+1 for Apache Geode 2.0.3.RC2.
Checks performed:
- Verified SHA-256 checksums for all five archives: Geode source, Geode
binary, examples source, native source, and benchmarks source.
- Verified detached signatures for all five archives using the Geode KEYS
file.
- Confirmed the RC2 signing key is present in both the vote-thread KEYS
file and the canonical downloads.apache.org Geode KEYS file.
- Confirmed source archives include top-level LICENSE and NOTICE files.
- Scanned source archives for compiled binaries.
- Compared source archive contents with the rel/v2.0.3.RC2 tags,
accounting for expected source-release packaging differences.
- Confirmed Geode source revision matches rel/v2.0.3.RC2:
f7c479de42c6623ee06b02a4961af435fff1afe4.
- Built the Geode source distribution with Corretto JDK 17.0.20 and Gradle
7.3.3:
./gradlew build
BUILD SUCCESSFUL.
- Verified representative Maven staging artifact geode-core-2.0.3.jar
checksum and signature.
- Ran binary smoke test: started locator and server, created a replicated
region, put/get succeeded, destroyed the region, and shut down cleanly.
- Ran the examples build/runAll command far enough to verify the RC1 async
deployment blocker is fixed; async completed successfully and subsequent
examples also started/running/cleaned..
I did not run full multi-machine DUnit validation.
Sai
On Tue, 8 Sept 2026 at 18:19, Jinwoo Hwang via dev <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello Geode Dev Community,
>
> This is a release candidate for Apache Geode version 2.0.3.RC2.
> Thanks to all the community members for their contributions to this
> release!
>
> Please do a review and give your feedback, including the checks you
> performed.
>
> Voting deadline:
> 3PM PST Sun, September 13 2026.
>
> Please note that we are voting upon the source tag:
> rel/v2.0.3.RC2
>
> Release notes:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-2.0.3
>
> Source and binary distributions:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/geode/2.0.3.RC2/
>
> Maven staging repo:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegeode-1156
>
> GitHub:
> https://github.com/apache/geode/tree/rel/v2.0.3.RC2
> https://github.com/apache/geode-examples/tree/rel/v2.0.3.RC2
> https://github.com/apache/geode-native/tree/rel/v2.0.3.RC2
> https://github.com/apache/geode-benchmarks/tree/rel/v2.0.3.RC2
>
> Geode's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release:
> https://github.com/apache/geode/blob/develop/KEYS
>
> Command to run geode-examples:
> ./gradlew -PgeodeReleaseUrl=
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/geode/2.0.3.RC2
> -PgeodeRepositoryUrl=
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegeode-1156
> build runAll
>
> Best regards,
> Jinwoo Hwang (he/him/his)
> Apache Geode / SAS® Research and Development
> http://JinwooHwang.com<http://jinwoohwang.com/>
>
