Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.6.3.
Apache Kafka 2.6.3 is a bugfix release and 11 issues, as well as CVE-2021-38153, have been fixed since 2.6.2. Release notes for the 2.6.3 release: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.3-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, October 15, 5pm CET 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-2.6.3-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.3-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.6 branch) is the 2.6.3 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.6.3-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: I'll share a link once the build completes /************************************** Thanks, Mickael
