Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first release candidate of Apache Kafka 3.2.1.
This is a bugfix release with several fixes since the release of 3.2.0. A few of the major issues include: * KAFKA-14062 OAuth client token refresh fails with SASL extensions * KAFKA-14079 Memory leak in connectors using errors.tolerance=all * KAFKA-14024 Cooperative rebalance regression causing clients to get stuck Release notes for the 3.2.1 release: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.2.1-rc3/RELEASE_NOTES.html **** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday July 27, 2022 at 17:00 PT. **** 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/~davidarthur/kafka-3.2.1-rc3/ Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.2.1-rc3/javadoc/ Tag to be voted upon (off 3.2 branch) is the 3.2.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.2.1-rc3 Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/32/documentation.html Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/32/protocol.html The past few builds have had flaky test failures. I will update this thread with passing build links soon. Unit/Integration test job: https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.2/ System test job: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/3.2/ Thanks! David Arthur
