Hi Hans, Big thank you for fixing a lot of these regressions and building the release.
As always, I followed the steps in the "Checking A Release" guide [1] and checked a couple of the regressions in Hop Gui. Looks good to me! +1 (binding) [1] https://hop.apache.org//dev-manual/latest/apache-release/checking-a-release.html Regards, Bart On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM Hans Van Akelyen < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is a patch release for 2.18.0, as we identified some regressions > making it worth creating this patch. The issues that have been resolved: > > - Text file input no longer returns row numbers if configured to return > those > - Merge Rows (diff) regression with row layout > - Get file names filter on type (files/Folders) did not work anymore > - Sorted merge NPE when using multiple copies > - PGP Encrypt NPE > - Metadata injection transform regressions > - Hop Web canvas is not responding as expected > > > We have also updated some dependencies to reduce the number of > vulnerabilities reported by Trivy and Docker Scout. > > Build instructions can be found in the README included. > > The tag to be voted on is 2.18.1-rc1 (commit b1cd4dc): > https://github.com/apache/hop/tree/2.18.1-rc1 > > The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hop/apache-hop-2.18.1-rc1/ > > The SHA512 Checksum for these artifacts is: > Source: > > 643dca79c460ad68f465ce420d27fb071d0f3d4ca4601eef73b0b53bda218ef447364fbef8d7416eceae19a515c3b68cdc28aa68e55335511fd10ba6c0b57bd6 > client: > > 4a06c0cdc9970ba62a94fda01e8e78232838d82b77e1651c7152faa292bb735d9d3075b4d42a2b080fe3b7323b0f92002db5eee182ed066d6550a677b0efc977 > > 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/22?closed=1 > or > https://github.com/apache/hop/releases/tag/2.18.1-rc1 > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Hop 2.18.1! > > 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 2.18.1 > [ ] +0 No opinion > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... > > Best Regards, > Hans >
