Hi David, There is no reason to wait 3 months - we often would release 4-6 weeks after the .0 in the past. If someone is willing to volunteer to do the release and there are important bugs, it's actually better to release more often.
Ismael On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 5:00 AM David Jacot <dja...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > Hi Divij, > > Thanks for the release plan. > > I wonder if we should wait a little more as 3.5.0 was released on June > 15th. Releasing 3.5.1 a month after seems not enough in order to have time > to catch bugs in 3.5.0. I think that we usually release the first minor > release ~3 months after the major one. Is there a reason to release it in > July? > > As a side note, we don't have a formal code freeze for minor releases. > > Best, > David > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM Divij Vaidya <divijvaidy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi folks > > > > Here's the release plan for > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+plan+3.5.1 > > > > 3.5.1 will be a bug fix release which also addresses some of the CVEs > such > > as CVE-2023-34455 [1] in snappy-java. If all goes smoothly, I am > estimating > > a release date in the 3rd or 4th week of July. I will continue to post > > important updates on the mailing list and you can also follow the > progress > > on the release plan wiki above. > > > > *Call for action* 📢 > > > > If you think that a commit from the trunk should be backported to 3.5.1, > > please let me know. Note that we usually backport only the critical bug > > fixes which don't have a production work around and security fixes. Note > > that code freeze is on 9th July and no new commits will be added to the > 3.5 > > .1 release after that. > > > > *Important dates *📅 > > > > 9th July - Code freeze for 3.5.1 > > 10th July - First release candidate is published for voting > > 18th July - Expected completion of release > > > > -- > > Divij Vaidya > > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 3.5.1 > > > > [1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34455 > > >
