Thanks for the reminder Michael will wait till Monday then Sent from my iPhone
> On 8 Oct 2026, at 18:56, Mickael Maison <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Omnia, > > Votes should run for at least 72 hours. > So we need to wait a bit longer before closing it and finalizing the release. > > Thanks, > Mickael > >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks to Omnia for driving this release! >> >> <[email protected]> 於 2026年10月9日週五 上午1:25寫道： >> >>> >>> >>> Nice RC4 passed with 3 binging votes and update the PR on Kafka-site with >>> RC4 docs >>> Will merge the docs and promote RC4 as final release >>> >>> Thanks everyone and sorry for taking long to get this release out there >>> >>> Omnia >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On 8 Oct 2026, at 12:35, Luke Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Omnia, >>>> >>>> Thanks for running this release. >>>> >>>> I did the following: >>>> - Run quickstart using the artifacts in java 17 >>>> - Browsed the document >>>> - Browsed the java doc >>>> - Run quick start using JVM docker image >>>> >>>> +1 (binding) from me. >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> Luke >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> +1 (binding) >>>>> >>>>> Verified: >>>>> - signatures and sha512 of the src, binary and site-docs tarballs >>>>> - signatures of the maven staging artifacts (16 files across >>>>> kafka-clients, kafka-streams, kafka_2.13, kafka-server, kafka-metadata, >>>>> kafka-raft, connect-runtime, kafka-group-coordinator). All signed by the >>>>> primary key, so the RC3 issue is fixed >>>>> - tag 4.4.0-rc4 matches the 4.4 branch head and the CI run >>>>> - unit and integration tests from the source tarball >>>>> - binary tarball: KRaft format/start, metadata.version 4.4-IV2, >>>>> produce/consume with classic, consumer and share protocols, verifiable >>>>> producer/consumer with acks=all >>>>> >>>>> non-blocking note: >>>>> - kafka-site #905 was generated on 9/22, so it is missing the later docs >>>>> changes on 4.4 (#23565, #23479) and the KAFKA-21134 fix (#23671, trunk >>>>> only). It should be regenerated from the final tag before the release >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for running the release, Omnia. >>>>> >>>>>> On 2026-10-07 09:09 UTC Omnia Ibrahim wrote: >>>>>> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, >>>>>> This is the latest candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.4.0. >>>>>> Apache Kafka 4.4.0 is a minor release that includes 26 KIPs spanning >>>>> improvements to all components. >>>>>> Release notes for the 4.4.0 release: >>>>> >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.4.0-rc4/RELEASE_NOTES.html >>>>>> *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, Oct 12, 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/4.4.0-rc4/ >>>>>> Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: >>>>>> apache/kafka:4.4.0-rc4 >>>>>> apache/kafka-native:4.4.0-rc4 >>>>>> 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/4.4.0-rc4/javadoc/index.html >>>>>> Tag to be voted upon (off 4.4 branch) is the 4.4.0 tag: >>>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.4.0-rc4 >>>>>> Documentation: >>>>>> PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905 >>>>>> Protocol: >>>>>> PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905 >>>>>> Successful CI builds for the 4.4 branch: >>>>>> Unit/integration tests: >>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/37496670106 >>>>>> System tests: <PENDING> >>>>>> Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.4 branch: >>>>>> Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): >>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/37591376291 >>>>>> Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): >>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/37591376291 >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> Omnia >>>
