I think we're likely going to need a "re-spin" of the 9.10.1 RC anyways. So if you guys have some particular dep-updates you want to see land for 9.10.1, go for it. The RC vote is still technically open though - so if you want to backport dep upgrades make sure you "-1" in that vote thread and let me know here when you're finished so I can initiate a re-spin.
That said, as a matter of policy, I'd be leery of tying "dep-management" to the release process in some way. Firstly, because dependency-related toil would make an already intimidating release process even less approachable to potential volunteers. And secondly, because dependency upgrades *aren't* always safe - they do break things periodically so batching a bunch of them onto what's supposed to be a "stable" branch immediately preceding a release seems needlessly risky. In any case, there's enough tradeoffs involved that it'd be worth breaking out into its own thread to discuss the pros/cons if there's interest in shifting our actual process in that direction. Best, Jason On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, there looks like very little in branch_9x that shouldn't be > backported to branch_9_10. I can go through and backport a lot later today. > > - Houston > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 6:27 AM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Jason. > > > > Wouldn't it be prudent to merge many of the dependency updates the bot has > > done for 9.1? For examine I see a Jetty one: > > https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4026 > > I've been thinking lately about dependency management, and I think release > > time is the ideal time to address them. Basically, in bulk at opportune > > times. > > > > ~ David > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I've put some draft "Release Notes" together for 9.10.1. Please take > > > a look if you're able and suggest anything I might've missed, that > > > could be worded better, etc. > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/ReleaseNote9_10_1 > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM Anshum Gupta <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks for volunteering, Jason. > > > > > > > > This sounds great and it’d be good to see this be done before > > releasing > > > > 10.0. > > > > > > > > Anshum Gupta > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 12:32 PM Jason Gerlowski < > > [email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > > > > > branch_9_10 quietly accumulated quite a few bugfix backports prior to > > > > > the holiday. (Thanks Jan!). I'd like to propose a 9.10.1 release to > > > > > help make those available to folks. I'm happy to volunteer as RM. > > > > > > > > > > My hope would be to move very quickly with 9.10.1, in order to get it > > > > > out right before Solr 10. So my proposed timeline would be to give > > > > > folks a day or two for any last-minute backports, and then cut the > > > > > first RC and start the vote on Friday. (There's no separate date to > > > > > create the release branch, as branch_9_10 already exists in this > > > > > case.) > > > > > > > > > > Let's coordinate any bugfix backports here, and hopefully we can have > > > > > an RC vote open on Friday! > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
