Hi everyone, The RC0 for Apache Flink 1.18.0 has been created. This RC is currently for preview only to facilitate the integrated testing since the benchmark tests are not available yet[1] and the release announcement is still under review. The RC1 will be released after all benchmarks tests are passed. The related voting process will be triggered once the announcement is ready. The RC0 has all the artifacts that we would typically have for a release, except for the release note and the website pull request for the release announcement.
The following contents are available for your review: - The preview source release and binary convenience releases [2], which are signed with the key with fingerprint 96AE0E32CBE6E0753CE6 [3]. - all artifacts that would normally be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [4]. - source code tag "release-1.18.0-rc0" [5] Your help testing the release will be greatly appreciated! And we'll create the rc1 release and the voting thread as soon as all the efforts are finished. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-33052 [2] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/flink/flink-1.18.0-rc0/ [3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/flink/KEYS [4] https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheflink-1656/ [5] https://github.com/apache/flink/releases/tag/release-1.18.0-rc0 Best regards, Qingsheng, Sergei, Konstantin and Jing
