Re: Proposing 10.5.0 minor release

Hi Uwe,

Since I was involved, along with others, in the design and discussion of =
the columnar API, I wanted to share my perspective as well.

The columnar indexing API is still relatively new and remains =
experimental. I backported it to branch_10x, and while I think it is in =
good shape, my view is that it would benefit from some real-world usage =
before we make it non-final. My hope is that we can gather feedback and =
iterate through a small number of 10.x releases, and then finalize the =
API in the main branch once we've gained that experience.

-Chris.

> On 26 May 2026, at 09:08, Uwe Schindler via dev =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> as we have now the columnar API for indexing, would't it be a better =
idea to release 11.0 with Java 25? This would allow us to go for 26/27 =
in main branch. On the other hand we have cool fetaures.
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> Uwe
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> P.S.: I don't like to backport the columnar API to 10.x (not sure if =
it was done), we should better finalize it and release with main branch. =
Only a few parts are missing!
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> Am 21.05.2026 um 13:10 schrieb Alan Woodward:
>> Hi everyone,
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>> It=E2=80=99s been a few months now since the 10.4 release, and we =
have some impressive changes building up on the 10x branch.  I think =
it=E2=80=99s about time we did a new minor?
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>> I=E2=80=99m happy to act as RM, unless somebody else is desperate to =
do it. I would plan on starting the release process this time next week. =
 If there=E2=80=99s in-flight work that you really need to get into =
10.5, now would be a good time to open a PR :)
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>> Thanks, Alan
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