Hello again, all, I just wanted to mention that I am aware of Justin's concerns in the 2.6.2 thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2df54c11c10d3d38443054998bc7dd92d34362641733c2fb7c579b50%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
I plan to make sure we address these concerns before the actual 2.8.0 release, but wanted to get RC0 out asap for testing. Thank you, John On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 16:37 -0500, John Roesler wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka > 2.8.0. This is a major release that includes many new > features, including: > > * Early-access release of replacing Zookeeper with a self- > managed quorum > * Add Describe Cluster API > * Support mutual TLS authentication on SASL_SSL listeners > * Ergonomic improvements to Streams TopologyTestDriver > * Logger API improvement to respect the hierarchy > * Request/response trace logs are now JSON-formatted > * New API to add and remove Streams threads while running > * New REST API to expose Connect task configurations > * Fixed the TimeWindowDeserializer to be able to deserialize > keys outside of Streams (such as in the console consumer) > * Streams resilient improvement: new uncaught exception > handler > * Streams resilience improvement: automatically recover from > transient timeout exceptions > > > > Release notes for the 2.8.0 release: > https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by 6 April 2021 *** > > 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/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc0/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > * Javadoc: > https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc0/javadoc/ > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.8 branch) is the 2.8.0 tag: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.8.0-rc0 > > * Documentation: > https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html > > * Protocol: > https://kafka.apache.org/28/protocol.html > > > /************************************** > > Thanks, > John > >
