Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.10.2.0.
This is a minor version release of Apache Kafka. It includes 19 new KIPs. See the release notes and release plan (https://cwiki.apache.org/conf luence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+0.10.2.0) for more details. A few feature highlights: SASL-SCRAM support, improved client compatibility to allow use of clients newer than the broker, session windows and global tables in the Kafka Streams API, single message transforms in the Kafka Connect framework. Important note: in addition to the artifacts generated using JDK7 for Scala 2.10 and 2.11, this release also includes experimental artifacts built using JDK8 for Scala 2.12. Important code changes since RC1 (non-docs, non system tests): KAFKA-4756; The auto-generated broker id should be passed to MetricReporter.configure KAFKA-4761; Fix producer regression handling small or zero batch size Release notes for the 0.10.2.0 release: http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by February 17th 5pm *** 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/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc2/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc2/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 0.10.2 branch) is the 0.10.2.0 tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=5712b489038b71ed8d5a679856d1dfaa925eadc1 * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/documentation.html * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 0.10.2 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-0.10.2-jdk7/77/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka-0.10.2/29/ /************************************** Thanks, Ewen
