+1 (non-binding) Thanks to the release manager for driving this release.
I recently joined the BookKeeper community and am still getting familiar with the release process, but I wanted to help validate this release candidate. I checked the 4.18.0-rc1 artifacts and did not find any blocking issues. I verified the source and binary checksums/signatures, confirmed the release tag, built the source package with JDK 17, and checked representative staged Maven artifacts. I also started the binary package in standalone mode and ran a few basic BookKeeper CLI flows, including listing bookies, checking bookie info, writing and reading entries with sanity commands, and checking basic cluster metadata. Everything I checked looked good to me. On 2026/06/02 01:58:36 Hang Chen wrote: > Hi everyone, > Please review and vote on the release candidate #1 for version 4.18.0 > as follows: > [ ] +1, Approve the release > [ ] -1, Do not approve the release (please provide specific comments) > > The complete staging area is available for your review, which includes: > * Release notes [1] > * The official Apache source and binary distributions to be deployed > to dist.apache.org [2] > * All artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [3] > * Source code tag "v4.18.0-rc1" [4] with git sha > cd06340851d6d657b7c7546df01df365c18980de > * The Pulsar PR [5] that upgrades Bookkeeper dependency to 4.18.0 to > verify the Pulsar tests > > BookKeeper's KEYS file contains PGP keys we used to sign this release: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/bookkeeper/KEYS > > Please download these packages and review this release candidate: > > - Review release notes > - Download the source package (verify shasum, and asc) and follow the > instructions to build and run the bookkeeper service. > - Download the binary package (verify shasum, and asc) and follow the > instructions to run the bookkeeper service. > - Review maven repo, release tag, licenses, and any other things you > think it is important to a release. > > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. It is adopted by majority > approval, with at least 3 PMC affirmative votes. > > Thanks, > Release Manager > > [1] https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/4807 > [2] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/bookkeeper/bookkeeper-4.18.0-rc1/ > [3] > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebookkeeper-1105 > [4] https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/releases/tag/v4.18.0-rc1 > [5] https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/25886 >
