Release Notes 26.0.1

[Al-assad]

This patch release improves DDC scale-down compatibility with Doris 4.1.3, adds repository-owned release automation, and makes pull request license checks safe for external contributors.

Features & Enhancements

• Add repository-owned release tools for environment checks, source packaging, signing and upload, vote email generation, and release completion, with automated workflow tests. add release tools #507

Bug Fixes

• Fixed DDC FE and compute group scale-down with Doris 4.1.3 by tolerating extended SHOW FRONTENDS and SHOW BACKENDS results, executing node removals individually, and making graceful backend cleanup retry-safe. fix: adapt scale-down to Doris 4.1.3 #510

Improve & Reliability

• Run the license check in a low-privilege pull_request workflow and update checkout handling so fork pull requests can be scanned safely. fix: run license check safely for fork PRs #511

Thanks

• morningman
• Al-assad