Hi all, It's been some time since our last release and we have accumulated some good features/improvements which call for a new 1.3 release.
Want to kick off the discussion in the open source forum while we have already tested many of these changes internally at LinkedIn. As a quick highlight of the release, it includes many improvements on Samza SQL, table API, etc. As well as a critical at least once bug fix for aggregation. A comprehensive list of changes (jira tickets) can be found here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-2356?jql=project%20%3D%20%22SAMZA%22%20and%20fixVersion%20in%20(1.3) The list was compiled based on the committed log on the already created 1.3.0 branch <https://github.com/apache/samza/tree/1.3.0> *To everyone, any potential changes/patches that need to be cherry-picked into 1.3.0 branch, please remember to put 1.3 as the "fix version" in the jira ticket.* I will move forward to generate the binary and target a release vote later this week or early next week, if everyone agrees on the plan for release. Thanks, Hai
