Hey Satish, thanks for getting the RC underway! I noticed that the PR for the 3.6 blog post is merged. This makes the blog post live on the Kafka website https://kafka.apache.org/blog.html. The blog post (along with other public announcements) is usually the last thing we do as part of the release. I think we should probably take this down until we're done with the release, otherwise users stumbling on this post could get confused. It also contains some broken links.
Thanks! David On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 1:31 PM 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. > -- David Arthur
