+1 (non-binding) Built from source and ran quickstart successfully on Ubuntu (with Java 8).
Minor: It seems this doc update PR is not included in the RC: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5280 Guozhang seems to have wanted to cherry-pick it to 2.0. Thanks Rajini! --Vahid From: Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@gmail.com> To: dev <dev@kafka.apache.org>, Users <us...@kafka.apache.org>, kafka-clients <kafka-clie...@googlegroups.com> Date: 06/29/2018 11:36 AM Subject: [VOTE] 2.0.0 RC1 Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the second 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-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, July 3rd, 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-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc1/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-rc1 * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/20/documentation.html * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/20/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.0 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.0-jdk8/66/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.0/15/ 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
