[VOTE] Release 0.7.0 RC4

[wuchong]

This is the Fluss 0.7.0 release RC4. You can verify the release using the signature (.asc files) or hashes (.sha256 files).

The complete staging area is available for your review, which includes:

• the official source release and binary convenience releases are attached, which are signed with the key with fingerprint 85BACB5AEFAE3202
• all artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/comalibaba-5587/
• source code tag "v0.7.0-rc4": https://github.com/alibaba/fluss/tree/v0.7.0-rc4
• the documentation: https://alibaba.github.io/fluss-docs/docs/intro/
• website pull request for release announcement blog post: TODO

The docker image for release-0.7.0 RC4 also has been uploaded with tag v0.7.0-rc4. Welcome to verify it.

• https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/fluss/fluss/general
• https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/fluss/quickstart-flink

To verify it, you can follow

1. The fluss quick start
2. Deploy it with docker and interacting with Fluss to verify some features documented in subpages of Engine Flink.

Nothing needed to change in the docker-compose file, as the docker image tag has been adapted for the RC test.

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/alibaba/fluss/commits/v0.7.0-rc4

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This discussion was created from the release Release 0.7.0 RC4.

[luoyuxia]

+1

• Use docker image to run fluss quick start, also verify tiering timestamp type and union read timestamp type, everything works well now.
• Run with (Fluss + local filesystem) + (Paimon + s3 filesystem) + (Flink 1.19 local cluster) with fluss quick start + partial updates, also verify tiering timestamp type and union read timestamp type, everything works well now.

[leonardBang]

+1

• Verified signatures
• Verified hashes
• Verified with quickstart in docker way, use paimon(local filestyem) + flink 1.20, everything works well.
• Verified timestamp type and other common type support
• Checked blockers Tiering Service failed with TimestampNtz. #1121 [flink] Union Read fails when meet timestamp type #1126 have been fixed in RC4

[polyzos]

+1 Run some of the above and also verified the Datastream API and the Fluss Java client

[swuferhong]

+1

• I run the Deploying Local Cluster and Deploying Distributed Cluster and all of queries in Engine Flink using local and distributed cluster.
• I also use 0.6.1 Fluss client to connect with 0.7.0 RC3 server and using 0.7.0 R3 Fluss client to connect with 0.6.1 server, both ok.

[loserwang1024]

+1

• I run Deploy with docker
• test authenticate、authenticate and acl operation.

[caozhen1937]

+1

1. Verified signatures: OK
2. Verified hashes: OK
3. Started local fluss cluster and verified logs: OK
4. Followed quickstart to verify local fluss cluster and local flink 1.18 cluster: OK
   a. Show partitions by partition spec: OK
   b. Create partition Dynamicly when write data: OK

[wuchong]

+1

• run docker quickstart
• verified hashes and signatures

[wuchong]

Thank you all for the vote!

Preparing to promote the RC as official release.

[MehulBatra]

+1

Verified signatures
Verified hashes
Verified with quickstart in local cluster way, + flink 1.18, everything works well.