Hi all, This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.1.1. This release includes many bug fixes for Apache Kafka 2.1.
Compared to rc0, this release includes the following changes: * MINOR: Upgrade ducktape to 0.7.5 (#6197) * KAFKA-7837: Ensure offline partitions are picked up as soon as possible when shrinking ISR * tests/kafkatest/__init__.py now contains __version__ = '2.1.1' rather than '2.1.1.dev0' * Maven artifacts should be properly staged this time * I have added my GPG key to https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS Check out the release notes here: http://home.apache.org/~cmccabe/kafka-2.1.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html The vote will go until Friday, February 1st. * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): http://home.apache.org/~cmccabe/kafka-2.1.1-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~cmccabe/kafka-2.1.1-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.1 branch) is the 2.1.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.1.1-rc1 * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.1 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.1-jdk8/118/ thanks, Colin
