Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.6.2.
Apache Kafka 2.6.2 is a bugfix release and fixes 30 issues since the 2.6.1 release. Please see the release notes for more information. Release notes for the 2.6.2 release: https://home.apache.org/~ableegoldman/kafka-2.6.2-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, March 19th, 9am PST 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/~ableegoldman/kafka-2.6.2-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~ableegoldman/kafka-2.6.2-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.6 branch) is the 2.6.2 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.6.2-rc0 * 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://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka-2.6-jdk8/105/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka-branch-builder/4435/ /************************************** Thanks, Sophie