Thanks, Rajini. Here's an update on the system tests. Unfortunately we've not yet had a fully-green system test run, but each of the system test runs since https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.6/49/ has had just one or two failures -- and no failure has been repeated. This suggests the failing tests appear to be somewhat flaky. I'll keep running more system tests and will reply here if something appears suspicious, but please holler if you think my analysis is incorrect.
Best regards, Randall On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:00 AM Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Randall, +1 (binding) > > Built from source and ran tests, had a quick look through some Javadoc > changes, ran quickstart and some tests with Java 11 TLSv1.3 on the binary. > > Regards, > > Rajini > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:50 PM Randall Hauch <rha...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > > This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.6.0. This is a > > major release that includes many new features, including: > > > > * TLSv1.3 has been enabled by default for Java 11 or newer. > > * Smooth scaling out of Kafka Streams applications > > * Kafka Streams support for emit on change > > * New metrics for better operational insight > > * Kafka Connect can automatically create topics for source connectors > > * Improved error reporting options for sink connectors in Kafka Connect > > * New Filter and conditional SMTs in Kafka Connect > > * The default value for the `client.dns.lookup` configuration is > > now `use_all_dns_ips` > > * Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.5.8 > > > > This release also includes a few other features, 74 improvements, 175 bug > > fixes, plus other fixes. > > > > Release notes for the 2.6.0 release: > > https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, August 3, 9am PT > > > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > > https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS > > > > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): > > https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc2/ > > > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > > > * Javadoc: > > https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc2/javadoc/ > > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.6 branch) is the 2.6.0 tag: > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.6.0-rc2 > > > > * Documentation: > > https://kafka.apache.org/26/documentation.html > > > > * Protocol: > > https://kafka.apache.org/26/protocol.html > > > > * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.6 branch: > > Unit/integration tests: > https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.6-jdk8/101/ > > System tests: (link to follow) > > > > > > Thanks, > > Randall Hauch > > >
