Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.11.0.0.
This is a major version release of Apache Kafka. It includes 32 new KIPs. See the release notes and release plan ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+0.11.0.0) for more details. A few feature highlights: * Exactly-once delivery and transactional messaging * Streams exactly-once semantics * Admin client with support for topic, ACLs and config management * Record headers * Request rate quotas * Improved resiliency: replication protocol improvement and single-threaded controller * Richer and more efficient message format Release notes for the 0.11.0.0 release: http://home.apache.org/~ijuma/kafka-0.11.0.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, June 27, 6pm PT 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/~ijuma/kafka-0.11.0.0-rc2/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~ijuma/kafka-0.11.0.0-rc2/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 0.11.0 branch) is the 0.11.0.0 tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=8698fa1f41102f1664b05baa4d6953fc9564d91e * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/0110/documentation.html * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/0110/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 0.11.0 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-0.11.0-jdk7/187/ System tests: pending (will send an update tomorrow) /************************************** Thanks, Ismael
