[ANNOUNCE] Apache Kudu 1.11.0 Released

[Alexey Serbin <as...@cloudera.com>]

 <an...@apache.org>The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release
of Kudu 1.11.0!

Kudu is an open source storage engine for structured data which
supports low-latency random access together with efficient analytical
access patterns. It is designed within the context of the Apache Hadoop
ecosystem and supports many integrations with other data analytics
projects both inside and outside of the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Kudu 1.11.0 is a minor release that offers several new features,
improvements, optimizations, and bug fixes. Please see the release notes
for details:
  https://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.11.0/docs/release_notes.html

The Apache Kudu project only publishes source code releases. To build
Kudu 1.11.0, follow these steps:
  - Download the Kudu 1.11.0 source release:
      https://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.11.0
  - Follow the instructions in the documentation to build Kudu 1.11.0
    from source:

https://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.11.0/docs/installation.html#build_from_source

For your convenience, binary JAR files for the Kudu Java client library,
Spark DataSource, Flume sink, and other Java integrations are published
to the ASF Maven repository and are now available:
https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.apache.kudu%20AND%20v:1.11.0

The Python client source is also available on PyPI:
  https://pypi.org/project/kudu-python/

Additionally, experimental Docker images are published to Docker Hub:
  https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/kudu

NOTE: as it was found after the release artifacts had already been
      published, the kudu-binary JAR artifact in Kudu 1.11.0 doesn't
      comply with the ASF 3rd-party license policy [1] since it includes
      the libnuma dynamic library which is licensed under LGPL v2.1.
      As it turned out, the same is true for the kudu-binary JAR
      artifact released in July with Kudu 1.10.0. See [2] and [3] for
details.

      The inadvertent inclusion of an LGPL library will be addressed
      ASAP by releasing Kudu 1.10.1 and Kudu 1.11.1 patch releases
      adhering to the ASF 3rd party license policy.

References:
  [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
  [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-2990
  [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-487


Regards,
The Apache Kudu team