I'm suspending the feature-freeze declaration on 9.11.
The 9.11 release is delayed to ensure some security matters get addressed.
I'll update this thread when it's back-on.

On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 12:16 AM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM Eric Pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> David, any chance the fix for
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-18239 could make it in?
>>  I've backported to branch_9x.
>>
>> The PR is https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4427 and the commit hash
>> is b7aeda98b8477ea12a61f979344054e20fd0b342
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On 2026/05/02 05:38:22 David Smiley wrote:
>> > The smoketester very likely fails because I have yet to do the changelog
>> > part of the release process.  I'll disable the build until I'm ready for
>> > that.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure how we'll get a new/straggler unreleased changelog entries
>> > onto an already-generated release changelog unless maybe we leave the
>> > "unreleased" entries there until the release has truly happened.  But
>> this
>> > portion of the release wizard wants to do seemingly all changelog
>> related
>> > things instead of merely generating the new changelog.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 12:51 PM David Smiley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > My release process notes from using the release wizard:
>> > >
>> > > My macOS system python3 didn't have some dependencies/modules, so I
>> had to
>> > > install the requirements.txt.  I'm very unfamiliar with python dev
>> > > practices in this regard... I wound up creating a venv and thus I ran
>> > > python via
>> > > /Users/dsmiley/DevSearch/solr_9x/dev-tools/scripts/.venv/bin/python3.
>> > > However, some release wizard commands like invoking
>> `addDepsToChanges.py`
>> > > didn't work OOTB because it didn't know about my venv.  I'm not sure
>> how
>> > > the script or my approach should be updated.
>> > >
>> > > Question:
>> > > https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Solr/job/Solr-Docker-Nightly-9.x/
>> > > description says Moved to github workflows:
>> > > https://github.com/apache/solr/actions/workflows/docker-nightly.yml
>> but
>> > > that is only true for main, not 9x nor even 10x.  The GH screen shows
>> this,
>> > > not to mention the workflow yml file isn't on branch_9x (I didn't
>> check
>> > > 10x).
>> > >
>> > > Note: I updated
>> > >
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/JenkinsReleaseBuilds+-+Solr
>> > > replacing the reference of solr-reference-guide-official to
>> > > Solr-reference-guide-9.x
>> > >
>> > > The CI builds I created are working except for the smoketester:
>> > >
>> https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Solr/job/Solr-Smoketest-9.11/3/console
>> > >
>> > >> RuntimeError: did not see "Release 9.11.0" in
>> file:///home/jenkins/jenkins-agent/workspace/Solr/Solr-Smoketest-9.11/solr/distribution/build/release/changes/Changes.html
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 12:27 PM David Smiley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> NOTICE:
>> > >>
>> > >> Branch branch_9_11 has been cut and versions updated to 9.12 on the
>> > >> stable branch.
>> > >>
>> > >> Please observe the normal rules:
>> > >>
>> > >> * No new features may be committed to the branch.
>> > >> * Documentation patches, build patches and serious bug fixes may be
>> > >>   committed to the branch. However, you should submit all patches you
>> > >>   want to commit to Jira first to give others the chance to review
>> > >>   and possibly vote against the patch. Keep in mind that it is our
>> > >>   main intention to keep the branch as stable as possible.
>> > >> * All patches that are intended for the branch should first be
>> committed
>> > >>   to the unstable branch, merged into the stable branch, and then
>> into
>> > >>   the current release branch.
>> > >> * Normal unstable and stable branch development may continue as
>> usual.
>> > >>   However, if you plan to commit a big change to the unstable branch
>> > >>   while the branch feature freeze is in effect, think twice: can't
>> the
>> > >>   addition wait a couple more days? Merges of bug fixes into the
>> branch
>> > >>   may become more difficult.
>> > >> * Only Jira issues with Fix version 9.11 and priority "Blocker" will
>> delay
>> > >>   a release candidate build.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> >
>>
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