Just a quick update. We are working through some system test issues and hope to have a passing build today or tomorrow. Once we have a blue build, I'll work on RC1 and send out a new vote thread.
In the mean time, please feel free to continue testing RC0 and looking for blocker bugs. Thanks! David On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:53 AM David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification, Ismael. Scala 2.11 is indeed removed in 2.5 > > Here is a passing build for the 2.5 branch > https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.5-jdk8/50/ > > Still waiting on a passing build for the system tests. Stay tuned. > > -David > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:21 PM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > >> Thanks David! Note that support for Scala 2.11 was removed, not >> deprecated. >> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 7:47 PM David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, >> > >> > This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. >> > >> > This is a major release of Kafka which includes many new features, >> > improvements, and bug fixes including: >> > >> > * TLS 1.3 support (1.2 is now the default) >> > * Co-groups for Kafka Streams >> > * Incremental rebalance for Kafka Consumer >> > * New metrics for better operational insight >> > * Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.5.7 >> > * Deprecate support for Scala 2.11 >> > >> > The full release notes for 2.5.0 can be found here: >> > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html >> > >> > *** Please download, test and vote by Thursday, March 5th, 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/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc0/ >> > >> > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: >> > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ >> > >> > * Javadoc: >> > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc0/javadoc/ >> > >> > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.5 branch) is the 2.5.0 tag: >> > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.5.0-rc0 >> > >> > * Documentation: >> > https://kafka.apache.org/25/documentation.html >> > >> > * Protocol: >> > https://kafka.apache.org/25/protocol.html >> > >> > * Links to successful Jenkins builds for the 2.5 branch to follow >> > >> > Thanks, >> > David Arthur >> > >> > > > -- > David Arthur > -- David Arthur
