[Release] 18.3.0

[wgtmac]

Describe the enhancement requested

• Test the revision to be released
• Bump version for new release: MINOR: Bump version to 18.3.0 #741
• Prepare RC and vote: https://lists.apache.org/thread/43nl349xgtgq18z5sp95mjkxov6m32qr
• Publish
• Bump version for new development

[wgtmac]

Created this issue to track the progress.

Is there any commit that I need to wait for? Or should I proceed? @lidavidm @jbonofre @kou

[jbonofre]

@wgtmac as said on the mailing list, let me do a quick pass 😄. Thanks !

[kou]

I'll do #587 but it's for release manager. We don't need to add it to 18.3.0.

[lidavidm]

I'll merge #718 today for 18.3 as @martin-traverse has been plugging away at the Avro improvements for a while

Otherwise, I went through issues/PRs and made sure they had a milestone attached. I don't think there's anything else we need, maybe we should get the current round of dependabot updates done, and I assume JB will want to fix up LICENSE/NOTICE

[kou]

I'll do #587 but it's for release manager. We don't need to add it to 18.3.0.

#724

[wgtmac]

@jbonofre Is there anything that I can help with the check? Do you want to check the license and notice file?

[lidavidm]

@jbonofre any update/can we help?

I've asked about this before but is it possible to automate the license/notice checks? Or at least report on possible things we should update?

[jbonofre]

@wgtmac @lidavidm I'm executing my script to check LICENSE and NOTICE. I will propose a PR to execute it periodically with GH Actions.

@wgtmac give me a day and we should be good 😄

[jbonofre]

FYI, I'm reviewing the last updates, and I will create a PR about LICENSE/NOTICE (after all updates). Then we will be good to go with the release. @wgtmac I will keep you posted.

[lidavidm]

FYI, integration CI breakage is apache/arrow#46334

[jbonofre]

We have to review/merge #739 and we should be good for 18.3.0.

I just have a doubt about #728 : I updated to Netty 4.2.1.Final and it looks good (I did some tests). Can you please double check to see if we should revert the Netty update ?

[lidavidm]

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.grpc/grpc-netty/1.72.0

It seems gRPC itself hasn't updated to 4.2.x. I think we should stay on 4.1.x until gRPC upgrades and then upgrade them together. (We should perhaps instruct dependabot to group their updates together.)