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
> > 
> > 
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