Dear all,
This is a first release candidate for ZooKeeper 3.7.0.
It introduces a number of new features, notably:
* An API to start a ZooKeeper server from Java (ZOOKEEPER-3874);
* Quota enforcement (ZOOKEEPER-3301);
* Host name canonicalization in quorum SASL authentication (ZOOKEEPER-4030);
* Support for BCFKS key/trust store format (ZOOKEEPER-3950);
* A choice of mandatory authentication scheme(s) (ZOOKEEPER-3561);
* A "whoami" API and CLI command (ZOOKEEPER-3969);
* The possibility of disabling digest authentication (ZOOKEEPER-3979);
* Multiple SASL "superUsers" (ZOOKEEPER-3959);
* Fast-tracking of throttled requests (ZOOKEEPER-3683);
* Additional security metrics (ZOOKEEPER-3978);
* SASL support in the C and Perl clients (ZOOKEEPER-1112, ZOOKEEPER-3714);
* A new zkSnapshotComparer.sh tool (ZOOKEEPER-3427);
* Notes on how to benchmark ZooKeeper with the YCSB tool (ZOOKEEPER-3264).
The release notes are available here:
https://people.apache.org/~ddiederen/zookeeper-3.7.0-candidate-0/website/releasenotes.html
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310801&version=12346617
*** Please download, test and vote by January 24th 2020, 23:59 UTC+0. ***
Source files:
https://people.apache.org/~ddiederen/zookeeper-3.7.0-candidate-0/
Maven staging repo:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachezookeeper-1065/
The release candidate tag in git to be voted upon: release-3.7.0-0
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/tree/release-3.7.0-0
ZooKeeper's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release:
https://www.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/KEYS
The staging version of the website is:
https://people.apache.org/~ddiederen/zookeeper-3.7.0-candidate-0/website/
Should we release this candidate?
Damien Diederen
