Thanks Mickael and sorry for the delay,

I've done the following:
1. Verify the signature and checksum
2. Run the quickstart
3. Ran some minor tasks with transactions to check the 2PC configs. I
noticed in the docs we still advertise
`transaction.two.phase.commit.enable`. However, setting this value has no
effect as intended for this release. We can throw an error if we also try
to set transactional timeout, but I don't think that is a blocker.
4. Browsed some of the documentation and java doc
5. Took a quick look at the unit/integration and system tests you shared

We should take a look at the docs PR as Luke mentioned but otherwise +1
(binding) from me.

Justine

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM Luke Chen <show...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mickael,
>
> Thanks for running this release.
>
> I’ve completed the following tasks:
> 1. Verify the signature and checksum
> 2. Run the quickstart
> 3. Upgrade from v4.0.0, make sure ELR features works, then downgrade the
> ELR to disable the feature, and make sure it still works well.
> 4. Browse the doc PR <https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/702>, it
> looks like the content is still in v4.0.0. It's not a blocker for sure. We
> can discuss that in PR.
>
> +1 (binding) from me.
>
> Thank you.
> Luke
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM Paolo Patierno <paolo.patie...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > We ran all regression tests with Strimzi and everything looks good.
> >
> > +1 (non binding)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paolo
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 at 19:57, Mickael Maison <mickael.mai...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
> > >
> > > This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.1.0.
> > >
> > > The release brings many new features and improvements:
> > > - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
> > > - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
> > > - Queue are now in preview access
> > > - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
> > > - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
> > > - Improved metadata replication
> > >
> > > Release notes for the 4.1.0 release:
> > >
> >
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.1.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> > >
> > > *** Please download, test and vote by Friday August 8.
> > >
> > > 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/4.1.0-rc2/
> > >
> > > * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon:
> > > apache/kafka:4.1.0-rc2
> > > apache/kafka-native:4.1.0-rc2
> > >
> > > * 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/4.1.0-rc2/javadoc/
> > >
> > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.1 branch) is the 4.1.0 tag:
> > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.1.0-rc2
> > >
> > > * Documentation:
> > > https://kafka.apache.org/41/documentation.html
> > > PR (https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/702) updated for RC2 is
> > > not merged yet
> > >
> > > * Protocol:
> > > https://kafka.apache.org/41/protocol.html
> > > PR (https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/702) updated for RC2 is
> > > not merged yet
> > >
> > > * Successful CI builds for the 4.1 branch:
> > > Unit/integration tests:
> > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/16753255070
> > > System tests: Tests are currently running, I'll post the results once
> > > they complete
> > >
> > > * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.1 branch:
> > > Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM):
> > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/16753270537
> > > Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native):
> > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/16753280218
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mickael
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paolo Patierno
> >
> > *Senior Principal Software Engineer @ IBM**CNCF Ambassador*
> >
> > Twitter : @ppatierno <http://twitter.com/ppatierno>
> > Linkedin : paolopatierno <http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno>
> > GitHub : ppatierno <https://github.com/ppatierno>
> >
>

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