[CANCEL][VOTE] Release Apache NiFi 1.14.0 (rc1)

[Joe Witt <jo...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:02 PM Matt Burgess <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
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> I'm reviewing/testing now
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 8:48 PM Mark Payne <ma...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I created a Jira [1] for this and put up a PR [2].
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Mark
> >
> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-8774
> > [2] https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/5208
> >
> >
> > On Jul 9, 2021, at 7:49 PM, Mark Payne <ma...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > -1 (binding)
> >
> > Was able to download and build the artifacts. Started NiFi and verified the new secure-by-default features. Created a cluster that used certificates. All of these worked well.
> >
> > Started NiFi Registry and created a bucket. Verified that my cluster and standalone nodes both were able to interact with the registry properly, pushing to, pulling from, and changing versions.
> >
> > I then built a flow and tried to run it in Stateless NiFi, but when I attempted to startup stateless, I found that Stateless always encounters NullPointerException on startup. This appears to be due to a very recent commit.
> >
> > 2021-07-09 19:40:27,959 INFO [main] o.a.n.s.f.StandardStatelessDataflowFactory Setting java.security.krb5.conf to /etc/krb5.conf
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> > at org.apache.nifi.groups.StandardProcessGroup.<init>(StandardProcessGroup.java:282)
> > at org.apache.nifi.groups.StandardProcessGroup.<init>(StandardProcessGroup.java:247)
> > at org.apache.nifi.stateless.engine.StatelessFlowManager.createProcessGroup(StatelessFlowManager.java:217)
> > at org.apache.nifi.stateless.flow.StandardStatelessDataflowFactory.createDataflow(StandardStatelessDataflowFactory.java:219)
> > at org.apache.nifi.stateless.bootstrap.StatelessBootstrap.createDataflow(StatelessBootstrap.java:66)
> > at org.apache.nifi.stateless.bootstrap.RunStatelessFlow.createDataflow(RunStatelessFlow.java:94)
> > at org.apache.nifi.stateless.bootstrap.RunStatelessFlow.main(RunStatelessFlow.java:56)
> >
> > On Jul 9, 2021, at 5:14 PM, Joe Witt <jo...@apache.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am pleased to be calling this vote for the source release of Apache
> > NiFi 1.14.0.
> >
> > The source zip, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at:
> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachenifi-1182
> >
> > The source being voted upon and the convenience binaries can be found at:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/nifi/nifi-1.14.0/
> >
> > Please note that this release now includes the convenience binaries for
> > Apache NiFi, NiFi toolkit, MiNiFi, MiNiFi Toolkit, Registry, Registry Toolkit,
> > and Stateless NiFi.
> >
> > Due to a mistake in the process of creating RC1 the hashes for the
> > artifacts published
> > to the Nexus repository will not match those of the generated
> > convenience binaries.
> > While desirable this is not strictly necessary.  I'll try to follow
> > the more ideal steps
> > if we end up with an RC2.
> >
> > Given this vote is going up late on a Friday and this is a very
> > significant release I expect to leave the vote up for more than 72
> > hours.
> >
> > A helpful reminder on how the release candidate verification process works:
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/How+to+help+verify+an+Apache+NiFi+release+candidate
> >
> > The Git tag is nifi-1.14.0-RC1
> > The Git commit ID is 9721a534a943bd9c4720687f165227225e902dad
> > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=nifi.git;a=commit;h=9721a534a943bd9c4720687f165227225e902dad
> >
> > Checksums of nifi-1.14.0-source-release.zip:
> > SHA256: a6afc174e64c3f56d3945892b1e85d5bf90c6d7626ba9e9b63e43d2168b6fffc
> > SHA512: 33d7bc6bc756f4024a390dd0b8a4fed1f18386bc29e86537c59ab99ce6580b4b9e9f48a309f5af90fe5e766afd796f22b3407a130423920a918776819f3d8997
> >
> > Release artifacts are signed with the following key:
> > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/joewitt.asc
> >
> > KEYS file available here:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/nifi/KEYS
> >
> > 326 issues were closed/resolved for this release:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316020&version=12349644
> >
> > Release note highlights can be found here:
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-Version1.14.0
> >
> > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours.
> > Please download the release candidate and evaluate the necessary items
> > including checking hashes, signatures, build from source, and test.
> > Then please vote:
> >
> > [ ] +1 Release this package as nifi-1.14.0
> > [ ] +0 no opinion
> > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
> >
> >