Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.6.1.
Since RC1, the following JIRAs have been fixed: KAFKA-10758 Release notes for the 2.6.1 release: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.1-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, December 2, 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/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.1-rc2/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.1-rc2/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.6 branch) is the 2.6.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.6.1-rc2 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/26/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/26/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.6 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.6-jdk8/55/ /************************************** Thanks, Mickael