[RESULT] Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Creadur RAT 0.18

[P. Ottlinger]

Hi!

Thanks for your votes on RAT 0.18:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/slckkh1vm0ndq9zgyd6dd74b69ghh526

=BINDING=
* +1 Claude Warren
* +1 Gavin McDonald
* +1 Karl Heinz Marbaise
* +1 Philipp Ottlinger

No non-binding votes.



Thanks for your contributions and continued interest in RAT!

Cheers,
Phil


Am 12.03.26 um 00:59 schrieb P. Ottlinger:

I'll continue with release propagation and will publish/update the webpage as well.

Dear friends of RAT,



=RELEASE 0.18 ABSTRACT=

from 12,000 bytes to 256 bytes (thanks to Ryan Schmitt).


RAT now also uses UTF-8 as its default character set.


and integrate with SonarCloud’s code analysis.





=View on 0.18=
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/RAT/versions/12356398
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the new v0.18 is ready for testing and fixes 13 issues. I've staged a new release 0.18 - thanks for all feedback and contributions! This intermediate release addresses a severe performance issue encountered during RAT runs in version 0.17. The issue has been resolved by reducing the sample size used for Tika charset detection In addition, the Java language level required to build RAT has been raised to 17. However, we recommend using at least JDK 21 due to a Javadoc issue affecting certain JDK versions (tracked under RAT-497). These changes allowed us to adopt more modern language features, resolve numerous CVEs in dependent plugins and libraries, This release also includes a range of bug fixes, minor improvements, and dependency updates. Furthermore, RAT’s generated report is now produced in XHTML5, and excessive INFO-level logging in the Maven plugin has been reduced. Many thanks to all contributors and to our users for their valuable feedback. * https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat/releases/tag/apache-rat- project-0.18

=Staging area=

In order to use the staged release add this snippet to your pom:
<pluginRepositories>
     <pluginRepository>
         <id>staged-releases-rat-018</id>

<url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/ orgapachecreadur-1013/</url>

     <pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
or browse

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/ orgapachecreadur-1013/org/apache/rat/

directly.

=VOTE is open until 2026-03-19 23:00 UTC=
Everyone is encouraged to vote, express their opinions and jump in if
they find anything wrong with the release. Only PMC votes are binding
on Apache, and for this candidate to become an official Apache
Software Foundation release 3 +1's are required and more +1's than
-1's.

This vote is open for at least 72 hours,

[ ] +1
[ ] +0
[ ] -1

until 2026-03-19 23:00 UTC.

NOTE


A preview page (generated before creating the release) is:
https://creadur.apache.org/rat018/
that will be deleted once the release is promoted.

Thanks,
Phil

The downloads page and RAT webpage is not yet changed to reflect changes in 0.18 and the dist area does not yet contain the release artifacts.

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