[VOTE] Release Lucene 9.12.3 RC2

Please vote for release candidate 2 for Lucene 9.12.3


The artifacts can be downloaded from:

https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-9.12.3-RC2-rev-f965e930673c1f5cb478dc6a8907f5fc4ef7b539


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-RC2-rev-f965e930673c1f5cb478dc6a8907f5fc4ef7b539


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 2025-09-27 17:00 UTC.


[ ] +1  approve

[ ] +0  no opinion

[ ] -1  disapprove (and reason why)


Here is my +1 (non-binding)



- Ankit