Thanks all for the prompt replies! Since the 1.18.0 has been lagging for a while, I'd rather not extend the scope at this point. Our docs suggest a 3 monthly release, but 1.17.0 was released in December.
Kevin, thanks for flagging the compatibility fix. I agree that we should include it in the release. I agree it is time to bump to JDK17, but I don't see much value in adding it to this version since it will just bump the lower bound. For this release, I would also suggest keeping the current clunky release process. Even after so many releases, it still takes effort to go through it, so I'm very much looking forward to the automated version. With the amount of shell involved, I would suprised if it would work on the first go :) Instead, I think we should do a follow up release with 1.19.0 soon (1-2 month?) with all that goodness and we can take the time to let it simmer a bit. If I'm reading Russell's message correctly, he's happy to run the release and I'm certainly happy to help :) In 1.19.0 we can then add Steve's hardening work, Ismaël's peformance improvements and much more. With everyone a great weekend! Kind regards, Fokko On 2026/07/17 19:03:18 Russell Spitzer wrote: > I would love to try to do this as an automated release ... :) > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3548 > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 5:33 AM Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > I'd like my hardening PR in, but I think getting timely release out is > > more important than the merge of that, to be ruthless. > > > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 at 18:16, Fokko Driesprong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > > > I got multiple folks asking for a release for both features, fixes and > > > CVE's that are patched. If there are no objections, I'd like to start the > > > release process next week. Thoughts or concerns? > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Fokko Driesprong > > > > > > On 2026/05/28 21:28:38 Aaron Niskode-Dossett via dev wrote: > > > > These two performance PRs could be good to include. They both have > > open > > > > questions, but hopefully could be resolved. > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3395. "Cache FileStatus in > > > > Footer" > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3467 "Improve > > > > RunLengthBitPackingHybridDecoder.readNext" > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 9:50 AM Gang Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks Fokko for initiating this! > > > > > > > > > > I was thinking of including [1] as its vote thread [2] is about to > > > > > close. However, since releasing a new version of the Parquet format > > > > > and reviewing the Java PoC still requires time, I'm fine with > > skipping > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3393 > > > > > [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/h0k0hqo0sojqphnbnrkp8b0gmwdzq9on > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > Gang > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 10:04 PM Aaron Niskode-Dossett via dev > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't have the github access to add it to the issue, but I would > > > > > suggest > > > > > > this PR (full disclosure, it's my PR). > > > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3378 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 7:17 AM Fokko Driesprong <[email protected] > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It has been a while since the last major release, and I would > > > suggest > > > > > > > doing the 1.18.0 release since a lot of work has been accumulated > > > since > > > > > > > then. Besides then, it is way past the quarterly release cycle > > > that we > > > > > > > suggest on the website[1]. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please use this thread to share what we needs to be include in > > > 1.18.0. > > > > > We > > > > > > > can use the milestone[2] to track the progress. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > Fokko > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://parquet.apache.org/docs/contribution-guidelines/releasing/#release-cadence > > > > > > > [2] https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/milestone/34 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Aaron Niskode-Dossett, Data Engineering -- Etsy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Aaron Niskode-Dossett, Data Engineering -- Etsy > > > > > > > > > >
