Hello all, The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the first release candidate for Apache Kudu 1.18.1.
Apache Kudu 1.18.1 is a maintenance release that offers critical bug fixes. This is a source-only release. The artifacts have been staged here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kudu/1.18.1-RC1/ Java convenience binaries in the form of a Maven repository are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1128 Linux (x86_64 and aarch64 platforms built on RHEL 8) and macOS (built on Sequoia 15.7.2) test-only Kudu binary JAR artifacts are staged here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekudu-1129 It is tagged in Git as 1.18.1-RC1 and the corresponding hash is the following: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kudu.git;a=commit;h=e509433cebcb110e8f4adcd469132288c252eb44 The release notes can be found here: https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/1.18.1-RC1/docs/release_notes.adoc 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 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 Friday, December 5 20:00:00 PST 2025. Thank you, Abhishek [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes
