Hi!
I forgot to mention but now the documentation site should include the
instructions.

Best,

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 11:22 AM Josep Prat <josep.p...@aiven.io> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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