If anyone would like to help test this RC who doesn't have an easy way to set 
up a test environment, I would be happy to set one up for you and grant you 
access to it.

Josh

On Friday, April 03, 2015 4:03:42 PM you wrote:
> As with 2.4, 2.4.1 was released, and before it had a chance to get to all of
> the mirrors, Young reported a bug with the statistics page that
> necessitated holding back 2.4.1 and moving forward with 2.4.2.  Hopefully,
> this will finally be the one we announce!
> 
> I created a release artifact based off of trunk.  I copied that branch to a
> tag under the tags area of the repo that is named release-2.4.2-RC1:
> 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/vcl/tags/release-2.4.2-RC1/
> 
> The artifact is an export from that tag with the addition of Dojo Toolkit
> version 1.6.2 with a custom VCL profile and Spyc both bundled in the web
> code. The artifact, MD5 and SHA1 sums, and my GPG signature of it are
> available from my space on people.a.o:
> 
> http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/apache-VCL-2.4.2-RC1/
> 
> The list of resolved JIRA issues associated with this release can be found
> under 2.4, 2.4.1, and 2.4.2 on the Change Log page in the staging area of
> the CMS:
> 
> http://vcl.staging.apache.org/docs/changelog.html
> 
> This is the first release to include an installation script.  Installation
> instructions on using the script and doing things manually are on the
> following page in the staging area of the CMS:
> 
> http://vcl.staging.apache.org/docs/VCL242InstallGuide.html
> 
> The INSTALLATION file in the release artifact only contains information on
> using the script.
> 
> *NOTE* To use the installation script with RC1, you need to give it the
> --rc=1 option (which is not included in the output of --help).
> 
> Test installs and upgrades were successfully performed.
> 
> The directory created by extracting the RC1 artifact is
> "apache-VCL-2.4.2-RC1" (after extracting, you may want to rename it to
> "apache-VCL-2.4.2" if you want to test the manual instruction from the
> online installation guide).  Licensing information about perl and its
> required modules, php and its required modules, and mysql are stated as
> "system requirements" according to the information under "System
> Requirements" on http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html.
> 
> After we finalize a release vote, the staging part of the CMS will be
> published to update the production site.
> 
> Please vote by 5pm (EST) on Wednesday, April 8th to publish this release.
> Everyone in the community is encouraged to vote if you have at least done
> some testing.  However, only votes by members of the PMC are binding votes.
> 
> [ ] +1 yes, release VCL 2.4.2
> [ ] 0 dunno
> [ ] -1 no, don't release VCL 2.4.2 (provide reasons if this is your vote)
> 
> Josh
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