Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 3.6.1.
This is a bugfix release with several fixes, including dependency version bumps for CVEs. Release notes for the 3.6.1 release: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-3.6.1-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, December 1 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-3.6.1-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-3.6.1-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.6 branch) is the 3.6.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.6.1-rc0 PR for updating docs: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/568 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/36/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/36/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 3.6 branch: Unit/integration tests: We still have a lot of flaky tests in the 3.6 branch. Looking at the last few 3.6 builds in https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.6/ it seems all tests passed at least once apart from ClusterConnectionStatesTest.testSingleIP(). There's https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-15762 to fix that test. System tests: Still running I'll post an update once they complete. Thanks, Mickael
