Thanks, David. I was able to successfully complete the following:
- Build release archive from the tag, installed locally, and ran a portion of quickstart - Installed 2.8.1 RC0 and performed quickstart for broker and Connect - Verified signatures and checksums - Verified the tag - Compared the release notes to JIRA - Manually spotchecked the Javadocs However, generated docs at https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html incorrectly reference the 2.8.0 version in the following sections: * https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html#quickstart * https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html#producerapi * https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html#consumerapi * https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html#streamsapi * https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html#adminapi The way these are updated during the release process has changed recently. IIUC they are generated as part of the release build via the https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/2.8.1-rc0/docs/js/templateData.js file, which appears to have not been updated in the tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/2.8.1-rc0/docs/js/templateData.js#L22. Maybe the https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Process needs to be tweaked to update this file even when cutting a patch release RC (it currently says to update this file in the section for major and minor releases). Also, the https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/tree/asf-site/28 history shows no updates since July. I guess that's possible, but might be worth double checking. Thanks! Randall On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 5:15 AM David Jacot <dja...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.8.1. > > Apache Kafka 2.8.1 is a bugfix release and fixes 49 issues since the 2.8.0 > release. Please see the release notes for more information. > > Release notes for the 2.8.1 release: > https://home.apache.org/~dajac/kafka-2.8.1-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, September 17, 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/~dajac/kafka-2.8.1-rc0/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > * Javadoc: > https://home.apache.org/~dajac/kafka-2.8.1-rc0/javadoc/ > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.8 branch) is the 2.8.1 tag: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.8.1-rc0 > > * Documentation: > https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html > > * Protocol: > https://kafka.apache.org/28/protocol.html > > * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.8 branch: > Unit/integration tests: > https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/2.8/80/ > System tests: > https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.8/214/ > > /************************************** > > Thanks, > David >
