Thanks for generating a new RC1 with the corrected site docs, David. I was able to successfully complete the following:
- Installed 2.8.1 RC0 and performed quickstart for broker and Connect - Verified signatures and checksums - Verified the tag - Manually compared the release notes to JIRA - Build release archive from the tag, ran Connect tests, installed locally, and ran a portion of quickstart - Manually spotchecked the Javadocs - Verified the site docs at https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html has corrected version references, except for the tar and cd commands in step 1 of the https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html#quickstart. I think that last issue is minor and not worth another RC, since the other version references in https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html do reference 2.8.1 and we can easily fix it on the website, optionally as part of the other post-vote changes to the site. So I'm +1 (binding) Best regards, Randall On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 8:39 AM David Jacot <dja...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the second 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-rc1/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-rc1/ > > * 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-rc1/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-rc1 > > * 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 >
