Hello Flume Community, 1.8 was released about a year ago and since that quite a few bug fixes, improvements, features and documentation were introduced. I would like to propose to publish the next minor release of Flume to make these changes available to the users.
I would be more than happy to be the Release Manager with the help of Denes Arvay for anything that requires PMC access - if both the community and he are OK with it. Among others the following changes will be included in the next release: Fixed bugs: - FLUME-3117 Application can be dead loop when call System.exit() in methodconfigure - FLUME-3237 Handling RuntimeExceptions coming from the JMS provider in JMSSource - FLUME-3201 Fix SyslogUtil to handle RFC3164 format in december correctly - FLUME-3056 TestApplication hangs indefinitely - FLUME-2976 Exception when JMS source tries to connect to a Weblogic server without authentication - FLUME-3270 Close JMS resources in JMSMessageConsumer constructor in case of failure - FLUME-3222 java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException thrown when files are being deleted from the TAILDIR source - FLUME-2894 Flume components should stop in the correct order (graceful shutdown) - FLUME-2973 Deadlock in hdfs sink - FLUME-3278 Handling -D keystore parameters in Kafka components - FLUME-3265 Cannot set batch-size for LoadBalancingRpcClient Improvements: - FLUME-3186 Make asyncHbaseClient configuration parameters available from flume config - FLUME-3239 Do not rename files in SpoolDirectorySource - FLUME-3227 Add Rate Limiter to StressSource - FLUME-2050 Upgrade to log4j2 (when GA) - FLUME-3246 Validate flume configuration to prevent larger source batch size than the channel transaction capacity - FLUME-3050 add counters for error conditions and expose to monitor URL - FLUME-3269 Support JSSE keystore/trustore -D system properties - FLUME-3223 Flume HDFS Sink should retry close prior to performing a recoverLease - FLUME-3276 Components supporting SSL/TLS should be able to specify cipher suite list - FLUME-3275 Components supporting SSL/TLS should be able to specify protocol list New Features: - FLUME-3142 Adding HBase2 sink - FLUME-2442 Need an alternative to providing clear text passwords in flume config There are 26 open tickets targeted for 1.9 in patch available state: https://s.apache.org/flume-1.9-target-tickets We also have a number of open pull requests on Github: https://github.com/apache/flume/pulls There are a few tickets in progress that would be good to include in the release so I would say that we focus on reviewing and testing them in the next 2 weeks. I would like to propose to target the 23rd of November for the first release candidate. That would mean that the branch date would be a few days before that. Any significant code change should get in by that date. If nobody has any concerns then I am going to create an umbrella ticket to track the release process. Some movement can be expected in the related JIRA tickets. Kind regards, Ferenc
