+1 binding

Thanks to all who engaged in the discussion regarding the property
migration behavior. Following the additional clarifications, I don't
believe there's any need for change as part of 2.7.0 RC4. I have raised
Jira NIFI-15306 [1] to capture the findings and promote further discussion
about handling properties that have changed between NiFi versions when a
user is creating components via the NiFi API.


[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-15306

Cheers,

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 14:44, David Handermann <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Thanks for raising this question for discussion.
>
> Summarizing similar comments on Slack, this does not seem like a
> Release Candidate concern, but it is worth adding a note to the
> Migration Guidance page.
>
> The automated property migration capabilities support transparent
> handling of existing flow configurations when upgrading NiFi versions.
> This allows things like renaming properties, removing properties, and
> replacing properties with Controller Services in some scenarios.
>
> Having addressed some edge case scenarios in recent versions, this
> functionality has remained largely unchanged for the NiFi 2 release
> series. That being said, the automated migration does not account for
> creating new Processors or Controller Services with old property
> names, using the Toolkit or the REST API. This means that it is
> necessary for the calling client to understand the current state of
> property names and send the correct names according to the current
> version of the Component in question. One way to handle this is
> evaluating the NiFi version and sending the expected names. This does
> introduce some manual work, or version checking, for installations
> that use programmatic component creation, but it is effectively the
> same operation as creating a new component through the UI. The
> component manifest documentation might be one source to evaluate
> potential differences.
>
> With that background, this could be an area for further improvement,
> but for now, it seems like the migrate properties capability is
> working as designed.
>
> Regards,
> David Handermann
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM Chris Sampson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > [DISCUSS] test results
> >
> > I ran through the release helper on a Mac (Tahoe 26.1) with openjdk
> version
> > "25.0.1" 2025-10-21 LTS.
> >
> > I additionally built the Container Images locally using Docker (Maven -P
> > docker profile) and tested the resulting images using a docker compose
> > stack containing NiFi, NiFi Registry, and calls through the NiFi Toolkit
> to
> > create various components and Flows for testing.
> >
> > In general this worked well, but I noted that Reporting Tasks and global)
> > Controller Services created via the Toolkit do not have their Properties
> > migrated, e.g. "record-writer" is not migrated to "Record Writer" for any
> > of the Site-to-Site Reporting Tasks. Similarly the "key-password" is not
> > migrated to "Key Password" for StandardSSLControllerServices. Note also,
> > that in the latter case, the (should be sensitive) value of the invalid
> > key-password is printed to the UI tooltip warning, leading to potential
> > secret exposure.
> >
> > Reported in Slack to the #dev channel [1] for discussion.
> >
> > I'm not sure whether this meets the threshold for a negative vote,
> although
> > this would technically be a breaking change for anyone creating such
> > components via the NiFi API (e.g. with Toolkit), so may warrant further
> > investigation before release.
> >
> >
> > [1]: https://apachenifi.slack.com/archives/C0L9S92JY/p1765138020254559
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > ---
> > *Chris Sampson*
> > Principal Software Engineer
> > Naimuri
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 at 20:35, Pierre Villard <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Team,
> > >
> > > I am pleased to be calling this vote for the source release of Apache
> > > NiFi 2.7.0.
> > >
> > > Please review the following guide for how to verify a release candidate
> > > build:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Release+Candidate+Verification
> > >
> > > The source being voted on the and the convenience binaries are
> > > available on the Apache Distribution Repository:
> > >
> > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/nifi/nifi-2.7.0
> > >
> > > The build artifacts are available on the Apache Nexus Repository:
> > >
> > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachenifi-1324
> > >
> > > Git Tag: nifi-2.7.0-RC4
> > > Git Commit ID: 46e83d2aea47dd4285a667f7fdb93b40bb1198c3
> > > GitHub Commit Link:
> > >
> > >
> https://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/46e83d2aea47dd4285a667f7fdb93b40bb1198c3
> > >
> > > Hash of nifi-2.7.0-source-release.zip
> > >
> > > SHA512:
> > >
> > >
> bf1f5fd0e5ecedcbd8eb8d82df9e56b1f4564492ede659e61d20fd03e5aaf3503a720d8061c706f05a74141aaee2836889c73404dfd284f53070fc8052671b75
> > >
> > > Release artifacts are signed with the following key:
> > >
> > > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/pvillard.asc
> > >
> > > KEYS file is available on the Apache Distribution Repository:
> > >
> > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/nifi/KEYS
> > >
> > > Issues resolved for this version: 268
> > >
> > >
> > >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316020&version=12356272
> > >
> > > Release note highlights can be found on the project wiki:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-Version2.7.0
> > >
> > > The vote will be open for 72 hours.
> > >
> > > Please download the release candidate and evaluate the necessary items
> > > including checking hashes, signatures, build from source, and test.
> > > Then please vote:
> > >
> > > [] +1 Release this package as nifi-2.7.0
> > > [] +0 no opinion
> > > [] -1 Do not release this package because...
> > >
>

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