Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.2.1.
Compared to RC0, this release candidate also fixes the following issues: - [KAFKA-6789] - Add retry logic in AdminClient requests - [KAFKA-8348] - Document of kafkaStreams improvement - [KAFKA-7633] - Kafka Connect requires permission to create internal topics even if they exist - [KAFKA-8240] - Source.equals() can fail with NPE - [KAFKA-8335] - Log cleaner skips Transactional mark and batch record, causing unlimited growth of __consumer_offsets - [KAFKA-8352] - Connect System Tests are failing with 404 Release notes for the 2.2.1 release: https://home.apache.org/~vahid/kafka-2.2.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Thursday, May 16, 9:00 pm PT. 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/~vahid/kafka-2.2.1-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~vahid/kafka-2.2.1-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.2 branch) is the 2.2.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.2.1-rc1 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/22/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/22/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.2 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.2-jdk8/115/ Thanks! --Vahid
