Hello Kafka developers and friends, As promised, we now have a release branch for the 2.8.0 release. The branch is "2.8" (https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/2.8) .
Trunk has been bumped to 2.9.0-SNAPSHOT. I'll be going over the JIRAs to move every non-blocker from this release to the next release. >From this point, most changes should go to trunk. Blockers (existing and new that we discover while testing the release) will be double-committed. Please discuss with your reviewer whether your PR should go to trunk or to trunk+release so they can merge accordingly. Please help us ensure a high-quality release by focusing heavily on testing and resolving failures. Thanks! -John
