+1 (non-binding) Verified on macOS (Apple Silicon) dev/release/verify_rc.sh 18.8.0 0, against the RC tag - succeeded.
- SHA-512: the source tarball matches the hash and the published .sha512 (all three identical) - SHA-256: shasum -a 256 -c OK - GPG signature: good, signed by Matt Topol <[email protected]> - Git tag v18.8.0-rc0 (annotated) resolves to commit 4025c4efe856611eb4dc2b43486ac515bd4699c5 - LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt present; no unexpected binaries in the source One non-blocking note: arrow/compute/registry.go has a stale //go:build go1.22 tag while using the go1.23 stdlib (slices.Collect/maps.Keys). It's clean on the supported Go (1.25/1.26), but a newer toolchain that enforces the tag as a language cap fails to build it. Not a blocker (same on main) - worth bumping the tag to go1.23 or drop it. Here are the links: build tag: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/blob/4025c4efe856611eb4dc2b43486ac515bd4699c5/arrow/compute/registry.go#L17 go1.23 use: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/blob/4025c4efe856611eb4dc2b43486ac515bd4699c5/arrow/compute/registry.go#L145 Thanks for the release, Matt. On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 12:14 PM Matt Topol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose the following release candidate (RC0) of > Apache Arrow Go version 18.8.0. > > This release candidate is based on commit: > 4025c4efe856611eb4dc2b43486ac515bd4699c5 [1] > > The source release rc0 is hosted at [2]. > > This is not a permanent URL. If the RC is accepted, it will be moved to > the final release location. The SHA512 hash of the source tarball is: > > 6f362f8d10179d828ccbd15c08c990e1391691544a4b7ca0e2440759ddd4eeae021ae3b9d85349a8b54615be31be00fd27f5193e1bcedf622c24e6c0d6a805c1. > > Please download, verify checksums and signatures, run the unit tests, > and vote on the release. See [3] for how to validate a release candidate. > > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. > > [ ] +1 Release this as Apache Arrow Go 18.8.0 > [ ] +0 > [ ] -1 Do not release this as Apache Arrow Go 18.8.0 because... > > [1]: > https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/tree/4025c4efe856611eb4dc2b43486ac515bd4699c5 > [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/releases/v18.8.0-rc0 > [3]: > https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/blob/main/dev/release/README.md#verify >
