On 12/13/21 12:53 PM, Tang, Rebecca wrote:
Thanks, Rebecca
It is impossible to give you an accurate prediction for the release date of Solr 8.11.1.
Yesterday, the developer who designated themselves the release manager for 8.11.1 said on the Solr dev list that they would be creating the first release candidate soon. I would expect it before the end of the week, but cannot guarantee that.
Once a release candidate is available, it will then go to a vote about whether or not that candidate should be released. Project rules dictate that the vote will run for 72 hours. Assuming the vote passes, the process of making the official release available on the Apache mirror system will begin once the vote concludes. At that point it can be downloaded from the official archive. It usually takes a day or two before enough mirrors have the release that the project feels comfortable announcing it.
If the vote doesn't pass, then whatever problem was found must be fixed and a new release candidate created, and then a brand new 72-hour vote will commence.
I believe that votes for 8.x releases will happen on the Lucene dev list, because for 8.x Solr is still part of the lucene-solr codebase. When Solr 9.0 reaches the point where it can be released, it will be released from a codebase that only includes Solr, and so the vote should move to the Solr dev list.
Thanks, Shawn
