This is the fourth candidate for the release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0. This is a major release that includes many new features, including:
* Configurable TCP connection timeout and improve the initial metadata fetch * Enforce broker-wide and per-listener connection creation rate (KIP-612, part 1) * Throttle Create Topic, Create Partition and Delete Topic Operations * Add TRACE-level end-to-end latency metrics to Streams * Add Broker-side SCRAM Config API * Support PEM format for SSL certificates and private key * Add RocksDB Memory Consumption to RocksDB Metrics * Add Sliding-Window support for Aggregations This release also includes a few other features, 53 improvements, and 84 bug fixes. Release notes for the 2.7.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc3/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, December 2, 12PM ET 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/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc3/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc3/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.7 branch) is the 2.7.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.7.0-rc3 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/27/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/27/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branch: Unit/integration tests: (link to follow) System tests: (link to follow) Thanks, Bill
