Hello all, we identified a few bugs and a dependency update we wanted to get fixed for 2.3.1. In particular, there was a problem with rolling upgrades of streams applications (KAFKA-8649).
Check out the release notes for a complete list. https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.3.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday October 9th, 9pm PST 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/~davidarthur/kafka-2.3.1-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.3.1-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.3 branch) is the 2.3.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.3.1-rc1 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/23/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/23/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.3 branch are TBD but will be located: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.3-jdk8/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.3/ Thanks! David Arthur
