Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.6.0. This is a major release that includes many new features, including:
* TLSv1.3 has been enabled by default for Java 11 or newer. * Smooth scaling out of Kafka Streams applications * Kafka Streams support for emit on change * New metrics for better operational insight * Kafka Connect can automatically create topics for source connectors * Improved error reporting options for sink connectors in Kafka Connect * New Filter and conditional SMTs in Kafka Connect * The default value for the `client.dns.lookup` configuration is now `use_all_dns_ips` * Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.5.8 This release also includes a few other features, 76 improvements, and 165 bug fixes. Release notes for the 2.6.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, July 20, 9am PT 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/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.6 branch) is the 2.6.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.6.0-rc0 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/26/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/26/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.6 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.6-jdk8/80/ System tests: (link to follow) Thanks, Randall Hauch
