Unfortunately an issue popped up with a recent CVE upgrade due to Jetty 12, so I have to discard RC1. The issue: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/21452#issuecomment-3943544053 I will prepare RC2 and restart the voting process.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 5:35 PM Viktor Somogyi-Vass <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> . >> >
