This is the ninth release of BookKeeper as an Apache Top Level Project!
The 4.6.2 release is a bugfix release which fixes a bunch of issues reported from users of 4.6.1.
Apache BookKeeper users are encouraged to upgrade to 4.6.2. The technical details of this release are summarized below.
Fix performance regression is using Netty > 4.1.12, see https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/1108
Enhance performances on Prometheus stats provider, see https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/1081
Save memory resources on client by retaining for less time references to data to write, see https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/issues/1063
Fix a problem on Java 9/10 with the ‘shaded’ artifacts, due to a bug in Maven Shade Plugin, see https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/1144
Fix Journal stats names, see https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/1250
There is no dependency upgrade since 4.6.0, and since 4.6.1 we distribute a ‘shaded’ version of main artifacts, see Ledger API