Per the instructions of impala [1], I have been stepping through the release process. We voted once already for RC0, but it was turned down because it did not include protobuf.
Try testing out the release candidate by pulling the SVN repo, and building quickstep fresh, plus testing the hashes + signature. There are instructions on how to do all of this on [1], just substitute impala with quickstep. We're on step 15. You can start with svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/quickstep quickstep-svn-dev cd quickstep-svn-dev/0.1.0/RC2 tar -xzf apache-quickstep-incubating-0.1.0.tar.gz cd apache-quickstep-incubating-0.1.0 # add the KEYS file from quickstep to your gpg key ring gpg --verify apache-quickstep-incubating-0.1.0.tar.gz.asc d5sum --check apache-quickstep-incubating-0.1.0.tar.gz.md5 sha1sum --check apache-quickstep-incubating-0.1.0.tar.gz.sha # then try building quickstep, first pull third_party, then do your normal build Once you try this, please +1/-1 this vote based on your result. --Marc [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IMPALA/ DRAFT%3A+How+to+Release
