Thanks for putting this together, David! Looks like we found a 3.4 blocker, unfortunately: KAFKA-14618: Off by one error in generated snapshot IDs causes misaligned fetching.
So we'll need a new RC. best, Colin On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, at 14:57, David Arthur wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 3.4.0. Some of the > major features include: > > > * KIP-881: Rack-aware Partition Assignment for Kafka Consumers > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-881%3A+Rack-aware+Partition+Assignment+for+Kafka+Consumers> > > * KIP-876: Time based cluster metadata snapshots > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-876%3A+Time+based+cluster+metadata+snapshots> > > * KIP-787: MM2 manage Kafka resources with custom Admin implementation. > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=191335620> > > * KIP-866 ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-866+ZooKeeper+to+KRaft+Migration> > (Early > Access) > > > For a full list of the features in this release, please refer to the > release notes: > > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, Jan 18th, 2023. > > > 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/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc0/ > > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > > * Javadoc: > > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc0/javadoc/ > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.4 branch) is the 3.4.0 tag: > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.4.0-rc0 > > > * Documentation: > > https://kafka.apache.org/34/documentation.html > > > * Protocol: > > https://kafka.apache.org/34/protocol.html > > > The Jenkins unit/integration for 3.4 is currently experiencing > spurious timeouts. The recent build history of 3.4 shows some green builds. > https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.4/. If we get a > solid all-green build, I'll update this thread. > > > System tests are currently running, we'll send out results once they are > available. > > > A big thanks to Sophie for running this release!
