Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The first release candidate included an erroneous NOTICE file, so another RC was needed to fix that.
This is a major release of Kafka which includes many new features, improvements, and bug fixes including: * TLS 1.3 support (1.2 is now the default) * Co-groups for Kafka Streams * Incremental rebalance for Kafka Consumer * New metrics for better operational insight * Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.5.7 * Deprecate support for Scala 2.11 Release notes for the 2.5.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, March 16th 2020 5pm 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/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-2.5.0-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.5 branch) is the 2.5.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.5.0-rc1 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/25/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/25/protocol.html * Links to successful Jenkins builds for the 2.5 branch to follow Thanks, David Arthur
