Hi Denes, It seems to me that 1.8.1 and 1.9.0 releases already exist in our JIRA.
Regarding the retargeting: I'd be happy to batch-edit the necessary tickets in order to avoid spamming the mailing lists. Once you have a list of actions you'd like to do, please let us know. Thank you, Donat 2017-09-11 19:39 GMT+02:00 Denes Arvay <de...@cloudera.com>: > Hi All, > > I'd like to let you know that we are planning to cut the 1.8 branch > tomorrow around 2am PDT. > If you think that there any important tickets targeted to 1.8 still open > which needs to be reviewed and committed to get into the release, please > let us know as soon as possible and we'll do our best to push it through. > > The ones which couldn't get committed by the branching will be retargeted > to 1.8.1 or 1.9, depending on their type (i.e. bug fixes will be retargeted > to 1.8.1, new features will be scheduled for 1.9). > For this I'd like to ask our PMC members to create these new releases in > Jira, or if it's possible to grant the required Jira permissions to me, I'd > be more than happy to do this. > > Thank you, > Denes > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:21 AM Denes Arvay <de...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> Hi Flume Community, >> >> Almost a year passed since we've released Flume 1.7. >> More than 50 commits were pushed since then, including documentation >> fixes, many critical bug fixes and several important features, so I'd like >> to propose to publish the next minor release of Flume. >> >> I'd be happy to be the Release Manager with the help of Ferenc Szabo and >> Marcell Hegedus who have been quite active recently, and Balazs Donat >> Bessenyei who took the lion's share of the work during the previous release >> - if both community and they are OK with it. >> >> Among others the following major changes will be included in the next >> release: >> >> Fixed bugs: >> - FLUME-2857. Make Kafka Source/Channel/Sink restore default values when >> live updating config >> - FLUME-2812. Fix semaphore leak causing java.lang.Error: Maximum permit >> count exceeded in MemoryChannel >> - FLUME-3020. Improve HDFS Sink escape sequence substitution >> - FLUME-3027. Change Kafka Channel to clear offsets map after commit >> - FLUME-3049. Make HDFS sink rotate more reliably in secure mode >> - FLUME-3080. Close failure in HDFS Sink might cause data loss >> - FLUME-3085. HDFS Sink can skip flushing some BucketWriters, might lead >> to data loss >> - FLUME-2752. Fix AvroSource startup resource leaks >> - FLUME-2905. Fix NetcatSource file descriptor leak if startup fails >> >> New features: >> - FLUME-2171. Add Interceptor to remove headers from event >> - FLUME-2993. Add support for environment variables in configuration files >> - New component: HTTP Sink >> - FLUME-3100. Support arbitrary header substitution for topic of Kafka Sink >> - FLUME-2917. Provide netcat UDP source as alternative to TCP >> >> There are 35 open tickets targeted for 1.8 in patch available state: >> https://s.apache.org/flume-1.8-target-tickets >> >> Plus we also have quite a lot (~65) open pull requests on GitHub: >> https://github.com/apache/flume/pulls >> >> Some of the above mentioned tickets/pull requests already have some review >> comments, so at least part of this list can get into this release beside >> the already pushed ones. >> >> I'd like to propose to target the week of 11th of September with the first >> release candidate. That'd mean that the branch date would be the 11th, any >> significant code change should get in by that date. >> >> If nobody has any concerns then I'm going to create an umbrella ticket to >> track the release process. >> >> Kind regards, >> Denes >> >>
