Hello Pulsar community, Here's the updated Pulsar 4.0 timeline: 2024-10-11: [Completed] Code freeze for 4.0 by branching branch-4.0 from the master branch 2024-10-14: 4.0 release candidate 1 - Release candidate voting starts 2024-10-17: Reserved for 4.0 release candidate 2 if needed 2024-10-24: 4.0.0 announcement
Known important issues for the release are tracked with the "release/blocker" label at https://github.com/apache/pulsar/labels/release%2Fblocker These aren't true blockers. We might choose to have a release candidate 2 if there's a true release blocker. All current open PRs targeting the 4.0.0 milestone have been moved to 4.1.0 milestone. Already approved PRs targeting 4.0.0 have been labeled with "release/4.0.1". >From now on, new PRs targeting 4.0.0 should be labeled with "release/4.0.0" to >be considered for the 4.0.0 release. Or with "release/4.0.1" to be considered >for 4.0.1 release. Please reply to this thread or contact me directly if there are PRs that should be cherry-picked to the 4.0.0 release. Don't cherry-pick anything on your own, I'll coordinate the cherry-picks since I'm responsive in delivering 4.0.0 on schedule. When necessary, I'll revert cherry-picks from branch-4.0 in order to meet the deadline. Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback. I'll start release candidate 1 on Monday. It's possible it won't be until Tuesday that I have the release candidate ready and voting begins. -Lari
