Thanks for taking the initiative Chia-Ping! I had refrained from commenting until now, having contributed to some of the aforementioned fixes, thinking my position would have had some bias but after the recent CVE announcements I strongly believe we should have a 3.9.3.
Looking forward to the release plan! Regards, Gaurav > On 2 Nov 2026, at 12:58, Chia-Ping Tsai via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We are going to backport the CVE fixes to 3.9 and I believe that is a good > reason to make a 3.9.3 release. > > Hence, I will start the release plan for 3.9.3 and open another thread once > the plan is ready. > > Best, > Chia-Ping > > On 2026-10-25 13:19 UTC Chia-Ping Tsai wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> There are some critical bugs related to ZK migration, so I’d like to >> open a discussion for the 3.9.3 release. >> >> KAFKA-20960: Block ZK-to-KRaft migration finalization until brokers >> re-register (merged) >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/ea11d59ecda2ec57be0f1ef83a554ef5d3b82770 >> >> KAFKA-21142: Fix partition creation when handling snapshot delta >> during migration (merged) >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/daebfbd9b37c913937d5adfc2e493fe825e3da3a >> >> KAFKA-21062: Handle BADVERSION on /migration writes (under review) >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/23639 >> >> My sense is that ZK migration is the only official way to encourage >> users to get into KRaft, so keeping it working is a strong reason to >> do a release. >> >> I haven’t finished reviewing the last one yet, but it would be good to >> make sure the release will happen. Otherwise, my tokens will be >> totally wasted :) >> >> Any thoughts? >>
