I performed the following validations: * Verified all checksums and signatures. * Built from source and ran unit tests. * Ran the first quickstart steps for both ZK and KRaft. * Spotchecked the Javadocs.
I am +1 (binding). Thanks for running the release! Best, David On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 8:00 PM David Arthur <davidart...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey folks, we found a couple of blockers with RC1 and have fixed them in > the latest release candidate, RC2. > > The major features of this release include: > > * KIP-881: Rack-aware Partition Assignment for Kafka Consumers > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-881%3A+Rack-aware+Partition+Assignment+for+Kafka+Consumers > > > > * KIP-876: Time based cluster metadata snapshots > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-876%3A+Time+based+cluster+metadata+snapshots > > > > * KIP-787: MM2 manage Kafka resources with custom Admin implementation. > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=191335620 > > > > * KIP-866 ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-866+ZooKeeper+to+KRaft+Migration > > > (Early > Access) > > > > Release notes for the 3.4.0 release: > > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > Please download, test and vote by Friday, February 3, 5pm 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-3.4.0-rc2/ > > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > > * Javadoc: > > https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc2/javadoc/ > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.4 branch) is the 3.4.0 tag: > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.4.0-rc2 > > > * Documentation: > > https://kafka.apache.org/34/documentation.html > > > * Protocol: > > https://kafka.apache.org/34/protocol.html > > > --- > > > Test results: > > > We haven't had a 100% passing build, but the latest system test run looks > pretty good: > > http://confluent-kafka-system-test-results.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/3.4/2023-01-31--001.system-test-kafka-3.4--1675184554--confluentinc--3.4--ef3f5bd834/report.html > > > Here are the Jenkins test runs for 3.4: > https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.4/. We will > continue > trying to diagnose the flaky test failures as the release continues. I do > not expect that any of these test failures are blockers for the release. > > > Thanks! > > David Arthur >
