Hello Kudu devs! The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the second release candidate for Apache Kudu 1.17.0.
Apache Kudu 1.17.0 is a minor release that offers many improvements and fixes since Apache Kudu 1.16.0. This is a source-only release. The artifacts have been staged here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kudu/1.17.0-RC2 Java convenience binaries in the form of a Maven repository are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1113 Linux (built on CentOS 7) and macOS (built on Ventura) test-only Kudu binary JAR artifacts are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1112 https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1114 It is tagged in Git as 1.17.0-RC2 and signed with my key (found in the KEYS file below). Its commit hash is 4a7700bdcff2bf2afe4e46efdb8874484fd66b86 you can check it out from ASF Gitbox or the official GitHub mirror: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=4a7700bdcff2bf2afe4e46efdb8874484fd66b86 https://github.com/apache/kudu/releases/tag/1.17.0-RC2 The KEYS file to verify the artifact and tag signatures can be found here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/kudu/KEYS The release notes can be found here: https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/1.17.0-RC2/docs/release_notes.adoc I'd suggest going through 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://github.com/apache/kudu/commit/8a6faaa93f3e206ac75e8087731daccaf7ab646a The vote will run until a majority[1] is achieved, but at least until Wednesday Aug 30th 20:00:00 UTC 2023. Thank You, Yingchun Lai [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes
