Hello Apache Geode Developer Community, This is a follow-up regarding the vote for Apache Geode version 2.0.1.RC1.
It is disheartening that the voting deadline of 3 PM PST on Friday, March 20, 2026 has passed without any votes, especially given the community effort invested in this release. In particular, this release includes several high-impact security remediations the community recently completed: -Critical security patches: CVE-2024-12798, CVE-2024-12801, CVE-2025-11226, CVE-2026-1225 (GEODE-10555 #7982) -Man-in-the-middle protection: CVE-2025-68161 (GEODE-10543 #7975) -Authentication bypass remediation: CVE-2026-23903 (GEODE-10559 #7986) -Denial of service remediation: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (GEODE-10565 #7990) -Security bypass and DoS remediation: CVE-2026-1605 and CVE-2025-11143 (GEODE-10568 #7992) -Endpoint Request security fix: CVE-2025-22235 (GEODE-10572 #7993) I would like to encourage PMC and dev community members to please take a few minutes to review the release candidate and participate in this important vote. The developer community has worked very hard on this release to remediate critical security vulnerabilities and improve overall stability, and your review and vote would be sincerely appreciated. Best regards, Jinwoo Hwang (he/him/his) SAS® Research and Development http://JinwooHwang.com<http://jinwoohwang.com/> From: Jinwoo Hwang <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 5:58 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [VOTE] Apache Geode 2.0.1.RC1 Hello Apache Geode Developer Community, This is a release candidate for Apache Geode version 2.0.1.RC1. Thanks to all the community members for their contributions to this release! Please do a review and give your feedback, including the checks you performed. Voting deadline: 3PM PST Friday, March 20 2026. Please note that we are voting upon the source tag: rel/v2.0.1.RC1 Release notes: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-2.0.1 Source and binary distributions: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/geode/2.0.1.RC1/ Maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegeode-1150 GitHub: https://github.com/apache/geode/tree/rel/v2.0.1.RC1 https://github.com/apache/geode-examples/tree/rel/v2.0.1.RC1 https://github.com/apache/geode-native/tree/rel/v2.0.1.RC1 https://github.com/apache/geode-benchmarks/tree/rel/v2.0.1.RC1 Geode's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://github.com/apache/geode/blob/develop/KEYS Command to run geode-examples: ./gradlew -PgeodeReleaseUrl=https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/geode/2.0.1.RC1 -PgeodeRepositoryUrl=https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegeode-1150 build runAll Best regards, Jinwoo Hwang (he/him/his) SAS® Research and Development http://JinwooHwang.com<http://jinwoohwang.com/>
