I stared a general thread concerning topics for the next release. One major topic raised was what should the next version number be? I stared this thread so that version discussions can occur in a single thread for continuity. From the general email thread:
Version number: There have been substantial changes since 2.0 was released. The next version was expected to be 2.1, but with the number and the scope of changes that have been made and some that are in the pipeline, maybe we should signal this with a major version bump to 3.0? - With semver, we might be able to go either way, depending on interpretation. - With the adoption of LTM releases, whatever the next version is numbered, it will be a LTM release candidate. - There have been over 800 changes committed. - Notable major changes: o Name changes to inclusive language (Manager instead of Master,…) o Enabling external compactions. o Changes in the storage of properties in ZooKeeper to reduce watchers (in progress, issues #1225, #1809) o Change tracing to use OpenTracing instead of HTrace (PR #2259) o Change metrics to use micrometer.io instead of Hadoop-metrics2 (PR #2305) o Changes to enable per-table encryption and other improvements (PR #2197) o ???
