Hi Ferenc, Thank you for driving the release, but if I'm not mistaken, the NOTICE files [1] still reference an old version of AWS SDK, 2.26.19, even though in the pom.xml file it's 2.40.3 [2].
In the CI job [3], LicenseChecker thinks that no external packages were included in the final jar, so it won't fail the job. It's caused by a change in the maven-shade-plugin 3.6.1, and it was solved in the main Flink repository under the task FLINK-38711 [4]. In the flink-shaded repository it was solved by pinning the version of the plugin to 3.6.0. Best regards, Mate [1] https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-aws/blob/v6.0.0-rc2/flink-connector-aws/flink-sql-connector-aws-kinesis-streams/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE [2] https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-aws/blob/133acec06bf3e6843b85009e872fad577c66c724/pom.xml#L56 [3] https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-aws/actions/runs/21260681626/job/61193376062 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-38711 On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 4:49 AM abhi Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 (non-binding) > > - Verified signatures and hashes as per: > https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html > - Verified that the source archives do not contain any binaries > - Built the source with maven to ensure all source files have apache > headers > - Checked all POM files have the same version (6.0.0) > - Read the README.md file to ensure there is nothing unexpected > > > On 2026/01/22 20:27:49 Ferenc Csaky wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Please review and vote on release candidate #2 for flink-connector-aws > v6.0.0, 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: > > * JIRA release notes [1], > > * the official Apache source release to be deployed to dist.apache.org > [2], which are signed with the key with fingerprint 16AE0DDBBB2F380B [3], > > * all artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [4], > > * source code tag v6.0.0-rc2 [5], > > * website pull request listing the new release [6]. > > * CI build of the tag [7]. > > > > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. It is adopted by majority > approval, with at least 3 PMC affirmative votes. > > > > Thanks, > > Ferenc > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FLINK/versions/12355986 > > [2] > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/flink/flink-connector-aws-6.0.0-rc2 > > [3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/flink/KEYS > > [4] > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheflink-1879 > > [5] > https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-aws/releases/tag/v6.0.0-rc2 > > [6] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/822 > > [7] > https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-aws/actions/runs/21260681626 > >
