I have completed my validation of the release candidate +1 (non-binding)
I used the steps here to validate the RC https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party If you are interested in running the validations for the RC without having to build the images I have pushed the following docker images already to docker hub - izzyacademy/kafka-artifact-base:3.1.0-rc0 - izzyacademy/kafka-docs:3.1.0-rc0 - izzyacademy/kafka-binary-base:3.1.0-rc0 - izzyacademy/zookeeper:3.1.0-rc0 - izzyacademy/kafka-broker:3.1.0-rc0 - izzyacademy/kafka-connect:3.1.0-rc0 As per my validation results: - Validation of Hashes looks good - Validation of GPG Keys looks good - Validation of Source Code was skipped since the build for the 3.1 branch already passed - Validation of Site Documentation looks good for 3.1.0 and the other versions - Running Multi-Node Brokers in Legacy Mode (With Zookeeper) looks good with no issues - Running Brokers in KRaft Mode (without Zookeeper) looks good with no observable issues If you have docker locally, you can simply just boot up the environment for each validation with docker-compose up # Single Node Cluster in KRaft Mode https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party/blob/main/cluster-validation/compose/kraft/docker-compose.yml # Multi-Node Cluster in KRaft Mode https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party/blob/main/cluster-validation/compose/kraft/multi-node-docker-compose.yml # Multi-Node Cluster in Zookeeper Mode https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party/blob/main/cluster-validation/compose/legacy/docker-compose.yml # Site Documentation to review the website for documentation https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party/blob/main/docs-validation/compose/docker-compose.yml # Hash, GPG Keys, Building from Source https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party/blob/main/artifact-validation/compose/docker-compose.yml
