This is the third release candidate for Apache ZooKeeper 3.6.0. It is a major release and it introduces a lot of new features, most notably: - Built-in data consistency check inside ZooKeeper - Allow Followers to host Observers - Authentication enforcement - Pluggable metrics system for ZooKeeper (and Prometheus.io integration) - TLS Port unification - Audit logging in ZooKeeper servers - Improve resilience to network (advertise multiple addresses for members of a Zookeeper cluster) - Persistent Recursive Watches - add an API and the corresponding CLI to get total count of recursive sub nodes under a specific path
The full release notes is available at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310801&version=12326518 *** Please download, test and vote by February 8th 2020, 23:59 UTC+0. *** Source files: https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.0-candidate-2/ Maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachezookeeper-1049/ The staging version of the website is: https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.0-candidate-2/website/ The release candidate tag in git to be voted upon: release-3.6.0-2 https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/tree/release-3.6.0-2 ZooKeeper's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://www.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/KEYS Please note that we are adding a new jar to the dependency set for clients: zookeeper-metrics-providers. Should we release this candidate? Enrico Olivelli
