Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is RC1 for release of Apache Kafka 0.10.2.0.
This is a minor version release of Apache Kafka. It includes 19 new KIPs. See the release notes and release plan (https://cwiki.apache.org/ confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+0.10.2.0) for more details. A few feature highlights: SASL-SCRAM support, improved client compatibility to allow use of clients newer than the broker, session windows and global tables in the Kafka Streams API, single message transforms in the Kafka Connect framework. Important note: in addition to the artifacts generated using JDK7 for Scala 2.10 and 2.11, this release also includes experimental artifacts built using JDK8 for Scala 2.12. Important code changes since RC0 (non-docs, non system tests): * KAFKA-4728; KafkaConsumer#commitSync should copy its input * KAFKA-4441; Monitoring incorrect during topic creation and deletion * KAFKA-4734; Trim the time index on old segments * KAFKA-4725; Stop leaking messages in produce request body when requests are delayed * KAFKA-4716: Fix case when controller cannot be reached Release notes for the 0.10.2.0 release: http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, Feb 13, 5pm PT *** Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 0.10.2 branch) is the 0.10.2.0 tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=e825b7994bf8c8c4871d1e0973e287e6d31c7ae4 * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/documentation.html * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 0.10.2 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-0.10.2-jdk7/74/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka-0.10.2/25/ /************************************** Thanks, Ewen
