I shall shortly create the 5.4 release branch. From this moment, the feature freeze starts.
Looking through JIRA, I see some 71 tickets assigned to fix version 5.4. I suspect we won't be able to fix all 71 in one week, so I expect that the majority will be pushed, after this release, to 5.5. Looking for blockers or critical tickets, I see five tickets: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8326 (Anusham, Noble) blocker "Adding read restriction to BasicAuth + RuleBased authorization causes issue with replication" Anusham/Noble - any thoughts on how to resolve this before the release? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8035 (Erik) critical "Move solr/webapp to solr/server/solr-webapp" This one I know isn't a blocker in any sense. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7901 (Erik) critical "Add tests for bin/post" Again, this one does not seem to be something worthy of holding back a release https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6723 (Uwe) critical "Date field problems using ExtractingRequestHandler and java 9 (b71)" Uwe, I presume as this relates to Java 9, it isn't a blocker? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6722 (Shalin, others), blocker "Java 8 as the minimum supported JVM version for branch_5x" Looking at the discussion, there was no consensus here, so I will not consider this a blocker either. - o - So SOLR-8326 and LUCENE-6723 seem to be the ones worthy of attention. Anyone have comments/observations here? I will create the branch shortly. Upayavira
