I used the staged binaries and Maven artifacts, and: * did some manual smoke testing * Run it within Strimzi and its system tests
All seems to work fine, so +1 (non-binding). Thanks & Regards Jakub On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM Mickael Maison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the 2nd candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.3.0. > > This release includes 25 KIPs bringing improvements to all components. > > Release notes for the 4.3.0 release: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by May 11, 5pm CEST > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/KEYS > > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.0-rc1/ > > * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: > apache/kafka:4.3.0-rc1 > apache/kafka-native:4.3.0-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/4.3.0-rc1/javadoc/index.html > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.3 branch) is the 4.3.0 tag: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.3.0-rc1 > > * Documentation: > PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/853 > > * Protocol: > PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/853 > > * Successful CI builds for the 4.3 branch: > Unit/integration tests: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/25372903952 > System tests: Tests are currently running > > * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.3 branch: > Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/25367577186 > Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/25367591295 > > Thanks, > Mickael >
