Hi!
Thank you for working on this!
I downloaded the release artifacts and built thirdparty on Ubuntu 22.04.
I built Kudu in DEBUG mode and ran the C++ tests with slow tests enabled.
The following tests FAILED:
84 - fs_manager-test (Failed)
251 - txn_manager-test (Failed)
469 - curl_util-test (Failed)
The test failures appear to be test infrastructure issues.
I also ran the Java tests and all passed but one:
TestSecurity.testExternallyProvidedSubjectRefreshedExternally
This also appears to be a test infrastructure/flakiness issue.
Based on this, my vote is +1 (non-binding).
Best regards,
Gabriella
On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM Abhishek Chennaka <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the second release candidate for
> Apache Kudu 1.18.1.
>
> Apache Kudu 1.18.1 is a maintenance release that offers critical bug fixes.
>
> This is a source-only release. The artifacts have been staged here:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kudu/1.18.1-RC2/
>
> Java convenience binaries in the form of a Maven repository are staged
> here:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1131
>
> Linux (x86_64 and aarch64 platforms built on RHEL 8) and macOS (built on
> Sequoia 15.7.2) test-only Kudu binary JAR artifacts are staged here:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1132
>
> It is tagged in Git as 1.18.1-RC2 and the corresponding hash is the
> following:
>
> https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=3a9f8c319ddbfbff2a9c546e71ff7bd248caebfd
>
> The release notes can be found here:
> https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/1.18.1-RC2/docs/release_notes.adoc
> <https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/1.18.1-RC1/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
> Thursday, December 11 16:00:00 PST 2025.
>
> Thank you,
> Abhishek
>
> [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes
>
