Hi Sarah, Thanks for noticing this! This was an oversight during the 3.8 release. I filed a PR (https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/634) to fix this. Basically you would need to follow similar steps as with the previous versions making sure the right parameters are passed in.
Best, On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:07 AM Sarah Brofeldt <s...@dbc.dk.invalid> wrote: > Hi Kafka users, > > We've been confused by the recent release notes, notably 3.8 and > (unreleased so far) 3.9. Both of them appear to be missing upgrade > instructions. How are we supposed to interpret this? Simply upgrade, or do > every manual step described in _previous_ versions? Perhaps this is > supposed to be obvious, but because previous releases contain very detailed > upgrade instructions, it seems confusing to me. > > See eg. these for missing upgrade details: > https://kafka.apache.org/38/documentation.html#upgrade > https://kafka.apache.org/39/documentation.html#upgrade > > As an example, we're on 3.5 currently and aiming to upgrade. Let's say I > were to upgrade to 3.7, following the instructions here; > > https://kafka.apache.org/37/documentation.html#upgrade > > This has me following several steps, for instance, > > > 3. Once the cluster's behavior and performance has been verified, bump > the protocol version by editing inter.broker.protocol.version and setting > it to 3.7. > > Now let's say we're on on 3.5 and want to upgrade instead to 3.8. This has > no steps at all! How am I meant to interpret this? Is it supposed to be > simply cross your fingers and let Automagic take the wheel? Or am I > supposed to understand that I am implicitly supposed to do every upgrade > step for prior releases I'm "passing through" or am I simply not allowed to > do the upgrade across multiple versions at all? (This seems to contradict > the note: "Upgrading to 3.8.0 from any version 0.8.x through 3.7.x") > > Thanks in advance. :-) > > -- Sarah -- [image: Aiven] <https://www.aiven.io> *Josep Prat* Open Source Engineering Director, *Aiven* josep.p...@aiven.io | +491715557497 aiven.io <https://www.aiven.io> | <https://www.facebook.com/aivencloud> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiven/> <https://twitter.com/aiven_io> *Aiven Deutschland GmbH* Alexanderufer 3-7, 10117 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa, Hannu Valtonen, Anna Richardson, Kenneth Chen Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B
