Hi Matthias, I've noticed a minor line break issue in the upgrade docs. I've created a small PR for that: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6320
Best, Viktor On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 10:16 PM Stephane Maarek <kafka.tutori...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Matthias > > Thanks for this > Running through the list of KIPs. I think this is not included in 2.2: > > - Allow clients to suppress auto-topic-creation > > Regards > Stephane > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 1:03 AM Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> > wrote: > > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > > This is the first candidate for the release of Apache Kafka 2.2.0. > > > > This is a minor release with the follow highlight: > > > > - Added SSL support for custom principle name > > - Allow SASL connections to periodically re-authenticate > > - Improved consumer group management > > - default group.id is `null` instead of empty string > > - Add --under-min-isr option to describe topics command > > - Allow clients to suppress auto-topic-creation > > - API improvement > > - Producer: introduce close(Duration) > > - AdminClient: introduce close(Duration) > > - Kafka Streams: new flatTransform() operator in Streams DSL > > - KafkaStreams (and other classed) now implement AutoClosable to > > support try-with-resource > > - New Serdes and default method implementations > > - Kafka Streams exposed internal client.id via ThreadMetadata > > - Metric improvements: All `-min`, `-avg` and `-max` metrics will now > > output `NaN` as default value > > > > > > Release notes for the 2.2.0 release: > > http://home.apache.org/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, March 1, 9am PST. > > > > 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/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc0/ > > > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > > > * Javadoc: > > http://home.apache.org/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc0/javadoc/ > > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.2 branch) is the 2.2.0 tag: > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.2.0-rc0 > > > > * Documentation: > > https://kafka.apache.org/22/documentation.html > > > > * Protocol: > > https://kafka.apache.org/22/protocol.html > > > > * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.2 branch: > > Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.2-jdk8/31/ > > > > * System tests: > > https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.2/ > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Matthias > > > > >