Hi Xiang,

I have completed all the standard release verifications for Apache Pinot
1.5.1 RC1, and everything looks good.

My vote is +1 (binding).

Thanks,
Yash Mayya


On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM Xiang Fu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a call for a vote to release Apache Pinot 1.5.1 RC1.
>
> 1.5.1 is a security patch release cut from the 1.5.0 tag. RC1 supersedes
> the
> withdrawn RC0 and additionally closes the Jetty, BouncyCastle, and
> commons-configuration2 CVEs. A scan of the RC1 binary distribution reports
> 0 critical and 0 high findings.
>
> Security fixes (vs 1.5.0):
>
>   - netty                4.1.122.Final -> 4.1.134.Final
>     (CVE-2025-55163, CVE-2025-59419, CVE-2026-33870, CVE-2026-33871,
>      CVE-2026-42579, CVE-2026-42583, CVE-2026-42584, CVE-2026-42587)
>   - log4j-core           2.25.3 -> 2.26.0
>     (CVE-2026-34478, CVE-2026-34479, CVE-2026-34480, CVE-2026-34481)
>   - async-http-client    3.0.7 -> 3.0.10   (CVE-2026-45300)
>   - httpclient5          5.6 -> 5.6.1       (CVE-2026-40542)
>   - Pulsar               4.0.9 -> 4.0.10, which pulls BouncyCastle
>     bcprov/bcpkix/bcutil 1.84
>     (CVE-2026-5598 [High], CVE-2026-0636, CVE-2026-5588)
>   - commons-configuration2  2.13.0 -> 2.15.0  (CVE-2026-45205)
>   - CVE-2026-2332 (Jetty request smuggling): the only vulnerable Jetty was
>     Hadoop's embedded HttpServer2, which Pinot never starts. It is now
>     excluded from the Hadoop dependencies and stripped from the shaded jars
>     (apache/pinot#18659), so it no longer ships in the distribution. Jetty
>     itself remains on 9.4.x (EOL, no patch available), but the artifact is
>     gone from the build.
>
> The release candidate:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/pinot/apache-pinot-1.5.1-rc1/
>
> Git tag:
> https://github.com/apache/pinot/releases/tag/release-1.5.1-rc1
> Git hash: 020ff0d053 (tag release-1.5.1-rc1)
>
> The Nexus staging repository:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachepinot-1082
>
> Keys to verify the signature of the release artifacts:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/pinot/KEYS
>
> Release notes / diff vs 1.5.0:
> https://github.com/apache/pinot/releases/tag/release-1.5.1
>
> Documentation on how to verify a release candidate:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PINOT/Validating+a+release+candidate
>
> The vote will be open for at least 72 hours or until the necessary number
> of votes are reached.
>
> Please vote accordingly:
> [ ] +1 approve
> [ ] +0 no opinion
> [ ] -1 disapprove (and the reason why)
>
> Here is my vote:
> +1 (binding)
>
> Thanks,
> Xiang Fu
>

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