Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the seventh 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 91 bug fixes. *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, December 21, 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-rc6/ * 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-rc6/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-rc6 * 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: https://ci-builds.apache.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Kafka%2Fkafka-2.7-jdk8/detail/kafka-2.7-jdk8/81/ Thanks, Bill
