Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,

This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.2.0.

 - Added SSL support for custom principal name
 - Allow SASL connections to periodically re-authenticate
 - Command line tool bin/kafka-topics.sh adds AdminClient support
 - Improved consumer group management
   - default group.id is `null` instead of empty string
 - API improvement
   - Producer: introduce close(Duration)
   - AdminClient: introduce close(Duration)
   - Kafka Streams: new flatTransform() operator in Streams DSL
   - KafkaStreams (and other classed) now implement AutoClosable to
support try-with-resource
   - New Serdes and default method implementations
 - Kafka Streams exposed internal client.id via ThreadMetadata
 - Metric improvements:  All `-min`, `-avg` and `-max` metrics will now
output `NaN` as default value
Release notes for the 2.2.0 release:
https://home.apache.org/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html

*** Please download, test, and vote by Thursday, March 14, 9am PST.

Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release:
https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS

* Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary):
https://home.apache.org/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc2/

* Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/

* Javadoc:
https://home.apache.org/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc2/javadoc/

* Tag to be voted upon (off 2.2 branch) is the 2.2.0 tag:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.2.0-rc2

* Documentation:
https://kafka.apache.org/22/documentation.html

* Protocol:
https://kafka.apache.org/22/protocol.html

* Jenkins builds for the 2.2 branch:
Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.2-jdk8/
System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.2/

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Thanks,

-Matthias

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