frankvicky opened a new pull request, #19236: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/19236
JIRA: KAFKA-18379 For further details, please refer to [KIP-996](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=272927537#KIP996:PreVote-ResignedStatechanges) and https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/18240#discussion_r1899341945. In short, this PR adds a check for the transition from the resigned state to other states to prevent a resigned leader from accidentally becoming its own follower in the same epoch, which would create an invalid circular reference. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: jira-unsubscr...@kafka.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org