Hi Satish, Thanks for running the release. I ran the following validation steps: - Built from source with Java 11 and Scala 2.13 - Verified Signatures and hashes of the artifacts generated - Navigated through Javadoc including links to JDK classes - Run the unit tests - Run integration tests - Run the quickstart in KRaft and Zookeeper mode - Checked License-binary against libs and matched them
I +1 this release (non-binding) Best, On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:02 PM David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- [image: Aiven] <https://www.aiven.io> *Josep Prat* Open Source Engineering Director, *Aiven* josep.p...@aiven.io | +491715557497 aiven.io <https://www.aiven.io> | <https://www.facebook.com/aivencloud> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiven/> <https://twitter.com/aiven_io> *Aiven Deutschland GmbH* Alexanderufer 3-7, 10117 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa & Hannu Valtonen Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B
