Hey, John. +1 (binding)
I've performed the following: 1. Validated the signatures and checksums 2. Built the project from the src tgz file, and ran some of the unit tests 3. Built from the tag and ran a subset of the tests 4. Went through the quickstart for the broker and the Connect quickstart (plus ran a custom connector) 5. Spot reviewed the site and JavaDocs 6. Spot checked the issues in the release notes match the Jira reports Thanks again, John! Best regards, Randall On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:30 AM Bill Bejeck <bbej...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi John, > > Validation steps taken: > > 1. Validated the signatures and checksums, > 2. Built the project from the src tgz file, and ran the unit tests > 3. Went through the quickstart and the Kafka Streams quickstart > 4. Ran the quickstart for the KRaft module > 1. Created a topic > 2. Produced and consumed messages > 3. Ran the Metadata shell > > +1 (binding) > > Thanks for running this release! > > Bill > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 4:03 PM John Roesler <j...@vvcephei.org> wrote: > > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > > This is the third 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-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > *** Please download, test and vote by 19 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-rc2/ > > > > * 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-rc2/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-rc2 > > > > * Documentation: > > https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html > > > > * Protocol: > > https://kafka.apache.org/28/protocol.html > > > > * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.8 branch: > > Unit/integration tests: > > https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/2.8/ > > (still flaky) > > > > System tests: > > > > https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.8/6 > > 0/ > > > > > > > http://confluent-kafka-2-8-system-test-results.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2021-04-14--001.1618407001--confluentinc--2.8--1b61272d45/report.html > > > > /************************************** > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > > > > >
