Thanks for taking on this release, Bill! I'm +1 (binding).
I verified the signatures, built from source, and ran all the tests. I also read over the upgrade documentation. Thanks, -John On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 09:53 -0500, Bill Bejeck wrote: > 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
