Vinay, It is up to your personal judgment if you "trust" an x.0 release or not. The RC was carefully tested and 2.5.0 was release as "general available" what guarantee a certain level of stability. Of course, there could always be unknown bug.
About upgrading from 2.1 to 2.5: please consult the upgrade nodes of all intermediate versions to see what changes accumulated over time. -Matthias On 4/16/20 8:18 AM, Vinay Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please clarify below queries. > > 1. Can this be considered a stable version, and is it advisable to upgrade > to 2.5.0 from 2.1 version? since it's just released. > > 2. Are there any breaking changes? Or changes to existing configuration > needed? > > And any basic things to keep in mind before upgrading. > Please suggest. Thank you.. > > Thanks, > Vinay > > On Thu, 16 Apr, 2020, 1:45 AM David Arthur, <davidart...@apache.org> wrote: > >> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache >> Kafka 2.5.0 >> >> This release includes many new features, 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 >> >> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: >> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.5.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html >> >> >> You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and 2.13) from: >> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.5.0 >> Release >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs: >> >> >> ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream records to >> one or more Kafka topics. >> >> ** The Consumer API allows an application to subscribe to one or more >> topics and process the stream of records produced to them. >> >> ** The Streams API allows an application to act as a stream processor, >> consuming an input stream from one or more topics and producing an >> output stream to one or more output topics, effectively transforming the >> input streams to output streams. >> >> ** The Connector API allows building and running reusable producers or >> consumers that connect Kafka topics to existing applications or data >> systems. For example, a connector to a relational database might >> capture every change to a table. >> >> >> With these APIs, Kafka can be used for two broad classes of application: >> >> ** Building real-time streaming data pipelines that reliably get data >> between systems or applications. >> >> ** Building real-time streaming applications that transform or react >> to the streams of data. >> >> >> Apache Kafka is in use at large and small companies worldwide, including >> Capital One, Goldman Sachs, ING, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pinterest, Rabobank, >> Target, The New York Times, Uber, Yelp, and Zalando, among others. >> >> A big thank you for the following 108 contributors to this release! >> >> A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Adam Bellemare, Alaa Zbair, Alex Kokachev, Alex >> Leung, Alex Mironov, Alice, Andrew Olson, Andy Coates, Anna Povzner, Antony >> Stubbs, Arvind Thirunarayanan, belugabehr, bill, Bill Bejeck, Bob Barrett, >> Boyang Chen, Brian Bushree, Brian Byrne, Bruno Cadonna, Bryan Ji, Chia-Ping >> Tsai, Chris Egerton, Chris Pettitt, Chris Stromberger, Colin P. Mccabe, >> Colin Patrick McCabe, commandini, Cyrus Vafadari, Dae-Ho Kim, David Arthur, >> David Jacot, David Kim, David Mao, dengziming, Dhruvil Shah, Edoardo Comar, >> Eduardo Pinto, Fábio Silva, gkomissarov, Grant Henke, Greg Harris, Gunnar >> Morling, Guozhang Wang, Harsha Laxman, high.lee, highluck, Hossein Torabi, >> huxi, huxihx, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko, Jason Gustafson, jiameixie, John >> Roesler, José Armando García Sancio, Jukka Karvanen, Karan Kumar, Kevin Lu, >> Konstantine Karantasis, Lee Dongjin, Lev Zemlyanov, Levani Kokhreidze, >> Lucas Bradstreet, Manikumar Reddy, Mathias Kub, Matthew Wong, Matthias J. >> Sax, Michael Gyarmathy, Michael Viamari, Mickael Maison, Mitch, >> mmanna-sapfgl, NanerLee, Narek Karapetian, Navinder Pal Singh Brar, >> nicolasguyomar, Nigel Liang, NIkhil Bhatia, Nikolay, ning2008wisc, Omkar >> Mestry, Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, ravowlga123, Raymond Ng, Ron >> Dagostino, sainath batthala, Sanjana Kaundinya, Scott, Seungha Lee, Simon >> Clark, Stanislav Kozlovski, Svend Vanderveken, Sönke Liebau, Ted Yu, Tom >> Bentley, Tomislav, Tu Tran, Tu V. Tran, uttpal, Vikas Singh, Viktor >> Somogyi, vinoth chandar, wcarlson5, Will James, Xin Wang, zzccctv >> >> We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to >> report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at >> https://kafka.apache.org/ >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> Regards, >> David Arthu >> >
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