Hi David, I verified signatures, built the tagged branch and ran unit and integration tests. I found some flaky tests, as follows:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9691 (new) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9692 (new) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9283 (already reported) Many thanks, Tom On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:28 AM David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The first > release candidate included an erroneous NOTICE file, so another RC was > needed to fix that. > > 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 > > Release notes for the 2.5.0 release: > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, March 16th 2020 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-rc1/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > * Javadoc: > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc1/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-rc1 > > * 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 >
