Thank you Kashif for working on the release!

+1 binding

noticed that the src tarball contains a bunch of `jar` files ; which pump up its size to 500MB - earlier releases were also had those; so I don't think thats a blocker; but push a fix for it so that future releases will be smaller :D
otherwise look good!

Linux amd64, OpenJDK 21
- sha512 checksums: ok
- signing key 62773F2189EE2AEA0F4C5E58303608E3456CA262 matches kfaraz.asc
- tag druid-38.0.0-rc1 points to 01f20f3f26e79592db473b04a31be1e2aae2a72f
- LICENSE and NOTICE present in src and bin
- mvn apache-rat:check -Prat passes: 0 unapproved files
- built from the src tarball: `mvn clean install -Papache-release,dist 
-Dgpg.skip -DskipTests -Ddependency-check.skip` (file list matches)
- ran micro-quickstart from the bin tarball: ingested the wikipedia sample with 
SQL INSERT (39244 rows), queried it back, web console loads
- docker image apache/druid:38.0.0-rc1 has digest 
sha256:bed99bf52f5067ed6df866794e0212a0f3b0c72b2ede628bb3c7b4b24bf9c285
- ran distribution/docker/docker-compose.yml with the RC image: all services 
came up and answer SQL
- signatures of sampled artifacts in the staged Maven repo (druid-processing, 
druid-server, druid-sql) verify
- ingested NYC to a launched instance ; run some queries


cheers,
Zoltan


On 9/28/26 9:51 AM, Kashif Faraz wrote:
Gentle reminder to vote on the RC1 artifacts for Druid 38 release.

Thanks
Kashif

On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM Kashif Faraz <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi

I have created a build for Apache Druid 38.0.0, release candidate 1.

Thanks to everyone who has helped contribute to the release! You can read
the proposed release notes here:
https://github.com/apache/druid/issues/20416

The release candidate has been tagged in GitHub as druid-38.0.0-rc1
(01f20f3f26e79592db473b04a31be1e2aae2a72f),
available here:
https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-38.0.0-rc1

The artifacts to be voted on are located here:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/druid/38.0.0-rc1/

A staged Maven repository is available for review at:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachedruid-1099/

A Docker image containing the binary of the release candidate can be
retrieved via:
docker pull apache/druid:38.0.0-rc1

Artifact checksums:
src:

841b4b8d57fd439278ab1b939c56abd9baf6673ef6d44dadd4962942e6cbc9458e8f61cec57e14f33b3cc6abe0c69ef494afdeee3ea77be8844d77894c22b26f
bin:

aafbc2696d97ddc7f760a6a10b367fa0228a28642b11e1db6eed541eb3a5f5bbcd874144ffafa0dd8e1135dbdec39372c9072025e5e3fb76b88e48088cab47a0
docker:
bed99bf52f5067ed6df866794e0212a0f3b0c72b2ede628bb3c7b4b24bf9c285

Release artifacts are signed with the following key:
https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/kfaraz.asc

This key and the key of other committers can also be found in the project's
KEYS file here:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/druid/KEYS

(If you are a committer, please feel free to add your own key to that file
by following the instructions in the file's header.)

Verify checksums:
diff <(shasum -a512 apache-druid-38.0.0-src.tar.gz | \
cut -d ' ' -f1) \
<(cat apache-druid-38.0.0-src.tar.gz.sha512 ; echo)

diff <(shasum -a512 apache-druid-38.0.0-bin.tar.gz | \
cut -d ' ' -f1) \
<(cat apache-druid-38.0.0-bin.tar.gz.sha512 ; echo)

Verify signatures:
gpg --verify apache-druid-38.0.0-src.tar.gz.asc \
apache-druid-38.0.0-src.tar.gz

gpg --verify apache-druid-38.0.0-bin.tar.gz.asc \
apache-druid-38.0.0-bin.tar.gz

Please review the proposed artifacts and vote. Note that Apache has
specific requirements that must be met before +1 binding votes can be cast
by PMC members. Please refer to the policy at
http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#policy for more details.

As part of the validation process, the release artifacts can be generated
from source by running:
mvn clean install -Papache-release,dist -Dgpg.skip

The RAT license check can be run from source by:
mvn apache-rat:check -Prat

This vote will be open for at least 72 hours. The vote will pass if a
majority of at least three +1 PMC votes are cast.

[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Druid 38.0.0
[ ] 0 I don't feel strongly about it, but I'm okay with the release
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...



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