Dear community, This is our first voting candidate for the 12.3 release of Apache NetBeans. It is built off the same commit as 12.3-beta3. Please note all requirements below for validating sources and convenience binaries before voting.
Apache NetBeans 12.3 constitutes all clusters in the Apache NetBeans Git repository, which together provide the NetBeans Platform (i.e., the underlying application framework), as well as all the modules that provide the Java SE, Java EE, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy features of Apache NetBeans. Build artifacts are available here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/netbeans/netbeans/12.3 https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/netbeans/netbeans-platform/12.3 We should probably have put them in a 'vc1' folder, rather than the root folder, on the other hand, we're optimistic that multiple vote candidates won't be needed. :-) They were built by the Jenkins pipeline and moved to their place: https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Netbeans/job/netbeans-TLP/job/netbeans/job/release123/14/ We are primarily voting on: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/netbeans/netbeans/12.3/netbeans-12.3-source.zip SHA512: 22bc542432f5810692757178a8b2f6e7a5729e7a422e637beb22c80603f685345030db90dce5ddc467bd26659e48ddbc3cadaf4fab4d41a8bd7de421f030d67f KEYS file: https://downloads.apache.org/netbeans/KEYS Associated with the primary source item we have, generated with the pipeline mentioned above: -- under https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/netbeans/netbeans/12.3 binaries associated with the source netbeans-12.3-bin.zip as well as update content under nbms folder -- under https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/netbeans/netbeans-platform/12.3 you will find the platform cluster build netbeans-platform-12.3-bin.zip netbeans-platform-12.3-source.zip Release specific wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+12.3 ------------------------ Voting Requirements Before voting +1 you are required to download the signed source code package, compile it as provided, and test the resulting executable on your own platform, along with also verifying that the package meets the requirements of the ASF policy on releases - see: http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#management In particular, you should (at least) follow these steps. 1. Download the artefact to be voted on and unzip it. 2. Check that the artefact does not contain any jar files, except for: - platform/autoupdate.services/test/unit/src/org/netbeans/api/autoupdate/data/empty.jar - enterprise/glassfish.common/test/unit/data/nottaDir-4_1_2.jar - enterprise/glassfish.common/test/unit/data/subdir/nottaDir-5.0.jar - enterprise/payara.common/test/unit/data/nottaDir-4_1_2.jar - enterprise/payara.common/test/unit/data/subdir/nottaDir-5.0.jar which are only jars by their name 3. Verify the cryptographic signatures, the NOTICE and LICENSE file 4. Build it using the README provided by the artifact. 5. Look in nbbuild/netbeans for the NetBeans installation created by the build process and try running it. In addition to checking the sources, you should check the associated convenience binary zips and nbms at the artifact links above. As well as checking any artifact functions correctly, you should check that it has been correctly signed by a PMC member, and that the source being voted on is sufficient to build the relevant binary. Separate votes will be held on other convenience binaries, including installers and Maven artifacts. Those will be dependent on this vote passing. This vote is going to be open at least 72 hours, vote with +1, 0, and -1 as usual. (Please justify -1) Please mark your vote with (binding) only if you're an Apache NetBeans PMC member to help with voting admin. Only respond if you are going to vote, i.e., this is NOT a discussion thread. NetBeans 12.3 will be released if and when this vote passes. Thank you to all contributors for all your hard work! Geertjan and Neil Release Managers for Apache NetBeans 12.3
