Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the fourth candidate for release of Apache Kafka 1.1.0.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75957546 A few highlights: * Significant Controller improvements (much faster and session expiration edge cases fixed) * Data balancing across log directories (JBOD) * More efficient replication when the number of partitions is large * Dynamic Broker Configs * Delegation tokens (KIP-48) * Kafka Streams API improvements (KIP-205 / 210 / 220 / 224 / 239) Release notes for the 1.1.0 release: http://home.apache.org/~damianguy/kafka-1.1.0-rc3/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, March 19, 9am PDT 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/~damianguy/kafka-1.1.0-rc3/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~damianguy/kafka-1.1.0-rc3/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 1.1 branch) is the 1.1.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/1.1.0-rc3 * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/11/documentation.html <http://kafka.apache.org/1/documentation.html> * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/11/protocol.html <http://kafka.apache.org/1/protocol.html> * Successful Jenkins builds for the 1.1 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-1.1-jdk7/82/ Note: I'll update with passing system tests link once successful. If not then we can do another RC /************************************** Thanks, Damian
