Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 3.5.0. Some of the major features include: - KIP-710: Full support for distributed mode in dedicated MirrorMaker 2.0 clusters - KIP-881: Rack-aware Partition Assignment for Kafka Consumers - KIP-887: Add ConfigProvider to make use of environment variables - KIP-889: Versioned State Stores - KIP-894: Use incrementalAlterConfig for syncing topic configurations - KIP-900: KRaft kafka-storage.sh API additions to support SCRAM for Kafka Brokers
Release notes for the 3.5.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-3.5.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, May 26, 5pm 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/~mimaison/kafka-3.5.0-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-3.5.0-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.5 branch) is the 3.5.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.5.0-rc0 The PR adding the 35 documentation is not merged yet (https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/513) * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/35/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/35/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 3.5 branch: Unit/integration tests: Jenkins is not detecting the 3.5 branch, working with INFRA to sort it out: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24577 System tests: The build is still running, I'll send an update once I have the results Thanks, Mickael
