Hello Kudu devs! The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the first release candidate for Apache Kudu 1.9.0.
Apache Kudu 1.9.0 is a minor release that offers many improvements and fixes since the prior release. This is a source-only release. The artifacts have been staged here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kudu/1.9.0-RC1/ Java convenience binaries in the form of a Maven repository are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1028/ It is tagged in Git as 1.9.0-RC1 and the corresponding hash is the following: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=76e8af74e151c018de7e3d6aa34fadd49bf41601 <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=76e8af74e151c018de7e3d6aa34fadd49bf41601> A draft of the release notes can be found here: https://gerrit.cloudera.org/c/12389/ The KEYS file to verify the artifact signatures can be found here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/kudu/KEYS I'd suggest going through the README and the release notes, building Kudu, and running the unit tests. Testing out the Maven repo would also be appreciated. The vote will run until Monday, February 25th at 11:59AM PST. This is a bit over the suggested 72 hours due to the weekend. Thank you, Andrew
