There were a few issues during the staging of maven artifacts in the nexus
staging repository for RC0.
Closing the vote early here in favor of RC1 that has been staged
successfully and will be announced shortly.
Thanks,
Konstantine
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 7:10 AM Konstantine Karantasis <
kkaranta...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
>
> This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 3.0.0.
> It is a major release that includes many new features, including:
>
> * The deprecation of support for Java 8 and Scala 2.12.
> * Kafka Raft support for snapshots of the metadata topic and other
> improvements in the self-managed quorum.
> * Deprecation of message formats v0 and v1.
> * Stronger delivery guarantees for the Kafka producer enabled by default.
> * Optimizations in OffsetFetch and FindCoordinator requests.
> * More flexible Mirror Maker 2 configuration and deprecation of Mirror
> Maker 1.
> * Ability to restart a connector's tasks on a single call in Kafka Connect.
> * Connector log contexts and connector client overrides are now enabled by
> default.
> * Enhanced semantics for timestamp synchronization in Kafka Streams.
> * Revamped public API for Stream's TaskId.
> * Default serde becomes null in Kafka Streams and several other
> configuration changes.
>
> Release notes for the 3.0.0 release:
> https://home.apache.org/~kkarantasis/kafka-3.0.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>
> *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, September 3, 2021 ***
>
> Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release:
> https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS
>
> * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary):
> https://home.apache.org/~kkarantasis/kafka-3.0.0-rc0/
>
> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/
>
> * Javadoc:
> https://home.apache.org/~kkarantasis/kafka-3.0.0-rc0/javadoc/
>
> * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.0 branch) is the 3.0.0 tag:
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.0.0-rc0
>
> * Documentation:
> https://kafka.apache.org/30/documentation.html
>
> * Protocol:
> https://kafka.apache.org/30/protocol.html
>
> * Successful Jenkins builds for the 3.0 branch:
> Unit/integration tests:
> https://ci-builds.apache.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Kafka%2Fkafka/detail/3.0/118/pipeline/
> System tests:
> https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/3.0/53/
>
> /**
>
> Thanks,
> Konstantine
>
