Hi folks, I don't think the topic of Kudu 1.3 has been brought up on the dev list yet (though I just hinted at it on a user@ thread). I wanted to open this topic to discussion by proposing a release plan.
Back in December, the discussion around the 1.2 release was to hold off on the security features, and push them to 1.3. So, obviously security has been a big focus of development over the last month or so. I've been pretty involved with this development and it seems from my perspective that the initial phase of development (authentication without authorization) is wrapping up, and would be good to get out to users. Aside from security, there are a bunch of good bug fixes and improvements. >From a quick scan of the git log, a few things of note are: - fixes to various cases where more disk space was consumed than actually used for data - support for using Breakpad for crash analysis - new default encodings/compression to save space and increase performance - compression of the WAL and deltafiles (performance and space) - support for IS NULL and IS NOT NULL predicates - improved hash-partition pruning for IN-list predicates ...plus a few nice bug fixes and stability improvements. All of the above seems like it should make for a compelling 1.3 release. Following the pattern of 1.2, I think we should plan to branch this week, and then spend a week or two on stabilization and testing before making the release candidate. I'll volunteer to be the RM again unles anyone else feels like taking a turn. Any comments or concerns? -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
