This is the second release candidate for 3.8.0. It is a major release and it introduces a lot of new features, most notably: - Migration of the logging framework from Apache Log4j1 to LogBack - Read Key/trust store password from file (and other security related improvements) - Restored support for OSGI - Reduced the performance impact of Prometheus metrics - Official support for JDK17 (all tests are passing) - Updates to all the third party dependencies to get rid of every known CVE.
The full release notes is available at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310801&version=12349587 *** Please download, test and vote by February 28th 2022, 23:59 UTC+0. *** Source files: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.8.0-candidate-1/ Maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachezookeeper-1073/ The release candidate tag in git to be voted upon: release-3.8.0-1 https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/tree/release-3.8.0-1 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://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.8.0-candidate-1/website/index.html Should we release this candidate? Enrico Olivelli
