Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0.
This is a major release of Kafka which includes many new features, improvements, and bug fixes including: * TLS 1.3 support (1.2 is now the default) * Co-groups for Kafka Streams * Incremental rebalance for Kafka Consumer * New metrics for better operational insight * Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.5.7 * Deprecate support for Scala 2.11 The full release notes for 2.5.0 can be found here: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Thursday, March 5th, 5pm 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/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.5 branch) is the 2.5.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.5.0-rc0 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/25/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/25/protocol.html * Links to successful Jenkins builds for the 2.5 branch to follow Thanks, David Arthur
