[ANNOUNCE] Apache Kudu 1.9.0 Released

[Andrew Wong <aw...@apache.org>]

The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.9.0!

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 1.9.0 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/1.9.0/docs/release_notes.html

The Apache Kudu project only publishes source code releases. To build Kudu
1.9.0, follow these steps:
- Download the Kudu 1.9.0 source release:
https://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.9.0
- Follow the instructions in the documentation to build Kudu 1.9.0 from
source:
https://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.9.0/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%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.kudu%22%20AND%20v%3A%221.9.0%22

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


Regards,
The Apache Kudu team