+1 (binding) - assuming we get a successful Jenkins build for the branch.

I built from sources, tested resulting binaries locally, verified
signature and checksums.

Thank you for the release, Bill.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 7:31 AM Bill Bejeck <bbej...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is the fourth candidate for the release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0.
>
> This is a major release that includes many new features, including:
>
> * Configurable TCP connection timeout and improve the initial metadata fetch
> * Enforce broker-wide and per-listener connection creation rate (KIP-612,
> part 1)
> * Throttle Create Topic, Create Partition and Delete Topic Operations
> * Add TRACE-level end-to-end latency metrics to Streams
> * Add Broker-side SCRAM Config API
> * Support PEM format for SSL certificates and private key
> * Add RocksDB Memory Consumption to RocksDB Metrics
> * Add Sliding-Window support for Aggregations
>
> This release also includes a few other features, 53 improvements, and 84
> bug fixes.
>
> Release notes for the 2.7.0 release:
> https://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc3/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>
> *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, December 2, 12PM ET
>
> 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/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc3/
>
> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/
>
> * Javadoc:
> https://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc3/javadoc/
>
> * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.7 branch) is the 2.7.0 tag:
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.7.0-rc3
>
> * Documentation:
> https://kafka.apache.org/27/documentation.html
>
> * Protocol:
> https://kafka.apache.org/27/protocol.html
>
> * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branch:
> Unit/integration tests: (link to follow)
> System tests: (link to follow)
>
> Thanks,
> Bill



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