Ah, thank you for pointing that out, Israel! Indeed, I neglected to update the date. Yes, let us say Tuesday, 13 April 2021 for the testing deadline.
Thanks as well for validating the release! -John On Wed, 2021-04-07 at 16:50 -0400, Israel Ekpo wrote: > Hello John, > > Thanks for running the release for 2.8.0 > > I was reviewing the request for validation for 2.8.0 RC1 it appears that > the deadline to complete testing/validation by the community is 6th April > 2021 > > Same day delivery :) > > I think you meant to say Tuesday, April 13 2021 instead. > > Could we assume that was just a carry over from the previous solicitation > for 2.8.0 RC0 and you actually meant to say 2021-04-13? > > When you have a moment, please clarify. > > I am running my tests shortly and will share my results by the end of the > week. > > Thanks. > > > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:37 PM John Roesler <vvcep...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > > This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka > > 2.8.0. This is a major release that includes many new > > features, including: > > > > * Early-access release of replacing Zookeeper with a self- > > managed quorum > > * Add Describe Cluster API > > * Support mutual TLS authentication on SASL_SSL listeners > > * Ergonomic improvements to Streams TopologyTestDriver > > * Logger API improvement to respect the hierarchy > > * Request/response trace logs are now JSON-formatted > > * New API to add and remove Streams threads while running > > * New REST API to expose Connect task configurations > > * Fixed the TimeWindowDeserializer to be able to deserialize > > keys outside of Streams (such as in the console consumer) > > * Streams resilient improvement: new uncaught exception > > handler > > * Streams resilience improvement: automatically recover from > > transient timeout exceptions > > > > > > > > > > Release notes for the 2.8.0 release: > > https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > > > *** Please download, test and vote by 6 April 2021 *** > > > > 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/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc1/ > > > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > > > * Javadoc: > > > > https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc1/javadoc/ > > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.8 branch) is the 2.8.0 tag: > > > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.8.0-rc1 > > > > * Documentation: > > https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html > > > > * Protocol: > > https://kafka.apache.org/28/protocol.html > > > > > > /************************************** > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "kafka-clients" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to kafka-clients+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/kafka-clients/b0814d6acb8f37e0e729e3582bc5552fa30ca8e3.camel%40apache.org > > . > >
