The last blog post for 2.5.0 mentioned KIP-500, and I know we've made a lot of progress on that and will have even more in upcoming releases. I'd like to add the following paragraph to the opening section, just after the paragraph mentioning JDK 14 and Scala 2.13:
"Finally, these accomplishments are only one part of a larger active roadmap in the run up to Apache Kafka 3.0, which may be one of the most significant releases in the project’s history. The work to replace Zookeeper (link to KIP-500) with built-in RAFT-based consensus is well underway with eight KIPs in active development. Kafka’s new RAFT protocol for the metadata quorum is already available for review (link to https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/9130). Tiered Storage unlocks infinite scaling and faster rebalance times via KIP-405 (link to KIP-405), and is up and running in internal clusters at Uber." I'ved incorporated this into the preview doc, but feedback is welcome. Best regards, Randall On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 10:27 AM Randall Hauch <rha...@apache.org> wrote: > I've prepared a preliminary blog post about the upcoming Apache Kafka > 2.6.0 release. > Please take a look and let me know via this thread if you want to > add/modify details. > Thanks to all who contributed to this blog post. > > Unfortunately, the preview is not currently publicly visible at > https://blogs.apache.org/preview/kafka/?previewEntry=what-s-new-in-apache3 > (I've > logged https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20646), so in the > interest of time I created a Google doc with read privilege for everyone by > pasting the preview content directly into: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MQQoJk4ewedYgFfgSA2axx3VhRwgj_0rO1tf3yezV0c/edit?usp=sharing > > I will continue to update this doc with any changes to the draft blog post. > > > Thanks, > Randall >
