I think KIP-291 is supposed to go into 2.2.0. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-291%3A+Separating+controller+connections+and+requests+from+the+data+plane
At least, according to the associated JIRA, the pull request seems to have been merged just a couple days ago. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4453 -James > On Jan 18, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> wrote: > > Just a quick update on the release. > > > We have 22 KIP atm: > > 81, 207, 258, 289, 313, 328, 331, 339, 341, 351, 359, 361, 367, 368, > 371, 376, 377, 380, 386, 393, 394, 414 > > Let me know if I missed any KIP that is targeted for 2.2 release. > > 21 of those KIPs are accepted, and the vote for the last one is open and > can be closed on time. > > The KIP deadline is Jan 24, so if any late KIPs are coming in, the vote > must be started latest next Monday Jan 21, to be open for at least 72h > and to meet the deadline. > > Also keep the feature freeze deadline in mind (31 Jan). > > > Besides this, there are 91 open tickets and 41 ticket in progress. I > will start to go through those tickets soon to see what will make it > into 2.2 and what we need to defer. If you have any tickets assigned to > yourself that are target for 2.2 and you know you cannot make it, I > would appreciate if you could update those ticket yourself to help > streamlining the release process. Thanks a lot for you support! > > > -Matthias > > > On 1/8/19 7:27 PM, Ismael Juma wrote: >> Thanks for volunteering Matthias! The plan sounds good to me. >> >> Ismael >> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 1:07 PM Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I would like to propose a release plan (with me being release manager) >>> for the next time-based feature release 2.2.0 in February. >>> >>> The recent Kafka release history can be found at >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Future+release+plan. >>> The release plan (with open issues and planned KIPs) for 2.2.0 can be >>> found at >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=100827512 >>> . >>> >>> >>> Here are the suggested dates for Apache Kafka 2.2.0 release: >>> >>> 1) KIP Freeze: Jan 24, 2019. >>> >>> A KIP must be accepted by this date in order to be considered for this >>> release) >>> >>> 2) Feature Freeze: Jan 31, 2019 >>> >>> Major features merged & working on stabilization, minor features have >>> PR, release branch cut; anything not in this state will be automatically >>> moved to the next release in JIRA. >>> >>> 3) Code Freeze: Feb 14, 2019 >>> >>> The KIP and feature freeze date is about 2-3 weeks from now. Please plan >>> accordingly for the features you want push into Apache Kafka 2.2.0 release. >>> >>> 4) Release Date: Feb 28, 2019 (tentative) >>> >>> >>> -Matthias >>> >>> >> >