Hi Ferenc, A definite +1 from me for the proposal, thanks for driving this. I'd be more than happy to help you during the release process.
Regards, Denes On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:23 PM Ferenc Szabo <szabofe...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >
