This is the second release candidate for Apache Bookkeeper, version 4.2.3. The only difference from the first candidate is an updated date in the CHANGES.txt.
4.2.3 is a bugfix release for 4.2.2. Notable fixes and improvements include new utilities to give administrators better visibility of cluster state (BOOKKEEPER-746), improvements to allow for smoother rolling upgrades (BOOKKEEPER-745), fixes to ledger polling to ensure metadata updates aren't missed (BOOKKEEPER-710 & BOOKKEEPER-747) and shading of protobuf libraries to avoid conflicts when included with other version (BOOKKEEPER-708). The full release notes is available at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12325569&styleName=Html&projectId=12311293 *** Please download, test and vote by June 27th 2014, 10:00 UTC+0. *** Note that we are voting upon the source (tag), binaries are provided for convenience. Source and binary files: http://people.apache.org/~ivank/bookkeeper-4.2.3-candidate-1/ Maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebookkeeper-1001/ The tag to be voted upon: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/zookeeper/bookkeeper/tags/release-4.2.3 Bookkeeper's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/zookeeper/bookkeeper/dist/KEYS Please download the the source package, and follow the README to build and run a bookkeeper and hedwig service.