* Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branches: Unit/integration tests: https://ci-builds.apache.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Kafka%2Fkafka-2.7-jdk8/detail/kafka-2.7-jdk8/53/
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM Bill Bejeck <bbej...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers, and client-developers, > > This is the second candidate for the release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0. > > Some blockers were discovered after I cut the first RC, but I had not > announced it yet. So that is why you're seeing this email for the first > time, but > it's the second RC. > > This is a major release that includes many new features, including: > > * Configurable TCP connection timeout and improve the initial metadata > fetch > * Enforce broker-wide and per-listener connection creation rate (KIP-612, > part 1) > * Throttle Create Topic, Create Partition and Delete Topic Operations > * Add TRACE-level end-to-end latency metrics to Streams > * Add Broker-side SCRAM Config API > * Support PEM format for SSL certificates and private key > * Add RocksDB Memory Consumption to RocksDB Metrics > * Add Sliding-Window support for Aggregations > > This release also includes a few other features, 53 improvements, and 84 > bug fixes. > > Release notes for the 2.7.0 release: > https://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test, and vote *by Wednesday, November 18, 5 pm* ET > > 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/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc1/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > * Javadoc: > https://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc1/javadoc/ > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.7 branch) is the 2.7.0 tag: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.7.0-rc1 > > * Documentation: > https://kafka.apache.org/27/documentation.html > > * Protocol: > https://kafka.apache.org/27/protocol.html > > * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branches: > Unit/integration tests: (link to follow) > System tests: (link to follow) > > Thanks, > Bill Bejeck >
