Hello! Thanks for the review!
I am okay with pulling all dates by 2 weeks earlier in time (barring the 7th of January one). If there are no objections to the new dates I will update them in the plan tomorrow! Best, Christo On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 07:14, Ismael Juma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christo, > > Thanks for managing the release and for the proposed release plan. > > Given our desire to ship every 4 months, I think the proposed dates should > be shifted a bit. The original plan was for 4.1 to ship in mid July and for > 4.2 to ship in mid November. The former eventually shipped on September 2nd > and with the current plan would probably result in 4.2 shipping in late > January/early February. Given where we are, I would suggest something like: > > KIP Freeze: October 29 (Wednesday) > Feature Freeze: November 19 (Wednesday) > Code Freeze: December 10 (Wednesday) > At least four weeks of stabilization will follow Code Freeze (taking > holidays into account), meaning we expect to release no earlier than > January 7 2026. > > Ideally, we'd get RC0 out before the holiday break and then complete the > release by early/mid January. > > Thoughts? > > Ismael > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM Christo Lolov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I would like to volunteer to be the release manager for the Apache Kafka > > 4.2.0 release. > > > > If no one has any objections, you can find a proposed release plan at > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+4.2.0. > > > > Thanks, > > Christo > > >
