On Sun, 17 Sept 2023 at 23:00, Satish Duggana <satish.dugg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the first candidate for the release of Apache Kafka 3.6.0. Some of > the major features include: > > * KIP-405 : Kafka Tiered Storage > * KIP-868 : KRaft Metadata Transactions > * KIP-875: First-class offsets support in Kafka Connect > * KIP-898: Modernize Connect plugin discovery > * KIP-938: Add more metrics for measuring KRaft performance > * KIP-902: Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.8.1 > * KIP-917: Additional custom metadata for remote log segment > > Release notes for the 3.6.0 release: > https://home.apache.org/~satishd/kafka-3.6.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, September 21, 12pm 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/~satishd/kafka-3.6.0-rc0/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > * Javadoc: > https://home.apache.org/~satishd/kafka-3.6.0-rc0/javadoc/ > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.6 branch) is the 3.6.0 tag: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.6.0-rc0 > > * Documentation: > https://kafka.apache.org/36/documentation.html > > * Protocol: > https://kafka.apache.org/36/protocol.html > > * Successful Jenkins builds for the 3.6 branch: > There are a few runs of unit/integration tests. You can see the latest at > https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.6/. We will > continue running a few more iterations. > System tests: > We will send an update once we have the results. > > Thanks, > Satish. >
