[FLINK-33347] CLONE - CLONE - Build Release Candidate: 1.18.0-rc3

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.18.0
• Assignee: Jing Ge
• Reporter: Jing Ge
• Created: 24/Oct/23 12:42
• Updated: 24/Oct/23 12:45
• Resolved: 24/Oct/23 12:45

Description

The core of the release process is the build-vote-fix cycle. Each cycle produces one release candidate. The Release Manager repeats this cycle until the community approves one release candidate, which is then finalized.

Prerequisites

Set up a few environment variables to simplify Maven commands that follow. This identifies the release candidate being built. Start with RC_NUM equal to 1 and increment it for each candidate:

RC_NUM="3"
TAG="release-${RELEASE_VERSION}-rc${RC_NUM}"

Issue Links

• blocks: FLINK-32920 Finalize release 1.18.0
• is a clone of: FLINK-33271 CLONE - Build Release Candidate: 1.18.0-rc2
• is blocked by: FLINK-32925 Select executing Release Manager
• is blocked by: FLINK-32726 [Umbrella] Test Flink Release 1.18
• is blocked by: FLINK-32921 Prepare Flink 1.18 Release

Sub-Tasks

• CLONE - CLONE - Build and stage Java and Python artifacts: Resolved
• CLONE - CLONE - Stage source and binary releases on dist.apache.org: Resolved
• CLONE - CLONE - Propose a pull request for website updates: Resolved
• CLONE - CLONE - Vote on the release candidate: Resolved