Hello Kafka users, developers, client-developers, friends, romans, citizens, etc,
This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.10.2.1. This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from 24 JIRAs (including a few critical bugs). Release notes for the 0.10.2.1 release: http://home.apache.org/~gwenshap/kafka-0.10.2.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, April 17, 5:30 pm PT Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS Your help in validating this bugfix release is super valuable, so please take the time to test and vote! Suggested tests: * Grab the source archive and make sure it compiles * Grab one of the binary distros and run the quickstarts against them * Extract and verify one of the site docs jars * Build a sample against jars in the staging repo * Validate GPG signatures on at least one file * Validate the javadocs look ok * The 0.10.2 documentation was updated for this bugfix release (especially upgrade, streams and connect portions) - please make sure it looks ok: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): http://home.apache.org/~gwenshap/kafka-0.10.2.1-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~gwenshap/kafka-0.10.2.1-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 0.10.2 branch) is the 0.10.2.1 tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=e133f2ca57670e77f8114cc72dbc2f91a48e3a3b * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/documentation.html * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/protocol.html /************************************** Thanks, Gwen Shapira
