Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.8.0. This is a major release that includes many new features, including:
* Early-access release of replacing Zookeeper with a self- managed quorum * Add Describe Cluster API * Support mutual TLS authentication on SASL_SSL listeners * Ergonomic improvements to Streams TopologyTestDriver * Logger API improvement to respect the hierarchy * Request/response trace logs are now JSON-formatted * New API to add and remove Streams threads while running * New REST API to expose Connect task configurations * Fixed the TimeWindowDeserializer to be able to deserialize keys outside of Streams (such as in the console consumer) * Streams resilient improvement: new uncaught exception handler * Streams resilience improvement: automatically recover from transient timeout exceptions Release notes for the 2.8.0 release: https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by 6 April 2021 *** 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/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.8 branch) is the 2.8.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.8.0-rc0 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/28/protocol.html /************************************** Thanks, John
