Hi Arshad,
Generally looks good—but see my point about releases notes below. +1 (advisory): * Tarball contents match repository tag; * Verified checksums and signatures; * Built and smoke-tested on NixOS with a slightly adapted version of the Nix recipe; * Smoke-tested a standalone server with the (corresponding) Java, C and Perl clients, as well as the zkfuse contrib; * Smoke-tested a 3-ensemble with the (corresponding) Java client and SASL/GSSAPI. It seems that there were some errors in the bug tracker's "Fix Version/s" field which in turn caused the release notes to be slightly inconsistent: 1. ZOOKEEPER-3774, ZOOKEEPER-3798, ZOOKEEPER-3841 and ZOOKEEPER-3858 are mentioned, but seem to only be present in master; 2. ZOOKEEPER-3933 and ZOOKEEPER-3934 are mentioned, but these tickets were closed without any changes; 3. ZOOKEEPER-3931 is in 3.6.3, but not mentioned as the ticket has not been closed; 4. ZOOKEEPER-3957, ZOOKEEPER-3980 and ZOOKEEPER-3992 are in 3.6.3, but not mentioned as the tickets are only tagged with 3.7.0. The annoying bit, of course, is that releasenotes.md is on the release branch. Corrections should be applied there if another RC is published. I, for one, would be fine with only applying corrections to the website and in a subsequent commit if RC 0 is promoted to release status. Best, -D P.-S. — I have *not* tested under Ubuntu, nor have I used the staging repo. These are important points, but I figured most other testers would focus on them. Holler if that turns out not to be the case! Mohammad Arshad <ars...@apache.org> writes: > This is a bug fix release candidate for 3.6.3. It contains 51 fixes. > > The full release notes is available at: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310801&version=12348703 > > *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, April 6th 2021, 23:59 UTC+0. > *** > > Source and binary files: > https://people.apache.org/~arshad/zookeeper-3.6.3-candidate-0/ > > Maven staging repo: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachezookeeper-1068/ > > The release candidate tag in git to be voted upon: release-3.6.3-0 > https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/tree/release-3.6.3-0 > > ZooKeeper's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > https://www.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/KEYS > > The staging version of the website is: > https://people.apache.org/~arshad/zookeeper-3.6.3-candidate-0/website/ > > Should we release this candidate? > > Thanks & Regards > Arshad