Any and all testing is welcome, but testing in the following areas would be
particularly helpful:
1. Performance and stress testing. Heroku and LinkedIn have helped with this
in the past (and issues have been found and fixed).
2. Client developers can verify that their clients can produce/consume
compressed/uncompressed data to/from 2.0.0 brokers
3. End users can verify that their apps work correctly with the new
release.
Thank you!
Rajini
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Sorry, the documentation does go live with the RC (thanks to Ismael for
> pointing this out), so here are the links:
>
> * Documentation:
>
> http://kafka.apache.org/20/documentation.html
>
>
> * Protocol:
>
> http://kafka.apache.org/20/protocol.html
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Rajini
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
>>
>>
>> This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.0.0.
>>
>>
>> This is a major version release of Apache Kafka. It includes 40 new KIPs
>> and
>>
>> several critical bug fixes. Please see the 2.0.0 release plan for more
>> details:
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=80448820
>>
>>
>> A few notable highlights:
>>
>> - Prefixed wildcard ACLs (KIP-290), Fine grained ACLs for
>> CreateTopics (KIP-277)
>> - SASL/OAUTHBEARER implementation (KIP-255)
>> - Improved quota communication and customization of quotas (KIP-219,
>> KIP-257)
>> - Efficient memory usage for down conversion (KIP-283)
>> - Fix log divergence between leader and follower during fast leader
>> failover (KIP-279)
>> - Drop support for Java 7 and remove deprecated code including old
>> scala clients
>> - Connect REST extension plugin, support for externalizing secrets
>> and improved error handling (KIP-285, KIP-297, KIP-298 etc.)
>> - Scala API for Kafka Streams and other Streams API improvements
>> (KIP-270, KIP-150, KIP-245, KIP-251 etc.)
>>
>>
>> Release notes for the 2.0.0 release:
>>
>> http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>>
>>
>> *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, June 25, 4pm PT
>>
>>
>> Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release:
>>
>> http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS
>>
>>
>> * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary):
>>
>> http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc0/
>>
>>
>> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
>>
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/
>>
>>
>> * Javadoc:
>>
>> http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc0/javadoc/
>>
>>
>> * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.0 branch) is the 2.0.0 tag:
>>
>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/2.0.0-rc0
>>
>>
>> * Documentation:
>>
>> http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc0/kafka_2.11-
>> 2.0.0-site-docs.tgz
>>
>> (Since documentation cannot go live until 2.0.0 is released, please
>> download and verify)
>>
>>
>> * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.0 branch:
>>
>> Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.0-jdk8/48/
>>
>> System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/jo
>> b/2.0/6/ (2 failures are known flaky tests)
>>
>>
>>
>> Please test and verify the release artifacts and submit a vote for this RC
>> or report any issues so that we can fix them and roll out a new RC ASAP!
>>
>> Although this release vote requires PMC votes to pass, testing, votes,
>> and bug
>> reports are valuable and appreciated from everyone.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Rajini
>>
>>
>>
>
