Hi Christo, Thanks for managing the release and for the proposed release plan.
Given our desire to ship every 4 months, I think the proposed dates should be shifted a bit. The original plan was for 4.1 to ship in mid July and for 4.2 to ship in mid November. The former eventually shipped on September 2nd and with the current plan would probably result in 4.2 shipping in late January/early February. Given where we are, I would suggest something like: KIP Freeze: October 29 (Wednesday) Feature Freeze: November 19 (Wednesday) Code Freeze: December 10 (Wednesday) At least four weeks of stabilization will follow Code Freeze (taking holidays into account), meaning we expect to release no earlier than January 7 2026. Ideally, we'd get RC0 out before the holiday break and then complete the release by early/mid January. Thoughts? Ismael On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM Christo Lolov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to volunteer to be the release manager for the Apache Kafka > 4.2.0 release. > > If no one has any objections, you can find a proposed release plan at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+4.2.0. > > Thanks, > Christo >
