Hello Kudu devs! The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the second release candidate for Apache Kudu 1.12.0.
Apache Kudu 1.12.0 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/1.12.0-RC2/ Java convenience binaries in the form of a Maven repository are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1062 Linux and macOS kudu-binary JAR artifacts are staged here correspondingly: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1063/ https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1064/ It is tagged in Git as 1.12.0-RC2 and the corresponding hash is the following: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=80e35e5f9d6a02010ff65ab0e5bd1fc115d190df The WIP release notes can be found here: https://gerrit.cloudera.org/c/15685/ 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. Also, it's worth running Kudu Java tests against kudu-binary JAR artifact as described in the commit message here: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=8a6faaa93f3e206ac75e8087731daccaf7ab646a The vote will run until Thursday Apr 30 18:00:00 PST 2020. Best, Hao
