Hans, Thanks for your work in building this release! I followed the steps in the "Checking a release" guide and checked a couple of workflows and pipelines without any issues.
+1 (binding). Regards, Dave Campen > On Nov 10, 2025, at 8:04 AM, Hans Van Akelyen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for Apache Hop 2.16.0 > this release is mainly a bug fixing release with 111 closed tickets. > > Notable new features: > > • Table output can update tables, this can be used for staging areas > • Oauth support for salesforce transforms > • Merge Diff can show which fields have changed values > • UUID column type support for Postgresql and MongoDB > • Better support for the JSON field type > • Parquet input improvements > • Azure key vault variable resolver > > > Build instructions can be found in the README included. > > The tag to be voted on is 2.16.0-rc1 (commit 9232be7): > https://github.com/apache/hop/tree/release/2.16.0 > > The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hop/apache-hop-2.16.0-rc1/ > > The SHA512 Checksum for these artifacts is: > Source: > 0c42988938ec229f5bc6125613d6432cb896d190bee72bc0168db984a3cbcf7791517ea532cbb20e3efe2f38501b1c3da2bc2500ba8788dacf724ffe5dc77559 > client: > f635c4e53136c93b67e6303cc22a08e016b76825bd09b82adc905e5d24c8fd68ff37c42e82520fa1aff223780c76d222bf5dfa7e930ac3c363248c844afc2c60 > > Release artifacts are signed with the following key: > https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x0afca1919d19daa60ab0bf94c4092203eb788658 > > For more information about the contents of this release, see: > https://github.com/apache/hop/milestone/17?closed=1 > or > https://github.com/apache/hop/releases/tag/2.16.0-rc1 > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Hop 2.16.0! > > The vote is open for 72 hours and passes if > a majority of at least 3 +1 PMC votes are cast. > > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Hop 2.16.0 > [ ] +0 No opinion > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... > > Best Regards, > Hans
