Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the fifth candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0.
This release includes many new features, including: - Allow consumers to fetch from closest replica - Support for incremental cooperative rebalancing to the consumer rebalance protocol - MirrorMaker 2.0 (MM2), a new multi-cluster, cross-datacenter replication engine - New Java authorizer Interface - Support for non-key joining in KTable - Administrative API for replica reassignment - Sticky partitioner - Return topic metadata and configs in CreateTopics response - Securing Internal connect REST endpoints - API to delete consumer offsets and expose it via the AdminClient. Release notes for the 2.4.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~manikumar/kafka-2.4.0-rc4/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Thursday, December 12, 9am PT 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/~manikumar/kafka-2.4.0-rc4/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~manikumar/kafka-2.4.0-rc4/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.4 branch) is the 2.4.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.4.0-rc4 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/24/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/24/protocol.html Thanks, Manikumar
