+1 (non-binding). I did some smoke testing with the staged binaries, and I also ran the Strimzi test suite against the 4.0.1 release. All seems to work fine.
Thanks for running the release. Jakub On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM Christo Lolov <christolo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.0.1. > > Since this is a patch version it contains the bug fixes outlined in the > release notes below! > > Release notes for the 4.0.1 release: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday August 26. > > 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://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.1-rc1/ > > * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: > apache/kafka:4.0.1-rc1 > apache/kafka-native:4.0.1-rc1 > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > * Javadoc: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.1-rc1/javadoc/ > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.0 branch) is the 4.0.1 tag: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.0.1-rc1 > > * Successful CI builds for the 4.0 branch: > Unit/integration tests: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/17041863563 > > * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.0 branch: > Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/17068524479 > Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/17068533707 > > Thanks, > Christo >
