Hi Kafka developers! I just wanted to remind you all of the upcoming relevant dates for Kafka 3.8.0: - KIP freeze is on May 15th (this is in a little less than 2 weeks) - Feature freeze is on May 29th (this is in a little more than 25 days).
If there is a KIP you really want to have in the 3.8 series, now is the time to make the last push. Once the deadline for KIP freeze is over I'll update the release plan with the final list of KIPs accepted and that may make it to the release. Best! On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 10:40 AM Josep Prat <josep.p...@aiven.io> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for your support. I updated the skeleton release plan created by > Colin. You can find it here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+3.8.0 > > Our last release stumbled upon some problems while releasing and was > delayed by several weeks, so I won't try to shave some weeks from our plan > for 3.8.0 (we might end up having delays again). Please raise your concerns > if you don't agree with the proposed dates. > > The current proposal on dates are: > > - KIP Freeze: *15nd May *(Wednesday) > - A KIP must be accepted by this date in order to be considered for > this release. Note, any KIP that may not be implemented in a week, or > that > might destabilize the release, should be deferred. > - Feature Freeze: *29th May *(Wednesday) > - *major features merged & working on stabilisation, minor features > have PR, release branch cut; anything not in this state will be > automatically moved to the next release in JIRA* > - Code Freeze: *12th June *(Wednesday) > - At least two weeks of stabilization will follow Code Freeze, meaning > we expect to release *no earlier* than *June 26th*. We will move as > fast as we can, and aim for completion the earliest we can in June. > > I went through the KIP list, and found that these are the ones that might > make it into the release: > KIP-853: KRaft Controller Membership Changes (still under discussion) > KIP-942: Add Power(ppc64le) support > KIP-966: Eligible Leader Replicas > KIP-974: Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker > KIP-977: Partition-Level Throughput Metrics > KIP-993: Allow restricting files accessed by File and Directory > ConfigProviders > KIP-994: Minor Enhancements to ListTransactions and DescribeTransactions > APIs > KIP-996: Pre-Vote > KIP-1004: Enforce tasks.max property in Kafka Connect > KIP-1005: Expose EarliestLocalOffset and TieredOffset > KIP-1007: Introduce Remote Storage Not Ready Exception > KIP-1019: Expose method to determine Metric Measurability > > Please review the plan and provide any additional information or updates > regarding KIPs that target this release version (3.8). > If you have authored any KIPs that have an inaccurate status in the list, > or are not in the list and should be, or are in the list and should not be > - please share it in this thread so that I can keep the document accurate > and up to date. > > Looking forward to your feedback. > > Best, > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 10:07 AM Satish Duggana <satish.dugg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Josep, +1. >> >> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 17:29, Divij Vaidya <divijvaidy...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Thank you for volunteering Josep. +1 from me. >> > >> > -- >> > Divij Vaidya >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:35 AM Bruno Cadonna <cado...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > >> > > Thanks Josep! >> > > >> > > +1 >> > > >> > > Best, >> > > Bruno >> > > >> > > On 2/26/24 9:53 PM, Chris Egerton wrote: >> > > > Thanks Josep, I'm +1 as well. >> > > > >> > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 12:32 PM Justine Olshan >> > > > <jols...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> Thanks Joesp. +1 from me. >> > > >> >> > > >> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 3:37 AM Josep Prat >> <josep.p...@aiven.io.invalid >> > > > >> > > >> wrote: >> > > >> >> > > >>> Hi all, >> > > >>> >> > > >>> I'd like to volunteer as release manager for the Apache Kafka >> 3.8.0 >> > > >>> release. >> > > >>> If there are no objections, I'll start building a release plan (or >> > > >> adapting >> > > >>> the one Colin made some weeks ago) in the wiki in the next days. >> > > >>> >> > > >>> Thank you. >> > > >>> >> > > >>> -- >> > > >>> [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 >> > > >>> >> > > >> >> > > > >> > > >> > > > -- > [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 > -- [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
