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# Staged artifacts built by "release:perform" are in target/checkout

ZKHOME=where you have your work directory "zookeeper"
svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zookeeper/ zookeeper_dev
cd zookeeper_dev
mkdir zookeeper-$VERSION-candidate-0
cd zookeeper-$VERSION-candidate-0
cp $ZKHOME/target/checkout/target/*.tar.gz* .
cp $ZKHOME/target/checkout/zookeeper-assembly/target/*-bin.tar.gz* .
rm *.asc.sha512

mkdir website
cp -r $ZKHOME/target/checkout/zookeeper-docs/target/html/* website/
cd ..
svn add zookeeper-$VERSION-candidate-0
svn ci -m "Add ZooKeeper X.Y.Z release candidate 0" 

Call for VOTE

• Call for a release vote on dev (note dev@ and not user@, the user list is for discussion of released software only) at zookeeper.apache.org. Here is a sample email (from 3.4.6 release):
  

  Subject: [VOTE] Apache ZooKeeper release 3.6.0 candidate 0   This is a release candidate for 3.6.0. It is a major release and it introduces a lot of new features, most notably: - Built-in data consistency check inside ZooKeeper - Allow Followers to host Observers - A new feature proposal to ZooKeeper: authentication enforcement - Pluggable metrics system for ZooKeeper (and Prometheus.io integration) - TLS Port unification - Audit logging in ZooKeeper servers - Improve resilience to network (advertise multiple addresses for members of a Zookeeper cluster) - Persistent Recursive Watch - add an API and the corresponding CLI to get total count of recursive sub nodes under a specific path   The full release notes is available at:   https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310801&version=12346617   *** Please download, test and vote by January 19th 2020, 23:59 UTC+0. ***   Source files: https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.0-candidate-0/   Maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachezookeeper-1045/   The release candidate tag in git to be voted upon: release-3.6.0-0 https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/tree/release-3.6.0-0   ZooKeeper's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://www.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/KEYS Please note that this new major release introduces these change in the staging area: - the source artifacts package is in zip format - we are releasing a new binary package with the C client (with OpenSSL support) - website preview We are also adding a new JAR: zookeeper-metrics-providers The staging version of the website is: https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.0-candidate-0/website/ Should we release this candidate? Release Manager Signature

  
  

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