Thanks Randall, +1 (binding) Built from source and ran tests, had a quick look through some Javadoc changes, ran quickstart and some tests with Java 11 TLSv1.3 on the binary.
Regards, Rajini On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:50 PM Randall Hauch <rha...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the third 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, 74 improvements, 175 bug > fixes, plus other fixes. > > Release notes for the 2.6.0 release: > https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, August 3, 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-rc2/ > > * 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-rc2/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-rc2 > > * 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-jdk8/101/ > System tests: (link to follow) > > > Thanks, > Randall Hauch >
