Hi, To verify the release of release 3.6.0 RC2 I did the following:
- Downloaded the source, built and ran the tests. - Validated SCRAM with KRaft including creating credentials with kafka-storage. - Validated Delegation Tokens with KRaft +1 (non-binding) --Proven On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 8:37 AM Divij Vaidya <divijvaidy...@gmail.com> wrote: > + 1 (non-binding) > > Verifications: > 1. I ran a produce-consume workload with plaintext auth, JDK17, zstd > compression using an open messaging benchmark and found 3.6 to be better > than or equal to 3.5.1 across all dimensions. Notably, 3.6 had consistently > 6-7% lower CPU utilization, lesser spikes on P99 produce latencies and > overall lower P99.8 latencies. > > 2. I have verified that detached signature is correct using > https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html and the release manager > public keys are available at > https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=F65DC3423D4CD7B9 > > 3. I have verified that all metrics emitted in 3.5.1 (with Zk) are also > being emitted in 3.6.0 (with Zk). > > Problems (but not blockers): > 1. Metrics added in > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/2f71708955b293658cec3b27e9a5588d39c38d7e > aren't available in the documentation (cc: Justine). I don't consider this > as a release blocker but we should add it as a fast follow-up. > > 2. Metric added in > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/a900794ace4dcf1f9dadee27fbd8b63979532a18 > isn't available in documentation (cc: David). I don't consider this as a > release blocker but we should add it as a fast follow-up. > > -- > Divij Vaidya > > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 9:50 AM Federico Valeri <fedeval...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Satish, I did the following to verify the release: > > > > - Built from source with Java 17 and Scala 2.13 > > - Ran all unit and integration tests > > - Spot checked documentation > > - Ran custom client applications using staging artifacts on a 3-nodes > > cluster > > - Tested tiered storage with one of the available RSM implementations > > > > +1 (non binding) > > > > Thanks > > Fede > > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 8:50 AM Luke Chen <show...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Satish, > > > > > > I verified with: > > > 1. Ran quick start in KRaft for scala 2.12 artifact > > > 2. Making sure the checksum are correct > > > 3. Browsing release notes, documents, javadocs, protocols. > > > 4. Verified the tiered storage feature works well. > > > > > > +1 (binding). > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Luke > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 5:23 AM Jakub Scholz <ja...@scholz.cz> wrote: > > > > > > > +1 (non-binding). I used the Scala 2.13 binaries and the staged Maven > > > > artifacts and run my tests. Everything seems to work fine for me. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Jakub > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 8:17 PM Satish Duggana < > > satish.dugg...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > > > > > > > > This is the third candidate for the release of Apache Kafka 3.6.0. > > > > > Some of the major features include: > > > > > > > > > > * KIP-405 : Kafka Tiered Storage > > > > > * KIP-868 : KRaft Metadata Transactions > > > > > * KIP-875: First-class offsets support in Kafka Connect > > > > > * KIP-898: Modernize Connect plugin discovery > > > > > * KIP-938: Add more metrics for measuring KRaft performance > > > > > * KIP-902: Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.8.1 > > > > > * KIP-917: Additional custom metadata for remote log segment > > > > > > > > > > Release notes for the 3.6.0 release: > > > > > > https://home.apache.org/~satishd/kafka-3.6.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > > > > > > > *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, October 3, 12pm 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/~satishd/kafka-3.6.0-rc2/ > > > > > > > > > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > > > > > > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > > > > > > > > > * Javadoc: > > > > > https://home.apache.org/~satishd/kafka-3.6.0-rc2/javadoc/ > > > > > > > > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.6 branch) is the 3.6.0-rc2 tag: > > > > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.6.0-rc2 > > > > > > > > > > * Documentation: > > > > > https://kafka.apache.org/36/documentation.html > > > > > > > > > > * Protocol: > > > > > https://kafka.apache.org/36/protocol.html > > > > > > > > > > * Successful Jenkins builds for the 3.6 branch: > > > > > There are a few runs of unit/integration tests. You can see the > > latest > > > > > at https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.6/. We > > will > > > > > continue running a few more iterations. > > > > > System tests: > > > > > We will send an update once we have the results. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Satish. > > > > > > > > > > > >
