Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0.
* 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 Release notes for the 2.5.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday March 24, 2020 by 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-rc2/ * 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-rc2/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-rc2 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/25/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/25/protocol.html I'm thrilled to be able to include links to both build jobs with successful builds! Thanks to everyone who has helped reduce our flaky test exposure these past few weeks :) * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.5 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.5-jdk8/64/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.5/42/ -- David Arthur
