Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.3.2.
This is a bugfix release in 4.3 line. Release notes for the 4.3.2 release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.2-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html Please download, test and vote by Friday, October 2nd, 9am PT Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/KEYS * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.2-rc0/ * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: apache/kafka:4.3.2-rc0 <https://hub.docker.com/layers/apache/kafka/4.3.2-rc0/images/sha256-aad4e610fcbbb44b142dfe89c5d1e62262d0323bba68b46092853d3ee961c719> apache/kafka-native:4.3.2-rc0 <https://hub.docker.com/layers/apache/kafka-native/4.3.2-rc0/images/sha256-aad4e610fcbbb44b142dfe89c5d1e62262d0323bba68b46092853d3ee961c719> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.2-rc0/javadoc/index.html * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.3 branch) is the 4.3.2 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.3.2-rc0 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/43/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/43/design/protocol * Successful CI builds for the 4.3 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/36498239102 System tests: [will provide it soon] * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.3 branch: Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/36444796001 Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/36444991180 Thanks, Jiunn-Yang Huang
