Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.0.2.
This is a patch release and therefore it contains important bug fixes. Release notes for the 4.0.2 release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc3/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, March 11. 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://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc3/ * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: apache/kafka:4.0.2-rc3 apache/kafka-native:4.0.2-rc3 https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc3/kafka_2.13-4.0.2.tgz * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc3/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.0 branch) is the 4.0.2 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.0.2-rc3 * Documentation: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/807 * Successful CI builds for the 4.0 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22615674106 System tests: test runs are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K8nfXNgnSOwc61JhRQylICFivn7ZSMKq?usp=sharing There were some failures of which all but one are flaky (successful on rerun) and one is a known test issue: tests/kafkatest/tests/core/network_degrade_test.py::NetworkDegradeTest.test_rate@ {"task_name":"rate-1000-latency-50","device_name":"eth0","latency_ms":50,"rate_limit_kbit":1000000,"metadata_quorum":"COMBINED_KRAFT"} * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.0 branch: Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22615750194 Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22615760392 I will shortly write a blog post too. Best, Viktor
