Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.5.1.
Apache Kafka 2.5.1 is a bugfix release and fixes 72 issues since the 2.5.0 release. Please see the release notes for more information. Release notes for the 2.5.1 release: https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.5.1-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 5pm Pacific 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/~vvcephei/kafka-2.5.1-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.5.1-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.5 branch) is the 2.5.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.5.1-rc0 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/25/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/25/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.5 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.5-jdk8/170/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka-branch-builder/4066 System test results: http://confluent-kafka-2-5-system-test-results.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2020-07-22--001.1595474441--apache--2.5--7f9187fe3/report.html Thanks, John
