Thanks Christo, In the meantime I created a PR for the missing doc changes: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/807 Will create a blog post early next week too.
Best, Viktor On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 4:27 PM Christo Lolov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I did the following to validate the release candidate: > > * Did a few random walks through the RELEASE NOTES, Javadocs, Maven > artifacts, and repository > * Checked the signatures of the tgzs with their keys > * Compiled the src.tgz and ran the quickstart against the compiled source > * Ran the quickstart against the binaries.tgz > * Ran the quickstarts against both Docker images > * Ran the system tests with no failures different to the ones you note > > My only note is to include a short blog post as a follow-up :) > > +1 (non-binding) > > Best, > Christo > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 at 16:47, Viktor Somogyi-Vass <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > > This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.0.2. > > > > Since this is a patch version it contains the bug fixes outlined in the > > release notes below! > > > > Release notes for the 4.0.2 release: > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > *** Please download, test and vote by Friday 27. > > > > 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://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc1/ > > > > * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: > > apache/kafka:4.0.2-rc1 > > apache/kafka-native:4.0.2-rc1 > > > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > > > * Javadoc: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc1/javadoc/ > > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.0 branch) is the 4.0.2 tag: > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.0.2-rc1 > > > > * Documentation: > > https://kafka.apache.org/40/documentation.html > > > > * Protocol: > > https://kafka.apache.org/40/protocol.html > > > > * Successful CI builds for the 4.0 branch: > > Unit/integration tests: > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22062188033 > > System tests: > > > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlVfSLFqZNjcsEJ1ZHwEXChyGqVWHasS?usp=sharing > > Out of the 5 failures 3 were flaky (rerun was successful) and 2 are > > persistent. I checked them back against 4.0.1 and 3.9.1 and they seem to > be > > present throughout the releases, so not new failures: > > - > > > tests/kafkatest/tests/core/network_degrade_test.py::NetworkDegradeTest.test_rate@ > > > {"task_name":"rate-1000-latency-50","device_name":"eth0","latency_ms":50,"rate_limit_kbit":1000000,"metadata_quorum":"COMBINED_KRAFT"} > > - > > > tests/kafkatest/tests/tools/replica_verification_test.py::ReplicaVerificationToolTest.test_replica_lags@ > > {"metadata_quorum":"ISOLATED_KRAFT"} > > > > * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.0 branch: > > Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22062306029 > > Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22062316512 > > > > Thanks, > > Viktor > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "kafka-clients" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/kafka-clients/CANF%2Ba5dS3i-GvdnXf4_g8tsOq9HJTZ%3D5bu87VoEXrJ3Agr5VSw%40mail.gmail.com > . >
