Maven repository are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1124 Linux and MacOS test-only Kudu binary JAR artifacts are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1122 https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1123 It is tagged in Git as 1.17.1-RC3 and the corresponding hash is the following: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=ecfa024b02d2b4939051ae2e1f1467733abcc984 The release notes can be found here: https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/1.17.1-RC3/docs/release_notes.adoc The KEYS file to verify the artifact signatures can be found here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/kudu/KEYS I'd suggest going through the release notes, building Kudu, and running the unit tests. Testing out the Maven repo would also be appreciated. Also, it's worth running Kudu Java tests against kudu-binary JAR artifact as described in the commit message here: https://github.com/apache/kudu/commit/8a6faaa93f3e206ac75e8087731daccaf7ab646a The vote will run until a majority[1] is achieved, but at least until Monday, November 4 14:00:00 PST 2024. Thank you, Abhishek [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes
