Hi, The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the first release candidate for Apache Kudu 1.0.0.
After approximately a year of beta releases, Apache Kudu has reached version 1.0. This version number signifies that the development team feels that Kudu is stable enough for usage in production environments. The is a source-only release. The artifacts were staged here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kudu/1.0.0-RC1/ Java convenience binaries in the form of a Maven repository are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1001/ It was built from this tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=6f6e49ca98c3e3be7d81f88ab8a0f9173959b191 The release notes can be found here (some links from this document will only work when this version is released): https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/branch-1.0.x/docs/release_notes.adoc KEYS file: http://www.apache.org/dist/kudu/KEYS I'd suggest going through the README, building Kudu, and running the unit tests. Testing out the Maven repo would also be appreciated. Please try the release and vote; the vote will end in 72 hours (on 9/16/2016 at 12:30am PDT). Thanks, Todd
