Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the second candidate we are considering for release of Apache Kafka 3.7.0.
Major changes include: - Early Access to KIP-848 - the next generation of the consumer rebalance protocol - Early Access to KIP-858: Adding JBOD support to KRaft - KIP-714: Observability into Client metrics via a standardized interface Release notes for the 3.7.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~stanislavkozlovski/kafka-3.7.0-rc4/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Thursday, February 15th, 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/~stanislavkozlovski/kafka-3.7.0-rc4/ * Docker release artifact to be voted upon: apache/kafka:3.7.0-rc4 * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~stanislavkozlovski/kafka-3.7.0-rc4/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.7 branch) is the 3.7.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.7.0-rc4 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/37/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/37/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 3.7 branch: Unit/integration tests: I am in the process of running and analyzing these. System tests: I am in the process of running these. Expect a follow-up over the weekend * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 3.7 branch: Docker Build Test Pipeline: https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/7845614846 /************************************** Best, Stanislav
