Hey all -- I noticed we still have the system tests as something that will
be updated. Did we get a run for this RC?

On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 1:24 PM Bill Bejeck <bbej...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Satish,
>
> Thanks for running the release.
> I performed the following steps:
>
>    - Validated all the checksums, signatures, and keys
>    - Built the release from source
>    - Ran all unit tests
>    - Quick start validations
>       - ZK and Kraft
>       - Connect
>       - Kafka Streams
>    - Spot checked java docs and documentation
>
> +1 (binding)
>
> - Bill
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 10:23 AM Proven Provenzano
> <pprovenz...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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