[VOTE] Release Lucene 9.12.3 RC1

Please vote for release candidate 1 for Lucene 9.12.3


The artifacts can be downloaded from:

https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-9.12.3-RC1-rev-d2cf5568e3965cc642cae3b695fcbeff5bb5c2ed


You can run the smoke tester directly with this command:


python3 -u dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py \

https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-9.12.3-RC1-rev-d2cf5568e3965cc642cae3b695fcbeff5bb5c2ed

Draft release notes:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/ReleaseNote9_12_3

The vote will be open for at least 72 hours i.e. until 2025-09-21 19:00 UTC.


[ ] +1  approve

[ ] +0  no opinion

[ ] -1  disapprove (and reason why)


Here is my +1 (non-binding)



- Ankit