Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 3.5.0. Some of the major features include: - KIP-710: Full support for distributed mode in dedicated MirrorMaker 2.0 clusters - KIP-881: Rack-aware Partition Assignment for Kafka Consumers - KIP-887: Add ConfigProvider to make use of environment variables - KIP-889: Versioned State Stores - KIP-894: Use incrementalAlterConfig for syncing topic configurations - KIP-900: KRaft kafka-storage.sh API additions to support SCRAM for Kafka Brokers
Release notes for the 3.5.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-3.5.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Friday June 9, 5pm 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/~mimaison/kafka-3.5.0-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-3.5.0-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.5 branch) is the 3.5.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.5.0-rc1 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/35/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/35/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 3.5 branch: Unit/integration tests: I'm struggling to get all tests to pass in the same build. I'll run a few more builds to ensure each test pass at least once in the CI. All tests passed locally. System tests: The build is still running, I'll send an update once I have the results. Thanks, Mickael
