Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the second 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-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Saturday, September 23, 8am 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-rc1/ * 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-rc1/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-rc1 * 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.
