Dear Ozone Devs, It's been almost 5 month since the last major 1.3.0 release in Dec 2022.
In the past 5 month, there have been a lot of issues fixed and improvements made, together with new features, like httpFs, scm decommission, Recon new functions, snapshot, EC balancer support, the the coming symmetric block token and certificate rotation, etc. So far, there are already 733 JIRAs resolved on 1.4.0. https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project+%3D+HDDS+and+fixVersion+%3D+1.4.0 Usually it will take months to do a major release. So I propose to start the discussion of 1.4.0 now, things like which features should be involved in this release. And this release doesn't have a Release Manager yet. Welcome anyone(Comitters or PMCs, for it requires some privileges on Apache facilities to do the release) to volunteer to be the RM of 1.4.0. Regards, Sammi
