Updated with link to successful Jenkins build.
* Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branch:
Unit/integration tests:
https://ci-builds.apache.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Kafka%2Fkafka-2.7-jdk8/detail/kafka-2.7-jdk8/78/
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 5:17 PM Bill Bejeck <bbej...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
>
> This is the sixth candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0.
>
> * 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-rc5/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>
> *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, December 18, 12 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-rc5/
>
> * 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-rc5/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-rc5
>
> * Documentation:
> https://kafka.apache.org/27/documentation.html
>
> * Protocol:
> https://kafka.apache.org/27/protocol.html
>
> * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branch:
> Unit/integration tests: Link to follow
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
