Hello Kafka developers and friends, We now have a release branch for the 2.5 release. The branch name is "2.5" and the version will be "2.5.0". Trunk will be shortly be bumped to the next snapshot version 2.6.0-SNAPSHOT https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8026
I'll be going over the JIRAs to move every non-blocker from this release to the next release. >From this point, most changes should go to trunk. Blockers (existing and new that we discover while testing the release) will be committed to both trunk and the 2.5 release branch. Please discuss with your reviewer whether your PR should go to trunk or to trunk+release so they can merge accordingly. As always, please help us test the release! Thanks! David Arthur
