We found a few more critical issues and so have decided to do one more RC for 2.3.1. Please review the release notes: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.3.1-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html
*** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, October 22, 9pm PDT 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/~davidarthur/kafka-2.3.1-rc2/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.3.1-rc2/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.3 branch) is the 2.3.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.3.1-rc2 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/23/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/23/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds to follow Thanks! David